P.A. Judd's Books

The Man Who Was Thursday : and Related Pieces

By: J.G. Vaughan,P.A. Judd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Man Who Was Thursday : and Related Pieces

By: J.G. Vaughan,P.A. Judd

Widely considered as Chesterton's masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) defies classification. Subtitled `A Nightmare' by Chesterton, on one level it is a fast-moving and surreal detective story. This critical edition includes several short related pieces, `A Picture of Tuesday', `The Book of Job', and `The Diabolist', as well as a map of Edwardian London and detailed explanatory notes. - ;Widely considered as Chesterton's masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) defies classification. Subtitled `A Nightmare' by Chesterton, on one level it is a fast-moving and surreal detective story. Drawing on contemporary fears of anarchist conspiracies and bomb outrages, The Man Who Was Thursday is firmly rooted in its time and place - turn of the century London - but it also defies temporal boundaries. Police detective Syme finds himself drawn into a world that seems to have gone beyond humanity when he is elected `Thursday', one of the members of the Central European Council of seven anarchs. Dreamlike, prophetic, and frequently funny, the novel attacks fin-de-si--egrave--;cle pessimism and, through a surreal series of pursuits and unmaskings, returns Syme - and us - to earth more aware of its beauty, promise, and creative potential. This critical edition includes several short related pieces, `A Picture of Tuesday', `Introduction to the Book of Job', and `The Diabolist', as well as a map of contemporary London and detailed explanatory notes. -

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Oxford Paperbacks

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191505994

ISBN 13

9780191505997

The Climacteric in Perspective

Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on the Menopause, held at Lake Buena Vista, Florida, October 28–November 2, 1984

By: M. Notelovitz,P.A. van Keep

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Climacteric in Perspective

Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on the Menopause, held at Lake Buena Vista, Florida, October 28–November 2, 1984

By: M. Notelovitz,P.A. van Keep

The Fourth International Congress on the Menopause was held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA in October - November 1984. It was different from the previous meetings held under the auspices of the International Menopause Society in three respects: the duration of the Congress was extended to five days, plenary sessions were held on each day, and the scope of the subject matter was expanded to provide a total or holistic overview of the subject - hence the theme for the Congress 'Climacteric Medicine and Science: A Societal need. ' In recent years there has been an increased interest in the menopause and middle year aging by scientists and clinicians in fields as diverse as anthropology, urodynamics, nutrition and exercise physiology, while 'newer' issues in clinical medicine, such as osteoporosis prevention and management, attracted specialists in nuclear immaging techniques and internal medicine. Over 120 invited speakers plus numerous contributors to the free communication, special lectures and the poster sessions provided a virtual cornucopia of information on the menopause, that has indeed brought a newer perspective to a subject previously the domain of a single specialty, the gynecologist, and dominated by a single therapy, estrogen replacement.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

446

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

9400941455

ISBN 13

9789400941458

The Oxford Book of Health Foods

By: J. G. Vaughan,P. A. Judd

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Oxford Book of Health Foods

By: J. G. Vaughan,P. A. Judd

Health foods and dietary supplements are widely used throughout the world - it is estimated that more than seventy million people in Europe regularly buy these products, and it is a billion dollar business in the USA. Health foods include vitamins, minerals, cereals, nuts, herbal medicines, functional foods, and many others. A large number of people use these foods in the belief that they contribute to their general health, while, in most countries, little or no information is given on products explaining their therapeutic values. The Oxford Book of Health Foods begins with an account of modern concepts of human nutrition, followed by a series of over one hundred accounts of individual health foods and dietary supplements. In all cases the importance of these products in human health is explained, and, for herbal medicines, the evidence for their claimed therapeutic value is given, and toxic effects are described. Full-colour illustrations accompany these accounts. The Oxford Book of Health Foods will be of interest not just to health professionals, but to all people with an interest in health foods and healthy eating. The text is supplemented throughout by beautifully drawn botanical illustrations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

223

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191647233

ISBN 13

9780191647239

Trees

Their Natural History

By: P. A. Thomas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trees

Their Natural History

By: P. A. Thomas

Trees are familiar components of many landscapes, vital to the healthy functioning of the global ecosystem and unparalled in the range of materials which they provide for human use. Yet how much do we really understand about how they work? This 2000 book provides a comprehensive introduction to the natural history of trees, presenting information on all aspects of tree biology and ecology in an easy to read and concise text. Fascinating insights into the workings of these everyday plants are uncovered throughout the book, with questions such as how are trees designed, how do they grow and reproduce, and why do they eventually die tackled in an illuminating way. Written for a non-technical audience, the book is nonetheless rigorous in its treatment and will therefore provide a valuable source of reference for beginning students as well as those with a less formal interest in this fascinating group of plants.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

