Alex: 4765 books
Leviathans at the Gold Mine
Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnographic account of the relationship between the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, and the large international gold mine operating on their land. It was not until 1939 that Australian territorial patrols reached the Ipili. By 1990, the third largest...
Sounds of Crossing
Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within...
by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Dainty's Cruel Rivals by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller.
Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum
Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
‘For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish’s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography curriculum...
The Scientific Journal
Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of...
Unstable Ground
Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our...
by Alex Brightsmith
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
A debut novel that forms an intriguing introduction to the girl currently calling herself Kathryn Blake. Kate is a flamboyant traceuse, a nerveless pickpocket, an unrivalled cat-burglar . . . Kate is whatever she needs to be; what better place to meet her than Vienna, that city of a thousand faces?...
The One vs. the Many
Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative...
by Alex Julien
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Through the Eyes of My Shadow, is a collection of poems written by Alex Julien. This book contains two sections, Pain & Love, that take you on a trip through the mind of this young man as he has gone through life thus far. Part 1: Pain, details the internal conflict with past experiences and relationships...
by Alex Caetano
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A somber man wishing to fulfill certain urges for the first time in his life. A wooden box containing the means for that fulfillment. An intrusive cousin. An impeccable lawn. A garden shed. An embarrassing plaster statue of the goddess Athena.
The Making of an SS Killer
The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS-Einsatzkommando 9, a mobile killing squad, for the murder of more than 18,000 Soviet Jews - men, women and children - on the...
by Alex Woloch
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
There have been many studies of George Orwell, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch—an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell’s radical writing. Bearing down on the propulsive irony and formal restlessness intertwined with his plain-style, Woloch offers a new understanding of Orwell and a new way of thinking about writing and politics.
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.
This guide...
Philosophy of Science
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume...