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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

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Emma

    A Brilliant Tale of Love, Pride, and the Cost of Being Wrong

    by Jane Austen ...
    Narrated by Charlotte Bennett, Jackson Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 24 min

    She prides herself on reading hearts—until one mistake quietly reshapes every life around her. In Emma, listeners are drawn into a world where confidence masquerades as wisdom and good intentions carry unintended consequences. Set within the refined social circles of Regency England, this classic novel audiobook explores love, influence, and the subtle psychology of judgment, securing its place ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Farmer Takes a Husband, The

    by Mellanie Szereto ...
    Narrated by Jane Oppenheimer, Gary Bennett ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Homegrown Café Book Club

    Unabridged

    3 hours 20 min

    The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.Organic farmer Riley Fenniman is happily single at forty-seven and refuses to acknowledge an attraction to her younger accountant, let alone surrender to it. Unfortunately, a legal catch in her farm’s ownership and a health scare give her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $35.99 USD

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • Too Much Blood

    A Toni Day Mystery

    by Jane Bennett Munro ...
    It is the middle of the night when pathologist Toni Day receives a call from the coroner informing her that the notoriously sleazy local attorney, Jay Braithwaite Burke, has just been found dead in his Mercedes in the middle of a snowy interstate. Unfortunately, everyone at Perrine Memorial Hospital where Toni works knows Burke. Over the years, he managed to talk nearly the entire medical staff ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Bookseller of Kathmandu

    by Ann Bennett ...
    Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi ...
    Series series Tales of Kathmandu

    Unabridged

    10 hours 17 min

    A sweeping tale of secrets and survival set against the mystical backdrop of Nepal, and the tropical heat of 1940s Malaya.In the heart of bustling Kathmandu, Chloe Rai's quaint bookshop is a sanctuary for those seeking solace within the pages of timeworn stories. But when she discovers a collection of letters hidden within the crumbling walls of a forgotten Rana palace, her world begins to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD

  • Thoreau's Nature

    Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Series series Modernity and Political Thought
    Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to "the Wild," a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity, and political complacency. Bennett pursues ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 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 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Moralizing

    Edited by Jane Bennett, Michael J. Shapiro ...
    The Politics of Moralizing issues a stern warning about the risks of speaking, writing, and thinking in a manner too confident about one's own judgments and asks, "Can a clear line be drawn between dogmatism and simple certainty and indignation?" Bennett and Shapiro enter the debate by questioning what has become a popular, even pervasive, cultural narrative told by both the left and the right: ... Read more

    $65.99 USD