Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Penknife Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780974194943
Over twenty short stories and two novellas await the hapless reader inside Timeslips & Terrors. The reading itinerary includes an evening with the Spider. Readers can watch as an undervalued archeaologist finds the object of his desire and embraces the consequences that follow. Enjoy your stay in the lovely town of Last Chance where the locals make a lasting impact on visitors. These stories and more are available in this collection.
Author : Dan Parkinson
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821733967
Author : Dan Parkinson
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1990-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821728949
Jake Creedmore did not figure on coming back when he left the town called Perdition as an outlaw. Now he is dodging bounty hunter lead and a posse's justice, and the trail he follows leads at every turn to a showdown in Perdition.
Author : Silvia Lippi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 145296291X
A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance Of all of Lacan’s reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse, the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings’ relation to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de force that engages works by surrealists such as André Breton, canonical writers like William Faulkner and James Joyce, and the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Baruch Spinoza, The Decision of Desire is groundbreaking in its proposal that each of us can seek out and reimagine our relation to the infinite aporias of desire and thereby detach from its destructive, repetitive forms in favor of joy and affirmation. Providing insight to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. For if desire is always already that of the Other and the unconscious, and also a decision that escapes our consciousness of ourselves, how can we assume an ethical relation to it that avoids the vicious circle of disappointment, neurosis, and destruction? Such is the decision of desire attempted within Silvia Lippi’s profound development of a contemporary psychoanalytic thought.
Author : Dan Parkinson
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 1987-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821722091
Trouble erupts in Jubilation with its twenty-seven saloons when Kansas is voted a dry state, and Iron Jack Fuller has his hands full with the violence and a schoolteacher from Illinois
Author : Philippe Sormani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317064933
Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary orientation of lab work and exploring the discipline in its social order, formal stringency and skilful performance - in situ and in vivo. Drawing upon extensive participant observation, this book articulates and draws upon two major strands of ethnomethodological inquiry: reflexive ethnography and video analysis. In bringing together these two approaches, which have hitherto existed in parallel, Respecifying Lab Ethnography introduces a practice-based video analysis. In doing so, the book recasts conventional distinctions to shed fresh light on methodological issues surrounding the descriptive investigation of social practices more broadly. An engaged and innovative study of the encountered worksite, this book will appeal not only to sociologists with interests in ethnomethodology and the sociology of work, but also to scholars of science and technology studies and those working in the fields of ethnography and social science methodology.
Author : Jacob Easley II
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317678133
Educational Accountability: International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership provides an opportunity to assess, reflect on, and discuss current issues surrounding accountability policies in education from around the globe and the implications they hold for school leadership. It addresses the global trend of accountability policies expanding in scope to include the education profession as well as the increasing incidence of international policy borrowing, brought on chiefly by globalisation. Specific case studies offer a contextual examination of the theory, policy and practice of accountability and an inspection of their influence on school leadership. Cases are intentionally juxtaposed to provide a broad perspective of regional and cultural similarities and departures, and are arranged to reflect the diasporic Chinese, Anglo, European, and Hispanic societies. Bringing together a number of highly regarded experts within the field, the book cultivates a global perspective on the challenges and possibilities for school leaders to foster school effectiveness and improvement. Educational Accountability should be key reading for researchers, policy makers, and current and future school leaders.
Author : Zobian And A Lesley Zobian and Ann Humm
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440190941
Truth, so they say, is stranger than fiction. This may be so, but when anecdotes about such characters as Lam, Rugg, Great Uncle Horatius, and his disreputable companion, Stinky, plus an assortment of animals, are added to the equation, doubt about this truism can creep in. Curious Reflections is the meandering observations, musings, and correspondence between two sisters living three hundred miles apart in England. During the course of these ramblings the line between truth and fiction can very often become decidedly blurred. In an attempt to keep my mind off other projects...I decided to log on and see if there were any e-mails from Ann. Ann, or Mowl as she is known, is a very diligent correspondent, keeping me up to date with all the trivia and goings on down in her neck of the woods. She is known as Mowl because when we were children we would amuse ourselves by deciding what animals people reminded us of. Because of her short-sightedness and penchant for black velvet, Ann was of course a mole, hence Mowl. For reasons we shall not go into, I was a ferret, or Pherrit (somehow the "ph" makes it seem so much better).
Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0786482575
The years 1899 through 1941 are remarkable even by Latin America's uniquely turbulent standards. During this time, border disputes and domestic insurrections forcefully shaped the history of this area, as many countries made the rocky transition from agrarian to industrial societies. This volume provides a concise survey of Latin American wars between 1899 and 1941. It compares and contrasts the wars and considers them in light of military theory. It also demonstrates how instrumental wars have been in directing the history of Latin America, and how the United States has often influenced these wars in a decisive manner. Wars examined include border disputes in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, and Costa Rica, and domestic insurrections in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Numerous photographs and maps illustrate the text and make it easy to follow every military campaign. The vivid narrative captures the human drama of the wars and brings to life the violent clashes of powerful personalities in unusually hostile terrain. Jungles, mountains, and deserts ravaged armies no less dramatically than combat, and the emotions the wars released make many episodes unforgettable. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Joanne Faulkner
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0821443291
Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzsche’s texts is an enactment of the kind of identity-formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of Nietzsche’s project, the revaluation of values. Not only does this work make a provocative contribution to Nietzsche scholarship, but it also opens in an original way broader philosophical questions about how readers come to be invested in a philosophical project and how such investment alters their subjectivity.
