Ruth Miller: 24 books

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.' Joseph Addison This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with fascinating facts, handy hints and captivating stories and quotes from the world of birds, is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy of birdwatching.

Challenging the posthumanist canon that celebrates the preeminence of matter, Ruth Miller, in Flourishing Thought contends that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories of nonhuman life and politics, Miller shows that reproduction and flourishing...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought. These days, if people invoke them, they do so a bit apologetically. But, as Ruth Miller argues, we should not be so quick...

Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic...

Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity—such as the running of machine code—as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisuffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes...

Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from...

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...

This latest addition to the Library of Hidden Knowledge series provides a modern understanding of Henry Drummond’s powerful philosophical writings about the harmony between science and spirituality. Is there not reason to believe that many of the Laws of the Spiritual World, hitherto regarded...

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. A BEAU FOR KATIE The Amish Matchmaker by Emma Miller An accident leaves Freeman Kemp with a broken leg—and no choice but to find a housekeeper. He never imagines that...

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen. The author draws on rights literature, bio-political scholarship, and a gender-studies perspective as a foundation for rethinking the sovereign relationship. In approaching...

  Dr. Miller has made understanding the writings of Emma Curtis Hopkins easy. Unveiling Your Hidden Powers will make Emma Curtis Hopkins accessible to thousands of new readers, and will also equip them to apply Truth principles in a practical way on behalf of themselves as well as others.

The Path to Power Series are easy reading biographies of  the founders of New Thought. They are designed to be read by all ages of readers from juvenile to adult. Imagine growing up knowing that what the newspapers and the textbooks and most people told you was only part of the real...

The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult.   Charles Fillmore, a crippled boy who grew up in the great Northwoods, became a printer, railroadman, muleskinner, mining assayer,...

  The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult.     Imagine being diagnosed with an incurable illness, getting well in a way that no one understands, spending every spare...