Culture-on-Demand

Culture-on-Demand

This highly original, thought-provoking book written by a pioneer of communication studies is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture.

Culture-on-Demand

Android Tablets Made Simple

Android Tablets Made Simple

If you thought your phone was smart, you should see the new Android tablets! Based on Android 3 Honeycomb, these tablets provide all the computing power you’ll need on a device light enough to carry wherever you go.

Android Tablets Made Simple

Spinoza Now

Spinoza Now

What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This collection, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with Spinozan thought, asserts the importance of Spinozas philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates.

Spinoza Now

A Philosophy of Pain

A Philosophy of Pain

Living involves being exposed to pain every secondnot necessarily as an insistent reality, but always as a possibility, writes Arne Vetlesen in A Philosophy of Pain, a thought-provoking look at an inevitable and essential aspect of the human condition. Here, Vetlesen addresses pain in many forms, including the pain inflicted during torture; the pain suffered in disease; the pain accompanying anxiety, grief, and depression; and the pain brought by violence. He examines the dual nature of pain: how we attempt to avoid it as much as possible in our daily lives, and yet conversely, we obtain a thrill from seeking it.

A Philosophy of Pain

Sweet Suspects

Sweet Suspects

From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck, Donut Mystery #12, Flours for the Funeral! Suzanne and Grace must track down a killer when one of their old classmates is murdered at their high school reunion. There are plenty of suspects gathered back together in April Springs for the big event, and more than one former students secrets thought long buried in the past may end up coming back to haunt them all.

Sweet Suspects

Ten Things Ive Learnt About Love

Ten Things Ive Learnt About Love

About to turn thirty, Alice is the youngest of three daughters, and the black sheep of her family. Drawn to traveling in far-flung and often dangerous countries, she has never enjoyed the closeness with her father that her two older sisters have and has eschewed their more conventional career paths. She has left behind a failed relationship in London with the man she thought she might marry and is late to hear the news that her father is dying. She returns to the family home only just in time to say good-bye.

Ten Things Ive Learnt About Love

True to Experience

True to Experience

True to Experience is a new anthology drawn from Williams’ many profound and thought-provoking writings including much previously unavailable material. True to Experience, like Williams himself, is unorthodox by the tenets of contemporary Christianity, but encompasses the uncertainties and fears, the joys and sorrows common to us all. It expounds a God-given universal humanity to which both Christians and non-Christians can respond.

True to Experience

As a Man Thinketh

As a Man Thinketh

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that- ”They themselves are makers of themselves” by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circimistance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlighteimient and happiness. James Allen.

As a Man Thinketh

A Paris Affair

A Paris Affair

After years of child rearing, chores and career challenges, Valerie feels the sexual heat in her life has cooled. All she wants is a break from her everyday routine – until an unexpected reunion with a man from her past awakens the pure sexual wanting she thought she’d lost.

A Paris Affair

Wolves and the River of Stone

Wolves and the River of Stone

Philip, Zolas boyfriend from one hundred and fifty years ago, is not nearly as dead as we thought. I really wish he was. Not only has he kidnapped Zola, but hes raising an army to scour humanity from the earth. Hopefully the local werewolf pack will help. What could possibly go wrong?

Wolves and the River of Stone

History

History

Homo sapiens have remained the same species, largely unchanged in genetic makeup and anatomy since the Cro-Magnon era. By contrast, the cultural, social, and technological changes since then have been nothing less than extraordinary. Telling our story, from prehistory to the present day, DK’s History is a thought-provoking journey, revealing the common threads and forces that have shaped human history.

History

C++ For Dummies

C++ For Dummies

If youve thought of programmers as elite intelligentsia who possess expertise (and perhaps genes) the rest of us will never have, think again. C++ For Dummies, 5th Edition, debunks the myths, blasts the barriers, shares the secrets, and gets you started. In fact, by the end of Chapter 1, youll be able to create a C++ program. OK, it wont be newest, flashiest video game, but it might be a practical, customized inventory control or record-keeping program.

C++ For Dummies

Wesley and the Wesleyans

Wesley and the Wesleyans

A critical contribution to the history of Britain and the U.S., this book demonstrates how the search for personal supernatural power lay at the heart of the so-called eighteenth-century English evangelical revival. John Kent rejects the view that the Wesleys rescued the British from moral and spiritual decay by reviving primitive Christianity. The study is of interest to everyone concerned with the history of Methodism and the Church of England, the Evangelical tradition, and eighteenth-century religious thought and experience.

Wesley and the Wesleyans

Danger in Chess

Danger in Chess

How to develop an early warning system, based on three main sources: outside (the opponent); inside (the player’s own thought process); and the stimulus itself (the board position). Author shows how to identify hazards, plus how detecting these signals can be used both defensively and offensively. 24 black-and-white figures.

Danger in Chess

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner is indisputably a major thinker in education. Heiner Ullrich’s volume offers the most coherent account of Steiner’s educational thought.

Rudolf Steiner

Bentham

Bentham

Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed presents a clear account of his life and thought, and highlights his relevance to contemporary debates in philosophy, politics, and law. Key concepts and themes, including Bentham’s theory of logic and language, his utilitarianism, his legal theory, his panopticon prison, and his democratic politicstogether with his views on religion, sex, and tortureare lucidly explored. The book also contains an illuminating discussion of the nature of the text from the perspective of an experienced textual editor.

Bentham

Hard and Fast

Hard and Fast

For Amanda Wright–new reporter on the pro baseball block–this rule is harder to keep than she had thought. Especially with the team’s star pitcher, gorgeous Brad Rogers, sending signals her libido can’t possibly miss. How can she indulge her craving for Brad and still prove she can play with the big-league journalists?

Hard and Fast

Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters

Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters

Beattie undertakes a comparative survey of the treatment of women and marriage in three different kinds of text: an authentic Pauline letter (namely 1 Corinthians); the deutero-Pauline literature (Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles); and some tractates from the Nag Hammadi library (giving particular attention to the Gospel of Philip, the Exegesis on the Soul, the Hypostasis of the Archons and the Gospel of Thomas). The theoretical position she takes is based upon the neo-pragmatist thought of Richard Rorty and Stanley Fish, the former’s notions of ‘contingency’ and ‘redescription’ being of particular importance.

Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters

Studying Islam

Studying Islam

This volume in the Studying World Religions series is an essential guide to the study of the Islamic faith. Clearly structured to cover all the major areas of study, including historical foundations, scripture, society, thought, ethics, rituals, spirituality and aesthetics, this is the ideal study aid for those approaching Islam for the first time.

Studying Islam

The Open

The Open

In ‘The Open’, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the ‘human’ has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether.

The Open