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  • The Bioregional Imagination

    Literature, Ecology, and Place

    de Anne Milne, Bart Welling, Chad Wriglesworth, Christine Cusick, Dan Wylie, Daniel Anderson, David Landis Barnhill, Erin James, Harry Vandervlist, Heather Kerr, Jill Gatlin, John Lane, Kathryn Miles, Kent Ryden, Kyle Bladow, Laird Christensen, Laurie Ricou, Libby Robin, Mitchell Thomashow, Norah Bowman-Broz, Pavel Cenkl, Rinda West, Ruth Blair, Serenella Iovino, Wes Berry ...
    Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature.The twenty-four original essays here are written by ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Death and Compassion

    The Elephant in Southern African Literature

    de Dan Wylie ...
    Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginaryElephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Mfecane Aftermath

    Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History

    de Carolyn Hamilton, Thomas Dowson, Elizabeth Eldredge, Norman Etherington, Jan-Bart Gewald, Simon Hall, Guy Hartley, Margaret Kinsman, Andrew Manson, John Omer-Cooper0, Neil Parsons1, Jeff Peires2, Christopher Saunders3, Alan Webster4, John Wright5, Dan Wylie6 ...
    The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history.Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period – the ‘mfecane’- left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation. One ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Crocodile

    de Dan Wylie ...
    Series Libro 55 - Animal
    From the croc that terrorized Captain Hook in Peter Pan to the leviathans depicted in films like Lake Placid and Dinocroc, innumerable songs, stories and legends have characterized crocodilians as pitiless predators with insatiable appetites. Yet although we commonly associate crocodiles, alligators and gharials with ferocity and deceit, they have also often been respected and revered in human ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Elephant

    de Dan Wylie ...
    Series Libro 26 - Animal
    Aristotle characterized the elephant as ‘the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind’, and the animal has long figured in cultural artefacts, even on continents it has never inhabited. The elephant’s countless manifestations in human history have made it one of the most charismatic animals, and Elephant provides a richly illustrated, engaging look at that legacy.The image of the elephant ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edición de Jason W. Moore ...
    Series series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Leer más

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  • Animals and Society

    An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edición de William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Landscape Theory

    Edición de Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Hunting - Philosophy for Everyone

    In Search of the Wild Life

    de Fritz Allhoff ...
    Series Libro 39 - Philosophy for Everyone
    Hunting - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of readings from academics and non-academics alike that move beyond the ethical justification of hunting to investigate less traditional topics and offer fresh perspectives on why we hunt.The only recent book to explicitly examine the philosophical issues surrounding huntingShatters many of the stereotypes about hunting, forcing us to rethink ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edición de Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Leer más

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