Joshua Daniel: 37 books

Book cover of Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics
by Alberto Anelli, Rocco Gangle, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014

Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself “a pure metaphysician,” which is rather unique in the contemporary...
Book cover of What Democracy Looks Like

What Democracy Looks Like

The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics

by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, Kate Zittlow Rogness
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies. Recent protests around the...
Book cover of The Roads to Congress 2010
by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from...
Book cover of Ancient Borinquen

Ancient Borinquen

Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico

by Peter G. Roe, Peter E. Siegel, Joshua M. Torres
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...
Book cover of Tibes

Tibes

People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos

by Edwin Crespo-Torres, Lisa M. Stringer, L. Antonio Curet
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Book cover of Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society

Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society

Collision, Alteration, and Transmission

by Daniel S. H. Ahn, Kevin N. Cawley, Joshua Esler
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society is divided into three parts: Islamic encounters with regional religions, East Asian religious encounters, and alternative religious encounters. This book evokes the fact that religious encounters exist in every transcultural society even though they often...
Book cover of Fire Detection in Warehouse Facilities
by Joshua Dinaburg, Daniel T. Gottuk
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

Automatic sprinklers systems are the primary fire protection system in warehouse and storage facilities. The effectiveness of this strategy has come into question due to the challenges presented by modern warehouse facilities, including increased storage heights and areas, automated storage retrieval...
Book cover of Managing Instability on China's Periphery
by Paul B. Stares, Scott A. Snyder, Joshua Kurlantzick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

In this Center for Preventive Action study, CFR scholars provide policy options for preventing a major crisis and mitigating the consequences in the territories immediately adjacent to China: North Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Book cover of Public Modalities
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010

This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...
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