Foster: 1773 books
The Immaterial Self
A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Questa è la storia di sei personaggi in viaggio verso un luogo dove forse non arriveranno mai; è la storia di una poetessa ambiziosa che compone versi fatti tutti di consonanti, di un Ronald McDonald che si fa le canne, di un grande pubblicitario che spaccia rose fritte, di un gigantesco contadino...
by Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
*Junkspace *first appeared in the *Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping *(2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious...
Ah Q Archaeology
Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny, and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
Although Lu Xun was a leading intellectual and writer in twentieth century China, and his representative character Ah Q, hero of 'The True Story of Ah Q,' is considered an iconic repository of progressive Chinese thinking about the national character, few works examine the major discourses in his...
Reading Voices
Five Studies in Theocritus Narrating Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is a study of Theocritus’ narrating techniques, intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. By a close, careful description and analysis of these features as particularly deployed in Idylls 6, 11, 13, 24, and 15, J. Andrew Foster provides detailed readings of these specific...
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial...
McCain's Promise
Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Is John McCain "For Real?"
That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
In February 2000, "Rolling Stone" magazine sent David Foster Wallace, "NOT A POLITICAL JOURNALIST, " on the road for a week with Senator John McCain's campaign to win the Republican nomination for the Presidency. They wanted to know why McCain appealed so much to so many Americans,...
All Things to All People
An Exciting Life in Singapore and Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The Diocese (of Singapore) grew with the help of selfless workers like Felicity…" writes Rev Canon Louis Tay, Associate Vicar of St Andrew's Cathedral. In 1955, Felicity Foster-Carter arrived in Singapore to teach Scripture and do pastoral work in mission schools. Over the years her work expanded into...
by Kennedy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
an unlikely romance between a Washington rancher and an illegal Mexican immigrant whom she rescues one snowy night.
When a saddled horse shows up riderless at Alice Anderson’s snowed-in ranch, she knows someone’s in danger—no one could survive long in the bitter Washington cold. Bundled...
by Patti Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
In the split second it took for a semi to slam into the back of the SUV Patti Foster was riding in, her world changed. Her life, in fact, almost ended that night. Miraculously, she survived, but her ordeal had just begun. After weeks in a coma, she woke up to an existence she couldn’t comprehend...
by Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular, rhythmic and, therefore, predictable. Thus, the near 24 hour circadian rhythm is innate: a genetically...
by Richard J. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This helpful guide to Money, Sex & Power, Richard J. Foster's sequel to his bestselling Celebration of Discipline, expands the discussion of key issues and explores ways to move the principles involved into the arena of practical experience.
This study guide offers a series of brief, incisive...
by Thomas Welsh, Joshua Foster, Gordon F. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Founded in the Mahoning Valley during 1837, a tiny settlement of secular German immigrants grew into one of the most influential centers of Jewish life in the Midwest. Home to nationally renowned rabbis and Zionist firebrands alike, the community produced an astonishing array of leaders in an impressive...