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  • Biosemiotic Literary Criticism

    Genesis and Prospectus

    by W. John Coletta ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemioticliterary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, “nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature” (TimoMaran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Waging Peace in Orbit

    National Security in the Third Space Age

    by Lynne Chandler Garcia, Damon Coletta, John Shaw, Dean Cheng, Todd Harrison, Sarah Mineiro, Brandon Davenport, Jeremy Grunert0, Douglas Ligor1, Katie Feistel2, Brian Weeden3, Lori Garver4, Kristin White5, Jeremy Fox6, Alexander Milhous7, Michael Gleason8, Robin Dickey9, Benjamin Bahney0 ...
    This offer of leading-edge thinking reframes the debate on national security at the dawn of the Third Space AgeDuring the First Space Age, President Eisenhower rallied democracies to defend freedom while preserving peace at a time when the hydrogen bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles threatened humanity. Nearly seventy-five years later, the world stands on the cusp of a third era of space ... Read more

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    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

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  • Dark Ecology

    For a Logic of Future Coexistence

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental ... Read more

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  • The First Word

    The Search for the Origins of Language

    by Christine Kenneally ...
    An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of languageThe first popular book to recount the exciting, very recent developments in tracing the origins of language, The First Word is at the forefront of a controversial, compelling new field. Acclaimed science writer Christine Kenneally explains how a relatively small group of scientists that include Noam Chomsky ... Read more

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  • How Language Began

    The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention

    by Daniel L. Everett ...
    A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection“Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.” — Edward O. WilsonAt the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind’s most incredible creation. Deemed a “bombshell” linguist and “instant folk hero” by Tom Wolfe (Harper ... Read more

    $19.99 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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  • What Is Posthumanism?

    by Cary Wolfe ...
    Series Book 8 - Posthumanities
    What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

    In Defence of Interaction

    by Karl Popper ...
    Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions that ... Read more

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  • Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos

    Complexity Theory, Deleuze,Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis

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    This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions, the book discusses how psychoanalysis can help to unmask the anxieties, deficits, conflicts, ... Read more

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

    by Robert K. Logan ...
    The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.Building on his previous ... Read more

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