James Matthew: 152 books
Great War Modernism
Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore...
by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives....
Marketing
A Critical Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
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Written by a team of renowned experts in the field, Marketing: A Critical Textbook provides a unique introduction and overview of critical approaches to marketing.
Ideally suited to advanced students of marketing, the book uses...
Out of Many, One People
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
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As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...
Learning 2D Game Development with Unity
A Hands-On Guide to Game Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The Unity Engine Tutorial for Any Game Creator
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Unity is now the world’s #1 game engine, thanks to its affordability, continuous improvements, and amazing global community. With Unity, you can design, code, and author your game once, and then deploy it to multiple platforms, reaching...
The Naturalness of Belief
New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Oil and Terrorism in the New Gulf
Framing U.S. Energy and Security Policies for the Gulf of Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Oil and Terrorism in the New Gulf examines the national security implications of U.S. energy security policies in the Middle East, and the emerging U.S. involvement in oil exploration and extraction in West Africa. Similar political, social, and economic challenges_poverty, corruption, lack of infrastructure,...
Remake Television
Reboot, Re-use, Recycle
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Remakes are pervasive in today’s popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, “re-imaginings,” or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networks interested in building on the nostalgic capital of past successes (or giving a second chance...
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics
Popular Culture as Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It is often said that the poet Homer "educated" ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition.
Following...
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
Rethinking the Enlightenment
Between History, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the...
by Matthew C. Eshleman, Scott M. James, Vladamir Jankovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world)...