On Politics

On Politics
By:"Alan Ryan"
Published on 2013-01-18 by W. W. Norton & Company

Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton’s dictum that “absolute power corrupts absolutely” or explicating John Stuart Mill’s contention that it is “better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied,” Alan Ryan evokes the lives and minds of our greatest thinkers in a way that makes reading about them a transcendent experience. Whether writing about Plato or Augustine, de Toqueville or Thomas Jefferson, Ryan brings a wisdom to his text that illuminates John Dewey’s belief that the role of philosophy is less to see truth than to enhance experience. With this unparalleled tour de force, Ryan emerges in his own right as one of the most influential political philosophers of our time.

This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword Political.

Graphic Novels Now

Graphic Novels Now
By:"Francisca Goldsmith"
Published on 2005 by American Library Association

By focusing on monographic works in a practical, in-depth professional discussion, this guide helps librarians grapple with the details of a growing genre and customer base that rarely fits into an easy model. With advocacy, the author identifies best practices to incorporate graphic novels into library collections from start to finish.

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword Graphic Novels.

Class, Self, Culture

Class, Self, Culture
By:"Beverley Skeggs"
Published on 2013-11-05 by Routledge

Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to the person and exchange-value in systems of symbolic and economic exchange. The book shows how class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorisations of nation, race, gender and sexuality and across different sites: through popular culture, political rhetoric and academic theory. In particular attention is given to how new forms of personhood are being generated through mechanisms of giving value to culture, and how what we come to know and assume to be a 'self' is always a classed formation. Analysing four processes: of inscription, institutionalisation, perspective-taking and exchange relationships, it challenges recent debates on reflexivity, risk, rational-action theory, individualisation and mobility, by showing how these are all reliant on fixing some people in place so that others can move.

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword Culture.

Political Physics

Political Physics
By:"John Protevi"
Published on 2001-08-27 by A&C Black

Political Physics crosses the work of two of the most influential thinkers at the start of the 21st century, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. The book takes the reader on a transversal journey -- employing Derridean analysis of the history of philosophy, Deleuzian creative dialogue and complexity theory -- to cross the boundaries of philosophy and science. Political Physics opens with Derridean readings of the \

This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword Political.

Unconditional Parenting

Unconditional Parenting
By:"Alfie Kohn"
Published on 2006-03-28 by Simon and Schuster

Most parenting guides begin with the question \

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword Parenting & Family.

Mystery in the Sand

Mystery in the Sand
By:"Gertrude C. Warner"
Published on 2010-12-14 by Open Road Media

Living in a seaside mobile home, the Aldens unravel the secret of two secluded women.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy
By:
Published on 1986 by University Press of Kentucky

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword Comedy.

Horror of the Heights

Horror of the Heights
By:"Anthony Masters","Peter Dennis"
Published on 2006-01-01 by Capstone

Dean Lambert's fear of diving escalates as he suspects someone is sabotaging the diving board at the fitness center.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword Horror.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
By:"Charlotte Bronte"
Published on 2008 by Classical Comics

Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword Graphic Novels.

Drama for a New South Africa

Drama for a New South Africa
By:"David Graver"
Published on 1999 by Indiana University Press

The urgency of the anti-apartheid struggle created a vibrant protest theatre in South Africa. But the single-mindedness of that theatre obscured much of the diversity of South African life. In contrast, post-apartheid plays address a broad variety of social realities and employ a wider range of theatrical styles. This anthology collects the best recent examples of the new styles, subjects, and purposes of theatre in South Africa. In addition to the abiding challenges of social inequity for the black majority, these plays deal with subjects such as Islamic fundamentalism, women's rights, ecology, Afrikaans culture, and the new multi-racial life of the inner city, and they do so in ways that go beyond the expressive parameters of conventional literary drama. And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses, Purdah, and Ipi Zombie? combine the issue-oriented engagement of South Africa's popular pedagogical theatre with refined attention to the delineation of character and themes. Sophiatown mixes aspects of township musical theatre with sharply-honed dialogue and dramatic interplay among the characters. Using a more traditional dramatic form, Mooi Street Moves delineates the comedy and terror of urban life on the edge of the criminal underworld, while Crossing sketches the morbid obsessions of rural Afrikaans insularity. Horn of Sorrow combines mime and clowning traditions from Europe and South Africa in athletic performances that intertwine environmental and social development issues. In his introduction, David Graver illuminates the development of this drama and discusses how the protest plays of the apartheid era have combined with other influences to create distinct new theatrical forms to grapple with new social controversies of a democratic South Africa. Graver also provides helpful introductions to each of the seven plays, as well as a glossary of foreign terms and phrases.

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword Drama.

