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Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate…
catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change—and how we might change paths before it’s too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light—as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet.By Andrew W. Rate. 2022
This textbook addresses the increasing trend in urbanization of the world’s population and its relation with urban soils. Written by…
active practitioners of university level teaching and research, this book is designed primarily as an educational text, while it also provides readers with an authoritative gateway to the primary literature. It includes explicit coverage of spatial and statistical (multivariate) techniques and case studies to illustrate key concept, and to support practical guidance in issues such as data collection and analysis. The authors reflect current developments in research and urban trends. In China, for example, the proportion of the population living in cities increased from 13% in 1950 to 45% in 2010 (World Bank data). Australia is one of the world's top ten urbanised countries with population greater than ten million, with approximately 90% of its population living in cities, mainly along Australia's coast. The most rapidly urbanising populations are currently in nations of the African continent. Soils in urban areas have multiple functions which are becoming more valued by urban communities: soils supply water, nutrients and physical support for urban plant and animal communities (parks, reserves, gardens), and are becoming increasingly valued for growing food. Soils may be used for building foundations, or as building materials themselves. Urban hydrology relies on the existence of unsealed soils for aquifer protection and flood control. This volume presents the importance of urban ecosystems and the impacts of global change. It examines pedogenesis of urban soils: natural materials affected by urban phenomena, and natural processes acting on urban materials, including an examination of different climatic zones. There is a focus on soils formed on landfill, reclaimed land, dredge spoils as well as soil-related changes in urban geomorphology. There is plenty of discussion on urban soil as a source and sink as well as soil geochemistry and health. The book is intended primarily as a text for upper-level undergraduate, and postgraduate (Masters) students. It will also be invaluable as a resource for professionals such as researchers, environmental regulators, and environmental consultants.By Richard Ellmann. 1972
The author of modern biographies lucidly disentwines the narrative, ethical, aesthetic, and ultimate levels of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses. Much…
of the evidence is internal, but he also makes the first use of some important indications by Joyce himself.By Anthony Burgess. 1965
By Mcgraw-Hill Staff, Donna Rosenberg. 1992
An exciting anthology of thought provoking short stories, plays & poems, written by major authors from all over the world,…
translated to English. Seven geographical areas are covered. The selections span from the 13th Century BC to the late 20th Century AD. Each selection includes critical & biographical information, questions which emphasize inferential thinking, expository & creative writing assignments & a glossary of literary terms.By G. Bruce Knecht. 2006
On 7 August 2003, the patrol boat Southern Supporter came upon the Uruguayan long-liner Viarsa in one of the most…
isolated places on earth - the Australian Fishing Zone near Heard Island, 2200 nautical miles southwest of Perth. The patrol suspected Viarsa was carrying an illegal catch of the endangered Patagonian Toothfish.Thus began one of the longest and most dangerous pursuits in maritime history. The chase lasted 21 days and covered 3900 nautical miles through unimaginably rough seas. Hampered by snowstorms, icebergs, and the worst that the Roaring Forties could throw at them, the crews pushed their ships to the limit. Why was this fish so important that it was worth risking disaster? G. Bruce Knecht has brought this great modern sea story to life after extensive interviews with both the pursuers and the pursued. Behind the chase and the subsequent legal battles lies the strange story of the Patagonian Toothfish, only recently brought to the surface from its deep ocean habitats. Popularised in America's most exclusive restaurants, it now faces an uncertain future. Hooked is the extraordinary story of a remarkable fish, the men who prey upon it, and the people who battle to save it from extinction.Using the principles of John Rawls’ theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political vision, one which describes a…
