Neil: 3512 books
In the Image of the Ancestors
Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2008
Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica. Neil W. Bernstein argues that these poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from earlier epic and examines...
Domination and Cultural Resistance
Authority and Power Among an Andean People
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1988
Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with contemporary fieldwork, Roger Neil Rasnake traces...
Alien Chic
Posthumanism and the Other Within
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Alien Chic provides a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.
Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens, inscribed in films...
by Neil Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
Set in the Minecraft game universe. A story about swords and romance.
Theological Neuroethics
Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the 'ethics of neuroscience' and the 'neuroscience of ethics'. While some of these are familiar to theologians, others have been more or less ignored hitherto,...
Nation-States
Consciousness and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In his latest collection of essays, Neil Davidson brings his formidable analytical powers to bear on the concept of the capitalist nation-state. Through probing inquiry, Davidson draws out how nationalist ideology and consciousness is used to bind the subordinate classes to the nation,” while...
by Scott Aaronson, James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #4: March 2019
Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson
Excel Statistics
A Quick Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Ideal for those already familiar with basic Excel features, this updated Third Edition of Neil J. Salkind’s Excel Statistics: A Quick Guide shows readers how to utilize Microsoft® Excel’s functions and Analysis ToolPak to answer simple and complex questions about data. Part I explores 35 Excel...
by Neil Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new...
by Neil Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially...
by Neil McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Pssst! Do you remember when you were a rat? What's that? You've forgotten all about it? OK, let me tell you what happened ...
A 2nd-person, read-aloud bedtime tale for kids aged 4 to infinity.
Egypt in a Time of Revolution
Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book considers the diverse forms of mass mobilization and contentious politics that emerged during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath. Drawing on a catalogue of more than 8,000 protest events, as well as interviews, video footage and still photographs, Neil Ketchley provides the...
After Life
Solving Science and Religion's Great Disagreement
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
What happens to us when we die? It’s a question that has been debated for centuries, moulded through time to fit our ever changing views.
Many religions teach that how we act in our life will determine where we will end up after life. If you follow religious teachings and adhere...
Transforming Refugees
Bio-politics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: A, California State University, East Bay (California State University, Los Angeles and Denver Institute of Urban Studies), course: Anthropology, language: English, abstract: The point of this essay is...