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Handbook of Energy, Volume I
Elsevier Science 2013; US$ 149.00Handbook of Energy, Volume I: Diagrams, Charts, and Tables provides comprehensive, organized coverage on all phases of energy and its role in society, including its social, economic, political, historical, and environmental aspects. While there is a wealth of information about energy available, it is spread across many books, journals, and websites... more...
Becoming Southern
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 34.99By exploring Warren County's history, Morris traces the evolution of Old South society from its pioneer origins to the onset of the Civil War. This is a study of a society's development, a snapshot of a community in crisis, which challenges many traditional notions about the American South. more...
Becoming Southern
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 34.99Introduction: The Evolution of Old South Civilization. 1. Pioneers of the Loosa Chitto. 2. Economic Transformation and the Rise of the Planters' World. 3. Relations Within the Households: White Families. 4. Households Within Households: Masters and Slaves. 5. Brothers and Neighbors: The Politics of Patriarchy. 6. Hamlets and Towns: The Urban Process.... more...
Amartya Sen
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00A volume of essays on aspects of Amartya Sen's hugely influential and multi-disciplinary work. more...
Modernism and the Cult of Mountains
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95In this study opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of ideas about politics, nature, technology, and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera's reflexive engagement with the identity and limits... more...
The Big Muddy
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 25.99In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at... more...
Online Killers
Ulysses Press 2010; US$ 14.95THE INTERNET'S DARK SIDE Take a cyber journey where the flicker of LCD screens illuminates unimaginable evil. It starts as a harmless online-date, but can quickly turn to kidnap, torture and death. More than just tales of sinister criminals, this collection of true horror stores destroys commonly held myths, like "it's safe to meet someone after... more...
How to Make a Serial Killer
Ulysses Press 2008; US$ 14.95THE LOST CHILDHOODS, HORRIFIC CRIMES AND DEMENTED MINDS OF THOSE WHO KILL WITHOUT REMORSE. They were born into this world as innocent children. They ended up as merciless killing machines. How to Make a Serial Killer leads you on an insightful, scary, and ultimately disturbing investigation into what made these infamous murderers go bad. Following... more...
Practical Rationality and Preference
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 44.00A collection of essays exploring practical rationality and the work of David Gauthier. more...
Born Killers
John Blake Publishing 2009; US$ 5.82It's an age-old question: is it nature or nurture? Can there really be a 'demon seed' that causes serial killers to act the way they do? Or is it an unfortunate combination of influences and events during their formative years that has turned them into such monsters? But no matter how many people they have killed, no matter how many lives they have... more...









