Donald W Morse

The Delegated Intellect: Emersonian Essays on Literature, Science, and Art in Honor of Don Gifford (American University Studies)

This volume honors Don Gifford, master teacher, exacting researcher, and provocative writer. The essays reflect some but not all of the disciplines that Gifford taught - literature, art, ecology, invention, American culture, and the history of ideas. Heeding Emerson's call to «search for facts amid ...

The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy)

Vonnegut belongs to what Emerson called the party of hope but hope clearly restricted to this world. This book is the first scholarly study to discuss all of Vonnegut's novels against the background of his other writing, events of the 20th century, and the vast array of Vonnegut scholarship. In his ...

Faith in Life: John Dewey's Early Philosophy (American Philosophy)

This is the first book to consider John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey's early philosophy as ...

The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on the Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their...

Silenced Voices: Hungarian Plays from Transylvania

Five plays from Transylvania

Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: 'The Work has Value'

Essays on Irish playwright, Brian Friel

Zones of Re-Membering: Time, Memory, and (Un)Consciousness. (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts)

Don Gifford in Zones of Re-membering shows clearly, thoughtfully, yet entertainingly how no one explanation will account for the depth and complexity of human experience and its grounding in Memory. Because consciousness is a function of Memory, "life without Memory is no life at all" as Alzheimer's...

Young at 100: Successful Longevity Strategies

To live to be 100 is great but not if you're feeble. This book will show you how to be healthy and happy at 100. Other "live to 100" books stress longevity factors, such as exercise, nutrition, relaxation, hormones, and strong relationships. Some authors have written about longevity from research st...

Clinical Endodontology: A Comprehensive Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

Stress and Relaxation: Application to Dentistry

Nutrition, Stress and Aging: An Holistic Approach

Stress for Success: A Holistic Approach to Stress and Its Management

Women Under Stress

The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts : Selected Essays from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

More Real Than Reality : The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts

The Celebration of the Fantastic : Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts