Timothy J : 333 books
Prairie Starport
Stories in Celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A collection of short stories, essays, art and interviews in celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey.
Contains work by Timothy J. Anderson, Greg Bechtel, Eileen Bell, Gregg Chamberlain, Alexandrea Flynn and Annalise Glinker, Barb Galler-Smith, Anita Jenkins, Laina Kelly, Derryl Murphy, John Park, Rhonda Parrish, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Diane L. Walton, BD Wilson and S.G. Wong.
Reading the Wind
The Literature of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1986
The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal,...
The Soul in Ascent
Bonaventure on Poverty, Prayer and Union with God
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
First published by Franciscan press in 2000, Dr. Timothy J Johnson’s The Soul in Ascent: Bonaventure on Poverty, Prayer and Union with God has offered a thorough textual study of the importance of prayer in Bonaventure’s theology and life. This new edition is updated to include Johnson’s most...
Mixed Realism
Videogames and the Violence of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of “immersion.” His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life.
Today’s wired culture...
Labor Under Fire
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions...
Soccer in Spain
Politics, Literature, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world. Perhaps nowhere can this be seen more prominently than in Spain, which has surged to the forefront of the world’s most popular sport. The national team has won the last two...
Making Music in the Polish Tatras
Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, since the late 19th century helped shape both the ethnic group known as Górale...
Intellectual Manhood
University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound...
Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919
A Prehistory of the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Foreword by His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales
Hospital ships filled the harbour of Le Havre as the 75th Mississauga Battalion arrived on 13 August 1916. Those soldiers who survived would spend almost three years in a tiny corner of northeastern France and northwestern Belgium (Flanders),...
Wacht Am Rhein
The Planning and Preparation for Operation Christrose
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
At 5:30 AM, Saturday morning, December 16, 1944, more than 286,000 German soldiers, supported by 970 tanks and assault guns, and augmented by 1,900 artillery pieces, ferociously assaulted a small number of resting and recuperating American divisions along an 85 mile front of the Ardennes Forest in...
by Timothy J Swann
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Unto is a novella of love, loss and redemption. It tells the tale of The Wanderer, a man who only exists by telling his tale of lost love, and a world where the future is bleeding into the present and many impossible things are becoming possible.
It was originally written by hand in a notebook,...
The Theater of Plautus
Playing to the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship. Plautus allowed his actors to acknowledge freely the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
The New Masters of Capital
American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In The New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging...