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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sarah bezan”
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  • Animal Remains

    Edited by Sarah Bezan, Robert McKay ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal remains are everywhere and so animals remain everywhere. Animal remains are food, medicine, and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Seeing Animals after Derrida

    by José Alaniz, David Brooks, Megan E. Cannella, Bonnie Gill, David Huebert, Nicole Mennell, Malin Palani, Rodolfo Piskorski, Gavin Rae, Kirsten Strom ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • Insectopedia

    by Hugh Raffles ...
    A New York Times Notable BookA stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Anthropology

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Joy Hendry, Simon Underdown ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Animals and Society

    An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

    by Margo DeMello ...
    Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human–animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct positions, perspectives, and theories that require nuanced explanation and contextualization.The first ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Artificial Ape

    How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    Series series MacSci
    A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolutionAlthough humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different from them. Unlike our cousins who subsist on raw food, spend their days and nights outdoors, and wear a thick coat of hair, humans are entirely dependent on artificial things, such as clothing ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    by K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Geontologies

    A Requiem to Late Liberalism

    by Elizabeth A. Povinelli ...
    In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    Edited by Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew ...
    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    by Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Curated Decay

    Heritage beyond Saving

    by Caitlin DeSilvey ...
    Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Poetic Species

    A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass

    by Edward O. Wilson, Robert Hass ...
    A meeting of great minds at the intersection of the arts and sciences“Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating.” —Maria Popova, MarginalianIn this shimmering conversation, Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of “consilience” or the unity of knowledge, finds an ardent interlocutor in Robert Hass, whose credo as United ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD