Allegories of the Anthropocene (Deloughrey Elizabeth M.)(Paperback)

Allegories of the Anthropocene (Deloughrey Elizabeth M.)(Paperback)

In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use

The Politics of the Anthropocene (Dryzek John S.)(Paperback)

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support

The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (Zylinska Joanna)(Paperback)

Debugging the Anthropocene's insistence on apocalyptic tropes Where the Anthropocene has become linked to an apocalyptic narrative, and where this narrative carries a widespread escapist belief that salvation will come from a supernatural elsewhere, Joanna Zylinska has a different take. The End of

The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (Bonneuil Christophe)(Paperback)

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the 'Anthropocene' The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years

Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet (Zywert Katharine)(Paperback)

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and rising socio-political instability, and offers

Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene (Weber Andreas)(Paperback)

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an

Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Demos T. J.)(Paperback)

A critique of the discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative alternatives to it to be found through the arts, sciences, and humanities.Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene (Hetherington Kregg)(Paperback)

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles-sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters,

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Scranton Roy)(Paperback)

In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book.--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Roy Scranton's

Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor (Norton Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth

Environmental Transformations: A Geography of the Anthropocene (Whitehead Mark)(Paperback)

From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological

Politics and the Anthropocene (Kelly Duncan)(Paperback)

The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications does that fracturing have for how we should think about politics in these new times? In this

Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery (Anderson Linda)(Paperback)

A collection of essays on Elizabeth Bishop drawing on work presented at the first UK Elizabeth Bishop confrence, held at Newcastle University. It brings together papers by both academic critics and leading poets, including Michael Donaghy, Vicki Feaver, Deryn Rees-Jones and Anne

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (Hardwick Elizabeth)(Paperback)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,

City of Bells - The Cathedral Trilogy (Goudge Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

The first book of Elizabeth Goudge's enchanting Cathedral

Music of Silence - Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity for Everyone (Obbard Elizabeth Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

Forces of Reproduction (Barca Stefania)(Paperback)

The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the

Physiologus (Curley Michael J.)(Paperback)

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching. Accompanied by an introduction that explains the

The Lady and the Highwayman (Eden Sarah M.)(Paperback)

Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school and a well-respected author of 'silver-fork' novels, stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories--the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the

Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Russo Linda)(Paperback)

New vocabulary for a world on the brink The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of humanity in the transformation of earth's environment globally, has become the subject of scholarship not only

Coming of the Wolf (Chadwick Elizabeth)(Paperback)

I, Richard (George Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Five tales of human weakness from the masterly pen of Elizabeth

City of Girls - The Sunday Times Bestseller (Gilbert Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (MacCormack Patricia)(Paperback)

We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of 'human' into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the 'ahuman'. An alternative to 'posthuman' thought, the