This study explores the increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and the Earth, with the help of a simple example and a complicated interlocutor. The example is a pond, which, it turns out, is not so simple as it seems. The interlocutor is Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, philosopher, and, despite his several disavowals, doyen of twentieth-century existentialism. Standing with the great humanist at the edge of the pond, the author examines contemporary experi...

Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as a teacher, mentor, and scholar without peer. The author of seven books and more than two hundred book chapters, articles, and reviews, he is a world-renowned expert on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and a leader in the international community of philosophers. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers stude...

How to Hold a Cockroach is about discovering and freeing ourselves from the beliefs that cause us to suffer. With a message both surprising and simple, it is a love letter to humankind, a book for those who are free and don't know it.An Inspirational Tale with 42 Beautiful IllustrationsIn this story for all ages, a struggling boy begins a life-changing journey when a disgusting guest disturbs his dinner. Continuing to encounter sources of suffering, the boy must ...

What if time was never your enemy-but your greatest advantage?Time is Your Ally: Mastering Productivity with Ease challenges everything you've been taught about productivity, replacing pressure, burnout, and constant urgency with a system built on clarity, rhythm, and control. Instead of chasing more hours or forcing yourself into rigid routines, this book reveals how to align your actions with your natural energy, eliminate hidden time drains, and design a life where prod...

Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. Contributors variously discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics. Earthl...

Eine Begegnung, eine falsche Entscheidung und die Meinungen stehen fest. Erst drei Jahre später sehen Matthew und Zoey sich wieder. Alles ist wie bisher: Sie findet ihn arrogant und er hält sie für ein Miststück. Die Vorurteile und Missverständnisse stehen zwischen den Beiden und doch kann Matthew Zoey nicht vergessen. Ein Zwischenfall bringt sie näher zusammen und verschafft ihnen die Möglichkeit, hinter die Fassade des anderen zu blicken. Können sie die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen u...

Meet a gallant medieval knight in this atmospheric romance…A knight’s enemyBecomes his closest ally…Knight Theo Grenville will do whatever it takes to discover who’s plotting against his king. So befriending—and even romancing—his target’s middle daughter, Medea, is merely part of his sworn duty. But what isn’t? Falling under the spell of a woman who’s anything but plain in his eyes! Yet every day they become closer, the mo...

In Reading Sartre’s Second Ethics, Elizabeth A. Bowman and Robert V. Stone provide a comprehensive, reconstructive, and critical interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s mature dialectical ethics. The key Sartrean texts are two posthumously published lectures, one delivered at the Gramsci Institute in Rome in 1964, the other scheduled to be delivered at Cornell University in 1965 but cancelled by Sartre in protest of U.S. foreign policy. Though different in content, method, and intend...

A knight’s enemyBecomes his closest ally…Knight Theo Glenville will do whatever it takes to discover who’s plotting against his King. So befriending—and even romancing—his target’s middle daughter, Medea, is merely part of his sworn duty. But what isn’t? Falling under the spell of a woman who’s anything but plain in his eyes! Yet every day they become closer, the more torn he is between his allegiance to king or his heart…

"For all of your activism, at the end of the day, you still get to go home and enjoy a good night's sleep."Kyle Bridges is about to get pulled over and harassed by a racist police officer. Which is terrible and scary enough. But Kyle is white. And he just looked at his reflection in the rearview mirror and saw the face of a black man staring back at him, instead of his own. And it is probably no coincidence that he recently broke his cherished pair of rose...

A house is more than just a place to lay your head at night.Sometimes, the walls remember.Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up.From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact of that wartime expansion on Canada’s power systems, rivers, and politics.Matthew Evenden argues that the wartime power crisis facilitated an unprecedented expansion of state cont...