mode of governance that will enable communities to implement a sustainable and socially just future. Rawls described a theory of justice that not only describes the sort of society in which anyone would like to live but that any society can create a society based on just institutions. While philosophers have demonstrated that Rawls’s theory can provide a framework for the discussion of questions of environmental justice, the problem for many philosophical theories is that discussions of sustainable development open the need to address questions of ecological interdependence, historical inequality in past resource use and the recognition that we cannot afford to ignore the limitations of growth. These ideas do not fit in comfortably in standard discourse about theories of justice. In contrast, this book frames the discussion of global justice in terms of environmental sustainability. The author argues that these ideas can be used to develop a coherent political theory that reconciles cosmopolitan arguments and the non-cosmopolitan or nationalist arguments concerning social and environmental justice. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental philosophy and ethics, moral and political philosophy, global studies and sustainable development.By Pierre Lemaitre. 2020
Una visión completa, absolutamente personal y muy divertida del género negro, por uno de los escritores europeos más prestigiosos y…
populares. Se la llame negra o policiaca, y se la califique o no «literatura de género» --como si no fuera literatura sin más--, la novela criminal tiene súbditos, reyes, reinas (supuestos o no), capillas, polémicas, egos... pero, sobre todo, novelas que atrapan, impactan, sobrecogen y marcan tanto mentes como épocas. Incondicional de los libros, las películas y las series que describen --o denuncian-- la (mala) marcha del mundo, Pierre Lemaitre, con la libertad, el compromiso y la vivacidad que lo caracterizan, dibuja un panorama internacional personal y divertido, cual biblia erudita, ecléctica y festiva de la novela negra. La crítica ha dicho...«Con la ágil pluma que le conocemos, Pierre Lemaitre comparte en este Diccionario su pasión por la literatura policiaca y la novela negra con un subjetivismo entusiasta y razonado.»RTL «Pierre Lemaitre se apodera de la novela policiaca como novelista y lector, y ofrece su punto de vista con regocijo, asombro y placer. [...] Los aficionados a la novela negra disfrutarán enormemente con esta panorámica.»RTS culture «Uno de esos diccionarios por los que el lector se pasea a placer, antes de leerlo de cabo a rabo. Véanlo como una charla en torno al álbum de fotos de la familia o una invitación a descubrir todo lo que les quedaba por explorar en el continente del noir.»France Inter «Un libro imponente, rebosante de pasión por compartir, que alterna las declaraciones de amor con puyas muy sentidas. Una obra golosa que permite al aficionado, dependiendo de su apetito, devorarla o picar aquí y allá entre los retratos de escritores (de Eric Ambler a Don Winslow, pasando por Jean-Patrick Manchette, Elizabeth George, Donald Westlake y muchos otros) y las revisiones de personajes míticos (a Lemaitre le encanta Colombo), películas y series de referencia (Arresto preventivo, The Wire, etc.).»La DépêcheBy Javier Marías. 2022
El nuevo libro de artículos de Javier Marías. Una mirada incómoda, certera y brillante sobre la sociedad de hoy. Este…
volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 3 de febrero de 2019 y el 24 de enero de 2021. «Han caducado los tiempos en que la gente se tomaba en serio la promesa hecha, la palabra dada, que todavía los niños de mi infancia llamaban “palabra de honor”. Somos una sociedad “desenfadada” y además lo tenemos a gala (bueno, en todo lo demás muy enfadada)», dice Javier Marías en uno de los artículos de este libro. En una época en la que la realidad se muestra insistente, repetitiva y tozuda, el autor invita a sus lectores, en cada una de las piezas recogidas en ¿Será buena persona el cocinero?, a detenerse y reflexionar libremente, sin atender a demagogias ni manipulaciones, sobre los más diversos aspectos del tiempo presente. Y lo hace como lo ha hecho siempre: con valentía, sin concesiones, y con un estilo impecable y un envidiable sentido del humor. La sociedad actual, olvidadiza y pretendidamente virtuosa, lidia con una opinión pública que se erige como juez intransigente e injusto de todo y todos los que se alejan de los cánones de conducta impuestos en los últimos años. Por ello, defiende el autor, se hace más necesario que nunca mantener un pensamiento crítico. «Tal vez lo malo no sea nunca tanto lo que nos pasa, cuanto lo que nos hacen creer que nos pasa», recuerda que escribió en una ocasión su padre, Julián Marías. Y añade: «Porque lo segundo hoy suena muy grave, y lo primero no lo es tanto, sólo un poco, y a ratos». La crítica ha dicho:«Gloriosa frase tras gloriosa frase... ¿Hay en Europa mejor escritor vivo que Javier Marías?»The Independent «Marías es sencillamente asombroso.»Ali Smith «Quien no lea a Marías está condenado.»The Nation «Su mente es profunda, aguda, a veces turbadora, a veces hilarante, y siempre inteligente.»Edward St Aubyn, The New York Times Book Review «Una oportunidad para seguir sus razonamientos lúcidos y penetrantes, [...] nunca pomposos ni aduladores. Se trata de fomentar la personalidad y la inteligencia de los lectores, de servirles un trampolín para enriquecerse a pensar sobre lo que no se piensa o no se permite cuestionar.»Miquel Escudero, CatalunyaPressBy Ponç Puigdevall. 2022
Un elogi de la lectura, un itinerari a través de la narrativa catalana del present Jardins secrets. 99 llibres per…
