Vernon Art And Science Inc imprint: 23 books
Revitalizing History
Recognizing the Struggles, Lives, and Achievements of African American and Women Art Educators
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
With a focus on African American art educators and women art educators, Vernon Press is delighted to announce an upcoming text titled "Revitalizing History: Recognizing the Struggles, Lives, and Achievements of African American and Women Art Educators" to be published in Spring 2017. The text is a...
The Confusion between Art and Design
Brain-tools versus Body-tools
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In the past century the borders have blurred between art and design. Designers, artists, aestheticians, curators, art and design critics, historians and students all seem confused about these borders. Figurative painting was reduced to graphic design while still being called 'art'. Figurative sculpture...
The Philosophy of Forgiveness - Volume II
New Dimensions of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Volume II of Vernon Press’s series on the Philosophy of Forgiveness offers several challenging and provocative chapters that seek to push the conversation in new directions and dimensions. Volume I, Explorations of Forgiveness: Personal, Relational, and Religious, began the task of creating a...
by Themba Tsotsi
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The book is inspired by the discourse of Acknowledgements and Distinctions. A discourse that incorporates Deconstructionist techniques like differance in order to concretise the critical in the discourse which states that ‘signs’ in the cultural dispensation are in constant interaction with each...
Taboo Issues in Social Science
Questioning Conventional Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book is an expedition into a number of controversial issues in the social sciences with the intention of challenging the conventional wisdom on those issues. While most social science research is interesting and important, a fair amount of social science research is thinly disguised advocacy...
Einstein for Anyone: A Quick Read
A concise but up-to-date account of Albert Einstein's life, thought and major achievements.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Here is the compact story of this famous man, from the smiling contrarian in his grade school picture to the nonconformist adult who refused to groom his hair. As such, it fills a gap: the need for a very short book on Einstein that gives a brief but up-to-date story of his life and thought, with...
Memes of Misinformation: Federal Spending
Unraveling the controversial, socio-economic and political issues behind those annoying social media memes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In this first installment of the Misinformation series, the author tackles complex socio-economic and political topics related to the economy of the United States, such as the federal budget, wasteful spending, the national debt, unemployment and social security. By breaking down each subject into...
by Anthony F. Shaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The modern concept and study of civilization have their roots, not in western Europe, but in the spirit of scientific investigation associated with a self-conscious Islamicate civilization. What we call modernity cannot be fathomed without this historical connection. We owe every major branch of science...
The Bottom Line
Unfortunate Side Effects of Capitalist Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This monograph explores the role of culture in modern societies and the side effects that result when that role is distorted. The basic premise of this book is that many of the dominant cultural characteristics of modern life, like the ideologies and values associated with materialism and consumer...
Understanding DSGE models
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
While the theoretical development of DSGE models is not overly difficult to understand, practical application remains somewhat complex. The literature on this subject has some significant obscure points. This book can be thought of, firstly, as a tool to overcome initial hurdles with this type of...
On the Principles of Social Gravity [Revised edition]
How Human Systems Work, From the Family to the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
“On the Principles of Social Gravity” proposes a radical new way of thinking about social systems. It explains that all social systems –institutions created of and for human beings e.g. healthcare system, family, military etc., – are held together or governed by nine principles or rules. Using...
Einstein for Anyone: A Quick Read [2nd Edition]
A concise but up-to-date account of Albert Einstein's life, thought and major achievements
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
but up-to-date story of his life and thoughts, with a short and simple explanation of what he contributed to 20th century physics. Here is the compact story of this famous scientist, from the smiling contrarian in his grade school picture to the nonconformist adult who refused to groom his...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Almost five decades after his death, there is still ample reason to pay attention to the life and legacy of Bertrand Russell. This is true not only because of his role as one of the founders of analytic philosophy, but also because of his important place in twentieth-century history as an educator,...
by Frederick Douglass Alcorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book is a culturally situated study of the experiences and perspective garnered from of a group of post-secondary Black African American, bi-multi-racial male students aged 19-37. The undergirding interest was to see if there was an awareness of the group's manly inclinations, tendencies and...
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