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Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Todd McGowan

But Todd McGowan argues that capitalism does not thrive because of what it withholds from some and gives to others with power.
The Impossible David Lynch

The Impossible David Lynch

Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre.
Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Todd McGowan

In this first single-author scholarly examination of Spike Lee's oeuvre, Todd McGowan shows how Lee's films, from She's Gotta Have It through Red Hook Summer, address crucial social issues such as racism, paranoia, and economic exploitation ...
Feminine "No!", The: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

Feminine "No!", The: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

Todd McGowan

Psychoanalysis and the New Canon Todd McGowan. Agency. and. the. Traumatic. Encounter. Politics. after. Poststructuralism. The trauma of “The Yellow Wall—paper,” The Awakening, The Marrow of Tradition, and Their Eyes Were Watching ...
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy

Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy

Todd McGowan

After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results ...
In the Beginning--: A Scientist Shows why the Creationists ...

In the Beginning--: A Scientist Shows why the Creationists ...

Christopher McGowan

A Scientist Shows why the Creationists are Wrong Christopher McGowan. In the • •• A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are Wrong J .*>; Chris McGowan Prometheus Books ail .Ml 'Ilex £PC Copyright ©1984 by Chris McGowan All.
In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are ...

In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are ...

Christopher McGowan

The creationists are eager to inflict their particular brand of 'science' upon our children, writes Chris McGowan, and this is where responsible scientists must draw the line.
Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema

Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema

Todd McGowan

A new temporal aesthetic in films such as "Memento," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "2046," and "The Hangover."
Real Gaze, The: Film Theory after Lacan

Real Gaze, The: Film Theory after Lacan

Todd McGowan

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.
Homesteader

Homesteader

David McGowan

David McGowan. Along with the crows and ravens, they cleaned up the land; but we had to guard those animals still living. Though they might still breathe, the cattle and horses were weak, and easy prey for a well fed scavenger. Harry and I  ...
Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of ...

Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of ...

Todd McGowan

Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis.
The Fictional Christopher Nolan

The Fictional Christopher Nolan

Todd McGowan

The Fictional Christopher Nolan discovers in Nolan's films an exploration of the role that fiction plays in leading to truth.
Dinosaur Discovery: Everything You Need to Be a Paleontologist

Dinosaur Discovery: Everything You Need to Be a Paleontologist

Chris McGowan

What do dinosaurs look like from the inside out? Take a journey with renowned paleontologist Chris McGowan as he examines species from Allosaurus to T. rex!
Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons

Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons

Christopher McGowan

McGowan attempts to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, making fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals, and drawing on science and engineering concepts to explain the ...
Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians

Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians

Sooyoung Chang

He wrote Introduction to Diophantine Approximation in 1957 and An Introduction to the Geometry ofNumbers in 1959.3 John Arthur Todd John Arthur Todd John Arthur Todd John Arthur Todd John Todd was born on 23 August 1908 in ...
Information Security and Privacy: Third Australasian ...

Information Security and Privacy: Third Australasian ...

Colin Boyd

The Program Committee invited four distinguished speakers: Doug McGowan, Per Kaijser, Winfried Miiller, and William Caelli. Doug McGowan from Hewlett Packard Company presented a paper entitled "Cryptography in an international ...
A Story of Todd Thomas Turner the Third from Tallapoosa: A ...

A Story of Todd Thomas Turner the Third from Tallapoosa: A ...

DW Cantrell

“Not if you fly,” Todd replied. “You can fly?” I said. “No. But I have friends that do.” I shook my head and continued planting when a thought came to me: “Todd? You say your name is Todd Thomas Turner III, and you're from Tallapoosa, correct?
Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

David McGowan

In Programmed to Kill, acclaimed and always controversial author David McGowan takes a fresh look at the lives of many of America's most notorious accused murderers, focusing on the largely hidden patterns that suggest that there may be ...
Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political

Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political

Paul Eisenstein

In a radical reconsideration of political theory and politics, Paul Eisenstein and Todd McGowan explore the notion of rupture or radical tearing apart in both history and theory through the sweep of Western philosophy from Plato to ...
McGehee descendants

McGehee descendants

Ethel Clyde Woodall Grider

22 May 1869 Todd Co., KY, buried on 24 May in graveyard on her farm in Todd Co., KY, d/o Joel Walton and Sarah Sims. The Smiths were Baptists and they owned and farmed many acres in Todd Co., KY. Ch: I. Sara Ann Smith b. 12 Aug  ...
Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea

David Livingstone

22 Jack Boulware, “The Rock and Roll Treehouse,” www.jackboulware.com, ( April 20, 2006). [http://www.jackboulware.com/writing/journalism/the-rock-and-roll -treehouse] 23 McGowan, “Inside The LC,” Part V. 24 McGowan, “Inside The LC,”  ...
Agriculture of Pennsylvania

Agriculture of Pennsylvania

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Arthur Todd, Philadelphia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diploma. Apiarian tools. Arthur Todd, Philadeiphia, .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diploma. A very extensive and fine collection, for which he deserves great credit. Reversible frame. Arthur Todd, Philadelphia, .
Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005

Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005

Ranjit Hoskote

... 2002); 100 Poets Against the War, Todd Swift ed. (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003); Poems for Madrid, Todd Swift ed. (ebook, March 2004); and In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Nthology of Poetry and Fiction, Val Stevenson and Todd Swift ...
Derailing democracy: the America the media don't want you to see

Derailing democracy: the America the media don't want you to see

David McGowan

That's how the mainstream media want you to see it. But in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See, David McGowan has compiled an index of disturbing facts that point to ominous trends.
Letters to a Young Activist

Letters to a Young Activist

Todd Gitlin

" So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for bearings, understanding, direction, and practical examples.In Letters to a Young Activist, Todd Gitlin looks back at his ...
Spies, lies and the War on Terror

Spies, lies and the War on Terror

Paul Todd

Todd & Bloch argue that the bureaucracy and narrow political goals surrounding intelligence actually have the potential to increase the terrorist threat.
Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Anonymous

A Domestic Romance. In this novel, Sweeney Todd is at his finest, dispatching victims with aplomb, leaving their fate and disposition to Mrs. Lovett and her pies.
Thinking through Paul: A Survey of His Life, Letters, and ...

Thinking through Paul: A Survey of His Life, Letters, and ...

Todd D. Still

This is exactly what Pauline experts Bruce W. Longenecker and Todd D. Still accomplish with their new textbook aimed at college and seminary level courses on Paul and his writings.
If I Grow Up

If I Grow Up

Todd Strasser

In this gritty novel about growing up in the inner-city projects, award-winning author Todd Strasser opens a window into the life of a teenager struggling with right and wrong under the ever-present shadow of gangs.
Fallout

Fallout

Todd Strasser

Internationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history.

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