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  • The Moral World of The Sun Also Rises

    by Russell Weaver ...
    A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable, and that every character can be seen as being both endorsed and critiqued by the text. This is manifested especially in Jake’s status as a partially reliable narrator, and above all in his judgment of Brett. Jake consistently hides his true feelings ... Read more

    $120.89 CAD

  • Shrinking Cities

    Understanding urban decline in the United States

    by Russell Weaver, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, Amy E. Frazier ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader policy frameworks that have been under consideration to address shrinkage in U.S. cities. A range of methods are employed to answer ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Teaching Literature at Ridgeview

    Edited by Russell Weaver ...
    This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn about thinking, writing, and life at their deepest levels. Several of the contributors have worked or studied at Ridgeview Classical School in Fort Collins, Colorado. E. D. Hirsch, in The Making of Americans, has said of this school that its success ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Brandeis meets Gutenberg Vol. 2

    Contemporary Threats to Free Speech

    Edited by Udo Fink, Ines Gillich, Russel Weaver ...
    Series Book 22 - Oeffentliches und Internationales Recht
    The Free Speech Discussion Forum is an annual event that is designed to bring together prominent scholars from all over the world to discuss cutting-edge free speech issues. The 2021 meeting was hosted by the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.Two major topics were discussed at the 2021 forum: "Robotic Speech" and "Contemporary Threats to Speech." The "Robotic Speech" topic included ... Read more

    $60.59 CAD

  • The Political Battle over Congressional Redistricting

    by Rickert Althaus, Adam Brown, Jason Casellas, Pearson Cross, David Damore, Shannon Jenkins, Samantha Pettey, Kent Redfield, Michael Romano, Mark Salling, Charles S. Bullock III, John A. Clark, Todd A. Curry, Joshua J. Dyck, Timothy M. Hagle, Brigid Callahan Harrison, Scott H. Huffmon, Ajang A. Salkhi, Frederic I. Solop, Russell C. Weaver, Harry C. Strine IV, Álvaro J. Corral, Aubrey Jewett, Kevin Pirch ...
    John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process that Governor Engler envisioned, redistricting has led to repeated court battles waged on such ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

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    Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

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    A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain ... Read more

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  • Dexter and Philosophy

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    Edited by Richard Greene, George A. Reisch, Rachel Robison ...
    Series Book 58 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another?Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. However ... Read more

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  • Coming Apart

    The State of White America, 1960-2010

    by Charles Murray ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.“I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York Times**In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American ... Read more

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  • Missing Out

    In Praise of the Unlived Life

    by Adam Phillips ...
    A leading psychoanalyst presents a transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are.All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the ... Read more

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  • Code

    And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a ... Read more

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  • Our Vampires, Ourselves

    by Nina Auerbach ...
    This "vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America" examines the many meanings of the vampire myth ( Kirkus Reviews).From Byron's Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice's Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, ... Read more

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  • The New Apartheid

    by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh ...
    South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing similarities persist. Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh explores the edifice of systemic racial oppression — the new apartheid — that continues to thrive, despite or even because of our democratic system. ... Read more

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