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  • South Pole

    Nature and Culture

    by Elizabeth Leane ...
    Series series Earth
    The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the earth quite literally pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after location. The endpoint of exploration’s most famous ‘race’, between teams led by Robert F. Scott and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Reading Popular Physics

    Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies

    by Elizabeth Leane ...
    Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. A literary critic trained in science, Elizabeth Leane treats popular science writing as a distinct and significant genre, focusing particularly on five bestselling books: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, James Gleick ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Antarctica in Fiction

    Imaginative Narratives of the Far South

    by Elizabeth Leane ...
    This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Considering Animals

    Contemporary Studies in Human–Animal Relations

    Edited by Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, Yvette Watt ...
    Considering Animals draws on the expertise of scholars trained in the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences to investigate the complex and contradictory relationships humans have with nonhuman animals. Taking their cue from the specific 'animal moments' that punctuate these interactions, the essays engage with contemporary issues and debates central to human-animal studies: the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Performing Ice

    Edited by Carolyn Philpott, Elizabeth Leane, Matt Delbridge ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes – glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves – are places of paradox. Solid and weighty, they are nonetheless always on ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Anthropocene Antarctica

    Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences

    Edited by Elizabeth Leane, Jeffrey McGee ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth’s future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Cinematic Canines

    Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film

    by Adrienne L. McLean, Joanna E. Rapf, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Jeremy Groskopf, Sara Ross, James Castonguay, Kelly Wolf, Aaron Skabelund, Jane O'Sullivan, Giuliana Lund0, Elizabeth Leane1, Guinevere Narraway2, Murray Pomerance3, Alexandra Horowitz4 ...
    Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Space, Place, and Bestsellers

    Moving Books

    by Lisa Fletcher, Elizabeth Leane ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs paratextual, textual, and site-based analysis of the spatiality of bestsellers and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Sexualities and Irish Society

    A Reader

    by Máire Leane, Elizabeth Kiely ...
    In Ireland, recent social, cultural and political changes combined with globalisation, commercialisation and new technologies have re-shaped how we understand and think about sexuality. There is now a multiplicity of ways in which individuals can experience their sexuality, negotiate their sexual identities and advocate for sexual rights. Meanwhile, sexualities continue to be denied, problematised ... Read more

    $12.37 CAD

  • Polar Tourism and Communities

    Experiences, Knowledge Building, Challenges and Opportunities

    by Elena-Laura Alvarez Ortega, Suzanne de la Barre, Renuka Badhe, Larissa Lubiana Botelho, Patrick Brouder, Ebru Caymaz, Carolina Cohen, Elizabeth Cooper, Hong Ching Goh, Sonya Graci, Solène Guggisberg, Anne Hardy, Guðrún Þóra Gunnarsdóttir, Hindertje Hoarau Heemstra, Rachel Henderson, Edward H. Huijbens, Elizabeth Leane, Dr Daniela Liggett, Patrick T. Maher, Yousra Makanse, Katie Marx, Hanne Nielsen, Mariana Morgavi, Giselle E. Medina, Sara Nordin, Albina Pashkevich, Can Seng Ooi, Carolyn Philpott, Jarkko Saarinen, Gabriela Roldan, Mónica Salemme, Valeria Senigaglia, Dr Emma Stewart, Magnus Biilmann Trolle, Anna-Mari Simunaniemi, Sandra Wall-Reinius, Kaitlyn Washbrook, Yelena Yermakova, Mengzhu Zhang ...
    Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Arctic and Antarctic regions were experiencing significant growth in tourist arrivals. In the aftermath of this global crisis, the tourism industry has rebounded and the number of tourists visiting the polar regions is expected to keep growing significantly in the coming years. Remote regions are increasingly accessible as tourism ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

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  • Atlantic

    Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

    by Simon Winchester ...
    "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Creepy Crawling

    Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    by Jeffrey Melnick ...
    "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD