Couplets. Travels in Speculative Pragmatism, Paperback - Brian Massumi

This collection of twenty-four essential essays written by Brian Massumi over the past thirty years is both a primer for those new to his work and ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brian MassumiIllustration(s): 21Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 143 x 216 ...

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect ...

This twentieth anniversary edition of Brian Massumi's pioneering and highly influential Parables for the Virtual includes a significant new preface...

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinso...

Reducere. DescriptionThe pragmatism of Charles Peirce and William James and John Dewey exists as it moved, absorbing and absorbed. Conclusions remain provisi...

Attempts to define a philosophy of moral limits

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John Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wildernes...

Reducere. Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault s Pendulum...

Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature ...

Travels in Outback Australia - Andrew Stevenson

Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Florian KlingerIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Speculative Grammarian is the premier schol­arly journal featuring research in the oft ne­glected field of satirical linguistics-and it is now avai...

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Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However,...

Reducere. "Travels in Alaska" is John Muir's written account of his numerous trips to America's last frontier. In his enthusiastic and vivid style, Muir desc...

Part of Young Reading Series 2 for children who are reading more confidently. They use varied sentence lengths and more challenging vocabulary

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 ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author, now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth...

Once in a while a travel book comes along that pushes at the boundaries of the genre. Quondam: Travels in a Once World does exactly that, asking us...

All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of ...

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* A comprehensive analysis of central perspectives in the philosophy of the social sciences. * Places key writers in their social and political con...

This book aims to make the pragmatist intellectual framework accessible to organization and management scholars. It presents some fundamental conce...

Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin GoluboffAlmost fifty years after his death, Ho Chi Minh remains a deeply divisive figure -- heroic revolutionary, ...

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fal...

Reducere. A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of S...

A beautifully illustrated personal account of Paul Murton's travels in the Viking north of Scotland.

Reducere. Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In...

Contributor(s): Author: Sami SchalkIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding o...

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world's influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher TomlinsIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus. 2 tables.Number of pages: 376Publication date: 20...

A blistering account from the acclaimed author of The Unravelling, which traces the threads of violence that have scorched the Middle East for decades

Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his tra...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Petra KuppersIllustration(s): 27 black & whilte illustrations, 16 color platesNumber of pages: 2...

Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Amer...

A hauntingly original book about Tokyo and the Japanese relationship to time, memory and history, seen through the eyes of an outsider, searching f...

Reducere. Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria -- a country she viewed as an annoyin...

lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land.Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volu...

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.