In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramović, and a hunger strike initiated by Turkish prison...

For decades, the market, asset, and income approaches to business valuation have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance, accounting, taxation, and management. It ultimately argues that the "value functional" approach to business valuation avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actua...

Bud.com and Garrett County Press present a new electronic edition of the classic High in America, the definitive history of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). This is the story of the birth of contemporary pot politics. Veteran journalist Patrick Anderson, in spectacular detail, recounts how a young lawyer from a small town, Keith Stroup, built an insanely successful political operation that advocated for the millions of Americans stuck in the marijuana clo...

Sun Yatsen (1866-1925) occupies a unique position in modern Chinese history: he is equally venerated as the founding father of the nation by both the mainland Communist government and its Nationalist rival in Taiwan. The first president of the Republic of China in 1911-12, the peasant-born yet Western-trained Dr Sun was also a dedicated political theorist, constantly in search of the ideal political and constitutional blueprint to underpin his incomplete revolution. A decade before the pub...

Patrick was born in Dublin, Ireland. As an infant he spent time in multiple Mother and Baby homes and was illegally moved to Northern Ireland where he was adopted. Patrick was one of the founding activists in getting the Mother and Baby home commission of enquiry founded by the Irish Government. Follow his self-narrated story as he tells of his life growing up in Northern Ireland and then moving to England at an early age where he became a self thought artist and poet.

Decoding the discourse: Rhetorical foundations of authoritarian power.Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators to begin using the term “fascism” to describe dangerous movements that have revived and repackaged many of the strategies long thought to have been relegated to the margins o...

I started writing this book in Columbus, Ohio, at a mortarboard club meeting with Martha when she was at ULM (University of Louisiana at Monroe). She liked the first article, so I started writing some more. She like them all!

Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film into conversation.Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas’ semiotic square with the theories of anticolonial philosophers like Frantz Fanon, Eldridge Cleaver, and Sylvia Wynter, Anderson reconstructs an anticolonial social ontology for use as a method of film analysis. Using this ontology to interpret a wide range of films, the book defies the assumptions and challenges the...

Cypherpunk Ethics explores the moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that advocates the use of strong digital cryptography—or crypto, for short—to defend individual privacy and promote institutional transparency in the digital age.Focusing on the writings of Timothy May and Julian Assange, two of the most prolific and influential cypherpunks, the book examines two competing paradigms of cypherpunk philosophy—crypto anarchy and crypto justice—and examines the impli...

Beauty Hired the Beast.The year is 1986.The crime is kidnapping.The storytelling is three points of view; the Beauty, the Beast, and the Kidnapper.The Beauty: Her name is Juliette Wilde. She is a young supermodel who is fading from the spotlight, only to be brought back into it by the actions of the Beast. Everything changes when she hires him.The Beast: His name is Mitch Corvin. He is a reformed criminal who is given a second chance by the Beauty. E...

Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there … and panics—the cases filed under "X."In this ambitious and exciting X-Files adventure, Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucat├ín jungle to investigate a missing team of archaeologists. Their exploration leads to a strange electronic ...

Don't miss this thrilling book in the series based on the award-winning television show The X-Files!Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead—he's been charred to a radioactive cinder.Since this is a death on federal property, FBI agents Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases—mysteries the FBI doesn't want solved....