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  • Mr. Farmer Bill

    by James Douglas Leach ...
    James Douglas Leach was born on July 9, 1943, during World War II and was named after General Douglas MacArthur. A natural risk-taker, Jim has always embraced new challenges with enthusiasm, which has led to a fulfilling and adventurous life.His many accomplishments are shared with his wife, Cindy, his partner of 60 years. Known for her lively spirit, Cindy brought joy to their bus tours with her ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers

    Edited by Stephen Leach, James Tartaglia ...
    The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical ... Read more

    Was $83.99 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • Consciousness and the Great Philosophers

    What would they have said about our mind-body problem?

    Edited by Stephen Leach, James Tartaglia ...
    Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness. Each of the thirty-two chapters within this edited collection focuses on a major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy, from Anscombe to Xuanzang, and imaginatively engages with the problem from their perspective ... Read more

    Was $101.99 CAD Now $90.68 CAD

  • Unusual Thoughts

    by James Douglas Leach ...
    James Douglas Leach was born on July 9, 1943, during World War II and was named after General Douglas MacArthur. A natural risk-taker, Jim has always embraced new challenges with enthusiasm, which has led to a fulfilling and adventurous life.His many accomplishments are shared with his wife, Cindy, his partner of 60 years. Known for her lively spirit, Cindy brought joy to their bus tours with her ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

    Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental green agendas are the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Subversion, Conversion, Development

    Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design

    Edited by James Leach, Lee Wilson ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption; they include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, “DIY ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Kinship and Beyond

    The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

    Edited by Sandra Bamford, James Leach ...
    Series Book 15 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
    The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled “kinship.” The detailed ethnographic work and analysis ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Naturekind

    Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human

    by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead ...
    A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and social learning beyond the human, and identifying culture as a second inheritance system across the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy

    Early Philosophical Papers

    by Richard Rorty ...
    This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of work, which many leading philosophers still consider to be his best, Rorty develops his views on the nature and scope of philosophy in a manner which ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Futures of Medieval French

    Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay

    by Jane Gilbert, Zrinka Stahuljak, Susan Boynton, Joseph R. Johnson, Virginie Greene, Stephen G. Nichols, Christine Bourgeois, Deborah McGrady, Sophie Marnette, Emily Kate Price0, Simone Ventura1, Miranda Griffin3, James R. Simpson4, Elizabeth Eva Leach5, Profesor Sharon Kinoshita6, Simon Gaunt7, Peggy McCracken8, William Burgwinkle9, Miriam Cabre0, Helen J. Swift1, Charlie Samuelson2, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne3 ...
    Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan, Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Vaccine Anxieties

    Global Science, Child Health and Society

    by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly globalized vaccine ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Reframing Deforestation

    Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa

    by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach ...
    This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of deforestation wrought ... Read more

    $159.39 CAD