Fraser: 812 books
Redistribution or Recognition?
A Political-Philosophical Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly...
Capitalism
A Conversation in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism,” upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its...
Stage Lighting Design
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Stage Lighting Design is a comprehensive introduction to technical theatre, tracing the evolution of lighting design from ancient drama to contemporary performance. Neil Fraser covers everything that today's designers will need to know, from the simple nuts and bolts of equipment, through to the complexity...
by Fraser Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In this fast and furious crime novel set in 1983, a sex worker named Irina absconds with a shipment of drugs and $300,000 in dirty money, setting into motion a wild chain reaction involving bounty hunters, corrupt cops, low-brow scammers, and her bewildered, straight-laced ex-husband. Add to this...
Red Capitalism
The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The truth behind the rise of China and whether or not it will be able to maintain it
How did China transform itself so quickly? In Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, Revised Edition Carl Walter and Fraser Howie go deep inside the Chinese financial...
Dealing With the Tough Stuff
Practical Wisdom for Running a Values-Driven Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Your business plan is only going to get you so far. When you’re actually running a values-driven business problems come up that you never could have anticipated. And as a mission-driven organization you face issues your more conventional colleagues never have to grapple with. The whole experience...
Forestry Flavours of the Month
The Changing Face of World Forestry
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Forestry touches on all aspects of human welfare in one way or another, which is why foresters need to play an active role in determining our collective agenda. Alastair Fraser, a lifelong forester and the co-founder of LTS International, a forestry consulting company, explains how forestry changes...
The Iron Curtain : Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War
Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1986
It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and...
Birds in Their Habitats
Journeys with a Naturalist
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Everywhere we go there are birds, and they all have mysteries to be unravelled. These mysteries include the way they look, from bizarre to apparently mundane, why they live where they live, and the things they do, many of which are far too incredible ever to be imagined as fiction. Birds in Their...
by D. Webster Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Betty Marsh was a nurse whose world appeared to be near-perfect but her husband lived a secret life. Being the first person to witness the results of his gruesome demise drove Betty's life toward a single focused mission - revenge. Her vow to get even with the men who killed her husband expanded...
Honorary Protestants
The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as “honorary...
The Art of Pere Joan
Space, Landscape, and Comics Form
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco...
by Benjamin Fraser, Les Roberts, Malcolm Alan Compitello
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the...
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture
Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation...