2509 results for '"Snorton, C. Riley'

A philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we valueThe philosopher C. Thi Nguyen—one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data—takes us deep into...

“One of my generation’s finest poets―a truly peerless voice. . . . An immense book and a searing achievement.” ―Ocean Vuong, author of The Emperor of Gladness The stunning third collection from...

A must-read collection on contemporary threats to academic freedom.Academic freedom may be threatened like never before. Yet confusion endures about what professors have a defensible right to say or...

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic...

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusalWriting a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans jumping overboard off their slavers’ ships. Reading...

Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize“A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity.” —KirkusThomas C. Gannon’s Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of...

"Washington is called the father of his country; the same may be said of Bol!var and Hidalgo; but I am only a bandit, according to the yardstick by which the strong and the weak are measured...

This book represents an attempt to collect and systematise the methods and main applications of the method of sugery, insofar as compact (but not necessarily connected, simply-connected or slosed)...

Linguistic variation has been studied primarily in communities with the dominant social organization of our time: ethnic diversity, socioeconomic stratification, and a population size that precludes...

The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively...

Americans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliverThe national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But...

Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a “legitimate” proxy for...

A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803“One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery...

One of the paradoxes of the physical sciences is that as our knowledge has progressed, more and more diverse physical phenomena can be explained in terms of fewer underlying laws, or principles. In...

Wartski is a family firm of art and antique dealers, specialising in fine jewellery, gold boxes, silver and works of art by Carl Faberge. The firm was founded in Bangor, North Wales in 1865 by Morris...

A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance--those of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what...

A new approach to going vegan "as a joyful celebration of life on this planet" (Bryant Terry) that is a gateway into a better life for us all "Start here, start now. Here's a book worth sharing...

"The American Century" was launched in the Middle East, as Washington took charge of managing the fallout from the creation of the state of Israel, allotting military weapons to friends, keeping the...

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions...

Get this tabbed booklet to garden insects and bugs, and learn how to identify and attract (or repel!) them.Brightly colored flowers, rich soil, and delicious nectar, the garden landscape is a bug's...