Gabriel: 1749 books
Romantic Sustainability
Endurance and the Natural World, 1780–1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by scholars from five continents, this international collection addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord...
Finance and the Welfare State
Banking Development and Regulatory Principles in Sweden, 1900–2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015. It puts the experiences of the past in the context of today’s debate on the future of banking, and argues that the experiences of the Global Financial Crisis that started in 2007...
Coast Left Past
Short Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Coast Left Past is a collection of over 200 early stories written on the West (left) Coast. Temporally grouped, printed on pulp, it represents a myriad of comedic stories, philosophical rants, and refined sugar-sweet epiphanies from the authors past. Coast is fresh and raw at a time in world history...
How to Become a Civil Engineering Technician
How to Become a Civil Engineering Technician
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Civil Engineering Technician. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Civil Engineering Technici
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
Sudan Under Wingate
Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899-1916)
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment
Picturing the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the war on terror seems a struggle against Islam. These are all symptoms of Islamophobia. Meanwhile,...
Dante and His Circle (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
with the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1300), A Collection of Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Originally published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861, this book is full of Rossetti’s beautiful translations from the original Italian of Dante Alighieri. The first section treats Dante’s “La Vita Nuova” and other poems, as well as poems by Dante’s close friends, such as Guido Cavalcanti and Cino da Pistoia. The second section covers many important poets preceding Dante.
Badiou and Hegel
Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel. Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss...
An Apple in My Back
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
An Apple in My Back is a novel about a surreal Sisyphus of sex and stunted self-discovery. It is a travel epic, a How-To-Get-Laid guide, and a moral fable. Youth-charged adrenaline drives men to karmic repetitions of libido, war, and fear. The archetypal narrator operates in limbo, seeking to break...
Flatbush Fiction
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2002
Written with quills on the backs of eighteen-thousand fortune cookie fortunes and then taped together, FLATBUSH FICTION is written with the intensity of a staring contest, the passion of a maraschino cherry, and the lucidity of a monk achieving consciousness on his deathbed lying on top of Curious...
Sum Swerve
(Short S.F. Stories)
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
SUM SWERVE (short s.f. stories) Add it up- these short stories, songs, poems, plays, and operas have been assembled with the meaning of life in mind: for fun. Written by a silverback gorilla in Java, translated to C++, encrypted, mailed to the admissions office of a California law school during the...
Dis-Enclosure
The Deconstruction of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the...
Soccer vs. the State
Tackling Football and Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by money makers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to political...