What Is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Soper Kate)(Paperback)

What Is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Soper Kate)(Paperback)

'This is an excellent book. It addresses what, in both conceptual and political terms, is arguably the most important source of tension and confusion in current arguments about the environment, namely the concept of nature; and it does so in a way that is both sensitive to, and critical of, the two

What Is Politics?: The Activity and Its Study (Leftwich Adrian)(Paperback)

What is politics? Is it a universal feature of all human societies, past and present? Is it tied to specific institutional arenas? Or is it found in all groups and organizations, large or small, formal or informal? This new textbook seeks to provide answers to these important questions

Creating the Culture of Peace: A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation (Chowdhury Anwarul K.)(Paperback)

The culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence, development and progress. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the norm-setting, forward-looking 'Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace'. Governments, institutions, NGOs, other

What If Culture Was Nature All Along? (Kirby Vicki)(Paperback)

Navigational tools towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential New materialisms argue for a more science-friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention -

Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist (Horsley Jasun)(Paperback)

Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in--which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations which slowly uncover the author's secret life to

Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (Olson Valerie)(Paperback)

The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson's Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope

The Vibrational Universe (MacLean Kenneth James)(Paperback)

What if the fundamental nature of human beings is spiritual in nature? What if each one of us is eternal, and not just a collection of blood and bones? And most important, what if the universe is designed to support your decisions? What if it were possible to understand how to take conscious

Posthuman Knowledge (Braidotti Rosi)(Paperback)

The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and

Live Loud, Love Loud (Word J. Iron)(Paperback)

Given Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. human on the other end of the line, the human beside you, the human there on the good days and the bad, the human you call home. Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. Not

Hong Kong, 2: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Abbas Ackbar)(Paperback)

A consideration of what the culture of Hong Kong tells us about the state of the world at the fin-de-siecle.'In a space of disappearance, in the unprecedented historical situation that Hong Kong finds itself in of being caught between two colonialities (Britain's and China's), there is a desperate

Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (Morales Ed)(Paperback)

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics'Latinx' (pronounced 'La-teen-ex') is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to the category,

The Culture of Design (Julier Guy)(Paperback)

What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly

Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (Dimitrakaki Angela)(Paperback)

What happens to art when feminism grips the curatorial imagination? How do sexual politics become realised as exhibits? Is the struggle against gender discrimination compatible with the aspirations of museums led by market values? Beginning with the feminist critique of the art exhibition in the

Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (Morales Ed)(Pevná vazba)

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics 'Latinx' (pronounced 'La-teen-ex') is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country. This is the fastest-growing sector of American society, containing the most immigrants

Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World (Myers Ella)(Paperback)

What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace (Safina Carl)(Pevná vazba)

New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures--what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings

Why Are There Still Creationists?: Human Evolution and the Ancestors (Marks Jonathan)(Paperback)

The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming, accepted by non-religious and religious people across the world. But the facts are never just facts. Human evolution has been a value-laden scientific theory since its very beginning and anthropology makes clear that

Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement (Bowman Katy)(Paperback)

Human beings have always moved for what they need until recently. We know how a lack of movement impacts our bodies but how does culture-wide sedentarism impact the world? Movement Matters is a Foreword Indies GOLD-winning collection of essays, in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her

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

None of Us Is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition (Frankland Emma)(Paperback)

The last Yugoslav generation: The rethinking of youth politics and cultures in late socialism (Spaskovska Ljubica)(Paperback)

The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the

What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves (Allberry Sam)(Paperback)

What does God have to say about our bodies? To modern secular culture, the human body is little more than a vehicle for free self-expression--our bodies belong to us, and we can do with them as we please. In this way, the prevailing culture has lost sight of the true significance of the body

Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena (Blitz Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Reason and Politics explores the central phenomena of political life and, therefore, of human affairs in general.Amidst the seemingly endless books on more and more narrowly specialized topics within politics, Mark Blitz offers something very different in this book. Reason and Politics: The Nature

Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are (Nettle Daniel)(Paperback)

It is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why are some people so easy-going and laid-back, while others are always looking for a fight? Written by Daniel Nettle--author of the popular book Happiness--this brief volume takes the reader on