Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, Paperback - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revit...

Reducere. What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that g...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the confli...

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents st...

Join famous monster hunter Van Helsing on a globetrotting quest to find haunted castles, restless spirits, terrifying dragons, wicked witches, grem...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you believe that all you need to fight an evil bloodthirsty fiend is garlic or holy water, think again. What you need is to keep a co...

Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans,...

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, the ...

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration ...

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mark (University of Aberystwyth, UK) WhiteheadIllustration(s): 25 Line drawings, color; 33 Halftones, col...

The earth breeds giants and ogres of indescribable horror -- the heavens hold omnipotent gods and goddesses, abounding in courage, strength and wis...

DescriptionIn Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Is...

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-tho...

A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green. The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, i...

Reducere. Activist essays on ending the Anthropocene, from Belgian theorist Lieven De Cauter, author of Entropic Empire and The Dwarf in the Chess MachineIn ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Dublin City University, Ireland) CroninNumber of pages: 178Collection: New Perspectives in Trans...

"A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory"--Illustrations: 13 B-W Illustrations

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Publis...

Reducere. Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of Am...

Ecologies of Inception will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators, and professional architects and designers interested in s...

An international and interdisciplinary team of scholars offer innovative models of thinking about environmentality in the humanities and in Anthrop...

This book is for readers interested in how literature tackles climate change, 'petro-culture', extinction, and the proposed 'human' epoch of the An...

Reducere. DescriptionThe recent 10, 000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cit...

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century: how to think about the Anthropocene

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Kieran D. (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) OharaNumber of pages: 200Publication dat...

DescriptionIn 1971 Adelaide girl Irene Thornton meets Bon Scott, the singer for local band Fraternity. Between Bon and Irene, there is a unique spa...

Reducere. An encyclopedia of evil entities and folkloric fiends from across the country, from Ladakh to Kerala, Lakshadweep to Nagaland, Naraka to Tuchenkwak...

Reducere. Fiction. A Sàmi woman studying Alaska fish populations sees our past and future through their present signs of stress and her ancestral knowledge. ...

Reducere. This vital gathering tells slanted anthropocenic truths, re-cognising the manifold everyday as a crucial space-time of enquiry, excavation and enta...

Reducere. Teeming with monsters, magic, and adventure, this captivating children's classic by one of America's greatest writers retells six legendary tales o...

An Artforum Best Book of the YearA Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the YearNature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will...

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DescriptionThere's an eerie moan on the midnight wind from just beyond the cemetery gate. A crypt door slowly creaks open, and a strange shape emer...

Reducere. Strange creatures and tales of the supernatural thrive in Pennsylvania, from ghostly children who linger by their graves to werewolves that ambush ...

The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of ...

Reducere. Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequen...

Reducere. In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time ...

A fascinating, progressive collection of articles and case studies that explore the intersectionality of environmental justice and social justice, ...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simp...

The stories in this book are of animals, beasties and monsters that are fast and cunning and scary and big.

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The first ever complete study of the Aldwych farce films (1924-1954) and the plays they were based on.

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jurgen RennIllustration(s): 105 b/w illus.Number of pages: 584Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 162Collection: Routledge Research in the AnthropocenePublication date: 2020Dimensions: 154 x 233 x ...

Reducere. About the AuthorJessica Cory teaches in the English department at Western Carolina University. She grew up in southeastern Ohio, and her work has b...

Publisher: Lotus PressAuthor(s): Bangalore Niranjan BabuNumber of pages: 104Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 8Cover type: Paperback / ...

Exploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, prov...

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Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019 In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew ...