William Davies: 36 books
by William Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?
In...
The Happiness Industry
How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
The Limits of Neoliberalism
Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
"Brilliant...explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence.”
—Evgeny Morozov, author of "To Save Everything, Click Here"
“In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if...
by William Davies, Ruth Charles
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into...
The Limits of Neoliberalism
Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence.”
- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here
"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes...
Go home?
The politics of immigration controversies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next.
The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored...
The Universal God
The Search for God in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
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Meher Baba's Breaking of His Silence and Manifestation
A Theory About Living in His Manifestation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
On January 31, 1969, Meher Baba dropped his physical body. We have recently passed the fiftieth anniversary of that event occurring. There are two significant Avataric responsibilities that were to be set in motion based on Baba leaving our physical presence. First, while still living, Meher Baba...
by David William Davies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
IN the following pages an attempt has been made to give the essential facts of the history of the Elsevier family, and to show the relations of the printers to the world around them. Printing and publishing history is sometimes written as personal reminiscence, as aesthetic or technical criticism,...
by David William Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This volume is an attempt to give the American reader an idea of the extent of the Dutch network of trade in the seventeenth century. Although some effort is made to sketch out, however briefly, the activities of the Dutch in various regions throughout the century, emphas1s has been placed on their...
by William Henry Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
2 works of William Henry Davies Welsh poet and writer (1871-1940)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of William Henry Davies. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: Foliage The year's at the spring
by H. W. Collingwood, Golden Deer Classics, Hans Christian Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc...
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.
During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The...