C Stokes: 12 books
Coleridge, Language and the Sublime
From Transcendence to Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force.
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
The Puzzle of Distributive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits...
Why Bother?
Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Why do vote-suppression efforts sometimes fail? Why does police repression of demonstrators sometimes turn localized protests into massive, national movements? How do politicians and activists manipulate people's emotions to get them involved? The authors of Why Bother? offer a new theory of why people...
by Nicola C Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
A tale, an adventure and a journey leading Ruby far from home to Glastonbury. It is here where she is drawn by mystical energies she does not comprehend. Looking through the tiny paned window of the quaint cottage she is lured by the vision of the moonlit Tor. Ruby could not shake the feeling...
by Mark D. Brewer, Richard Powell, Chad Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...
Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them
Farm Gardening With Hints on Cheap Manuring
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Farmers in the thickly populated Eastern and Middle States, or, in fact, east of the Mississippi River, cannot grow grains nor fatten beeves with the same profit as before the opening of the great West. Dairying still returns fair profits, but there is a widespread demand for cash crops adapted to...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Ana Night, C.E. Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
The Key: A Collection of Short Stories
These nine tales will lead you on adventures that may open a legacy ... or dark and sinister truths you'd rather not know. If could lead to an inheritance or a curse ... you'll just have to read on to find out.
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
The Business of Waste
Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained...
by Whitely Stokes, D.C.L.
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
There was a famous and noble king over Erin, named Eochaid Feidlech. Once upon a time he came over the fairgreen of Bri Leith, and he saw at the edge of a well a woman with a bright comb of silver adorned with gold, washing in a silver basin wherein were four golden birds and little, bright gems of purple...
Principles of Optics
Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past 40 years. The new edition is the first ever thoroughly revised and expanded edition of this standard text. Among the new material, much of which...
Karrieren der Gewalt
Nationalsozialistische Täterbiographien
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Wer waren die Täter des nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungskrieges? Waren sie Bestien oder Befehlsempfänger, desinteressierte Bürokraten und willenlose Rädchen im Getriebe? In diesem Band stellen ausgewiesene Experten 23 Karrieren der Gewalt vor – die bisher größte Sammlung von Biographien...