David Simpson: 29 books
Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern
The Poetics of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century:...
by David Simpson, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
“Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . .”—so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, “as a parent of two children” or “as an engineer” or “as a...
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals)
The Poetry of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges...
by David Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In...
States of Terror
History, Theory, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO.
Introducing...
by John David Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The modern church has become a Godless social club for the unsaved of the world. This short essay looks at some of the changes from the writers perspective. The work is short, but to the point.
by David Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Practical Onshore Gas Field Engineering delivers the necessary framework to help engineers understand the needs of the reservoir, including sections on early transmission and during the life of the well. Written from a reservoir perspective, this reference includes methods and equipment from gas reservoirs,...
Productivity in Natural Resource Industries
Improvement through Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Several senior natural resource analysts study the role played by innovation, particularly technological innovation, in the pursuit of heightened productivity. Increasing the output of a given input improves a firm‘s bottom line, makes it more competitive internationally, and reduces the potential...
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook
A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2015 Edition) and Related Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2016 Edition) & Related Guidance, Fourth Edition, presents the latest on the electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic systems that provide safety functions that guard...
by Adam Simpson, Rob Howard, T. Veigga
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
If you’ve already downloaded volume 1 of our series Parsnips in ELT, then you’ll already have an idea of what this book is about. The PARSNIP is, as many of you will know, a reference to all those topics that are commonly left out of the standard ELT coursebook: Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex,...
The Nature of Nutrition
A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities...
Freeman's: Arrival
The Best New Writing on Arrival
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others.
In this inaugural edition of Freeman’s, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together...
Undead Worlds
A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
21 Authors. 21 Undead worlds. 1 Great Book.
Do you dare?
ALONE TOGETHER BY DAVID SIMPSON
What do you do when there is nowhere left to run?
GONE FISHIN' BY JUSTIN ROBINSON
When the dead rise, the living become the monsters.
THE FESTIVAL BY CHRISTOPHER MAHOOD
A city on lockdown...
Shoreline of Infinity 1: Science Fiction Magazine
Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Shoreline of Infinity is a science fiction magazine including fiction, reviews, interviews and more.
Published in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Issue 1 Contents
Editorial: Pull up a Log
Fiction
The Three Stages of Atsushi, Larry Ivkovich
The Spiral Moon, Alex Barr
Symbiosis,...