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  • AN ANALYSIS OF JACQUES DERRIDA'S STRUCTURE, SIGN, AND PLAY IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES
    TIM SMITH-LAING
    Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the lecture took aim at the critical and philosophical fashions of the time and radically proposing a world in which meaning cannot be pinned down or traced to an origin, but instead is...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF MICHEL FOUCAULT'S WHAT IS AN AUTHOR?
    TIM SMITH-LAING
    Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author,” offering an entirely different way of looking at texts. Foucault points out that all texts are written but not all are discussed as having “authors”. So what is special about “authored” texts? And what makes an “author” different to o...

    $179.00

  • ISLANDS OF RAINFOREST
    EDVARD HVIDING / TIM BAYLISS-SMITH
    This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rain forest. While issues such as logging, eco-timber, eco-tourism have been widely analyzed from an outsider’s perspective, this book considers them from the local people’s viewpoint, in terms of a long history of the rainforest uses. The authors demonstrate...

    $1,100.00

  • COUNCIL TAX HANDBOOK
    GEOFF PARSONS / TIM SMITH
    EG Council Tax Handbook is a timely publication. The text is easy to understand and very comprehensive. This volume helps to define the council tax in various contexts. ...

    $1,140.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF JUDITH BUTLER'S GENDER TROUBLE
    TIM SMITH-LAING
    Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism's struggle against patriarchy as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our assumptions about gender and identity. Looking at the factionalism of contemporary (1980s) feminism, Butler saw a movement split by identity politics. Riven by arguments over what it ...

    $179.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    TIM SMITH-LAING / FIONA ROBINSON
    A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.' Woolf’s approach is to ask why, in the early 20th century, literary history presented so few examples of canonically 'great' women...

    $179.00

  • TIME IT WAS
    KAREN MANNERS SMITH / TIM KOSTER
    What was it like to live through the Sixties?  The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants i...

    $1,900.00

  • FIDUCIARY DUTY AND THE ATMOSPHERIC TRUST
    CHARLES SAMPFORD / KEN COGHILL / TIM SMITH
    This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations. The volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fid...

    $1,460.00

  • THE BOILER ROOM BOYS
    TIM D. SMITH
    In The Boiler Room Boys: An Underground Story of Science, Religion, and the Faith that Fuels Both, Tim Smith describes how from too-young an age he followed two seemingly alternate paths, religion and science, only to find that they are not alternate at all. His so-called "yellow brick road" began with a group of boys meeting independently in his grade school's boiler room. Con...

    $444.00

  • PIC MICROCONTROLLERS: KNOW IT ALL: KNOW IT ALL
    DI JASIO, LUCIO / WILMSHURST, TIM / IBRAHIM, DOGAN / MORTON, JOHN / BATES, MARTIN P. / SMITH, JACK / SMITH
    The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written over the past few years and creates a one-stop reference for engineers involved in markets from communications to embedded systems and everywhere in between. PIC design and development a natural fit for this reference series as it is one of the most popular microcontrollers in the world and we have se...

    $928.00

  • NEW YORK CITY NOIR
    TIM MCLOUGHLIN, LAWRENCE BLOCK, S.J. ROZAN, ROBERT KNIGHTLY, PATRICIA SMITH
    Discover dark mysteries nestled in every borough of the Big Apple in this collection of five noir short story anthologies. New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited ...

    $827.00