This Picture Book with Bliss-Words is a picture dictionary for the Bliss or Blissymbols language. It contains 450 Bliss words from daily life, explained with pictures in 35 categories. In the back ...
Pigeon with a Bright View allows the reader to be right in the midst of prison inmates and the slow crawl of doing time. This book will pull you into the private world of the incarcerated.
Come along on four major pilgrimages in Scripture--the journey of trust with Abraham and Sarah, the journey of freedom with Moses and the Hebrew people, the journey of exile and return with Isra...
Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer ...
The book describes in detail the findings of five seasons (2008-2012) of survey and excavation in Port Joli, and ten years of laboratory analysis, undertaken by the Canadian Museum of History, i...
In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and expl...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and r...
Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities-whose fields include political philosop...
The author contends that the separation of powers in American government is not primarily based on the political theories of Montesquieu but on the actual experience of the colonists with the abuse...
"If you want to understand what it was like to be a New York New Dealer in the 1940s, then you must read Paul Milkman's richly textured history of PM. He has captured the passions and politics of t...
The Poetics is a fundamental text that examines the development, production and effectiveness of poetry as it pertains to a writer and their intended audience. The author uses nota...
"Journalist Mike Greenberg is appalled by what had happened to his home town, San Antonio, Texas. In response, he has written a readable and useful book . . . . which is full of practical suggesti...
By means of this essay we discover some of the ways in which effective beauty can be harnessed as poetry and how that poetry, in turn, works distinct benefits for us.
Rather than writing about poetry and poems, I make amends and pit myself against some time-honoured prejudices, especially in myself, as I show what can be achieved both poetically and philosophica...
Points of Grace: Empowerment for Hard Times, answers many profound questions:Why does God seem like a "hard man" to some people?Why are we incapable of crying out to ...
Robert Schwartz examines the French government's attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. His study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the va...
For many philosophers, the rational cognitive (Cartesian) subject defines the human, or at least defines what humans should be. Yet some recent cognitive science, as well as the phil...
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining t...
This book includes simple definitions of philosophical concepts of great thinkers from around the world.
Currently, the latest views of politics and the philosophical aspects of these are not help...