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Glaux Press titles forthcoming, 2024 / 2025:

The Essay Engineering Manual: fundamentals of evidence-based thinking, textual analysis, and essay composition.

Essay Engineering is an innovative humanities curriculum for secondary school and college-level students; this volume focuses on literary studies. The curriculum is grounded in a process-oriented method of textual analysis & essay composition. In the most general approximation: reading comprehension is redefined as "meaning reconstruction"; essay composition is redefined as "meaning patterns for conceptual frameworks".

Textbook / Methodology Research. Scheduled for publication in Winter 2024/2025.

For more information, see: https://www.essayengineering.com

The Glaux Press Style Guide for Comma Usage: the thorniest punctuation in all the English Language.

While there are existing style guides, Glaux Press staff have found the use of commas to be especially fraught. The Glaux Press style guide presents a novel and comprehensive approach to comma usage, starting with the conceptual distinction of restrictive / non-restrictive elements of the sentence. (A restrictive clause consists in meaning essential to the sense of the main clause; non-restrictive indicates a supplementary meaning that is separate from the main clause.) Each conceptual rule is first described in the practical application of a major semantic unit, including independent clause, dependent clause, simple phrase, adverb, conjunction; and secondly illustrated in trouble-shooting real-life sentences.

Reference. Scheduled for publication in 2025.

For more information, see https://www.glauxpress.com/styleguide

Brotou M. Phrastikos. All’s Fair in Non-Functional, Antagonistic Relationships and War.

The title of this book (an emendation of the common turn of phrase “All’s fair in love and war”) stems from the juxtaposition of military history and relationship psychology. This slender volume examines the etiology of war as subjective; namely, each side insists it is an aggrieved innocent who has no choice in its action or every right to act as it does. This defining subjective element of martial affairs is then applied to intimate relationships (marital or filial, sororal or fraternal). Elemental subjective-linguistic phenomena are identified, which constitute both an interaction itself and the deterioration or complete breakdown of a relationship.

Relationship Psychology. Scheduled for publication in 2025.

M.B. Treowmian. A Kind of Self.

The novel A Kind of Self tells the story of the glamorous cosmopolis and what glittering appearances conceal. The truth about love and lust, career and ambition – the frenzied life in New York and its never-ending surprises.

A Kind of Self is out now. For more information, see: https://www.treowmian.com.

Fiction. ISBN: 978-1733318105.

Leopold Wiehe. A History of European Political Structures from Eighteenth to Twentieth Century.

This title provides a comparative study of the evolution of basic forms of government in the last two-hundred and fifty years. The French Revolution (1789) and Russian Revolution (1917) are the subject of much existing historical research – but, this volume contends, these shifts in political institutions are not sufficiently recognized, this linked aspect of the two revolutions has not been given adequate comparative study. Continuing to the twentieth century, this title considers the “twin collapse” of the eastern powers’ governance in the twentieth century: the Weimar Republic’s collapse (1933) and the Soviet Union’s collapse (1991). This “twin collapse” is definitive for the modern nature of the two great eastern powers, Germany and Russia, and the European Union as well.

A History of European Political Structures is the first title in the Glaux Press series Square One Thinking: application of Essay Engineering methodologies for research in geopolitics and financial markets analysis. This series presents applications of Essay Engineering methodologies in the field of geopolitics and applied history, and in financial markets. Besides the rigorous and thorough demonstration of practical examples, this series explores theoretical fundamentals of the Essay Engineering methodology.

History of Political Economy. Scheduled for publication in 2025.

Scheduled for publication in 2026 and beyond.

Olga Khomenko. The Not-So-Model Life: looking back on fast times in the big city.

In her memoirs of youthful days in New York, Khomenko presents the life lessons of the personal and practical. The first half presents the temptations and pitfalls of New York: falling for the wrong kind of man who preys on models; the temptations of enticing window displays and prodigal spending at fashion boutiques. The second half narrates the fulfillment of a humble dream, becoming a home-owner and creating one’s living space with one’s own hands. From the purchase of a fixer-upper, to the renovation work she does herself, to the delights of raising chickens in her backyard.

Memoir.

Fred Karno. The Mimesis Technique: a new approach to the fundamentals of storytelling.

This innovative approach to screenwriting favors an ‘episodic’ approach to the fundamental structure of the story, breaking with the ‘single arc’ paradigm (as epitomized by the ‘hero’s journey’ theory of Joseph Campbell). To illustrate the lessons of storytelling, Karno draws on major films from the 80s and 90s including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Top Gun, Unforgiven, and Groundhog Day. The Mimesis Technique also considers classic works including Fritz Lang’s M (1931) and Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947).

Technical Manual / Methodology Research.

Monika Kochar. Female Founder: the start-up world of facades and sexism.

Kochar’s work blends memoir and feminist critique, examining both the general start-up mentality and the specifically female experience. She considers first the broader societal pressures and the hidden motives for being a person who ‘builds a business’. She then recounts certain challenges she encountered that were unique to the female experience, and unknown to male founders. These include: the funding difficulty faced by females; the inherently sexist attitude of the predominantly male tech community, which fails to take seriously the female’s competence and – shockingly – sees her only as a sexualized object.

Memoir.

Joseph Richards. Representations of Necessity: a synthesis of Aristotelian ethics and German Idealism; with parallels to certain Eastern schools of thought.

This scholarly work establishes the root of today’s cultural attitudes in the backdrop of modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant. This epoch is critiqued for its unhealthy fixation on epistemology, and the resultant Romantic tendency towards amoral solipsism. Richards proposes instead a new synthesis of Aristotelian ethics which rejects Platonist tendencies; and demonstrates the links to ethical elements in Johann Gottlieb Fichte who, despite the slavish attention paid to Immanuel Kant, is recognized as the foundational figure of German Idealism. As well, this title presents a synthesis of major elements from the Western canon, in seemingly disparate fields of agency, ethics, and epistemology; and which present an ipso facto parallel to certain historical thinkers of the Orient.

History of Philosophy.

Henry Sloan. Contra Marx, the Necessary Absurdities of Capitalism.

Sloan offers an investigation of ideologies and dogmas endemic to both, while asserting the primacy of the ‘political’. In the modern world, the study of the ‘economy’ has neglected the lessons of Adam Smith, who worked in both the interdisciplinary field of ‘political economy’, and moral philosophy. While allowing for the gains from capitalism evident in economic history, Sloan identifies the political failures and challenges of implementing a more just society, per the Rawlsian criterion of the ‘veil of ignorance’ balanced with recognition of variation in individual skill. In nation-states which perpetuate Marxist ideology, Sloan identifies the malevolent violence at the heart of this failed utopian project.

History of Political Economy.

Lucio Viminio. From Bazaars to Bitcoins: a journey through the history of commerce.

Explore the fascinating evolution of trade and commerce, from ancient marketplaces to the digital age of cryptocurrencies. Viminio takes you on a captivating journey, uncovering the pivotal moments, commercial revolutions, and evolving relationship between money and moral values. Ultimately, these sojourns through time reveal the many unexpected ways the development of commerce has shaped civilizations and ethics.

Social & Economic History.