Search results for “[Subject: natural-disasters]”

• Author(s): John David Ebert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or a...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Elissa Montanti • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Memoirs"This may be the book that changes your life."--Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone "The saint o...

• Author(s): James Wesley Rawles • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Personal & Practical GuidesThe ultimate guide that will teach you how to prepare for disaster--including how to stock your shelves, secure you...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Robert Olwell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the e...

• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation ...

• Author(s): Samuel C. Avery • Publisher: Toplight Books • Publisher Imprint: Toplight Books • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General The science is clear: by the mid-20th century human beings must stop burning coal, oil and...

• Author(s): Kelly McGonigal • Publisher: Avery Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Avery Publishing Group • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Personal Growth - HappinessBased on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wil...

• Author(s): Steve Rajtar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Holidays (non religious) Every day of the year, somewhere in the United States, some sort of holiday or special remembrance is be...

• Author(s): Mark Matlock • Publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan/Youth Specialties • BISAC: Christian Living - Family & RelationshipsCulture expert and veteran youth pastor Mark Matlock will teach you to line ...

• Author(s): No Author • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Abraham Lincoln is the most frequently quoted United States President. In this fascinating co...

• Author(s): Bruce E. Kaufman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations