Richardson and the Philosophes

Literature & Fiction

Fowler, James

History & Criticism

Routledge

Review\nJames Fowler is extraordinarily able to write characters who have reached an inflection point. Whether it's the twelve-year-old in the stolen Avalon, the promiscuous assistant at the bowling alley, the charming but complex family facing a recession, or even the whole town of Opal Spring, Fowler catches each at a crisis of what the future might bring. You will never forget their dilemmas. 
-Steve Yates, author of Some Kinds of Love: Stories, The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel, and others.\nAs a storyteller, James Fowler knows intimately the highways and byways of the mid-South, but he is equally acquainted with the mysterious and sometimes uncharted pathways of human experience. In Field Trip, he serves as an able, enlightening guide, taking us along with characters who are alternately curious, befuddled, questioning, and sometimes even noble. It's a meaningful journey, flavored with ample humor and fun. What more could be asked? 
-C. D. Albin, author of Hard Toward Home and Axle, Fire, Mule.\nField Trip immerses readers into the intricate modern South. In the title story, Raylene notes, "when you're trailer-born-and-bred, and can't see nothin' but trailer to come, it can make you do foolish things." Raylene has moved beyond that world, and Fowler's stories chart similar progress in characters so real, readers feel that they know them. 
-Lorie Watkins, editor of A Literary History of Mississippi.\nFowler's assortment of characters are placed in recognizable environments-a county fair, inside a travelling vehicle, the average small town, or a diverse neighborhood-yet there is something often troubling about their circumstances, some uncertainty about their situation or potential outcome that creates a need to discover what happens on the next page or in the next story. His prose is invigorating, lush, and sharp, igniting our imaginations as much as those of his young characters: a girl who keeps the "forces of evil" at bay, or a boy revisionist on the run, employing "self-amusement [as] his only option." -Tim Coone, editor, Cave Region Review.\nField Trip and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories and one personal essay.Set largely in the mid-South, this collection sees its diverse characters traveling in place or outward bound as they strive to work through crises or simply avoid stagnation. Ranging from the Ozarks to the Gulf Coast, from the lowlands to the highlands of the spirit, these stories trace the trials, exertions, and growth of characters in the common stages of life from childhood to old age.

Field Trip: Stories

United States

Cornerpost Press

Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative

Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative (Vif, 9)

Voltaire Foundation

New Essays On Diderot

Cambridge University Press

Complete French

de Madeiros, Ana

Chaurin, Thomas

Teach Yourself

This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London's transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality. To become a single corporation London Transport first had to gain a 'social licence' to operate, and this book explains how and why. It considers how a revolution in data gathering during this period helped to justify the transition to a central, unified provider, while also investigating how reputational damage to key figures in the transport industry jeopardized the political and social legitimacy needed to manage public corporation on a large scale. The book combines archival research with academic insights from theories of legitimacy, statistical accounting and scientific management to explore how the employment of statistical information combined with skilful media repositioning allowed a new generation of figureheads in the transport business to emerge as honest, professional, and patriotic, making them suitable business leaders of a transport monopoly in London after 1933. This account of events combines the concepts of trust in numbers and trust in character to produce a wide-ranging, qualitative historical account of the creation a major public monopoly. It will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including business and management history, transport policy, management and organization studies, public administration and public sector studies.

Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London’s Transport Monopoly 1900–1933 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

Business & Money

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Independently published

The Crayons Trick or Treat for Children 2 James Fowler

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

The Crayons Trick or Treat for Children 3 James Fowler

Literary

The Crayons Trick or Treat for Children 4 James Fowler

Children's Books

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