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Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche

The Bow with the Greatest Tension

by Matthew P. Meyer ...

Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus, ... Read more

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Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus,
... Read more
Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner0, Duana Fullwiley1, Paul Wenzel Geissler2, T.S. Harvey3, Gideon Lasco4, Peter Mangesho5, Caroline Meier zu Biesen6, Todd Meyers7, Vera Ngowi8, Michelle Pentecost9, Ruth Prince0, Christine Sargent1, Harris Solomon2, Lulu Tessua3, Anitha Tingira4, Ayo Wahlberg5, Emily Yates-Doerr6 ...

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Read more

$29.49 USD

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and
... Read more
The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Matthew Meyer ...

Series series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is arguably one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. The same can be said of his self-proclaimedmagnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work has influenced everything from poetry, literature, and ... Read more

$38.99 USD

The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is arguably one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. The same can be said of his self-proclaimedmagnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work has influenced everything from poetry, literature, and
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The Unofficial & Unauthorized Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cookbook

by Gina Meyers ...

Narrated by Matthew Cook ...

Unabridged

55 min

"The aroma of pot roast is wafting in the air. The fear of the “Cheese Touch” is looming in the minds of the children who attend Westmore Middle School. Welcome to The Unofficial & Unauthorized Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cookbook. Inspired by the antics of one diary writer and middle schooler, by the name of Greg Hefley, let The Unofficial & Unauthorized Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cookbook, take you on a ... Read more

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"The aroma of pot roast is wafting in the air. The fear of the “Cheese Touch” is looming in the minds of the children who attend Westmore Middle School. Welcome to The Unofficial & Unauthorized Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cookbook. Inspired by the antics of one diary writer and middle schooler, by the name of Greg Hefley, let The Unofficial & Unauthorized Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cookbook, take you on a
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American Disgust

Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ...

Narrated by Lee Goettl ...

Unabridged

10 hours

American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness ... Read more

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American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness
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Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works

A Dialectical Reading

by Matthew Meyer ...

Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms, these works are here re-interpreted as a coherent narrative of the steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that ... Read more

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Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms, these works are here re-interpreted as a coherent narrative of the steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that
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Unraveling

Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

11 hours 50 min

Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the humanTwentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the humanTwentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
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Mad Max and Philosophy

Thinking Through the Wasteland

by William Irwin ...

Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad MaxBeneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists, historians, and ... Read more

$18.00 USD

Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad MaxBeneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists, historians, and
... Read more
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Mad Max and Philosophy

Thinking Through the Wasteland

by William Irwin ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray, Nan McNamara ...

Unabridged

9 hours 8 min

Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists, historians, and philosophers investigates the underlying themes of the blockbuster ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists, historians, and philosophers investigates the underlying themes of the blockbuster
... Read more
Ethnodrama

An Anthology of Reality Theatre

by Johnny Saldaña, José Casas, Jennifer Chapman, Laura Eason, Elissa Foster, Macklin Finley, Susan Finley, Michael Keck, Matthew J. Meyer, Jim Mienczakowski0, Steve Morgan1, Monica Prendergast2, Michael Rohd3, Anne Swedberg4, Heather Sykes5, Charles Vanover6 ...

Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Salda-a emphasizes how a credible, vivid, and persuasive rendering of a research participant's story as a ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Salda-a emphasizes how a credible, vivid, and persuasive rendering of a research participant's story as a
... Read more
Theory for the World to Come

Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ...

Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond ... Read more

$4.95 USD

Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond
... Read more
The Slumbering Masses

Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life

by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ...

Series series A Quadrant Book
Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night’s sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. In The Slumbering Masses, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night’s sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical opinion, the workplace, and popular culture. In The Slumbering Masses, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the
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