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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape

Critical Essays

by Cheryl Alison, Sarah Bouttier, Sarah Giragosian, Randy Schiff, David Tagnani, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Isabel Sobral Campos, Craig Santos Perez, John Charles Ryan, Heather H. Yeung0, Benay Blend1 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the ... Read more

$158.99 CAD

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the
... Read more
Audiobook

Under the Red Crescent

Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878

by Charles Ryan, John Sandes ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Lee E, Digital Voice Bradford E ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What does courage look like when skill, supplies, and hope have all run out? Under the Red Crescent, Charles S. Ryan's memoir of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, finds its answer in his service as an army surgeon at the age of twenty-one. At Plevna he operated beneath a willow tree, amputated without adequate anaesthetic, and watched antiseptics ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What does courage look like when skill, supplies, and hope have all run out? Under the Red Crescent, Charles S. Ryan's memoir of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, finds its answer in his service as an army surgeon at the age of twenty-one. At Plevna he operated beneath a willow tree, amputated without adequate anaesthetic, and watched antiseptics
... Read more
Posthuman Southeast Asia

Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries

by Ignasi Ribó, Soorya Alex, Paloma Chaterji, Catherine Diamond, Rashmi Gaur, Tran Ngoc Hieu, Min Seong Kim, John Charles Ryans, Antonio D. Salazar Jr., Reshma Sanil0, Nathan Snow1, Tran Hoang Kieu Trang2, Maria Anjelica Wong3, Henrikus Joko Yulianto4, Li-Ru Lu5 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the ... Read more

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Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the
... Read more
Under The Red Crescent – Plevna 1877

by Charles C Ryan, John Sandes ...

In "Under The Red Crescent, Plevna 1877," readers are transported to the heart of one of the most pivotal moments in European history. Set against the backdrop of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, this gripping narrative chronicles the epic struggle for the Bulgarian town of Plevna.As the Russian Empire seeks to expand its influence in the Balkans and challenge Ottoman dominance, the small ... Read more

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In "Under The Red Crescent, Plevna 1877," readers are transported to the heart of one of the most pivotal moments in European history. Set against the backdrop of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, this gripping narrative chronicles the epic struggle for the Bulgarian town of Plevna.As the Russian Empire seeks to expand its influence in the Balkans and challenge Ottoman dominance, the small
... Read more
Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia

Edited by Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections:
... Read more
Nationalism in India

Texts and Contexts

Edited by Debajyoti Biswas, John Charles Ryan ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and ... Read more

$86.56 CAD

This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and
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Under the Red Crescent

by Charles S. Ryan; John Sandes ...

"Under the Red Crescent" by Charles S. Ryan and John Sandes is a compelling narrative that delves into the experiences of individuals during a time of conflict. The authors weave together personal stories and historical context, providing readers with a vivid portrayal of life under the pressures of war. Through their detailed accounts, they highlight the resilience of the human spirit and the ... Read more

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"Under the Red Crescent" by Charles S. Ryan and John Sandes is a compelling narrative that delves into the experiences of individuals during a time of conflict. The authors weave together personal stories and historical context, providing readers with a vivid portrayal of life under the pressures of war. Through their detailed accounts, they highlight the resilience of the human spirit and the
... Read more
Staying Together

NatureCulture in a Changing World

by Kaushani Mondal, Subhankar Banerjee, Giulia Bellinetti, Dominic Boyer, Jeff Diamanti, Tamalone van den Eijnden, Alf Hornborg, Caren Irr, John Charles Ryan, Clara Soudan0 ...

Series series Environment and Society
Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of ... Read more

$105.49 CAD

Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of
... Read more
Australian Wetland Cultures

Swamps and the Environmental Crisis

by John Charles Ryan, Li Chen, Danielle Brady, Rod Giblett, Christopher Kueh, Philip Jennings, Jeffrey Murray ...

Series series Environment and Society
Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society ... Read more

$126.99 CAD

Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society
... Read more
The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times

by Naomi Milthorpe, Rebecca Nagel, John Charles Ryan, Katrina Schlunke, Andrew Oldham, Carol Oldham, Judy Kendall, Jessica White, Hannah Stark ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and
... Read more
The Green Thread

Dialogues with the Vegetal World

by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell, Christa Sommerer, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Alan Read, Andrew Howe, Hannah Stark, Dr. Michael Marder ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread
... Read more
Audiobook

Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home

A Case Against Home Ownership

by John Tamny, Jack Ryan ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

In Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home, authors Jack Ryan and John Tamny make a powerful case that the purchase of a home slows wealth attainment—rendering owners immobile in ways that further restrain their wealth chances—and that the act of homeownership deprives owners of the time and ability to do what they do best, which further dampens individual economic achievement.Thanks to the ... Read more

$21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home, authors Jack Ryan and John Tamny make a powerful case that the purchase of a home slows wealth attainment—rendering owners immobile in ways that further restrain their wealth chances—and that the act of homeownership deprives owners of the time and ability to do what they do best, which further dampens individual economic achievement.Thanks to the
... Read more

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