Henry Carter Hull

People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolation and ableism in academia. Uncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic condit

"Winner of the 2016 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)" "One of Flavorwire's 10 Must-Read Academic Books for 2015" "Shortlisted for the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" "One of HistoryBuff.com's 10 Can't-Miss History Books of 2015" Josiah Ober is professor of political science and classics at Stanford University. His books include Democracy and Knowledge, Political...

Have you ever wondered why there's always someone out there who stands under the Socialist banner? It's like as though Socialism is a good thing. Socialists just keep popping up everywhere, don't you agree?This book covers up not only what Socialism is about but also what Democracy is about. There are indeed 3 types of people who like Socialism. (1) those who follow the crowd and likes the perks, (2) those who understand the similarities of Socialism...

After centuries of ignoring the child, some philosophy now considers the child an ideal practitioner as well as the subject. This is evident especially in the Philosophy for Children, or P4C, movement. Offering a novel take on this phenomenon, Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children’s literature and have even come to resemble it in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. Since its inception...

Jamie Terence Kelly is assistant professor of philosophy at Vassar College. The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects--the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political philosophers have become increasingly interested in democratic theory, particularly...

The third volume of the "Observational Commentaries on Social Atheism" series, this book features discussions pertaining to the Communist movement: A system of government formulated in the Communist Manifesto is first briefly defined and explained. After this, we cover various points of Communist history spanning from the liquidation of hostile intellectuals, the use of Active Measures, to the implementation of collectivization procedures, and more....

A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always matter.

When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the whole world was united in mourning. His greatest hits were sung tearfully in pubs up and down Britain, garlands of

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A behind-the-scenes look at the Chitlin' Circuit during American's most vital period of soul music-from the eyes and ears of a young, Jewish kid from Queens who joined the team of the hardest working man in show business and learned the art of the music business at the hand of the performer who mastered it. In the mid-'60s, Alan Leeds was a young DJ looking for his way into the music business. An interview with James Brown to promote a local show...

Bryan Campbell has had a great deal of success in his personal and professional life. He is an inspirational speaker and a mindset coach with the experience of working with thousands of people. Bryan is a man who has overcome overwhelming odds when people told him that he could not do something. He is a man who has walked away from being paralyzed or partially paralyzed four times. He weaves a series of key principles, philosophies and life lessons...

"Whereas other Christianity-meets-Buddhism books stress ideology and the intellect, this one emphasizes daily acts of practice." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) In this illuminating and insightful guide, Kim Boykin offers Christians a way to incorporate Zen practices into their lives without compromising their beliefs and faith. Zen for Christians assumes curiosity but no real knowledge as it walks readers through specific concepts of Zen philosophy...