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View book details for Beyond the Control of God?
Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects
The question of God's relationship to abstract objects touches on a number of perennial concerns related to the nature of God. God is typically thought to be an independent and self-sufficient being. Further, God is typically thought to be supremely …
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The Cold War and Its Legacy
Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War.Experts from both …
View book details for Adaptation Theory and Criticism
Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA
Traditional critics of film adaptation generally assumed a) that the written text is better than the film adaptation because the plot is more intricate and the language richer when pictorial images do not intrude; b) that films are better when …
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Baseball and America in the Time of JFK
In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where …
View book details for Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2
Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media
This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify …
View book details for Outdoor Learning and Play
Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural Formation
This Open Access book examines childrens participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions …
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View book details for Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality
Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited …
View book details for Horror Film Aesthetics
Creating the Visual Language of Fear
This richly informed study analyzes how various cinematic tools and techniques have been used to create horror on screen--the aesthetic elements, sometimes not consciously noticed, that help to unnerve, frighten, shock or entertain an audience. The first two chapters define …
View book details for Thomas Aquinas
A Very Brief History
'The study of philosophy is that we may know not what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.' Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-74) was one of the most influential philosophers of the Middle Ages, and his works continue …
This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siecle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory …
View book details for Understanding Energy Innovation
Learning from Smart Grid Experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themesnetworks, nodes, narratives and nostalgiaand each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia …
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View book details for Writing Manuals for the Masses
The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as …
This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a …
View book details for Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research
This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches. Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the …
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View book details for Openness, Secrecy, Authorship
Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
A history of the book and intellectual property that includes military technology and military secrets.Winner of The Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of IdeasIn today's world of intellectual property disputes, industrial espionage, and book signings …
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An Essay in Verse
A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape. Its lines unspool in a loose and echoing blank verse that …
In this "saucy and smart" memoir, a journalist uses pop culture as a lens to navigate her identity as a Black woman (Oprah Daily). Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media …
In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western worlds relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them. The onset …
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A Journey across the Landscapes of Modern Golf
In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the big business, pristine lawn approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading …
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The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 19862011
Humanitys first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASAs Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program …
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A Book Club Recommendation!
The second novel from the critically acclaimed writer of Pike, which was nominated for Frances prestigious Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere crime fiction award and easily rivals Larry Browns most renowned novels (Spinetingler Magazine). In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy …
In this third book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sharon M. Draper, four boys who call themselves the Black Dinosaurs go on a spooky camping trip filled with Native American lore.Ziggy and friends are excited about …
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Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to
The first collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, The Libertarian Reader links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuries-old commitment to freedom, self-determination, and opposition …
From the internationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls, a provocative novel set in eastern Tennessee that explores the legaciesof passion and violence, music and faiththat haunt one family across the generations (Jillian Medoff, author of This Could Hurt). …
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11 Lessons on How to Get the Relationship, Career, and Life You Want
An unfiltered and unafraid (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable) guide to building the kind of confidence it really takes to live the life of your dreams, from Impact Theory cofounder and growth mindset …
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