Zoo Culture

Zoo Culture
By:"Bob Mullan","Garry Marvin"
Published on 1999 by University of Illinois Press

This provocative study shows that zoos tell us as much about humans as they do about animals. Through observations based on visits to zoos and conversations with zoo owners and keepers all over the world, the authors suggest that, while animals may not need zoos, urban societies seem to. A new preface takes note of dramatic changes in the perceived role of zoos that have occurred since the book's original publication.

This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword Culture.

What is Culture?

What is Culture?
By:"Bobbie Kalman"
Published on 2009 by Crabtree Publishing Company

Discusses cultural differences in food, music, clothing, sports, and holidays around the world.

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword Culture.

The Boy's Book of Adventure

The Boy's Book of Adventure
By:"Michele Lecreux","Celia Gallais","Clémence Roux de Luze"
Published on 2013 by Barrons Juveniles

An outdoor activity guide for boys outlines nature-themed craft projects while explaining how to develop proficient skills in areas ranging from reading topographic maps and identifying birds to using a compass and providing first-aid for injuries.

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword adventure.

Anna's Art Adventure

Anna's Art Adventure
By:"Bjorn Sortland"
Published on 1999 by Carolrhoda Books

On her search for the art museum's bathroom, Anna meets famous artists, becomes part of some of their paintings, and makes her own art.

This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword adventure.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory
By:"John S. Dryzek","Bonnie Honig","Anne Phillips"
Published on 2008-06-12 by Oxford University Press

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword Political.

Taiwan

Taiwan
By:"Denny Roy"
Published on 2003 by Cornell University Press

For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, shaping its multiple and frequently contradictory identities. Offering a narrative of the island's political history, the author contends that it is best understood as a continuous struggle for security.

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword Political.

The Joy of Parenting

The Joy of Parenting
By:"Lisa W. Coyne","Amy R. Murrell"
Published on 2009 by New Harbinger Publications

Offers parents acceptance and commitment therapy skills to help them develop flexibility and mindfulness when parenting their children, and includes exercises covering such topics as handling tantrums and refocusing values.

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword Parenting & Family.

Mountain Top Mystery

Mountain Top Mystery
By:"Joeming W. Dunn","Ben Dunn"
Published on 2011-01-01 by ABDO

When the Alden children climb to the top of Old Flat Top Mountain, they encounter a mysterious mountain cave, a perilous rockslide, and a secret treasure.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

Ice Ages

Ice Ages
By:"John Imbrie","Katherine Palmer Imbrie"
Published on 1986 by Harvard University Press

This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists examined cores of sediment from the Indian Ocean bed and deciphered a continuous history for the past 500,000 years. Their work ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages. This is a tale of scientific discovery and the colorful people who participated: Louis Agassiz, the young Swiss naturalist whose geological studies first convinced scientists that the earth has recently passed through an ice age; the Reverend William Buckland, an eccentric but respected Oxford professor who fought so hard against the ice-age theory before accepting it; James Croll, a Scots mechanic who educated himself as a scientist and first formulated the astronomic theory of ice ages; Milutin Milankovitch, the Serbian mathematician who gave the astronomic theory its firm quantitative foundation; and the many other astronomers, geochemists, geologists, paleontologists, and geophysicists who have been engaged for nearly a century and a half in the pressing search for a solution to the ice-age mystery.

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

The City of Ember

The City of Ember
By:"Jeanne DuPrau"
Published on 2012 by Random House Books for Young Readers

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword Graphic Novels.

Graphic Novels in Your School Library

Graphic Novels in Your School Library
By:"Jesse Karp","Rush Kress"
Published on 2011-04 by American Library Association

Explains how and when to use graphic novels in the library or classroom, detailing the differences in format, the history of the medium, and annotated lists of core titles.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword Graphic Novels.

Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels
By:"Paul Gravett"
Published on 2005-11-01 by Harper Design

A tour of one hundred definitive graphic novels documents their growing role in the literary world, showcasing extracts from a range of publications to explore such topics as the history and key contributors of the graphic novel form, the impact of Japanese manga and European albums, and the achievements of recent innovators. All ages.

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword Graphic Novels.

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
By:"John Clute","John Grant"
Published on 1999-03-15 by Macmillan

Contains more than four thousand entries touching on all aspects of fantasy literature, movies, and art

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword Fantasy.

Drama

Drama
By:"J. L. Styan"
Published on 2000-01-01 by Peter Lang

This book introduces the elements of drama and the principles behind the reading and study of plays - classical and modern. It makes a special point of seeing drama as intended for acting and performance, and it therefore emphasizes the role of the spectator at a play and the sort of theatre for which drama was written. The performance approach to the study of plays finally clarifies the different kinds of drama (comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce) and identifies its forms (realism, stylization, and symbolism). The book draws on specific examples of drama, is rich in helpful charts and diagrams, and contains a comprehensive glossary. \

This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword Drama.

Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Fashion, Culture, and Identity
By:"Fred Davis"
Published on 1994-09-01 by University of Chicago Press

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be \

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword Culture.