Jason Roderick Hartley

Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation

Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and systems approach, the authors argue that culture is the population-wide source of newness and innovation; it faces the future, not the past. Its chief characteristic is the formation of groups or 'demes' (o...

Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq

This is not your father's warThis is Iraq, where a soldier's first duty is reinforcing his Humvee with sheet metal and sand bags. Or, in the absence of plumbing, burning barrels of human waste. Where any dead dog on the side of the road might be concealing an insurgent's bomb and anyone could be the...

The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?

Let the debate begin...The Advanced Genius Theory, hatched by Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman over pizza, began as a means to explain why icons such as Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Sting seem to go from artistic brilliance in their early careers to "losing it" as they grow older. The Theory proposes t...

Hypothesis about self-sustaining unrecognized verbal thoughts (auditory verbal hallucinations, hearing voices) in otherwise healthy people, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation and speech therapy

Voices: An hypothesis about self-sustaining unrecognized verbal thoughts (auditory verbal hallucinations, hearing voices) in otherwise healthy people, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation and speech therapyAbstractThis hypothesis is with regard to people hearing voices or auditory verbal hallucination...

Key Concepts in Creative Industries (SAGE Key Concepts series)

"This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work." - Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University "There could be no better gui...

Nga Mahi: The Things We Need To Do

Ngâ Mahi - The things we need to do' is the extraordinary true story of a criminologist who received a unique guidance on how to reduce teh flow of Maori inmates into New Zealand Prisons. Despite spending billions of dollars on a struggling criminal justice system and the construction of an unpreced...

Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq by Hartley, Jason Christopher [Harper Perennial, 2006] (Paperback) [Paperback]

Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq by Hartley, Jason Christop...

Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq

Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq