Contents
essays
Christopher Aceto
What Did Chesterton Really See?
Dynamic Quality: Fuel for the Long Road Home
Angie Allard
Moral Responsibility in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Justin Bendell
Seeds, Soil, Survival: Growing Food in the Southwest US
Elaine Brière
Fish Weirs to Sonar Screens: the demise of the native fishery
Susan Burt-Collins
The Concept of Citizenship in Early America
Janice E. Carpenter
Calderon’s Painter, Gadamer’s Spectator: Extending the Realm of the Play
Michael Cox
Drinking This Champagne Water: Walks with Rousseau and Muir in Nature
Passionate Endings: Locating Felicity in Tragedy
Hive & Cairn: Communicating with nature through artistic intervention
Andrew Czink
Surfing the Disciplines: Experiencing the 7th Int’l Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Arista Dechant
The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour: Theories from Past to Present
Mike Donovan
The Good Life According to Mencius, St. Augustine and Krishna
Kathryn L. Feldman
What Barbaro Left Behind: Celebrity Illness Narrative as Inspiration
Oscar Fischein
The Scientist in the Modern Novel: the Work of Rebecca Goldstein
Renee L. Haggart
Jane Austen’s Minimalist Art: The Power of Objects in Mansfield Park
David C. Hilton
The Impact of Aging Consumers on Business
Patricia Kelly
Vinit Khosla
The Ethics and Politics of Climate Change
Sandra Lockwood
Speaking to the Dead: a Study of Yasunari Kawabata’s Short Story
Carolyn Matthews
Amanda Nelson
The Meaning of Knowledge from a Liberal Studies Perspective
Shelly Nixon
Vera Brittain’s Contribution to Feminism
Nuclear Weapons: the World’s Greatest Threat to Peace
Sandy Penn
Taking Care of the Earth Body: Using the metaphor of illness to approach environmental issues
Corey Sampson
Is the Republican Party Still the Anti-Slavery Party?
Kelly Skumautz
Aaron Sommers
Why Leo Tolstoy Wouldn’t Supersize It
Crane’s “An Experiment in Misery”: Living in Urban Decay
Billy Thompson
Surfacing Culture’s ‘Unconscious Optics: Film and seeing more of the picture
Carol Tulpar
The Empowering Journey: a personal essay
The Shape of the Universe (poem)
Stabilizing Self and Society: the Third Leg of the Stool
Joseph Yumang
Corruptions of the American Dream: Wealth, Power, and Fame
link to author biographies
editorials and reviews
On Ian Hacking, Canadian philosopher
Mockingbird and Jim Crow (a review)