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Behaving Badly

by George Saunders, A.M. Holmes, Aimee Bender, Kim Addonizio, Nathan Englander, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King ...

Narrated by Neil Gaiman, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Anjelica Huston0, Christine Ebersole1, Jefferson Mays2, Michael Imperioli3 ...

Series series Selected Shorts
Unabridged

3 hours 3 min

The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole. ... Read more

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The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.
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Science and Religion

Perspectives Across Disciplines

by Claudia May, Channon Visscher, Omar Fakhri, Juan Hernández, Jr., Julie Hogan, Michael Holmes, Bernon Lee, Nathan Lindquist, Marcus Simmons0, John Hedley Brooke1, Sherryse L. Corrow2, Victor I. Ezigbo3, Angela M. Sabates4, Cara M. Wall-Scheffler5, Barrett Fisher II6, Alister E. McGrath7, Wayne L. Roosa8 ...

Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is ... Read more

$105.29 USD

Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is
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Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice

Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation

by Michael Allen, Jessica Holmes, Paislee House, Samantha Orsulak, Nathan Poirier, Amanda R. Williams, Amber E. George, Will Boisseau0, Erica Von Essen1, Swatilekha Maity2, Anthony J. Nocella II3, Ellyse Winter5 ...

Series series Critical Animal Studies and Theory
An essential read for activists, community organizers, and justice scholars Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation is a collection that combines scholarship and activism in nine ground-breaking and provocative chapters. The book includes contributions from around the world influenced by critical theory, feminism, social justice, ... Read more

$80.99 USD

An essential read for activists, community organizers, and justice scholars Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation is a collection that combines scholarship and activism in nine ground-breaking and provocative chapters. The book includes contributions from around the world influenced by critical theory, feminism, social justice,
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Mysteries of Atlantis – Myth or Reality?, The

Exploring the Lost City, Ancient Legends, and Scientific Theories

by Nathan Holmes ...

Narrated by Nathan Holmes ...

Unabridged

3 hours 31 min

For centuries, Atlantis has captured the imagination of explorers, historians, and conspiracy theorists alike. First described by Plato, this legendary lost civilization is said to have vanished beneath the waves in a single day and night. But did it ever really exist?This audiobook takes you on a journey through myth, history, and science, examining ancient texts, archaeological discoveries, and ... Read more

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For centuries, Atlantis has captured the imagination of explorers, historians, and conspiracy theorists alike. First described by Plato, this legendary lost civilization is said to have vanished beneath the waves in a single day and night. But did it ever really exist?This audiobook takes you on a journey through myth, history, and science, examining ancient texts, archaeological discoveries, and
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Welcome to Fear City

Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination

by Nathan Holmes ...

Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThe early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, ... Read more

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Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThe early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films,
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Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

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Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has
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Better Living Through Criticism

How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

by A. O. Scott ...

The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott
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Horror Films of the 1970s

by John Kenneth Muir ...

The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three. This detailed filmography covers these and 225 more. Section One provides an introduction and a brief history of the decade.Beginning with 1970 and proceeding chronologically by year of its release in the United States, Section Two offers an entry for each film. Each entry includes several ... Read more

$31.19 USD

The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three. This detailed filmography covers these and 225 more. Section One provides an introduction and a brief history of the decade.Beginning with 1970 and proceeding chronologically by year of its release in the United States, Section Two offers an entry for each film. Each entry includes several
... Read more
Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

How to See Things

by Cecilia Sjöholm ...

Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote
... Read more
The Communist Horizon

by Jodi Dean ...

In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of theSoviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of internationalbanking has alerted exploited populations the world over to theunsustainability of an economic system predicated on perpetualgrowth, it is time the left ended its melancholic accommodationwith capitalism.In the new ... Read more

$9.99 USD

In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of theSoviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of internationalbanking has alerted exploited populations the world over to theunsustainability of an economic system predicated on perpetualgrowth, it is time the left ended its melancholic accommodationwith capitalism.In the new
... Read more
The Five Senses

A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

by Professor Michel Serres ...

Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Read more

$28.39 USD

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The
... Read more
Badiou and His Interlocutors

Lectures, Interviews and Responses

by Alain Badiou ...

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six ... Read more

$30.99 USD

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou – one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six
... Read more

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