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  • Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955

    Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

    de Atsuko Ueda, Richi Sakakibara, Hirokazu Toeda, James Dorsey, Ko Youngran, Seiji M. Lippit, Ann Sherif, Michael K. Bourdaghs1, Doug Slaymaker2 ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ... Leer más

    $39.69 USD

  • Botanical Imagination

    Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan

    de Jon L. Pitt ...
    Series series The Environments of East Asia
    Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to "become botanical" in both content and form. For nearly one hundred years, a botanical imagination grew in response to moments ... Leer más

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  • Forces of Nature

    New Perspectives on Korean Environments

    Edición de David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, Albert L. Park ...
    Series series The Environments of East Asia
    Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that ... Leer más

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  • Evening Thoughts

    Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community

    de Thomas Berry ...
    Essays on our spiritual role in the fate of the planet from “the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco–theologians” (Newsweek)Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspired a generation’s thinking about humankind’s place in the Earth community and the universe, engendering widespread ... Leer más

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  • Wild Mind, Wild Earth

    Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

    de David Hinton ...
    Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Animal Intimacies

    Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    de Radhika Govindrajan ...
    "A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    de Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Origins of the World's Mythologies

    de E.J. Michael Witzel ...
    This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, ... Leer más

    $60.29 USD

  • An Introduction to the Chinese Economy

    The Driving Forces Behind Modern Day China

    de Rongxing Guo ...
    This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods ... Leer más

    $30.00 USD

  • Unseen Beings

    How We Forgot the World Is More Than Human

    de Erik Jampa Andersson ...
    **'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation… indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and give it to everyone you know.' Andrew Harvey, author of The HopeA revolutionary perspective on the climate catastrophe bridging history, philosophy, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • China Rises

    How China's Astonishing Growth Will Change the World

    de John Farndon ...
    With a population of 1¼ billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world. But while it is one of the world's oldest civilisations, China refuses to conform to expectations. The country's controversial policies, ranging from the one child policy to the repression of opposition groups, have placed it at odds ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    de Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD