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  • Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos

    Herd Immunities

    by William Watkin ...
    Series series Nomos Studies in Law, Culture and Power
    This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.Employing the term ‘herd immunity’ from vaccination science and global lockdown policy as a guiding theme, the book considers two central aspects of the pandemic. These ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Assault on Public Education

    Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform.

    by William Watkins ...
    In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will urban and poor populations be affected? Will privatization lead to increased stratification in our ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • Acute Stroke Nursing

    Edited by Jane Williams, Lin Perry, Caroline Watkins ...
    Stroke is a medical emergency that requires immediate medical attention. With active and efficient nursing management in the initial hours after stroke onset and throughout subsequent care, effective recovery and rehabilitation is increased. Acute Stroke Nursing provides an evidence-based, practical text facilitating the provision of optimal stroke care during the primary prevention, acute and ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Agamben and Indifference

    A Critical Overview

    by William Watkin ...
    Since the publication of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found many supporters as well as garnering strong criticism from some quarters. While his wider thoughts on topics such as language, potentiality, life, law, messianism, power, and aesthetics have had significant impact on such ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • Bioviolence

    How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

    by William Watkin ...
    Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Loudspeaker Physics and Forced Vibration

    by William H. Watkins ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is a study of the workings of dynamic loudspeakers and dynamically forced vibration. With its wealth of practical observations and real-life examples, this work will prove invaluable to the practicing motor design or loudspeaker design engineer, as well as researchers and students in electroacoustics.The book is based on a lifetime’s accumulated knowledge by acclaimed speaker designer ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Stroke Nursing

    Edited by Jane Williams, Lin Perry, Caroline Watkins ...
    Stroke Nursing is the leading guide for optimal stroke care, facilitating the provision of evidence-based practice across the stroke journey, and covering the sixteen elements of care outlined in the UK's Stroke-Specific Education Framework (SSEF).Drawing from years of clinical and research experience, the authors provide practical guidance on the essential areas of stroke nursing, including ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Independent Guide to the Constitution

    Original Intentions, Modern Inventions

    by William J. Watkins Jr. ...
    The Independent Guide to the Constitution: Original Intentions, Modern Inventions cuts through the partisan noise and helps readers reclaim the original, time-tested principles of liberty that America’s Framers worked so hard to protect.The Constitution is one of the most studied—and most willfully misunderstood—documents in American life. Now more than ever, Americans need an objective, thorough, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Badiou and Indifferent Being

    A Critical Introduction to Being and Event

    by Dr William Watkin ...
    The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results.Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: “I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy”. Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Crossing to Safety

    by Wallace Stegner, T.H. Watkins ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by Terry Tempest WilliamsAfterword by T. H. WatkinsCalled a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Badiou and Communicable Worlds

    A Critical Introduction to Logics of Worlds

    by Dr William Watkin ...
    Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou's Being and Event, the book expands upon and elucidates the questions that were posed in the first book. As a complex theory of worlds, the text has, for the most part, been misunderstood, but in William Watkin's diligent and critical close reading of the book, he makes the ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Patent Trolls

    Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation

    by William J. Watkins Jr. ...
    Patent trolls are stifling innovation.Using overbroad patents based on dated technology, trolls threaten litigation and bring infringement suits against inventors. Trolls, also known as Non-Practicing Entities (“NPEs”), typically do not produce products or services, but are in the business of litigation. They lie in wait for someone to create a process or product that has some relationship to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD