Mind, Language and Morality - Essays in Honor of Mark Platts
pdf | 1.44 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B079M5P36D | Author: Gustavo Ortiz-Millán | Year: 2018

André Blais, "Across Boundaries: Essays in Honour of Robert A.Young"
English | ISBN: 0228006074 | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 1119 KB
Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multilevel governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so virulent in today's society? These are some of the most pressing questions in political science today. These questions and research areas - secession, multilevel government, and political economy - were the focus of the writing and scholarship of Robert (Bob) Andrew Young (1950-2017), Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance at the University of Western Ontario and one of Canada's most distinguished political scientists. In Across Boundaries Young's former colleagues and students bring together contributions from his extensive network, which included academics, government officials, and media personalities. These essays speak to Young's legacy while providing new insight into research in multilevel governance, secession, and political economy. Young's body of work is exemplary in its attention to concrete policy issues as well as in the breadth of his interest across many subfields of political science. Across Boundaries honours his distinguished career and gives students, professors, and practitioners further insight into his scholarship.

States of Emergency: Essays on Culture and Politics By Patrick Brantlinger
2013 | 314 Pages | ISBN: 0253010195 | PDF | 3 MB
In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America. Brantlinger takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. An invigorating return to classic cultural studies with its concern for social justice and challenges to economic orthodoxy, States of Emergency is a delightful mix of journalism, satire, and theory that addresses many of the most pressing issues of our time.Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (IUP, 1998); Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay; Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America; Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties; and Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians.Reviews:"This invigorating mix of journalism, satire, and theory addresses many of the most pressing issues of our time including the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization.""This book is where a lifetime of liberal scholarly study leads one: to revolution. Using his perfect skills as historical archivist, cultural critic, and critical theorist, Brantlinger writes for those insulted and injured by neoliberal economic policies and capitalist modernity in language accessible for action." - Regenia Gagnier, author of Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole"A good read, as can be expected from this author. The themes are pertinent, the treatments are well-researched, the judgment is balanced, the style is sober. While the essays are wide ranging, the contents cohere by virtue of Brantlinger's moral passion." - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, author of Is There Hope for Uncle Sam? and Globalization and Culture"Patrick Brantlinger's close reasoning and luminously beautiful prose unite in a brilliant book on the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship that blends cultural studies and social justice. Starting with a detailed and incisive account of the British cultural studies movement as a counter-discourse to conventional capitalist economics, and closing with a hopeful investigation of the alter-globalization movement, Brantlinger presents a rich, interdisciplinary blend of art, politics, history and economics that is a lively and engrossing read. States of Emergency is a stunning capstone achievement by one of our principal scholars in the fields of race and the British Empire." - Alan Wald, author of American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War"Deeply researched (with full footnotes and bibliography), carefully thought out, and eloquently argued, [States of Emergency] offer[s] a refreshing relief from the babble of mainstream social and political commentary, and a source of hopeful vision against the varied voices of apocalypse." - The Ryder

Against The Megamachine: Essays On Empire And Its Enemies By David Watson
1998 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 1570270872 | PDF | 8 MB
Urban-industrial civilization is a vast junkyard. Everything, from the planets to the cells of our bodies, is contaminated with its poisons. What it means to be human is now in dangerous flux, while the entire edifice sways over us, threatening to crash down in ruins. The green world in which we evolved is being shredded by our instruments and our way of life...David Watson's wide-ranging essays - published in the Fifth Estate, one of North America's most original radical journals - ponder such themes as the state, empire and war; humanity's tragic relation to the natural world; and the contemporary mass society generated by industrial capitalism and modern technology. His impassioned critique offers a vision of social transformation open to diverse possibilities, and suggests where a new politics must begin: as a radical challenge to the mystique of progress, in defense of nature, memory and spirit."David Watson is one of the handful of thinkers and authors who have managed to address technology in all of its dimensions - its effects on individual consciousness, on political power, on social and cultural forms, and on the natural world - to reveal something far more profound and terrifying, though still beneath the awareness of the public and the otherwise politically engaged community of activists. Technology must move to the forefront as an activist issue, and only through works like this will we understand the subject well enough to act." - Jerry Mander

Level up Your Essays - How to Get Better Grades at University
epub | 5.98 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-1742236803 | Author: Mewburn, Inger; Firth; Firth, Katherine; Lehmann, Shaun | Year: 2021

A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development By Shiv Visvanathan
1997 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 0195638662 | PDF | 107 MB
"A Carnival For Science is an insightful and elegantly written collection of essays from one of India's finest post-modern critics of science. Trained in the sociology and philosophy of science, Visvanathan has devoted his attention in this book to the "development agenda" of modem science, explicitly identifying modernism, development, and science as interlinked and potentially genocidal forces in the world. In making this argument, Visvanathan argues that science and politics are inseparable, and to localize science would also have the effect of decentralizing government. In spite of the polemical tone of his thesis, Visvanathan's writing is often entertaining and even delightful as his essays move from a fictional account of a crisis of simultaneously blooming bamboo clumps over thousand of acres of forest (and the attendant rats which come to feed on it) to rewriting Gandhi to Oppenheimer and atomic physics." -- Mike Lewis, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Article 30, Volume 1999, Issue 18, 1999, pp 119-21

Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman By Thomas W. Barton, Susan McDonough, Sara McDougall, Matthew Wranovix
2017 | 358 Pages | ISBN: 2503568459 | PDF | 3 MB
Throughout his distinguished career at Vanderbilt and Yale, Paul H. Freedman has established a reputation for pushing against and crossing perceived boundaries within history and within the historical discipline. His numerous works have consistently ventured into uncharted waters: from studies uncovering the hidden workings of papal bureaucracy and elite understandings of subaltern peasants, to changing perceptions of exotic products and the world beyond Europe, to the role modern American restaurants have played in taking cuisine in exciting new directions.The fifteen essays collected in this volume have been written by Paul Freedman's former students and closest colleagues to both honour his extraordinary achievements and to explore some of their implications for medieval and post-medieval European society and historical study. Together, these studies assess and explore a range of different boundaries, both tangible and theoretical: boundaries relating to law, religion, peasants, historiography, and food, medicine, and the exotic. While drawing important conclusions about their subjects, the collected essays identify historical quandaries and possibilities to guide future research and study.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1742236804 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5.97 MB
Level Up Your Essays is the essential guide to essay writing for university students. Written by the people who mark your essays, it will show you step-by-step how to write high-quality essays that will get you top marks. This book will guide you through all the stages, including your essay plan, developing research strategies, writing with distinction, finishing strongly with editing, and getting your referencing right every time. Bursting with insider tips and tricks on what markers look for, this clear and easy-to-use guide includes: 22 worksheets with exercises and checklists The secret formula for a good essay (yes, there is a formula!) Practical insights into digital tools to help you with research, writing and referencing Guidelines for getting your academic English right every time Common mistakes and missteps and how to fix them Straightforward information for international students Successful time management strategies so you never hand in an essay late No matter what grades you get now, this book will revolutionise your essay writing - and get you the marks to prove it.

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The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore
English | October 7, 2012 | ISBN: 069115399X, 0691159599 | EPUB | 432 pages | 0.5 MB
From celebrated writer Jill Lepore, a literary and political history of American origin stories

Level up Your Essays
by Mewburn, Inger; Firth; Firth, Katherine; Lehmann, Shaun
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1742236804 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5.97 MB