Books by John Phillips

An easy, logical way to make sense of the numbers and data you encounter every day.

With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, divers could reach previously inaccessible deep water, but the advances also brought with them the hazards of decompression sickness. This is a history of the wonders compressed air brought about and the suffering the bends inflicted.

"Phillips would have us look no further than the poem itself for the primary matter of its own accordant recognition as fact. So that to write is to read ourselves into being alive in forms we have no further proof of than the act of the poem's own declaration." -Patrick James Dunagan

Slacker bumpkin Reilly Brandt spends the majority of his young life's time romancing girls on monkey bars, writing short stories about penguins, and throwing watermelons at people. Meanwhile his artistically inclined and college bound friend Oliver Price debates with him endlessly on moving away from the town in which they both grew up and are from, Stosselville. Somewhere along the way Reilly meets a sweet and sexy coffee vixen named Charlotte Graham, who challenges Reilly on his notions of love, life and leaving.

Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, the book traces lines of influence and continuity throughout this oeuvre which is shown to exhibit a preoccupation with an identifiable body of themes, motifs and structures.

This is an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to critical theory, providing a comprehensive overview of the practice, role and importance of theory across the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and terms are explained and presented with examples and references.

Carshalton, Wallington and Beddington