Kerr: 550 books
Introduction to Energy and Climate
Developing a Sustainable Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students. Students will learn core concepts and methods to analyze energy and environmental impacts; will understand what is changing the earth’s...
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives,...
Co-opting Culture
Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of 'cultural studies'. Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable...
by Katharine Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Apocalypse Squad is on the move!
Secret Agent Nola O'Grady has enough trouble on her hands when a were-leopard accuses her of receiving stolen property, but things get worse fast. A mysterious trans-world law enforcement group wants to recruit her partner and bodyguard, Israeli Interpol...
by Katharine Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Nola O’Grady is sick and tired of psychic squid-images following her everywhere, waving their tentacles and generally making nuisances of themselves. She and her partner, Ari Nathan, have a dangerous job on their hands, hunting down two criminals who have escaped into another level of the multiverse,...
by Philip Kerr
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2008
L’été de cristal se situe en 1936, alors que l’on “nettoie” Berlin en prévision des J.O. Bernie Gunther, ancien membre de la Kripo devenu détective privé n’est pas sans ressembler à Philip Marlowe, le modèle culte de tous les privés. Son enquête (meurtre de la fille d’un industriel...
Great British Losers
Brazen Bunglers and Heroic Failures
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Everyone knows we're a nation obsessed with runners-up and near-missers, that we find failure heroic and success boring, if not downright rude. In this hilarious, fact-packed and up-to-date compendium, vintage losers such as Ethelred 'the Unready' and Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards jostle with newcomers...
by Stella Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
The Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way...
Rats and Squealers
Dishing the dirt to save their skins
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Rats and Squealers investigates the people who have betrayed their friends and colleagues, their brothers in arms, in order to save their own skins, sometimes forfeiting their very identity as a consequence. Their stories are some of the most incredible you will ever hear. Stories of sacrifice and...
by Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the...
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often inadequate. This book brings together advice for all those professionals working with individuals who have experienced...
A Belfast Girl
A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America
Economic Development Through Regional Trade
A Role for the New East African Community?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.