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  • America As Empire

    Global Leader or Rogue Power?

    by James Garrison ...
    An exploration of the United States' role and responsiblities as the world's superpower.In America as Empire, Jim Garrison traces the roots of the American empire to the very beginnings of the republic, in particular to the historic willingness of the United States to use military might in the defense of two consistent—if sometimes contradictory—foreign policy objectives: protection of American ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America As Empire

    Global Leader or Rogue Power?

    by James Garrison ...
    In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America", Garrison writes, "has become what it was founded not to be: established as a haven for those fleeing the abuse of power, it has attained and now wields near absolute power. It has become an empire." ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • QL 4

    by James Garrison ...
    PFC Bell, a newly-minted U.S. Army Military Policeman, quickly discovers there's more than a war going on along QL 4, the main road from Saigon into the Mekong Delta. It's old-fashioned crime and corruption. He doesn't want to get involved, just serve out his time and go home, but life for an American MP in Vietnam in 1970 doesn't work that way. QL 4 leads Bell deep into a swamp of deception, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Safecracker

    by James Garrison ...
    Idealistic young lawyer Patricia Egan has a housemate she doesn't like and a client she doesn't want—a professional safecracker who seems far removed from the well-heeled civil clients her law firm has been representing in a visionary alternative energy project. But the safecracker and some city officials and investors in the project are closely linked in their respective criminal enterprises, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Seems True

    by James Garrison ...
    In 1980, the first black supervisor at a Texas Gulf Coast refinery turns up dead behind an abandoned drive-in theater. When a Texas Ranger comes to investigate, the refinery's attorney, Dan Esperson, is drawn into the investigation—and into a tangled web of racial conflict, sex, and deception. Two refinery employees are arrested for the murder. One confesses that the other did it but will never ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ruminations: Stories, Essays, and Poems

    by James Garrison ...
    Ruminations is a collection of random, but sometimes related, stories, essays, and poems spanning a writing journey of over fifty years and encompassing the author's experiences in the military during the Vietnam War, a side diversion to earn a living as a practicing attorney, and then a writing career after he was paid to go away in a corporate merger. The hiatus from being a lawyer provided an ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scotia and Rio Dell

    by James R. Garrison ...
    Series series Images of America
    On the banks of the Eel River, amongst Northern California's towering redwood forests, lie the towns of Scotia and Rio Dell. Their histories inseparably intertwined, these two towns formed a larger community supporting the needs of local settlers and industry. Scotia, constructed by the Pacific Lumber Company in the 1880s, stands as a pristine example of the once-prevalent company town in America. ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Bodies That Matter

    Mourning, Rage, and Beauty

    by James Garrison ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    Responding to interconnected tragedies affecting minority populations in America, Black Bodies That Matter: Mourning, Rage, and Beauty brings together the Black Lives Matter movement with the framework developed by Judith Butler in Bodies That Matter.Butler’s analysis of subject life as a kind of melancholy—preempted mourning where loss itself is lost—and her advocacy of public forms of grieving ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Reconsidering the Life of Power

    Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy

    by James Garrison ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Pietas from Vergil to Dryden

    by James Garrison ...
    For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts to explain all that this virtue includes: "Piety alone," he writes, "comprehends the whole Duty of Man towards the Gods, towards his Country, and towards his Relations." Dryden's definition belongs to a ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • How to Start a Drag Scraper Business (Beginners Guide)

    by Garrison James ...
    This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Start a Drag Scraper Business (Beginners Guide) ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • William James and Education

    Edited by James Garrison, Ronald Podeschi, Eric Bredo ...
    William James and Education is a dynamic collection of original essays spotlighting William James as a role model for bringing philosophy to bear on the persistent issues of life and education. Using James’s philosophical ideas, the contributors evade the polarization and superficiality that permeate the debate around such educational issues as standards versus diversity, cultural consensus versus ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD