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  • Precarious Partners

    Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France

    de Kari Weil ...
    From the recent spate of equine deaths on racetracks to protests demanding the removal of mounted Confederate soldier statues to the success and appeal of War Horse, there is no question that horses still play a role in our lives—though fewer and fewer of us actually interact with them. In Precarious Partners, Kari Weil takes readers back to a time in France when horses were an inescapable part of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Messy Eating

    Conversations on Animals as Food

    de Samantha King, R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria Niva Millious, Elaine M. Power, Neel Ahuja0, Billy-Ray Belcourt1, Matthew R. Calarco2, Lauren Corman3, Naisargi N. Dave4, Maneesha Deckha5, María Elena García6, Sharon P. Holland7, H. Peter Steeves8, Kelly Struthers Montford9, Kim TallBear0, Sunaura Taylor1, Harlan Weaver2, Kari Weil3, Cary Wolfe4 ...
    Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how authors working across ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Thinking Animals

    Why Animal Studies Now?

    de Kari Weil ...
    Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species and the personal, ethical, and political implications of those boundaries.Weil's considerations ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    de Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    de Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    de Jonathan Culler ...
    What is Literary Theory? What is the relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be impenetrable. It offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Bedroom

    An Intimate History

    de Michelle Perrot ...
    Traducido por Lauren Elkin ...
    An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through todayThe winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

    de Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • Practice of Everyday Life

    Volume 2: Living and Cooking

    de Michel De Certeau, Luce Giard, Pierre Mayol ...
    To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art. Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Theory of Literature

    de Paul H. Fry ...
    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Literary Theory

    de David Carter ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those -isms, long technical words, weird French thinkers, and incomprehensible Germans. Most books ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    de Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD