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  • Economic Woman

    Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy

    by Deanna K. Kreisel ...
    The ways in which women are portrayed in Victorian novels can provide important insights into how people of the day thought about political economy, and vice versa. In Economic Woman, Deanna K. Kreisel innovatively shows how images of feminized sexuality in novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism.Economic Woman is the first ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Ruskin After 200

    Thinking with Ruskin in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Sara L. Maurer, Judith Stoddart, Deanna K. Kreisel, Amy Woodson-Boulton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic of capitalist economics and industrialization’s toll on the environment. Two hundred years after Ruskin’s birth, his relevance to art, literature, history, architecture, ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Ecological Form

    System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire

    by Nathan K. Hensley, Philip Steer, Karen Pinkus, Lynn Voskuil, Jesse Oak Taylor, Teresa Shewry, Aaron Rosenberg, Benjamin Morgan, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller0, Deanna K. Kreisel1, Adam Grener2, Sukanya Banerjee3, Monique Allewaert4 ...
    Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental ... Read more

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  • After Darwin

    Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel ...
    Series series After Series
    Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to be over time, spinning yarns filled with protagonists and antagonists, crises, triumphs, and tragedies. His fictions ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Teaching William Morris

    by Jason D. Martinek, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Susan David Bernstein, Florence Boos, Pamela Bracken, Julie Codell, Hellen Elletson, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Amanda Golden0, Imogen Hart1, Elizabeth Helsinger2, James Housefield3, Linda Hughes4, Deanna Kreisel5, David Latham6, William M. Meier7, Morna O'Neill8, Tony Pinkney9, John Plotz0, Michael Robertson1, Michelle Weinroth2 ...
    A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • Evolution

    The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Series Book 17 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head of Darwin. Since the dawn of humanity, priests, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • An Urchin in the Storm

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    "What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus ReviewsRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Science

    by Tim Lewens ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What is science? Is it uniquely equipped to deliver universal truths? Or is it one of many disciplines - art, literature, religion - that offer different forms of understanding? In The Meaning of Science, Tim Lewens offers a provocative introduction to the philosophy of science, showing us for example what physics teaches us about reality, what biology teaches us about human nature, and what ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life

    How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew

    by Steve Stewart-Williams ...
    If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Darwin: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Howard ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread. In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, Jonathan Howard reasserts the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Myths We Live By

    by Mary Midgley ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. – The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Science

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    The 'trouble' with science began in 1632, when Galileo demolished the belief that the earth is the centre of the universe. Yet despite the bewildering success of the scientific revolution, many continue to hanker after the cosy certainties of a man-centred universe, and young people increasingly turn away from science.In The Trouble with Science, Professor Robin Dunbar launches a vigorous counter ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD