Paul Simpson: 33 books
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book
In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate...
That's What They Want You to Think: Conspiracies Real, Possible, and Paranoid
Conspiracies Real, Possible, and Paranoid
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
You don’t need to be wearing a tinfoil hat to accept that Lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy - it’s a historical fact. But these days the phrase “conspiracy theory” has become synonymous with labyrinthine plots and nebulous clues hidden in blown-up photos and arcane paintings. The simple...
by Paul Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their beliefs, interests and biases in a wide range of...
Elvis Films FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
If Elvis Presley had not wanted to be a movie star, he would never have single-handedly revolutionized popular culture. Yet this aspect of his phenomenal career has been much maligned and misunderstood – partly because the King himself once referred to his 33 movies as a rut he had got stuck in...
Language and Power
A Resource Book for Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings...
Writing the City
Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
`The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.
Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of...
The Parables
A Preaching Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Many resources have been written to offer assistance in exploring and understanding the lectionary texts for the purpose of preaching. However, few have sought to provide this kind of preaching commentary on texts that do not follow the lectionary's grouping. For those whose preaching does not customarily...
by Paul Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
There are many myths about serial killers: that they are all dysfunctional loners; all white males; only motivated by sex; that they all travel and operate across a wide area; cannot stop killing; are all insane, or evil geniuses; and that they all want to get caught.
Of course, there are some...
Antarctica
Exploration, Perception and Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
A scene so wildly and awfully desolate...it cannot fail to impress me with gloomy thoughts" - so Scott perceived the stark Antarctic landscape in 1905.
Antarctica traces images of the continent from early invented maps of Terra Australis Incognita up to Amundsen's arrival at 90 degrees South....
Wer erfand den Übersteiger?
… und andere lebenswichtige Fußballfragen
Language: German
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Wer war der erste deutsche Fußballprofi? Können Elefanten Elfmeter schießen? In welcher taktischen Formation gewann Nordkorea 1966 gegen Italien? Antworten auf diese und viele andere Fragen liefert dieses Buch. Außerdem lernen wir, was der Übersteiger mit holländischen Eisschnellläufern zu...
Ethical Decision Making in School Administration
Leadership as Moral Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Pedagogically rich, demographically inclusive, and culturally sensitive, Ethical Decision Making in School and District Administration exposes educational leaders to an interdisciplinary array of theories from the fields of education, economics, management, and moral philosophy (past and present)....
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...
Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens
Counterstories and Counterspaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal...
by Paul W Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
The Star of Greece was an iron clipper ship built by Harland & Wolff of Ireland for JP Corry of Belfast. For more than 20 years she plied the waters between Britain, India and Australia before coming to grief in 1888 with the loss of 18 lives. Her loss left many unanswered questions, including...