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  • A Girl Named Lovely

    One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti

    by Catherine Porter ...
    An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist's life.In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was on the ground in the immediate aftermath. Moments after ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Arachnean and Other Texts

    by Fernand Deligny ...
    Translated by Drew S. Burk, Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Univocal
    The network as a mode of beingIn 1968, Fernand Deligny established a “network” for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Summer with Pascal

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid mechanics named after him. Meanwhile, the classic film My Night at Maud’s popularized Pascal’s wager, an invitation to faith that has ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Beyond Despair

    The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children

    by Hélène Dumas ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Winner, Prix Pierre LafueWinner, Prix lycéen du livre d’histoire des Rendez-vous de l’histoire de BloisIn the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school notebooks contain, in the silence of accumulated dust, the stories of around a hundred surviving children. Written in 2006 at the initiative of a Rwandan ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Forms of the Visible

    An Anthropology of Figuration

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist’s imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter, Sam Ferguson ...
    In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • The Narrator

    A Problem in Narrative Theory

    by Sylvie Patron ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    The narrator (the answer to the question “who speaks in the text?”) is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be “narratorless”? This question divides communicational theories (based on the communication ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Sovereign Self

    Pitfalls of Identity Politics

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    by Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    The toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the past seem to have undergone a subtle transformation: the struggle now is not so much to bring about progress but rather to denounce offenses, express indignation, and assert identities, sometimes in order to ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Wild Diplomacy

    Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    by Baptiste Morizot ...
    Series series SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
    Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleStarting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls "diplomacy with living beings." How can we conceive ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Populist Century

    History, Theory, Critique

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Populism is an expression of anger; its appeal stems from being presented as the solution to disorder in our times. The vision of democracy, society, and the economy it offers is coherent and attractive.At a time when the words and slogans of the left have lost much of their power to inspire, Pierre Rosanvallon takes populism for what it is: the rising ideology of the twenty-first century. In The ... Read more

    $20.00 USD