298

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

113942906X

ISBN 13

9781139429061

Parables of the Posthuman

Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience

By: 19122 PA

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Parables of the Posthuman

Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience

By: 19122 PA

A philosophical reading of video gaming that focuses on what it means to be a player. In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience, author Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analyzing video games and the player experience philosophically. Finding points of departure in phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Boulter argues that we need to think seriously about what it means to enter into a relationship with the game machine and to assume (or to have conferred upon you) a machinic, posthuman identity. Parables of the Posthumanapproaches the experience of gaming by asking: What does it mean for the player to enter the machinic "world" of the game? What forms of subjectivity does the game offer to the player? What happens to consciousness itself when one plays? To this end, Boulter analyzes the experience of particular role-playing video games, includingFallout 3, Half-Life 2, BioShock, Crysis 2, and Metal Gear Solid 4. These games both thematize the idea of the posthuman—the games are "about" subjects whose physical and intellectual capacities are extended through machine or other prosthetic means—and also enact an experience of the posthuman for the player, who becomes more than what he was as he plays the game. Boulter concludes by exploring how the game acts as a parable of what the human, or posthuman, may look like in times to come. Academics with an interest in the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and popular culture forms and video gamers with an interest in thinking about the implications of gaming will enjoy this volume.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

163

Publisher

Wayne State University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0814341446

ISBN 13

9780814341445

Chiffonade

By: P. A. LaFraise

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chiffonade

By: P. A. LaFraise

Chiffonade chronicles the adventures of New York native and best-selling author Blakely Ellison as she struggles to cope with the tragic dissolution of her marriage. Still reeling from her unexpected abandonment, a barely functioning (and food-illiterate) Blakely accepts a guest judging stint on a Tampa cooking show. There she encounters—and unwittingly offends—the domineering Lenore Chester, Queen of Cajun Cooking, and her son, Jack, an unapologetic lothario. What follows is a comedy of northern and southern errors as Jack and Blakely resist reconciling their regional prejudices—only to find their adversarial relationship moving in a completely unexpected direction. A spirited and mouth-watering exploration of the restorative powers of love, Chiffonade is the inspiring tale of one woman’s escape from despair as she discovers the courage to heal.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

374

Publisher

Page Publishing Inc

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628383194

ISBN 13

9781628383195

Long Strange Journey

On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments

By: Gregory P. A. Levine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Long Strange Journey

On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments

By: Gregory P. A. Levine

Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emphasis on the postwar “Zen boom.” Since the late nineteenth century, Zen and Zen art have emerged as globally familiar terms associated with a spectrum of practices, beliefs, works of visual art, aesthetic concepts, commercial products, and modes of self-fashioning. They have also been at the center of fiery public disputes that have erupted along national, denominational, racial-ethnic, class, and intellectual lines. Neither stable nor strictly a matter of euphoric religious or intercultural exchange, Zen and Zen art are best approached as productive predicaments in the study of religion, spirituality, art, and consumer culture, especially within the frame of Buddhist modernism. Long Strange Journey’s modern-contemporary emphasis sets it off from most writing on Zen art, which focuses on masterworks by premodern Chinese and Japanese artists, gushes over “timeless” visual qualities as indicative of metaphysical states, or promotes with ahistorical, trend-spotting flair Zen art’s design appeal and therapeutic values. In contrast, the present work plots a methodological through line distinguished by “discourse analysis,” moving from the first contacts between Europe and Japanese Zen in the sixteenth century to late nineteenth–early twentieth-century transnational exchanges driven by Japanese Buddhists and intellectuals and the formation of a Zen art canon; to postwar Zen transformations of practice and avant-garde expressions; to popular embodiments of our “Zenny zeitgeist,” such as Zen cartoons. The book presents an alternative history of modern-contemporary Zen and Zen art that emphasizes their unruly and polythetic-prototypical natures, taking into consideration serious religious practice and spiritual and creative discovery as well as conflicts over Zen’s value amid the convolutions of global modernity, squabbles over authenticity, resistance against the notion of “Zen influence,” and competing claims to speak for Zen art made by monastics, lay advocates, artists, and others.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0824858085

ISBN 13

9780824858087

Book's by P.A. Judd

The Man Who Was Thursday : and Related Pieces

The Man Who Was Thursday : and Related Pieces

The Climacteric in Perspective

The Climacteric in Perspective

The Oxford Book of Health Foods

The Oxford Book of Health Foods

Trees

Trees

Parables of the Posthuman

Parables of the Posthuman

Chiffonade

Chiffonade

Long Strange Journey

Long Strange Journey

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email