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  • Vibrant Matter

    A Political Ecology of Things

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Enchantment of Modern Life

    Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics

    by Jane Bennett ...
    It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Twelve Murders of Christmas

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Narrated by Mandy Kaplan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a twisted verse from The Twelve Days of Christmas, and she and her partners are suddenly inundated with autopsies on the corresponding bodies. The victims are members of a jury that convicted Toni’s old boyfriend Robbie of kidnapping and sent him to ... Read more

    $13.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Vibrant Matter

    A Political Ecology of Things

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Narrated by Kathleen Godwin ...
    Series series John Hope Franklin Center Books

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    In Vibrant Matter, the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Influx and Efflux

    Writing Up with Walt Whitman

    by Jane Bennett ...
    In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? “Influx & efflux”—a phrase borrowed from Whitman's "Song of Myself"—refers to everyday movements whereby outside influences enter bodies, infuse and confuse their organization, and then exit, themselves having been ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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    Grievous Bodily Harm

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Narrated by Mandy Kaplan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    When Idaho pathologist Toni Day meets Perrine Memorial Hospital’s new administrator, she immediately notices that his smile does not reach his blue eyes. There is no question in her mind that Marcus Manning is trouble. Manning, a good old boy with roots in Twin Falls, does not waste any time earning the enmity of medical staff and employees alike as he ruthlessly goes about eliminating anyone who ... Read more

    $13.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thoreau's Nature

    Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Series series Modernity and Political Thought
    Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to "the Wild," a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity, and political complacency. Bennett pursues ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • The Pill

    Are you sure it's for you?

    by Jane Bennett, Alexandra Pope ...
    While the Pill is taken by most women and girls at some stage in their lives, few realise it is not without side-effects. Clear links have been made to depression, nausea, headaches and migraines, as well as a loss of libido. Contrary to what most of us believe, it is not a failsafe contraception. Around 2 in 10 women do conceive while taking the Pill. Others experience difficulties conceiving ... Read more

    $10.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Much Blood

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    It is the middle of the night when pathologist Toni Day receives a call from the coroner informing her that the notoriously sleazy local attorney, Jay Braithwaite Burke, has just been found dead in his Mercedes in the middle of a snowy interstate. Unfortunately, everyone at Perrine Memorial Hospital where Toni works knows Burke. Over the years, he managed to talk nearly the entire medical staff ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Twelve Murders of Christmas

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a twisted verse from The Twelve Days of Christmas, and she and her partners are suddenly inundated with autopsies on the corresponding bodies. The victims are members of a jury that convicted Toni’s old boyfriend Robbie of kidnapping and sent him to ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death by Autopsy

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Pathologist Toni Day is faced with a situation most pathologists only joke about. Beulah Pritchard comes back to life on her autopsy table. Beulah was a coworker of Tonis at Cascade Perrine Regional Medical Center, where she was known as a merciless gossip, happiest to attack female doctors with slander and lies.Beulah drove her car off a snow-covered road with her husbands dead body in the trunk. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD