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The Mason of New Orleans

by Charles Ryan ...

Life in the Middle Ages can be tough. Nasty, brutish, and short, as they say. War, famine, torture. Plague and intolerance. People getting burned at the stake and all that. And nobody speaks English.All of which sucks if you're from the 21st Century.Martin's just a regular guy. A job that's going—well, not exactly nowhere, but not anyplace fast. A condo in the DC suburbs. A Ford Fusion. A couple ... Read more

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Life in the Middle Ages can be tough. Nasty, brutish, and short, as they say. War, famine, torture. Plague and intolerance. People getting burned at the stake and all that. And nobody speaks English.All of which sucks if you're from the 21st Century.Martin's just a regular guy. A job that's going—well, not exactly nowhere, but not anyplace fast. A condo in the DC suburbs. A Ford Fusion. A couple
... Read more
Play Like A Champion, Sleep Like A Baby

Critical Guidance for Holistic Empowerment and Unwavering Resilience In The Modern World

by Ryan Charles Dent ...

The world you were born into no longer exists! A barrage of brainwashing, pervasive corporate consolidation, and the Industrial Complex of Everything all add up to the existential assault on physical and mental health we're witnessing today.Despair not! This guidebook argues there's hope-and your help is needed!Play Like A Champion, Sleep Like A Baby helps make sense of the pitfalls of modernity, ... Read more

$8.99 USD

The world you were born into no longer exists! A barrage of brainwashing, pervasive corporate consolidation, and the Industrial Complex of Everything all add up to the existential assault on physical and mental health we're witnessing today.Despair not! This guidebook argues there's hope-and your help is needed!Play Like A Champion, Sleep Like A Baby helps make sense of the pitfalls of modernity,
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Under the Red Crescent

Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878

by Charles Ryan, John Sandes ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Lee E, Digital Voice Bradford E ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What does courage look like when skill, supplies, and hope have all run out? Under the Red Crescent, Charles S. Ryan's memoir of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, finds its answer in his service as an army surgeon at the age of twenty-one. At Plevna he operated beneath a willow tree, amputated without adequate anaesthetic, and watched antiseptics ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What does courage look like when skill, supplies, and hope have all run out? Under the Red Crescent, Charles S. Ryan's memoir of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, finds its answer in his service as an army surgeon at the age of twenty-one. At Plevna he operated beneath a willow tree, amputated without adequate anaesthetic, and watched antiseptics
... Read more
Posthuman Southeast Asia

Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries

by Ignasi Ribó, Soorya Alex, Paloma Chaterji, Catherine Diamond, Rashmi Gaur, Tran Ngoc Hieu, Min Seong Kim, John Charles Ryans, Antonio D. Salazar Jr., Reshma Sanil0, Nathan Snow1, Tran Hoang Kieu Trang2, Maria Anjelica Wong3, Henrikus Joko Yulianto4, Li-Ru Lu5 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the ... Read more

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Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the
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Lightning Strike

by Charles Ryan ...

Series Book 1 - Recon Force
In the dark days of World War II, a special unit was commissioned made up of the toughest and bravest volunteers the Army had to offer, the unit had only one purpose—to hit first, hit hard, and kill without hesitation. In this, their first mission, they are sent on a mission to North Africa. ... Read more

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In the dark days of World War II, a special unit was commissioned made up of the toughest and bravest volunteers the Army had to offer, the unit had only one purpose—to hit first, hit hard, and kill without hesitation. In this, their first mission, they are sent on a mission to North Africa.
... Read more
Staying Together

NatureCulture in a Changing World

by Kaushani Mondal, Subhankar Banerjee, Giulia Bellinetti, Dominic Boyer, Jeff Diamanti, Tamalone van den Eijnden, Alf Hornborg, Caren Irr, John Charles Ryan, Clara Soudan0 ...

Series series Environment and Society
Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of ... Read more

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Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of
... Read more
Nationalism in India

Texts and Contexts

Edited by Debajyoti Biswas, John Charles Ryan ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and ... Read more

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This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and
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The Green Thread

Dialogues with the Vegetal World

by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell, Christa Sommerer, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Alan Read, Andrew Howe, Hannah Stark, Dr. Michael Marder ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

$44.99 USD

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread
... Read more
Southeast Asian Ecocriticism

Theories, Practices, Prospects

by Tran Ngoc Hieu, Dang Thi Thai Ha, Richard Li, Wasinrat Nualsiri, Ignasi Ribó, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon, Jason Paolo R. Telles, Chaiyon Tongsukkaeng, Li-Ru Lu, Chitra Sankaran ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South Asian contexts and, particularly, to Chinese and Indian cultural productions, less emphasis has ... Read more

$121.99 USD

Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South Asian contexts and, particularly, to Chinese and Indian cultural productions, less emphasis has
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Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

A Green Critique

by Krishanu Maiti, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Frederick Gordon, David R. Cole, Susan Haris, Ann Skea, Asmae Ourkiya, Sk Tarik Ali, Stephen Poon0, Apratim Kundu1, Shruti Das2, Gulsah Gocmen3, Neeraj Sankhyan4, Suman Sigroha5, Lakshmi Chithra6, Debdas Roy7, Shelby Heathcoat8, Raktima Bhuyan9, Hemanga Dutta0, John Charles Ryans1, Chelsea Adams2, Justine Breton3, Heather Dail4, Nicole C. Dittmer5, Swarnalatha Rangarajan7, Dr Pramod K. Nayar8 ...

Series series Environment and Society
Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene, sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality, and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. This book examines how writers have addressed ecological crises and environmental challenges that transcend national, cultural, political, social, and ... Read more

$97.99 USD

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene, sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality, and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. This book examines how writers have addressed ecological crises and environmental challenges that transcend national, cultural, political, social, and
... Read more
Australian Wetland Cultures

Swamps and the Environmental Crisis

by John Charles Ryan, Li Chen, Danielle Brady, Rod Giblett, Christopher Kueh, Philip Jennings, Jeffrey Murray ...

Series series Environment and Society
Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society ... Read more

$97.99 USD

Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society
... Read more
The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times

by Naomi Milthorpe, Rebecca Nagel, John Charles Ryan, Katrina Schlunke, Andrew Oldham, Carol Oldham, Judy Kendall, Jessica White, Hannah Stark ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and ... Read more

$89.99 USD

How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and
... Read more

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