Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power, unions help to spread …
"'Lacan for beginners' is written withinsight and wit and illustrated with examples from popular culture and cinema. The artwork is humorous and informative, and works with the text."--BOOK JACKET. Loaded with illustrations and graphics by David Leach.
"Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are 'Lacanians') yet most people know nothing about him. The 10,000 analysts who use Lacan's ideas work mostly in France, Spain, Italy, and So…
by Lomas, Robert, Becan, Sarah, Echlin, Gordon
fromFor beginners
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"Freemasonry For Beginners explores the objectives and teaching methods of Freemasonry and describes its influence on society in the past, present, and future. It recounts the origins of the movement in Scotland and its spread to North America and the rest of the world. Not leas…
by Lomas, Robert, Becan, Sarah, Echlin, Gordon
fromFor beginners
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An overview of linguistics for general readers. Key topics include the contrast between writing and speaking, and elementary lessons in analyses ranging from simple sounds to entire sentences.
Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics include the contrast betwee…
A collection of humorous lessons about language acquisition, ancient languages, little-known languages, and other facts about language.
With a focus on his great medieval masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy, " this book describes the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Readers follow Dante on a trip through hell to heaven, guided by Beatrice, his unrequited love and muse.
"At long last, a Divine Comedy with jokes, a Dante with shtick, a trip through the afterlife with a happy ending...'Dante for Beginners; takes the reader on a trip starting in hell and ending in heaven. The reader gets a quick introduction to Dante and his times. Next, the reade…
Deconstruction is so labyrinthine that it has become the monster that murdered philosophy. When Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, uses buzzwords such as "phallogocentrism" and "transcendental signified," humanities students and aspiring philosophers may get weak in …
by Lee, Joe, Powell, Jim
fromWriters and Readers documentary comic book
by Matar, Nabil I., Haddad, H. N.
fromFor beginners documentary comic book