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  • A Leopard-Skin Hat

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship between “the Narrator” and his close ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics

    Edited by S. Friedlander, D. Serre ...
    The Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics is a compendium of essays that provides a survey of the major topics in the subject. Each article traces developments, surveys the results of the past decade, discusses the current state of knowledge and presents major future directions and open problems. Extensive bibliographic material is provided. The book is intended to be useful both to experts in ... Read more

    $207.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Physics

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by David Webb, William James Ross ...
    Series series Groundworks
    The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres.Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Parasite

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr ...
    Series Book 1 - Posthumanities
    Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Claude Monet: A Life in Letters

    by Teresa Krasny, Frances Fowle, Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux, Karen Serres, Sylvie Patry ...
    Claude Monet's letters, expertly selected and richly illustrated with his paintings, supplemented with contemporary photographs of the artist and his surroundings.Claude Monet is one of the most beloved and celebrated painters of all time. He has influenced generations of painters from the nineteenth century to the present. Monet's letters—to his friends, family, fellow artists, patrons, and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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  • Branches

    A Philosophy of Time, Event and Advent

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Despite being one of France's most enduring and popular philosophers, Branches is the first English translation of what has been identified as Michel Serres' key text on humanism.In attempting to reconcile humanity and nature, Serres examines how human history 'branches' off from its origin story. Using the metaphor of a branch springing from the stem and arguing that the branch's originality ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Hermes II

    Interference

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Unveiling the hidden connections in the network of knowledgeHermes II: Interference is the second in a series of works by philosopher Michel Serres using Hermes, god of communication, as an archetypal symbolic figure for reflecting on philosophy and the arts and sciences. Serres delves into the concept of interreferentiality, proposing that every node—whether it be knowledge, objects, or people ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Suspended Disaster

    Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika's Algeria

    by Thomas Serres ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    After Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Bouteflika, who had been in office since 1999, was eventually forced to resign, but the Hirak (“movement”) continued to protest the country’s inequalities and entrenched ruling elite.The Suspended Disaster examines the dynamics of the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • North Africa and the Making of Europe

    Governance, Institutions and Culture

    Edited by Dr Muriam Haleh Davis, Dr Thomas Serres ...
    This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of governance, culture and development, considering the construction of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Statues

    The Second Book of Foundations

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body to the human ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Dolphin Submarine Deal

    Helmut Kohl and the History of German-Israeli Relations

    by Marcel Serr ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book uncovers the untold story behind one of the most significant episodes in the history of German-Israeli relations, revealing how Chancellor Helmut Kohl orchestrated Germany's approval and financing of the first Dolphin-class submarines for Israel. A process driven by security interests, alliance politics and Germany's lasting responsibility following the Shoah. Drawing on newly examined ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD