Robert J Young: 24 books

Book cover of American By Degrees

American By Degrees

The Extraordinary Lives of French Ambassador Jules Jusserand

by Robert J. Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

The expressions of American hostility toward France after 9/11 are not new - Franco-American relations in the early twentieth century were also difficult, characterized by the same antagonistic depictions of the other's culture. Ambassador Jules Jusserand's years in Washington (1903-24) were defined...
Book cover of Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals
by Robert J. Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

Environmental enrichment is a simple and effective means of improving animal welfare in any species – companion, farm, laboratory and zoo. For many years, it has been a popular area of research, and has attracted the attention and concerns of animal keepers and carers, animal industry professionals,...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2
by Evelyn E. Smith, Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe...
Book cover of Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
by Robert E. Howard, Philip K. Dick, James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
Book cover of The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XIII
by Roger Dee, Bryce Walton, Jack Sharkey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

The stunningly awesome thirteenth volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction!! Featuring: Death Wish, by Ned Lang Assignment’s End, by Roger Dee Double or Nothing, by Jack Sharkey The Victor, by Bryce Walton The Nostalgia Gene, by Roy Hutchins Garrity's Annuities, by David Mason The Freelancer,...
Book cover of Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments

by Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Janet Blakey, Luc Bouchet
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Book cover of Colonial Desire

Colonial Desire

Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

by Robert J. C. Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005

The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical...
Book cover of Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
by Robert J. C. Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003

This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates...
Book cover of White Mythologies
by Robert J.C. Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004

We must, many now argue, `get back' to history. but which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status has become ever less certain. Is it possible to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Robert...
Book cover of From the Yenisei to the Yukon

From the Yenisei to the Yukon

Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia

by Norman A. Easton, Dr. Robert E. Ackerman, Jacob Baus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Book cover of Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism
by Edwin Black, Jason Edward Black, Dana L. Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues—predominantly purpose—exists primarily as scattered journal articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks...
Book cover of Rhetorical Criticism

Rhetorical Criticism

Perspectives in Action

by Matthew T. Althouse, William Benoit, Edwin Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an...
Book cover of Judgment, Imagination, and Politics

Judgment, Imagination, and Politics

Themes from Kant and Arendt

by Ronald Beiner, Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001

Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
Book cover of Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism

An Historical Introduction

by Robert J. C. Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016

This seminal work—now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface—is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written...
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