When a curious young explorer named Chris discovers a strange mask deep inside a forest near Marshville, his Halloween changes forever. The mysterious mask carries him to incredible worlds where every place celebrates Halloween in its own special way. Along the journey, Chris meets friendly ghosts, pumpkin dragons, talking animals, robots, and many other unforgettable friends. Each adventure teaches an important lesson.

"An important contribution to the critical study of ethics . . . [for those] made curious by the controversy that . . . attends Derrida." — Booklist, on the first editionThe Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, executi...

In Sherwood, Halloween is the most magical day of the year. Costumes sparkle, pumpkins glow, and laughter fills every street. But just beyond the trees lives Grizelda, a lonely witch who decides to stop the celebration with tricky spells. No matter what she tries, the spirit of Sherwood grows stronger.When the neighbors discover her secret, they choose kindness instead of anger. As they listen to her story, everything begins to change. This story shows how friendship, understanding...

An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.“One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable.” From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridica...

An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida.Perjury and Pardon is a two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a “problematic of lying” by stud...

Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortalityFrom Plato’s notion of generation to Derrida’s concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, Adam Rosenthal’s Prosthetic Immortalities shows how the dream of indefinite life has always been a technological one: a matter of prosthesis. He argues that every biological instance of perpetua...

Haruki Murakami is one of the world's best-known living authors, whose complex yet accessible novels have been translated into dozens of languages. His idiosyncratic and densely symbolic prose, often considered a form of magical realism, resonates with readers around the world. This book will argue that his signature style was formulated in order to explore the posttraumatic mind, often mimicking dissociation. Having initially begun writing in order to heal himself of various psychological...

Originally published in 1945, this is a concise account of the remarkable experiment with boys carried out by the author of The Hawkspur Experiment. The war put this latter experiment into abeyance, but gave its author an opportunity to practice his principles on a group of younger difficult boys. Aged from eight to fourteen, these boys were the "throw-outs" of the Evacuation Scheme, but before the Barns experiment had been long in operation troublesome boys were being evacuated n...

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a ‘bit of discipline’ is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.Basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the day’s newest methods in penal t...

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment, etc.Originally published in 1970, this book describes another experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the community. It demon...

Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting.Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s many questions to Althusser a...

Learn everything you need to know about running, with one of the world’s most popular running books, updated to include Jeff Galloway’s revolutionary method of training.A new runner who’s looking to begin, a high school athlete who’s preparing for track & field season, an experienced marathoner aiming to get faster—whatever your situation, if you’re interested in running, this is the book for you. Olympic athlete Jeff Galloway introduces the same training principle...