The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hawkes Dean)(Paperback)

The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hawkes Dean)(Paperback)

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond

The Aesthetics of Environment (Berleant Arnold)(Paperback)

Environmental aesthetics explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is fully integrated and continuous with us, this book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Buell Lawrence)(Paperback)

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural

Globalization and the Linkage of Trade and Environmental Issues (Grossman Perry)(Paperback)

The effects of globalization on the environment are a pressing concern and in order to understand globalization we need to understand how both freer trade and environment protection measures emerge. This book analyses the dynamic interactions between corporations, social movements and state actors

The Environment: A History of the Idea (Warde Paul)(Paperback)

The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces

Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice (elik Alexander Zeynep)(Paperback)

Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology's role in architectural design Although the question of technics pervades the contemporary discipline of architecture, there are few critical analyses on the topic. Design Technics fills this gap, arguing that the technical dimension of design

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (Clark Timothy)(Paperback)

Environmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what eco-criticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts they're

Demon Seed - A novel of horror and complexity that grips the imagination (Koontz Dean)(Paperback / softback)

A novel of horror and complexity that grips the

Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fritsch Matthias)(Paperback)

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence,

Poetics - with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Environmental Politics in the Middle East - Local Struggles, Global Connections(Paperback / softback)

Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about

Planetary Health: Human Health in an Era of Global Environmental Change (Cole Jennifer)(Paperback)

Planetary Health -- the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked -- encourages the preservation and sustainability of natural systems for the benefit of human health. Drawing from disciplines such as public health, environmental science, evolutionary

Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values (Tuan Yi-Fu)(Paperback)

What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual. Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and

Globalization and the Environment of China (Bu Maoliang)(Pevná vazba)

This book is timely in its investigation of the environmental influence of globalization and China. Volume 14 focusses on: Theoretic modeling of environmental impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on host countries, international openness and corporate environmental performance in China,

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Peterson Trace)(Paperback)

The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes 'poetics statements'--reflections by each

Environmental Issues (Duhig Holly)(Pevná vazba)

This title invites readers to consider the impact of human activity on the environment and ways in which we can improve in the

Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment (Banham Reyner)(Paperback)

Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of

Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Banham Reyner)(Paperback)

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World (Adams Bill)(Paperback)

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice. Green

Navigating Environmental Attitudes (Heberlein Thomas A.)(Paperback)

The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is

Jung & the Alchemical Imagination (Raff Jeffrey)(Paperback)

Jung and the Alchemical Imagination illustrates the spiritual nature of Jungian psychology and the debt it owes to the tradition of esoteric religion. Unlike other books on Jung and alchemy which contain a psychological interpretation of alchemical material, this work uses alchemy to understand the

Reimagining the Gran Chaco: Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America (Hirsch Silvia)(Paperback)

This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been available in

Film and the Natural Environment: Elements and Atmospheres (O'Brien Adam)(Paperback)

Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. This volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance

Silent Corner (Koontz Dean)(Paperback / softback)

Book 1 in the gripping thriller series featuring rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk, from the master of suspense and New York Times #1 bestselling author Dean Koontz. When nowhere is