Wendt: 102 books

The rise of experience design and service design is familiar to anyone involved in design practice. This shift from the design of artifacts to the design of intangible services and experiences calls for a new understanding of design's place in the world. If experience designers are unique in...

This fine gathering of poems shows Ingrid Wendts genius for bringing her readers into a world that becomes theirs. Finely crafted lyric narratives and meditations offer a host of small epiphanies arising from everyday life: turning points in relationships, insights into our troubled world, and coming...

Dianna Brandley was heartbroken when Christian Cartwright married and took his bride to Virginia. Danni fulfilled her mothers deathbed wish by marrying her Virginia cousin, North Delveau, and followed Christian to the new world. But she soon came to yearn for North, who seemed indifferent to her. In...

Redheaded Jericho, a bondslave, was gambled away to Lord Dove, that skilled swordsman and lover of ladies. When he claimed her indenture, her life changed. As she turned from a ragamuffin into a beauty, she moved from the wild streets of colonial America to the landed mansions of Restoration England....

Albert Wendt's new collection of short stories explores the nature of family, tradition and culture through the eyes of those seemingly caught between the realities of modern contemporary life and the ancestral ties of their heritage. With a deft touch, he draws us into his characters' lives and with...

Persistent Fools: Cunning Intelligence and the Politics of Design explores the manipulative qualities of design, the unsustainability of capitalist rationalism, the anti-strategies of cunning intelligence, and new approaches for responsible and ethical design practice. Design is not a purely benevolent...

It’s 1976 and the United States is home to The Giganticos, a football super squad led by the one and only Pearl of Brazil, and more or less the only reason AASSA (American All-Star Soccer Association) exists. Enter Danny Hooper, a third-division English footballer from East Southwhich Albion, whose...

Flavia, Duchess of Tewksbury, knew that her husband would destroy her, as he had his previous wives, if she failed to produce a child for him. Her one chance was to spend a night with a stranger from the New World, Captain Garth McNeil, in hopes that she would conceive. That one night produced not only...

“Maybe you’re not meant to manipulate fire the way I do. Maybe sparks are all you’re ever going to make.” He snarled, “Or maybe you just need to be a better teacher and give me more.” Before I could reply, he grabbed my hand, twisted and pulled me into a restraining lock. Body pressed...

**An epic novel stretching out from Samoa to Europe, America and New Zealand, from the turn of the nineteenth century, through the First World War, the Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond.**Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own....

Edwinna Crawford would inherit the Barbados plantation if she found a man to marry in the next twenty-four hours. Within her sight Drake Steel, handsome and defiant, was shackled waist-deep in the sea, about to be executed as a pirate. Marrying him would save his lifeand could provide her with an intoxicating...

The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics? A...

Über den Charakter von Kleists Kohlhaas ist nach Horst Sendler alles gesagt: Er ist Rachsüchtiger, Rechtsfanatiker, Terrorist und einiges mehr. Berthold Wendt macht in seiner Untersuchung jedoch nicht den Helden zum Gegenstand der Interpretation, sondern ermittelt die Bedeutung von dessen Handeln:...

The Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists, southern blacks adopted Martin Luther King's philosophy...