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  • Modernization in Eastern Tibet

    Leviathan the Forager

    by Su Hu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality.Including cases centred on meteorology, geography, and seismology, the book assesses a wide range of traditional local activities, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Great Work

    Our Way into the Future

    by Thomas Berry ...
    Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ecology of Wisdom

    Writings by Arne Naess

    by Arne Naess ...
    A founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess' has produced articles on environmentalism that have provided unmatched inspiration for ecologists, philosophers, and activists worldwide. This collection amasses a definitive group of Naess' most important works in which he calls for nonviolent, cooperative action to protect the Earth. Rich with observations, insights, and anecdotes, Naess' ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Facing the Planetary

    Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming

    by William E. Connolly ...
    In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, tectonic plates, and species evolution—he combines a critical understanding of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Thinking with Water

    by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis ...
    As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Animals Erased

    Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World

    by Arran Stibbe ...
    "Amazingly clear and incisive readings of a wide range of discourses related to animals and ecology" from the author of Ecolinguistics (Karla Armbruster, coeditor of Beyond Nature Writing).Animals are disappearing, vanishing, and dying out—not just in the physical sense of becoming extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with animals happen at a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Materialism

    The Struggle for a Science of Culture

    by Marvin Harris ...
    Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available again after a ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Acting with the World

    Agency in the Anthropocene

    by Andrew Pickering ...
    In the Anthropocene our actions are coming home to roost. Global warming, species extinctions, and environmental disasters are the dark side of our mastery of nature. In Acting with the World, Andrew Pickering identifies a different pattern of being and doing that can evade this dark side, a pattern that he calls acting-with the world. In contrast to our usual practice of acting on the world, ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Environmental Philosophy

    From Theory to Practice

    by Sahotra Sarkar ...
    The first comprehensive treatment of environmental philosophy, going beyond ethics to address the philosophical concepts that underlie environmental thinking and policy-making todayEncompasses all of environmental philosophy, including conservation biology, restoration ecology, sustainability, environmental justice, and moreOffers the first treatment of decision theory in an environmental ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Naturekind

    Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human

    by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead ...
    A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and social learning beyond the human, and identifying culture as a second inheritance system across the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD