Aurochs and Auks. Essays on mortality and extinction, Hardback - John Burnside

Essays on extinction, death, renewal and continuity by the acclaimed writer and poet. Prompted by his own near death experience Burnside reflects o...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

Beginning with memories of a brutal murder, this book takes you through a series of uncanny encounters with 'lost girls', with brilliant digression...

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As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the inna...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): John BurnsideNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x 197 x 12Cover type: Paperback / sof...

According to Unesco, of the 7, 000 languages spoken in the world, more than half are endangered, with one disappearing every two weeks. This collec...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn Cole wrote with passion about his life, the outdoors, and the glorious rhythms of nature. In Maine, like all his essays and books, ...

This volume, containing Mill's "On Liberty, " "Utilitarianism, " "Considerations of Representative Government, " and "The Subjection of Women, " dr...

Presents a collection of poems. This work contains gift song, treating matters of faith and connection, the community of living creatures and the i...

Contains a collection of poems of John Burnside.Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): John BurnsideNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2006Dime...

Extinction uses photographs and text to understand the factors threatening species with extinction and man s relationship with Earth.Publisher: GMC...

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilit...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Recognising that our attitudes to other creatures human and non-human; cause too much damage and hurt, that 'we've been going at this for years: a ...

DescriptionCollecting and recontextualizing writings from the last twenty years of John Cayley's research-based practice of electronic literature, ...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Reducere. Almost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient na...

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations explores our contemporary media landscape from the unique perspective of postphe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas LynchThomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American B...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 192Collection: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 233 x...

Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain...

In-depth studies on the Bible by the most influential New Testament interpreter of our time.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Associated University PressesAuthor(s): Jutka DevenyiNumber of pages: 120Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 233 x 148 x 14Cover type: Har...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionThis collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assu...

These essays are a significant contribution to understanding the failure of sustainable economic development and the armed conflict that it spawns ...

In-depth studies on the Jesus and the Gospels by the most influential New Testament interpreter of our time.

Trade paperback. A new collection of poetry from the Scottish poet and prose writer. Burnside's }Black Cat Bone{ won both the Forward Prize and the...

A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst hum...