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  • The Power of Mind; Phineas P. Quimby Finds a New Thought

    by Ruth L. Miller, Martha Shonkwiler-illustrator ...
    Series series Paths to Power
    The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult.Imagine being diagnosed with an incurable illness, getting well in a way that no one understands, spending every spare minute learning everything you can to understand how, and then… finding it!What would you do?Well, if you were Park Quimby ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Snarl

    In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks

    by Ruth A. Miller ...
    Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from France, Turkey, and the United States, she proposes a radical mechanical re-articulation of three ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Biopolitics of Embryos and Alphabets

    A Reproductive History of the Nonhuman

    by Ruth A. Miller ...
    Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought. These days, if people invoke them, they do so a bit apologetically. But, as Ruth Miller argues, we should not be so quick to relegate these terms to the scholarly dustbin. This is because they can help to explain an ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Law in Crisis

    The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster

    by Ruth A. Miller ...
    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and that natural disaster is the endpoint to law. Developing an idiosyncratic but ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Limits of Bodily Integrity

    Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective

    by Ruth A. Miller ...
    This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen. The author draws on rights literature, bio-political scholarship, and a gender-studies perspective as a foundation for rethinking the sovereign relationship. In approaching the politicization of reproductive space from this direction, the study resituates the role of rights ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Seven Stories of Threatening Speech

    Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code

    by Ruth A. Miller ...
    Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity—such as the running of machine code—as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisuffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes physically or mechanically through systems, networks, and environments, rather than a form for human ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire

    by Ruth Miller ...
    Series series Twenty Five Women Who Shaped the...
    Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire is a tale of how women’s triumphs as well as their failures shaped a global society—not despite, but because of, gender.The Ottoman Empire was among the longest-lived polities in history, stretching between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries across three continents, several seas, and scores of cities, deserts, mountain ranges, rivers, and forests ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Power of Insight: Thomas Trowards Discoveries in India

    by Ruth L. Miller, Martha Shonkwiler-illustrator ...
    Series series Paths to Power
    The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult.Imagine growing up in a country where you have lots of servants and a nanny who speaks a strange ancient language and practices an equally ancient religion…Imagine being sent away from your family to another country to go to school and being ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Powr of Unity: The Amazing Discoveries of Charles Fillmore

    by Ruth L. Miller, Martha Shonkwiler-illustrator ...
    Series series Paths to Power
    The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult.Charles Fillmore, a crippled boy who grew up in the great Northwoods, became a printer, railroadman, muleskinner, mining assayer, and real estate developer in the Old West. Then, as the world changed, he discovered a power beyond our bodies ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Getting The Last Laugh

    The inspirational story of the world's oldest female comedian

    by Lynn Ruth Miller ...
    Narrated by Lynn Ruth Miller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    William David Thoreau says, ”If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; ……. Now put the foundations under them.” Lynn Ruth Miller found her castle when she was 70 years old. She began building her foundation even though she was ignored, rejected and blocked at every turn. She persevered until she finally found a way to make that dream happen. Now it is her reality. This book ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power to Heal; The Mystical Life of Emma Curtis Hopkins

    by Ruth L. Miller, Martha Shonkwiler-illutrator ...
    Series series Power to Heal
    The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult.Imagine being a girl whose father is fighting in the Civil War. You love to read and learn, but there’s a lot of work to do to help your mother keep the farm and family together, so you dream a lot…Imagine that when you grow up and marry, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Angel Oak Story

    by Ruth M. Miller, Linda V. Lennon ...
    Angel Oak is estimated to be more than 400 years old. The story of the live oak begins with the "purchase" of Johns Island from the Cussoe Indians by a representative of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper in 1675. The land upon which the tree grows was then granted to Abraham Waight in 1717. The oak garnered its name when descendant Martha Waight married Justus Angel. This same family maintained ownership ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus