John Phillips Books

Focusing on prison reform and philanthropy, James Oglethorpe emerged as a key figure in the eighteenth century, founding Georgia as a classless society for the impoverished. He designed Savannah and fostered strong ties with Native Americans while staunchly opposing slavery despite significant resistance. Oglethorpe also played a vital role in defending Georgia against Spanish forces and later rose to prominence as a senior general in the British army, advocating for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.

Book by Phillips, John, Favrod, Charles-Henri

At least half of Britain's population lives in suburbs, yet until recently the architecture and style of suburbia have been largely ignored or undervalued. This is an appreciation of the design features that form the suburban taste, from the High Victorian period when the first suburbs were built until after World War II.

The book explores the historical development of Palos Verdes Estates, highlighting its establishment as a master-planned community in 1922 under landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. It details the vision of Frank Vanderlip, emphasizing the area's exclusivity and affluence. Key landmarks include the Palos Verdes Golf Club, La Venta Inn, and the Malaga Cove Library, which showcases Early Californian architecture and is a registered historic site. The narrative captures the essence of early community life and the unique charm of its commercial areas.

Explores the underlying logic of data analysis, explaining basic statistical concepts step by step to show how numbers are gathered, interpreted, and, in some cases, misapplied. Math-phobic readers will appreciate the engaging writing style and its avoidance of arcane mathematics and dull computation. Includes chapter summaries, worked calculations, and sample applications and solutions. This sixth edition draws on a broader range of current examples from areas such as psychology, medicine, and sports. The author is a retired professor of psychology at Boise State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

On M. Hulot's Holiday and other films. Settling in New York City, Phillips published several books of reportage, among them A Will To Survive (1976), about Israel, Yugoslav Story (1984), It Happened in Our Lifetime (1985), and in 1994, Poet and Pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery. He has been decorated in France with the titles of Chevalier and Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide and published in many.

This book introduces the Marquis de Sade as writer and philosopher to new readers, offering concise but comprehensive surveys of his most controversial works, based on contemporary theoretical approaches. The style is lively and accessible without sacrificing detail or depth. An introductory chapter discusses Sade's life and the links between that and his work. Relying on the many letters he wrote to his wife and lawyer from prison and on other authentic, contemporary evidence, it attempts to disentangle this life from the various myths that Sade's demonic reputation has engendered throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This initial chapter also reviews the critical corpus or reception of the work since Sade's times up to the present, and reassesses his status as an extra-canonical writer. The following six chapters provide broad coverage of Sade's main intellectual and creative activities, showing how all can be seen as the expression of a veritable cult of the body, a veneration of the physical, and the sexual as channels of transcendence.