Essays

Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens-of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others-function in Jamison's essay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988677307Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint White Goat PressPublisher White Goat PressWeight(grams) 107g

This is the final textual volume in The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882– 1953, published in 3 series comprising 37 volumes: The Early Works, 1882– 1898 (5 vols.); The Middle Works, 1899– 1924 (15 vols.); The Later Works, 1925– 1953 (17 vols.).Volume...

Spanning the crucial years of Dewey's move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 col-lects thirty-six essays and reviews pub-lished at the very time Dewey deter-mined that his professional future would lie in the field of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809328079Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987707890Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint White Goat PressPublisher White Goat PressWeight(grams) 152g

Since the end of the draft in the United States, the nation's wars have been fought by all-volunteer forces, creating an enormous divide between the civilian public and its military. Recent wars have taken place during the information age, allowing cable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541433Author Anthony Julian TamburriFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541150Author Antonio C VittiFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

With the exception of The Quest for Cer tainty (Volume 4) this fifth volume brings together Dewey's writings for the 1929-1930 period.During this time Dewey published 4 books and 50 articles on philosophical, educational, political, and social issues...

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultural, individual, and governmental factors all have a strong influence over the mental well being of young...

Since World War II, there have been many changes in our nation due to shifts in our philosophy of man and moral law. The Soul of a Nation is a series of essays on these critical transformations in our society. This book will be of interest to citizens...

The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and McGill chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is McGill University's most anticipated annual event. Some of the series' greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize...

In recent years, researchers across the social sciences have made important contributions to the study of religion. Thanks to their inquiry, we have greatly improved our understanding of how religion influences the vital dimensions of our lives,...

During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Viet Nam News, Ha Noi's English-language newspaper, Huu Ngoc charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The...

In The Civil Society Reader Don Eberly presents the classic writings of the leading scholars and organizers who have brought the civil society debate to the forefront of American politics.ReviewsEmily Dickinson called poetry the best words in the best...

Franco Ferrarotti is widely regarded as the founder of postwar Italian sociology. Along with such figures as Leo Strauss, Edward Shils, David Riesman, Robert Merton, and Ralf Dahrendorf, he established the terms and texts of contemporary sociology after...

Are you looking to find your voice, hone your writing tactics, and cultivate communication skills with impact? Using real-world cases, student vignettes, and reflective questions, Lynn leads you through the A to Zen of the writing process, building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682754610Author Katie BoueFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 117gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Any study of contemporary industrial societies must take into account the role of power, ideology and class, and the degree to which these determine the development of social structures. This book, first published in 1977 and based on a selection of...

"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary...

George Yeo: Musings Series One and Series Two available as a set hereGeorge Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range...

Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they...

Remapping Memory was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The essays in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

In this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581772180Author Paul SmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Station Hill Press,U.S.Publisher Station Hill Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959054652Author Katrin KlinganFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 146mm *...

Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of such an understanding, this book offers a very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643753287Author Ross GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996836739Author Jason SegedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING in 1957, the Royal Society of Canada, celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation, departed from the accustomed pattern of its meetings. Instead of assembling in separate sections, Fellows from each Section of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809307548Author John DeweyFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

This fifth volume of the Middle Works contains Ethics by John Dewey and his former colleague at the University of Michigan, James H. Tufts, which ap peared as one of the last in the Holt American Science series of textbooks. Within some six months after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063082267Author Jonathan Van NessFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996836715Author Scott AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975401Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead...

Where there are pigeons, there is resistance. Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir's award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is...