James Matthew: 152 books
The 2016 Presidential Election
The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake critically analyzes the 2016 presidential election. The chapters in this book identify key factors behind the election of Donald J. Trump, explore the unconventional campaign, analyze the unexpected election result,...
Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
CARR Yearbook 2018/2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
Must Be on 'Roids
A Weight-Training Manual
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Mathew James Barnett explained that his book is a light year away from when he first started using weights to increase his size and strength. He said there is twenty years of working out between his first workout and this book. He has a stack of books and magazines that all promised they had something...
Notes from the Ameripocalypse
The Best of Essay Club 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Publishing essays in the age of the tweet is a bit like selling buggywhips next to the car dealership. One would only expect such an activity to be pursued by old fuddy-duddies waving their canes at the kids on their lawns. We are actually huge proponents of social media. The restrictions of 140 characters...
Beyond the Mask
A Fiction-Atlas Superhero Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
There's so much more to each hero beyond the mask...
Fighting crime is not always a walk in the park. The power to protect citizens comes at a price... your identity. How do you live an ordinary life when you can do such extraordinary things?
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by Matthew Ritter, James Surdez
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Beneath the steel and neon glow of Pacific City a low-rent bounty hunter just got a job offer, a small fortune offered for a simple bodyguard position. But no job called simple ever is. Especially in a world of robotic partners, powerful mega corporations, pop idols, and cyber ninja assassins.
by Matthew Hansen, James McKee, Edward Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Lincoln�s predecessor, Lancaster, formed in 1863 on the east bank of Salt Creek around a proposed Methodist female seminary. Though a building was erected, the school failed to materialize. When Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, the village of Lancaster was chosen as its first capital, and the...
by Matthew James
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
From our modern perspective, it's difficult to imagine a time when the earth still contained mysteries and men headed out in wooden boats on journeys into the unknown. But that was not the case during the Age of Exploration. The Great Explorers tells the dramatic stories of the four men whose expeditions...
by Matthew Gartner, Lauren Gatti, Andrew C. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
The Antipodean Philosopher
Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
Beautiful Hope
Finding Hope Every Day in a Broken World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
We live in a culture that produces hopelessness with astounding consistency. When everything seems chaotic and we are faced with a multitude of negative realities, we might be tempted to say that nothing makes sense anymore. But we are not alone—God walks with us and his presence fills us with hope....
Subjectivity
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...