John Kemp: 21 books

Book cover of This Is Not A Border

This Is Not A Border

Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

by J.M. Coetzee, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
Book cover of Ending Poverty in America

Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Book cover of Ship Construction Sketches and Notes
by John F Kemp, Peter Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David J Eyres, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title "Ship Construction," and will prove indispensable to the student reader. The contents cover, in numerous fully illustrated items, shipyard...
Book cover of Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur

Honoring and Continuing the Work

by Lorenzo Altieri, Pamela Anderson, Patrick Bourgeois
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011

This collection of essays is dedicated to the prolific career of Paul Ricoeur. In his lifetime, Ricoeur made significant contributions to many fields, such as theology, aesthetics, narratology, linguistics, and of course, philosophy. Within philosophy alone, he engaged many currents of thoughts, always...
Book cover of The Human Tradition in the New South
by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives...
Book cover of The Toyah Phase of Central Texas

The Toyah Phase of Central Texas

Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes

by Douglas K. Boyd, John W. Arnn III, Zackary I. Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered...
Book cover of Extractive Relations

Extractive Relations

Countervailing Power and the Global Mining Industry

by John R. Owen, Deanna Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector. The authors examine issues at the forefront of contemporary debates: corporate obligations in safeguarding the rights of people displaced by mining, the recognition...
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