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  • Vibrant Matter

    A Political Ecology of Things

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pill

    Are you sure it's for you?

    by Jane Bennett, Alexandra Pope ...
    While the Pill is taken by most women and girls at some stage in their lives, few realise it is not without side-effects. Clear links have been made to depression, nausea, headaches and migraines, as well as a loss of libido. Contrary to what most of us believe, it is not a failsafe contraception. Around 2 in 10 women do conceive while taking the Pill. Others experience difficulties conceiving ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Influx and Efflux

    Writing Up with Walt Whitman

    by Jane Bennett ...
    In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? “Influx & efflux”—a phrase borrowed from Whitman's "Song of Myself"—refers to everyday movements whereby outside influences enter bodies, infuse and confuse their organization, and then exit, themselves having been ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Enchantment of Modern Life

    Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics

    by Jane Bennett ...
    It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Death by Autopsy

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Pathologist Toni Day is faced with a situation most pathologists only joke about. Beulah Pritchard comes back to life on her autopsy table. Beulah was a coworker of Tonis at Cascade Perrine Regional Medical Center, where she was known as a merciless gossip, happiest to attack female doctors with slander and lies.Beulah drove her car off a snow-covered road with her husbands dead body in the trunk. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Political Matter

    Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

    by Isabelle Stengers, Jane Bennett ...
    Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Twelve Murders of Christmas

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a twisted verse from The Twelve Days of Christmas, and she and her partners are suddenly inundated with autopsies on the corresponding bodies. The victims are members of a jury that convicted Toni’s old boyfriend Robbie of kidnapping and sent him to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Body on the Lido Deck

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Twin Falls pathologist Toni Day is on a Caribbean cruise with her husband and parents when she is jerked out of a peaceful slumber by a horrific scream. After several unsuccessful attempts to reclaim sleep, Toni heads to the ships deck to read. But shortly after the sun rises, everything changes when a mangled body plummets from the roof into the pool next to her.Rather than flee in horror, Toni ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Material Ecocriticism

    by David Abram, Joni Adamson, Jane Bennett, Eli Clare, Stacy Alaimo, Hannes Bergthaller, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Simon Estok, Heather I. Sullivan, Catherine Rigby, Dana Phillips, Timo Maran, Cheryll Glotfelty, Greta Gaard, Lowell Duckert, Wendy Wheeler, Hubert Zapf, Timothy Morton, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands ...
    Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • House Not Made with Hands

    by Jane Bennett Gaddy ...
    I was born in the flat fertile Mississippi Delta in 1940. I grew up in a white clapboard plantation house on the heels of the Great Depression when cotton was still running the show in the south and well before the Civil Rights Movement. Love took me out of the Delta, and it was love that brought me back, for there are some things that cannot be forgotten or left behind. So, here it is. After all ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Deadly Homecoming

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    Pathologist Toni Day knows her mother like the back of her hand. When her mother calls and asks her to investigate the disappearance of her best friend’s husband, Dick, she knows better than to argue. Soon, Toni and her husband, Hal, are on their way back to her hometown of Long Beach, California, where another mystery awaits. Dick’s wife, Doris, is convinced that the historic house she shares ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD