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Author: Violet Cheung-Blunden

The original study on delay of gratification was conducted by Dr. Walter Mischel, who recruited hundreds of preschoolers from the Bing nursery school at Stanford University in the late '60s. Two follow-ups of the origina ...

Author: Caleb Fleming

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolut ...

Author: Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper, III

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolut ...

Author: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen conse ...

Author: Manuel DeLanda

This is a collection of essays, most published here for the first time, on Gilles Deleuze's ideas about history and science. Its focus is on ontological or metaphysical questions: What are the legitimate social entities ...

Author: Ian Buchanan & Claire Colebrook

Ever since Deleuze and Guattari provocatively declared that all 'becoming' must go by way of a 'becoming-woman' their work has been the subject of intense feminist interrogation. This volume highlights the key points of ...

Author: Ian Buchanan & Claire Colebrook

Ever since Deleuze and Guattari provocatively declared that all 'becoming' must go by way of a 'becoming-woman' their work has been the subject of intense feminist interrogation. This volume highlights the key points of ...

Author: Teresa Rizzo

This is a feminist introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a new way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience. "Deleuze and Film: A Feminist Introduction" proposes a new way of thinking about cin ...

Author: Teresa Rizzo

This is a feminist introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a new way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience. "Deleuze and Film: A Feminist Introduction" proposes a new way of thinking about cin ...

Author: Philip Goodchild

This accessible book examines critically the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, clarifying the ideas of these two notoriously difficult thinkers without over-simplifying them. Divided into three sections - Knowledge, Powe ...

Author: Christopher M. Drohan

Deleuze and the Sign presents a concise introduction to Deleuze's semiotics. Expounding upon Deleuze's work on Proust, the author reveals a thoroughly developed theory of the sign that is at the heart of Deleuze's ontolo ...

Author: Martin Fuglsang & Bent Meier Sorensen

Deleuze and the Social is the first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organisation. This book is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the so ...

Author: Martin Fuglsang & Bent Meier Sorensen

Deleuze and the Social is the first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organisation. This book is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the so ...

Author: David Martin-Jones

Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity challenges the traditional use of Deleuze's philosophy to examine European art cinema. It explores how Deleuze can be used to analyse national identity across a range of different ci ...

Author: David Martin-Jones

New in Paperback Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity challenges the traditional use of Deleuze's philosophy to examine European art cinema. It explores how Deleuze can be used to analyse national identity across a rang ...

Author: Casper Bruun Jensen & Kjetil Rodje

This is an excellent edited collection that points to new lines of inquiry in the areas explored. The editors must congratulate themselves in pulling together a fine body of work. JRAI To consider anew the relation of sc ...

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Author: Randolph Paul Runyon

" In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster to ...

Author: Meredith Gould

Assessing the significance of service as an expression of one's personal spirituality and commitment to a greater power, the author of Staying Sober explains how to find the right type of volunteer work to suit one's ind ...

Author: W.T. Lhamon

W. T. Lhamon 's "Deliberate Speed" is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic terrain of the period ...