Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration

Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically t...

The first comprehensive and accessible account of the lifecycle and ecology of this fascinating bird. It provides up-to-date information on the geo...

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, educatio...

DescriptionWinner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationThe Space Age is over? Not at all A new planet has...

Reducere. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technolo...

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race ...

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race ...

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic in...

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature', Towards a Cri...

Interweaving lost articles by the Osage author, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews with insightful commentaries and essays by his biogr...

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd ...

Contributor(s): Author: Fred MagdoffAuthor: Chris WilliamsSickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and mo...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

A bold rethinking of urban political ecologyPublisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Alex LoftusNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 201...

Reducere. Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum--...

Toward an Informal Account of Legal Interpretation offers a viable account of law, judicial decision-making, and legal interpretation that is as fr...

Reducere. The average American produces about five pounds of trash, every single day!An Economic Eclipse is a book about the use of business as an institutio...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

Reducere. Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, ex...

This work gives an appraisal of the relevance of philosophy to the problems of environmental degradation. The aim of the author is to encourage rea...

Abernethy Forest is a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the central Highlands of Scotland. The trees in th...

DescriptionAnthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the "everyday, " the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; how...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen over 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young competitive gymnast...

Reducere. A revered Buddhist monk tells the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation, sharing lessons about the power of men...

This volume is a synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber re-examines a century of anthropological thought a...

DescriptionIn Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale...

Publisher: Stanford University PressNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 1990Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Robert J. Bo...

Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

Reducere. In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order t...

An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.Taking place within the confines of a ps...

In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical "mash-up, " Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teach...

Reducere. Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect liste...

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 ...

A large-format, beautifully illustrated look at the natural history of birds There are some 10, 000 bird species in existence today, occupying ever...

Publisher: ListLabAuthor(s): Maria Chiara TosiNumber of pages: 143Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 168 x 283 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our...

Reducere. This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows t...

Reducere. This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of...

Reducere. The Transfiguration, one of the most mysterious miracles of Christ, has been mostly misunderstood for two millennia."Andreas Andreopoulos approache...

What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowl...

Reducere. Zen experience defies all thinking and linguistic description and simply affirms what is evidently real. "The ordinary way -- that precisely is the...