Product Description: Investigates the concept of affective critical regionality to demonstrate how it deepens our sense of and relations to place.

Product Description: Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema—or the interplay of the still and moving image—the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways...read more

Product Description: Is the American West in Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns” the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch’s movies? In Calexico’s music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, precisely (or better yet, imprecisely) does it mean? Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American “rootedness” and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms...read more

Product Description: How do mental events such as choices and decisions lead to physical action? The problem of mental causation is one of the most important and intriguing philosophical issues of our time and has been at the centre of debates in the philosophy of mind for the past fifty years...read more

Product Description: Charles Darwin describió la evolución como un proceso de descendencia con modificación, concepto que se adapta muy bien a la continua evolución de esta obra. La séptima edición de Biología constituye la revisión más ambiciosa desde su origen y representa una nueva &ldquo,especie&rdquo, de libro de texto con varias adapta...read more

An exploration of the representation of youth in American culture, focusing on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory.

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Biology: Exploring Life 2009 Guided Reading & Study Workbook Answer Key Only Biology: Exploring Life integrates textbook, Web, and labs into a dynamic and balanced program that brings concepts to life. This copyright update includes new Web resources and greater coverage for 21st century skills...read more

Product Description: Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how―indeed, whether or not―our mental states bring about our physical behavior...read more

Product Description: This collection introduces the central views and issues involved in the philosophical problem of free will. While the selections represent some of the most important works in the field, they are also accessible enough for readers with very little background in philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An introductory survey of the important debates about key issues in the cultural history of the contemporary American West. Neil Campbell introduces the ways in which the West has been represented and interpreted within American culture, myth and ideology, especially questioning the concept of the 'New West'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture.  The book focuses on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory, presenting innovative and challenging analyses of new and classic texts from the 1890s to the 1990s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)