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  • The Witch Who Almost Stopped Halloween

    by David Will ...
    In Sherwood, Halloween is the most magical day of the year. Costumes sparkle, pumpkins glow, and laughter fills every street. But just beyond the trees lives Grizelda, a lonely witch who decides to stop the celebration with tricky spells. No matter what she tries, the spirit of Sherwood grows stronger.When the neighbors discover her secret, they choose kindness instead of anger. As they listen to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barns Experiment

    by W. David Wills ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1945, this is a concise account of the remarkable experiment with boys carried out by the author of The Hawkspur Experiment. The war put this latter experiment into abeyance, but gave its author an opportunity to practice his principles on a group of younger difficult boys. Aged from eight to fourteen, these boys were the "throw-outs" of the Evacuation Scheme, but before ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Hawkspur Experiment

    An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents

    by W. David Wills ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
    Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a ‘bit of discipline’ is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.Basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Place Like Home

    A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

    by W. David Wills ...
    Series series National Institute Social Services Library
    The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment, etc.Originally published in 1970, this book describes another experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Animal That Therefore I Am

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The translated, complete text of Derrida's 1997 ten-hour address, "The Autobiographical Animal," focusing on the industrialized treatment of animals.The Animal That Therefore I Am is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics . . . [for those] made curious by the controversy that . . . attends Derrida." — Booklist, on the first editionThe Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gemmano

    by David Will ...
    Northern Italy, 1944: Gemmano is on the front lines of the battle for the Gothic Line, trapped between German occupation and the allied advance, as shell after shell rains down on the village.Eighteen year old Toni Mazzanti has always been considered 'odd' by the villagers, but as the battle rages and he comes to terms with his personal and spiritual development, his talents come to be viewed as ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perjury and Pardon, Volume I

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series Book 1 - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.“One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable.” From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Prosthetic Immortalities

    Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life

    by Adam R Rosenthal ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortalityFrom Plato’s notion of generation to Derrida’s concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, Adam Rosenthal’s Prosthetic Immortalities shows how the dream of indefinite life has always been a technological one: a matter of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Perjury and Pardon, Volume II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida.Perjury and Pardon is a two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Galloway's Book on Running

    3rd Edition

    by Jeff Galloway ...
    Learn everything you need to know about running, with one of the world’s most popular running books, updated to include Jeff Galloway’s revolutionary method of training.A new runner who’s looking to begin, a high school athlete who’s preparing for track & field season, an experienced marathoner aiming to get faster—whatever your situation, if you’re interested in running, this is the book for you. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • On the Commerce of Thinking

    Of Books and Bookstores

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Jean-Luc Nancy's On the Commerce of Thinking concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. His reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood one, but beyond that any such "perfumery, rotisserie, patisserie," as he calls them, dispensaries "of scents and flavors ... Read more

    $26.99 USD