Matthew Michael: 123 books
by Matt King, Michael Moats, Matthew J. King
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
More sulfuric acid is produced every year than any other chemical. It has a wide range of uses including phosphate fertilizer production, explosives, glue, wood preservatives, and lead-acid batteries. It is also a particularily corrosive and dangerous acid, with extreme environmental and health hazards...
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...
Screening the Nonhuman
Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as...
Northern Gospel, Northern Church
Reflections on Identity and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
“Enlightening, thought provoking and honest, a bit like the North itself” — Kate Bottley (the “Gogglebox Vicar”)
Foreword by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
A must-have book for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of proclaiming the Gospel in the North of England.
From...
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...
An Introduction to Political Geography
Space, Place and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects.
The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering...
Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City
The Dynamics of Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Atlanta's experience over the past 15 to 20 years is reflective of many cities, particularly those in the south and west. Thus, the story of how and why Atlanta has changed is informative for cities in general. What accounts for the positive turn-around of the city of Atlanta? What can other cities...
Reinventing Rural
New Realities in an Urbanizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying...
Marketing
A Critical Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
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...
by Michael A Collins, Matthew Addicoat, Anthony J H M Meijer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The focus of this excellent textbook is the topic of molecular reaction dynamics. The chapters are all written by internationally recognised researchers and, from the outset, the contributors are writing with the young scientist in mind. The easy to use, stand-alone, chapters make it of value to students,...
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...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
by Michael Mario Albrecht, Osei Alleyne, Francois Allard-Huver
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures...
Making Threats
Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses,...