Warren Allan: 4 books

Book cover of 3 Sharks: A Sailing Story
by Warren Allan
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015

I'm in a very small (19 ft) fishing boat some 25 miles off the coast of Kenya. The boat has a major malfunction causing loss of power and a large hole through which the Indian Ocean is rapidly pouring in. There are no tools, no radio communications, no flares or other modern day emergency equipment...
Book cover of The Philosophy of Documentary Film
by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen...
Book cover of Techno-Orientalism

Techno-Orientalism

Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism...
Book cover of Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population
by Gary L. Kreps, Allan D. Peterkin, Karina Willes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

This co-edited volume addresses a population of people whose lack of health care access, mistreatment in health care settings, and refusal of health care services are often omitted from discussions about health care disparities and insurance reform. The perspectives and needs of LGBT people should...
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