Brian Kevin: 81 books

A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.   The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively...

The euphoria and promise that accompanied the Arab Spring has been replaced with a business-as-usual tone in the MENA. Revolutionary shifts in political and religious power have been tempered and, in some cases, reversed. Observers should not be surprised at these outcomes, but skeptics would be advised...

Explore Twisted, the Python-based event-driven networking engine, and review several of its most popular application projects. It is written by community leaders who have contributed to many of the projects covered, and share their hard-won insights and experience. Expert Twisted starts with...

In Shambles … that was my life. I sat in a cell all day wondering what could have been. Thinking about it only made me feel worse. I was lost until someone left me this book about people just like me. People that made mistakes … people that tried to redeem themselves … people that failed. It...

Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better,...

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society. What do exemplary scientists and organisations do to bridge the gaps between these groups and help their research to make the greatest impact? How...

This is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB, a comprehensive software system for mathematical and technical computing. It contains concise explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood instructions for using MATLAB's programming features, graphical capabilities, simulation...

Sheffield Shorts is a collection of short stories, poetry and first chapters that showcase emerging literary talent from the city. With work from eleven authors, from a variety of genres, readers are bound to find a story they enjoy in this collection.

Jess is Back! ... Tony laughed, “There’s a demon and a disembodied cult leader upstairs, and the ghost of my dead brother wanders the halls. I’m not that worried about werewolves at this point.” “You should be. There are six of them staying the night, and tonight’s a full...

Season One Complete! In the first season of the "Jess and the Monsters" series, Jess Jensen lives a boring life, and her greatest fear is becoming a spinster librarian cat lady in her old age. Hoping to avoid that fate, she goes to the Ohio State Fair, where she meets Jack, a regular...

Intrigenspiel in ferner Zukunft In der fernen Zukunft haben die Menschen das Weltall besiedelt, doch das menschliche Denken ist noch immer bestimmt von Machtgier, Korruption und Rachegelüsten: Gilbertus Albans hat eine Schule für Mentaten gegründet, in der Menschen das effiziente Denken...

Die Geschichte der Raum-Navigatoren Über Jahrtausende hat sich die Menschheit im All ausgebreitet und Planeten besiedelt. Nun, da der Krieg gegen die Maschinen gewonnen ist und ein neues Imperium gegründet wurde, hängt die Zukunft der Galaxis von den Navigatoren ab – genmanipulierten Menschen,...

Der Aufstand gegen die Maschinen hat begonnen Butlers Djihad - ein Ereignis in der fernen Vergangenheit des "Wüstenplaneten": die Rebellion der Menschen gegen die Künstlichen Intelligenzen ermöglichte den Aufstieg der Bene Gesserit, der Mentaten und der Häuser des späteren Imperiums....

Ein Sohn wird immer von seinem Vater gestaltet. „Der Wüstenplanet” endet, als Paul Atreides die Herrschaft über Arrakis antritt und damit die Kontrolle über das Spice übernimmt, das für die interstellare Raumfahrt unabdingbar ist. Der zweite Teil, „Der Herr des Wüstenplaneten“,...