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Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays On Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben ar... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Jessica's Ghost
Francis has never had a friend like Jessica before. She's the first person he's ever met who can make him feel completely himself. Jessica has never had a friend like Francis before. Not just because he's someone to laugh with every day - but because he's the first person who has ever been able to s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Friends for Life
A timeless and uplifting book about friendship, filled with humor and heart. When Jessica sits next to Francis on a bench during recess, he's surprised to learn that she isn't actually alive--she's a ghost. And she's surprised, too, because Francis is the first person who has been able to see her s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Mike
MEET FLOYD. He's a tennis star. Possibly good enough to win Wimbledon one day. MEET MIKE. He's... different. Apart from anything else, Floyd seems to be the only one who can see him. But Mike must have appeared for a reason. And finding out why is perhaps the most important thing Floyd will ever do.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Truth and Democracy
Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evid... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
I Don't Believe It, Archie!
Odd things happen to Archie every day. Some very odd things. On Monday, a piano rolls down the hill and traps his new friend Cyd in her mum's car. And then a truck tips a load of gravel on top of it. But don't worry--she's ok. Actually, Cyd finds it exciting though of course, she doesn't believe tha... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Positive Psychology Approaches to Dementia
by Andrew Norris • Bob Woods • Tony Ryan • Catherine Quinn • Chris Clarke • John Killick • Christine Bryden • Elspeth Stirling • Alison Phinney • Esme Moniz-Cook • Kirsty Patterson • Phyllis Braudy Harris • Emma Wolverson • Helen Irwin • Mike NolanHow can positive psychology approaches help us to understand the process of adjustment to, and living well with dementia? As accounts of positive experiences in dementia are increasingly emerging, this book reviews current evidence and explores how psychological constructs such as hope, humour, cr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
An Analysis of the Underground Economy and Its Macroeconomic Consequences
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
A Note on Funding Digital Innovation Startups
This note provides information on the state of startup financing in Silicon Valley in 2013. It details different avenues startups have to raise funding, including venture capital, corporate venture capital, angel investors, incubators, and crowdfunding.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Critical Realism: Essential Readings (Critical Realism Ser. #Vol. 6)
Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one vol... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016
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The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)
by Frances Young • Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent • Thomas Arentzen • Suzanne Abrams Rebillard • Sebastian Brock • Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos • Georgia Frank • Constance Furey • Sidney Griffith • Susan Holman • Andrew Jacobs • Rebecca Krawiec • Bernadette McNary-Zak • Caroline Schroeder • Arthur UrbanoThis collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020