Russell: 3438 books
The Agile City
Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it?
Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by...
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD): Looking Back to Look Forward
In conversation with John McKnight about the intellectual and practical heritage of ABCD and its place in the world today.
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), Looking Back to Look Forward is a prelude to a longer book. It is framed as a conversation between Cormac Russell, who is a leader in the Asset Based Movement in Europe, and Director of ABCD Europe and Professor John McKnight the Co-Director of the ABCD Institute....
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most significant educational innovators of his time. In this influential and controversial work, Russell calls for an education that would liberate the child from unthinking obedience to parental and religious authority. He argues that if the basis of...
Smiling Down the Line
Info-Service Work in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Just as textile mills and automotive assembly plants have symbolized previous economic eras, the call centre stands as a potent reminder of the importance of information in contemporary economies. Bob Russell's Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at...
Haunted Castles
The Complete Gothic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro
Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Problems of Philosophy (1912) is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics.Russell guides...
The Prince of Darkness
Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity to the present. While recounting how past...
by Carrol Fix, Jot Russell, Paula Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
The Future Is Short: Science Fiction in a Flash presents 57 microstories by talented authors. Relish each story in tiny bites of speculative fiction entertainment and adventure, catching glimpses of miniature worlds of the future in breathtakingly fresh flights of science fiction imaginings.
As...
by William Clark Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
"The Wreck of the Grosvenor” tells of the adventures of Edward Royle, the second mate on a sailing ship travelling from England to South America in the nineteenth century. With a hard-hearted captain and a mutinous crew, this was never going to be an easy voyage. When Royle spots a vessel foundering...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Russell Brand's Trickster Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
With this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that will appeal to adults and children alike.
Once upon a time, long ago, in a time that seemed, to those present,...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell was declared unfit to teach college-level philosophy, What I Believe was to become one of...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Bertrand Russell is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers a lucid and concise insight into Russell’s thinking on issues that preoccupied him throughout his life: atheism,...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than...
The Angel on the Roof
The Stories of Russell Banks
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works,...