Max Harris: 13 books

For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women’s clothes, sang obscene songs, swung...

By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, wealth inequality to new populism these challenges are complex and even unprecedented. Yet why does New Zealand’s political discussion seem so diminished, and our political...

In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Spanish...

With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval...

Piketty’s book is a bombshell, promising a Kuhnian scientific revolution. Geoff BertramPiketty erects a floodlight that illuminates the shadows ignored by economists for too long. Hautahi KingiFew books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight...

‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous...

A man buys a mink jacket previously worn by Marilyn Monroe on an electronic auction site. At the request of the woman to whom he gives the jacket he tracks the history of the jacket through multiple owners. To his dismay everyone who had worn the jacket had met with unfortunate circumstances. At the...

Stories of the present and near future.Confessions of a Drone Pilot recounts a young man's ventures in the drone business.Distress Signal tells about a large scale terrorist attack.Where are my Rare Earths? foresees a future with struggles for raw materials.Twenty-four Hour News looks at manipulation of news reporting.Evil Power shows effects of solar flares.

A very old parrot living high in a jungle tree relates to a group of young parrots what she has seen and stories she has heard over almost a century. She tells of the changes from a bird's point of view.

The ebook contains 1 long screenplay and 2 shorts.The Jeweler's Loupe tells of a Jewish jeweler from Iran living in Damascus who is suspected of spying and subversion.E-45 is a short start of a road trip series on the E-45 highway from southern Sicily to the Finnish border.Faces to Let is a short...

A teenage boy takes a spring trip with his uncle to try out an old sailboat bought on an internet auction site. The preparation for the trip was incomplete. As a result there are a number of mishaps along the way. However, the trip is a good learning experience for the boy and his uncle.

Epay Stories are fictional events related to ecommerce such as online auctions. The story German Officer's Sword - Used relates the activities of a man who purchases a used German officer's sword on the epay auction site. As he cleans the sword in preparation for display, he encounters a...

This practical and straightforward resource prepares you to meet the challenges presented by orthopaedic injuries most commonly seen in the emergency department and office settings. Readers will explore a range of techniques—from administration of local anesthesia, proper fracture reduction, and splint application, to some less common musculoskeletal procedures.