Scrivener is novel writing and organizing software designed specifically for the non-linear way writers really work. The Scrivener Workbook is designed to work in conjunction with The Scrivener Manual and The Interactive Tutorial that came with your version of Scrivener. Written by veteran Scrivener user and author M.J. Carlson, you'll learn how to set up a new project, import and organize your research, track scene elements, create custom layouts, and more with this user-friendly Scrivene...

What happens when patriotic dissent becomes a desperate plea to uphold the Constitution?In Treason 2125, decorated Vietnam veteran and former Department of Defense systems programmer Michael J. Carlson presents a compelling and provocative case that America is under internal siege not from foreign enemies, but from political leaders entrusted with its protection. With firsthand military and government experience, Carlson lays out his petition to the U.S. Department of Justice, dema...

Hurting Your Characters:A Writer’s Guide To Describing Injuries And Pain From The Character’s Point Of ViewHow does a broken rib feel? Can a character really walk on a broken ankle? What are the symptoms of asphyxiation, and how long will your character remain conscious? What really happens to a character in the vacuum of space?The answers may surprise you. Many writers (thankfully) have no experience to the very wounds, injuries, and trauma they must describe from ...

När världen stängdes ner under pandemin stod Sverige ensamt kvar och valde en annan väg. Det var Vi mot världen. Som generaldirektör styrde Johan Carlson Folkhälsomyndigheten under covidkrisen. Den svenska modellen byggde på många års reformarbete, stärkt smittskydds-beredskap och självständiga myndigheter, allt avgörande för hur Sverige hanterade de tuffa beslut som togs. Nu avslöjar Johan Carlson för första gången vad som pågick bakom kulisserna under pandemin, både på hemmaplan och inte...

Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion’s continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and artistically important modern films. They offer a scholarly yet accessible considerations of contemporary films exploring the problem of faith i...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to...

When the renowned social scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished project intended to forge a connection between class analysis and real utopias. In taking up this project, the essays in this volume pay tribute to his generative theory, crystalline thinking, inspirational teaching, and personal generosity.- "Friends of the late Erik Olin Wright celebrate his life and work with essays about his lifelong pre...

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to ...

This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what happened to the worldly and radical visions of freedom, liberty, and equality that animated intellectual activists and policy makers from Woodrow Wilson in the 1920s? This book analyzes the outcome of lumping disparate groups of people together under one nation-state and holding them together against the k...

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a formal sites, these memories remain public by lingering along the edges and within the crevice...

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Childhood Education edited by Alex Collopy offers critical analyses of psychoanalytic theory to provide a deeper understanding of the construction and education of young children from infancy to age eight, focusing on the experiences of children with identified disabilities, social, emotional, gender, linguistic, racial, and socioeconomic differences. It also provides portraits of early childhood practice and early childhood teacher trainings...

For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this question: what is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued with powers far beyond any other animal, humans are too faulty to be considered gods themselves. Yet, the idea of God (or the gods) appears in all distinctive human cultures: it names the other pole of human-it designates a being who re...