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  • Paul within Paganism

    Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle

    Edited by Alexander Chantziantoniou, Paula Fredriksen, Stephen L. Young ...
    A collaborative project, this work introduces a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which contextualizes the pagans' apostle within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion (so-called "paganism"). The anthology assembles cutting-edge essays from both senior and rising scholars, whose contributions collectively demonstrate how Paul's Jewish religious program is native to the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Corporate Social Irresponsibility

    by Paula Alexander ...
    Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management.Corporate social responsibility has transitioned from oxymoron into a defining challenge ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

  • Terrorism in Memory Culture: Investigating the Aftermath of July 22 in Norway

    Edited by Alexandre Dessingué, Paula Hamilton ...
    Series series Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
    This edited collection examines the intersection between the developing fields of terrorism and cultural memory studies through a detailed study of the 2011 terrorist attack in Norway. It examines how the work of remembrance has been established through arts such as theatre and fiction, and also architecture, heritage and education. It traces the politics of the remembrance processes and explores ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Prison House of the Circuit

    Politics of Control from Analog to Digital

    by Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, Joshua Reeves ...
    Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Unique Andy Warhol

    The Life and Works of the Most Important Pop Artist

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why does a soup can feel like a work of art? Why does a starlet’s pose become an icon? And why does our present sometimes feel like an endless repetition of images? If you understand Andy Warhol, you understand the mechanics of pop culture, media and fame right up to our own day. This non-fiction book opens the door to an artist who turned advertising into art – and art into a brand: cool, razor ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Noir Affect

    by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Paula Rabinowitz, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack0, Ignacio Sánchez Prado1, Pamela Thoma2, Kirin Wachter-Grene3 ...
    Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    Stories from the In Between

    by Jonathan Alexander, Michele D. Castleman, Paula T. Connolly, Paige D'Encarnacao, Scott Eberle, Laura Hakala, Katharine Kittredge, Terry Lindvall, Claudia Mills, Alessia Silvestrin, Anne K. Phillips, Trina Marie Rumfelt, Jan Susina, Eric L. Tribunella, Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson ...
    Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The History of China

    Imperial dynasties, Confucianism, inventions, revolutions and reforms · China’s rise from an ancient empire through the People’s Republic to a global economic power

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How could one of the world’s oldest civilisations become a state that today commands global attention, poised between millennia-old culture and digital supremacy? Anyone wishing to understand China needs more than headlines. ‘History of China’ shows, in a clearly structured way, how dynasties, revolutions and modernisation gave rise to one of the most influential powers of the present day.The book ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Physicist Albert Einstein

    Life and Works of the Founder of the Theory of Relativity and the Best-Known Scientific Genius and Pacifist of the Twentieth Century

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who knows Albert Einstein only as a tousle haired face on a poster has seen only the surface. How could a physicist so fundamentally change the Newtonian view of the world that time and space suddenly became mobile and the twentieth century learned a new way of thinking. This non fiction book shows why Einstein, as the originator of the theory of relativity, became the very image of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of France

    Celts, Romans, Kings, Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars · The History of France between Courtly Culture, Republican Tradition, Cultural Prestige and Political Influence in Europe

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why did France become a country that shaped Europe’s history, politics and culture over the centuries more profoundly than almost any other nation? This book presents France as the cultural visionary of the new Europe and leads straight into a history full of upheavals, power struggles, ideas and moments of artistic brilliance. Anyone wishing to understand Europe will discover here the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of the United States of America

    Colonies, Independence from Great Britain, Civil War and Displaced Indigenous Peoples · The Rise of the United States as a Global High-Technology Economic Power and the Dominant Political Force of the West

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How did a handful of colonies in a short space of time become a nation that shapes politics, business and science across the world? Anyone who wants to understand the rapid rise of the United States to world power not merely in slogans but in its causes and consequences will find in this book a fact rich and compelling account. ‘History of the USA’ shows in a clear, engaging and well structured ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)

    Romans, Normans, Empire, Industrialisation and Imperialism · The History of Great Britain from Monarchy and Global Sea Power to Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How could an island on the edge of Europe give rise to the power that, through kings, Parliament, empire and industrialisation, shaped the world for centuries? Anyone wishing to understand Great Britain, its political upheavals and its global influence, will find in this book far more than a mere chronicle. ‘The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)’ is a fact ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus