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  • Nabokov and the Art of Painting

    by Donald Barton Johnson, Gerard de Vries ...
    Vladimir Nabokov was one of the greatest novelists of the previous century and his mastery of English and Russian prose is unequalled. Nabokov had originally trained to become a painter and shared Marc Chagall’s tutor in Paris. In Nabokov and the Art of Painting the authors demonstrate how the art of painting is interwoven with the narratives. His novels, which refer to over a hundred paintings, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic

    by Gerard de Vries ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    This manuscript examines Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, widely regarded as his most challenging and critically acclaimed work. While Lolita remains Nabokov's best-known novel, Pale Fire has generated the most sustained scholarly attention and interpretive debate among literary critics. Existing scholarship on Shakespeare's influence in Pale Fire has remained narrowly focused on Timon of Athens, the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Bruno Latour

    by Gerard de Vries ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the world, Latour has introduced a radically fresh philosophical terminology and a new approach to social science, ‘Actor-Network ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Agriculture, land use and the path to net zero

    by Dr Robert M. Rees, Professor Jørgen Olesen, Professor David Reay, Dr Hannah Ritchie, Emeritus Professor Don Wuebbles, Dr Atul K. Jain, Professor Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Professor Frank Mitloehner, Dr Mohamed Embaby0, Dr Madison Kindberg1, Dr Sylvia Vetter2, Dr Pablo L. Ribeiro3, Dr Diego Abalos4, Dr Dominika J. Krol5, Dr Karl G. Richards6, Dr Gerard L. Velthof7, Dr Carol-Anne Duthie8, Dr Gemma Miller9, Dr Rainer Roehe0, Professor Bas van Wesemael1, Dr Yue Zhou2, Professor Andrew Barnes3, Dr David Shearer4, Dr Ngoni Chirinda5, Dr Bouthayna El Amine6, Dr Samuel Weniga Anuga7, Dr Mohamed Louay Metougui8, Dr Boubacar Amadou Cisse9, Dr Michael Jacobson0, Dr Erin Daly1, Dr C. Wagner-Riddle2, Dr Patricia Ricci3, Dr Laura Gualdrón-Duarte4, Dr Guilhermo Congio5, Dr Andrea Irigoyen6, Dr Claudia Faverín7, Dr Nuria Lewczuk8, Dr Emiliano Sosa9, Dr Germán Cantón0, Professor Xiaotang Ju1, Dr Xue Tian2, Dr Abdul Wakeel3, Dr Muhammad Ashir Hameed4, Dr Muhammad Mughees Ud Din5, Dr Muhammad Mahroz Hussain6, Dr Gerard Ros7, Dr Wim De Vries8, Dr Cecile de Klein9 ...
    Series Book 183 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    It’s been suggested that farming contributes to around 12% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with land use associated with agriculture (such as deforestation to clear land for crop production) increasing this overall share to 25% of global GHG emissions. As the climate change emergency continues to threaten global food production and security, there is a growing need to modify or relocate ... Read more

    $193.49 USD

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  • Portraits

    by John Berger ...
    “A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to life in this jargon-free study Zadie Smith hails as “among the greatest books on art I’ve ever read.”One of the world’s most celebrated art writers takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse ... Read more

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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

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  • Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change

    Edited by Lauri Hetemäki, Jyrki Kangas, Heli Peltola ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited open access volume explores the role of forest bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear, growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in order to lead to an economic ... Read more

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  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

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  • We Have Never Been Modern

    by Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... Read more

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  • The Biobased Economy

    Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era

    Edited by Johan Sanders, Marieke Meeusen, Hans Langevald, Peter Kuikman, Gerwin Meijer ...
    The impending threats of catastrophic climate change and peak oil are driving our society towards increased use of biomass for energy, chemical compounds and other materials - the beginnings of a biobased economy. As alternative development models for the biobased economy emerge, we need to determine potential applications, their perspectives and possible impacts as well as policies that can steer ... Read more

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  • The Shock of the New

    The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

    by Robert Hughes ...
    A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. ... Read more

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