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  • Founded in Fiction

    The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States

    by Thomas Koenigs ...
    An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic—one that challenges the “rise of the novel” narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-reading would mislead readers about reality. Founded in Fiction argues that this suspicion made early ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • In Defense of Tort Law

    by Thomas Koenig, Michael Rustad ...
    Late night comedians and journalists eagerly seized upon the case of an elderly woman who sued McDonald’s when she spilled hot coffee in her lap as a prime example of frivolous litigation. But as Rustad and Koenig argue, cases such as these are an incomplete and misleading characterization of tort law. Corporations have successfully waged a public relations battle to create the impression that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Social Problems across the Life Course

    by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Christine Bowditch, Spencer E. Cahill, Sheldon Goldenberg, Robert Granfield, Thomas Koenig, Zella Luria, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Susan E. Martin, Frances B. McCrea, Madonna Harrington Meyer, David L. Morgan, Allan Schnaiberg, Jay D. Teachman, Barrie Thorne, David R. Unruh, Susan Walzer ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Electrical Neuroimaging

    Edited by Christoph M. Michel, Thomas Koenig, Daniel Brandeis, Lorena R. R. Gianotti, Jiří Wackermann ...
    Electrical neuroimaging is based on the analysis of brain electrical activity recorded from the human scalp with multichannel EEG. It offers enormous potential for the dynamic mapping of brain functions, and for the non-invasive diagnosis of neurological and psychiatric conditions. This authoritative reference gives a systematic overview of new electrical imaging methods, with a sound introduction ... Read more

    $178.99 USD

  • Freedom | Oppression | Games & Play

    by Alexander Pfeiffer, Natalie Denk, Thomas Wernbacher, Nikolaus Koenig ...
    Freedom and Oppression are not simple opposites, they form a dialectical relationship in which, as concepts, one cannot exist without the other. Sometimes, they can even enable, emphasize and strengthen each other: just as freedom begins to shine once it contrasts against oppressive forces, oppression becomes the most effective when it gives a certain amount of leeway to the oppressed. This ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment

    A Guide for Pastoral Counselors

    by Gregory Collins, Rev Thomas Culbertson, Harold G Koenig ...
    Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people suffering from emotional illness!This book is designed to bring essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who seeks to provide special ministry to the emotionally troubled. It provides a basic understanding of psychiatric illnesses, theory, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Telling the Truth

    The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction

    by Barbara C. Foley ...
    Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory ... Read more

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  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald ...
    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Eurogames

    The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games

    by Stewart Woods ...
    While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict. This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

    by Rowan Ricardo Phillips ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
    In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in Media

    A Global Introduction to Media Studies

    by Mark Deuze ...
    A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world.From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Read more

    $55.99 USD