“campbell neil”

With both economy and compassion, Neil Campbell creates lyrical visions of loss and confinement. Children, teenagers, parents, single men and women all feature in the unflinching depictions of ordinary people coping with the difficulties of everyday life. In stories filled with both poetry and humou... More

This text introduces the central views and issues involved in the philosophical problem of free will--an area of high interest to undergraduate students. While the selections represent some of the most important works in the field. they are also accessible enough for students with very little backgr... More

Is the American West in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's "Generation X"? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what... More

Using literary, film, and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory, this book explores how youth has been represented in American culture. Themes such as race, class, gender, power, sexuality, and authority are considered by new authors as well as by maj... More

Many men today feel set adrift from the notion of themselves as "father." Times have changed, and the old, familiar, traditional models of parenting no longer work. Society has not yet evolved a strong and workable new model of parenting, or, in particular, of fathering. Dr. Neil Campbell believes t... More