David Franklin: 21 books

Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic evsuch as a wildfire or hurricane—is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged areas should be logged so as to avoid “wasting” resources,...

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.   War and...

Towards Forest Sustainability is a collection of practical essays by some of the world’s leading forest ecologists and managers from the United States of America, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. The authors describe the changes that have taken place in forest management – highlighting...

In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke—the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa—is placed in conversation with leading...

A word spoken, a line read can make the difference between life and death or success and failure. A retired black general surgeon raised by his parents in a low-income housing project of Montgomery, Alabama, with eight other siblings reflects on lessons learned and nuggets extracted from a life infused...

Quels moyens l’État haïtien s’est-il donné de rendre justice et de surmonter les séquelles de la dictature? Rassemblés en 2014 pour en débattre, chercheurs et militants de tous les milieux (sciences politiques, philosophie, droit, anthropologie…) en discutent collectivement, librement,...

Décimo-primeiro livro da série Mutações, Dissonâncias do progresso discute como o progresso da tecnologia gerou inegáveis benefícios para a humanidade – como avanços na medicina e na comunicação –, facilitando nosso cotidiano. Em contrapartida, trouxe velocidade e superficialidade para...