Author: Paul Thompson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: philosophy, biology, series, suny, biological, theories, structure
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1989-05
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0887069339
ISBN-13: 9780887069338

Author: Paul Thompson
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: day, year, minute, america, response, road, chronicle, terror, comprehensive, timeline
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0060783389
ISBN-13: 9780060783389

Paul Thompson’s The Terror Timeline offers a complete and thorough history of the many roads that converged on 9/11, including the development of Islamic fundamentalism, the activities of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the failures of U.S. investigations and counterterrorism efforts. It traces the actions (and inactions) of every important figure in the war on terror, both before and after 9/11, bringing them together in a volume that offers a comprehensive and provocative look at this complex subject. Packed with little-known facts and disturbing questions, The Terror Timeline is the first

Author: Paul Thompson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: series, suny, philosophy, biology, phil, evolutionary, issues, ethics
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1995-01-13
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0791420280
ISBN-13: 9780791420287

This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectual struggle that took place within the framework of Darwinism from its inception up to the work of G. C. Williams, W. D. Hamilton, R. D. Alexander, A. L. Trivers, E. O. Wilson, R. Dawkins, and others. The contemporary section discusses ethics within the framework of evolutionary theory as enriched by the works of biologists such as those mentioned above. The issue of whether ethical practice and ethical theory can be grounded in the theory of evo

Authors:Robert Paul Lamb, G. R. Thompson,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: literature, culture, companions, blackwell, american, fiction, companion
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $209.95
ISBN-10: 1405100648
ISBN-13: 9781405100649

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three sections covering historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors. The essays address a mixture of canonical and non-canonical subjects; so, alongside treatment of such standard topics as realism, naturalism, and regionalism are contributions on the romance, sentiment

Authors:Kristyan Miller, Paul Thompson,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: applied, linguistics, studies, british, diversity, language, unity
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826478743
ISBN-13: 9780826478740

The papers in this collection, drawn from the 34th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, reflect a number of different perspectives within the field of applied linguistics at the start of the twenty-first century. While add

Authors:Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: narrative, memory, communication, contexts, genre, types
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 076580817X
ISBN-13: 9780765808172

Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and reevaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of "genre," the forms expected within a given context and type of communication. How far do the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages it can convey?

Authors:Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: narrative, memory, studies, routledge, genre
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-01-27
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0415151988
ISBN-13: 9780415151986