Who doesn't have questions about the bizarro new world of chaos and madness we've suddenly been thrust into, and what are the origins of this global mental and spiritual meltdown? How did the terms "transgender" and "transhuman" make it so smoothly into our collective consciousness? And what do the terms "medical emergency," "digital currency," "climate change," and the "Jan.6 'insurrection'" all have in common other than using up too many quotation marks? And further, will Oliver's voice-...

How would you respond if you were time-traveled back to the 19th-century where savage natives were about to offer you up in a sacrifice to their god, and then you were suddenly rocketed forward to a time where mad scientists attempted to inject you with an experimental serum that would transform you into a transhuman slave ruled by artificial intelligence? I know, a lot to think about or even imagine. But thankfully, you won't have to because the Appleby family has already experienced all ...

Roger Appleby had lost everything: his job, his wife, and so he decided to end his life. But to his surprise, he can't die. At first, he enjoys his immortality with such escapades as jumping into a lion exhibit and racing down a narrow highway in his Dodge Charger Hellcat. But when his recklessness results in the death of an innocent man, Gunnar Engberg, leaving his wife a widow and her two boys fatherless, his life begins to change.Wanting to make amends to the bereaved family, he...

In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their relations with and attitudes to African tribal societies. The author presents a broad survey of tribal life, an analysis of culture contact, and an extended discussion of the underlying assumptions of the British evaluation of Africans and of the conditions in which they lived. The description of African soc...

This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher.The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda Hutcheon, Philip Stratford, Barry Cameron, Balachandra Rajan, Robert Fothergill, ...

Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that "reparations politics" has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of international affairs in coming years. In addition to broad theoretical and philosophica...

This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of the research process and how to communicate arguments effectively. The result is a book that blends the best of earlier editions with updates that provide a strong foundation in critical thinking,...

This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines.

Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily lives, pitting "official democracy" and "democracy from below" against one another in a lively debate.For more information see www.democraticimagination.com.

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, and analytic psychology, Watts demonstrates that happiness comes f...

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself.This book explores the tensions between science and ...

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. From new kinds of writing to photo essays, the journal is both theoretically and politically rewarding.