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Author: Jim Weiss
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 1945841222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, beautifully illustrated by Crystal Cregge.
Author: Eric Schlosser
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0547750331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780811201087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781551302508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Messages, Signs, and Meanings can be used directly in introductory courses in semiotics, communications, media, or culture studies. Additionally, it can be used as a complementary or supplementary text in courses dealing with cognate areas of investigation (psychology, mythology, education, literary studies, anthropology, linguistics). The text builds upon what readers already know intuitively about signs, and then leads them to think critically about the world in which they live - a world saturated with images of all kinds that a basic knowledge of semiotics can help filter and deconstruct. The text also provides opportunities for readers to do "hands-on" semiotics through the exercises and questions for discussion that accompany each chapter. Biographical sketches of the major figures in the field are also included, as is a convenient glossary of technical terms." "The overall plan of the book is to illustrate how message-making and meaning-making can be studied from the specific vantage point of the discipline of semiotics. This third edition also includes updated discussions of information technology throughout, focusing especially on how meanings are now negotiated through such channels as websites, chat rooms, and instant messages."--Jacket.
Author: Howard Bloom
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0802192181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A philosophical look at the history of our species which alternated between fascinating and frightening . . . like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King.” —Rocky Mountain News The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earth’s—as well as mankind’s—history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions. Drawing on evidence from studies of the most primitive organisms to those on ants, apes, and humankind, the author makes a persuasive case that it is the group, or “superorganism,” rather than the lone individual that really matters in the evolutionary struggle. But biology is not destiny, and human culture is not always the buffer to our most primitive instincts we would like to think it is. In these complex threads of thought lies the Lucifer Principle, and only through understanding its mandates will we able to avoid the nuclear crusades that await us in the twenty-first century. “A revolutionary vision of the relationship between psychology and history, The Lucifer Principle will have a profound impact on our concepts of human nature. It is astonishing that a book of such importance could be such a pleasure to read.”—Elizabeth F. Loftus, author of Memory
Author: Sheldon Harris
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 9780306801556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRarely has a book received such unanimous praise as the Blue's Who's Who. Eighteen years of research and writing, most of it done by Sheldon Harris alone, have produced a reference book that has been accepted in the U.S., England, and Europe, as truly indispensable for anyone seriously interested in the history of country, city, folk, and rock blues. Covering all eras and styles, it features detailed biographies of 571 blues artists, 450 photographs, and hundreds of pages of carefully researched facts.
Author: Craig Dworkin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011-01-17
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 0810127113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Bernstein has described conceptual "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors such as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp through major avant-garde groups of the past century, including Dada, Oulipo, Fluxus, and language poetry, to name just a few. The works of more than a hundred writers from Aasprong to Zykov demonstrate a remarkable variety of new ways of thinking about the nature of texts, information, and art, using found, appropriated, and randomly generated texts to explore the possibilities of non-expressive language. --Book Jacket.
Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006-05-12
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 0813123976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.
Author: Sharon L. Pugh
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the subject of metaphor, using the imagery of cartography to set a course. It explores the creative aspects of thinking and learning through literature, writing, and word play, drawing connections between English and other content areas. Theory and practical applications meet in the book, linking activities and resources to current classroom concerns--to multiculturalism, imagination in reading and writing, critical thinking, and expanding language experiences. The first part of the book examines the uses of metaphor in constructing meaning. The second part takes up issues related to multiple perspectives--using metaphors to experience other lives, and exploring cultures through traditions. The third part of the book is devoted to a consideration of the history and current status of the English language and focuses on using cross-cultural stories in the English classroom, offering a number of resources for teaching multicultural literature in English. The fourth part examines the sensory experience of metaphors by seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching with the imagination. Contains 14 pages of references and an index. (NKA)
Author: Kent A. Ono
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1405137096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Essays are drawn from international publications, from the 1970s to the present Includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness Features a useful introduction by the editor reviewing the selections, and outlining future possibilities for the field Can be used alongside Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, edited by Kent A. Ono, for a complete reference to Asian American Studies.