tornar a llegir recull una selecció de les ressenyes que Ponç Puigdevall ha anat publicant a la premsa des del 1991 fins avui mateix, la gran majoria corregides i renovades de la mateixa manera que el pas del temps corregeix i renova tothom, i pretén defensar la bellesa d'un dels infinits itineraris que es poden traçar sobre el mapa de la narrativa catalana dels últims trenta anys. «En la tria dels títols és inevitable advertir-hi uns buits que es podran considerar clamorosos, però les absències més greus s'expliquen perquè m'he deixat endur pel criteri del meu gust particular -són uns llibres que m'han agradat i que admeten, em penso, la prova de la relectura-, amb l'esperança que un gust deixa de ser arbitrari no quan se'l considera correcte -¿i qui ho pot decidir, això?-, sinó quan se l'argumenta amb la màxima exactitud possible», escriu Puigdevall. «Llegir inspira uns somiejos que ajuden a ser d'una altra manera, i sempre produeix una sensació infantil d'estranyesa i enlluernament, com si de sobte s'entrés en una casa diferent de la pròpia i es topés amb l'atractiu misteriós de la raresa, amb extravagàncies personalíssimes, amb singularitats capritxoses», s'afirma en aquest inventari d'experiències de lector, unes notes sobre la literatura del present que no tenen cap voluntat de fundar un cànon i sí, en canvi, la il·lusió de despertar el desig de llegir. Jardins secrets és sobretot un elogi dels territoris inacabables de la lectura i recorda que cada lector, de fet, és un crític que fa créixer una altra pell per damunt de la que ha construït l'autor amb l'art de la seva escriptura. Ho va dir Armand Obiols en confessar el secret de la seva avidesa insaciable de lectures: «Llegeixo per crear-me. Sense les meves lectures jo seria un ésser molt distint de qui soc». Amb la fascinant contundència de la seva prosa, Julien Gracq deia el mateix d'una manera diferent: «és prou sabut que cada llibre no només s'alimenta dels materials que li ofereix la vida, sinó que també creix, misteriosament, sobre altres llibres».By Tony Tanner. 1979
Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last…
plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a special significance in the "bourgeois novels" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His interpretation begins with the general topic of adultery in literature and then zeroes in on three works—Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse, Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften, and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. His interpretation encompasses the role of women, the structure of the family, social mores, and the history of sexuality.By John L. Koprowski and Paul R. Krausman. 2019
A call for wildlife conservationists to transcend the boundaries of locality, share best practices, and unite with a common voice…
to influence global policy.Habitat loss, disease management, predator-human conflict, illegal trade—these are among the many conservation challenges faced by wildlife experts around the world. But how wildlife professionals approach these issues has historically been geographically fragmented. By providing a broad perspective on issues faced by wildlife on an international scale, the authors of International Wildlife Management make vital connections, drawing attention to underlying causes and strategies for mitigation that may look surprisingly similar from Montana to Zimbabwe. Bringing together wildlife professionals from around the globe to discuss shared challenges, International Wildlife Management• examines widespread patterns of wildlife loss• covers key conservation strategies, including species reintroduction, community engagement, and wildlife commerce• explores the urgent concerns of climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, invasive species, and poaching• reviews major organizations involved in wildlife management at an international level, highlighting examples of cooperation among groups and nations in effective wildlife management efforts• features stories of success and struggle from authors across 17 countries on 6 continents This timely and thorough overview thinks big by assessing threats to wildlife on a global scale. Wild creatures don't recognize artificial geographic borders. This useful compendium demonstrates that researchers and scientists should follow their lead.By Kent A. Vliet. 2020
The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator.Few scenes put the senses…
on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic American predator, these reptiles grow to thirteen feet or more and can live as long as humans. Alligators are complex creatures, capable of terrific attacks and yet tending to their young in the same gentle way a mother duck looks after her brood. Once extremely numerous, alligators came close to extinction in the twentieth century, but thanks to conservation efforts have since made a comeback, reclaiming their rightful place as the monarchs of the southern wetlands.In this fascinating account, richly illustrated with more than 150 photographs from award-winning wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch, expert zoologist Kent A. Vliet introduces readers to the biology, ecology, and natural history of the American alligator. Sharing nuanced depictions of their hidden lives that will forever change the way you think of these giant reptiles, the book• combines captivating storytelling with the most current scientific facts• chronicles the life cycle of the alligator• explains why the alligator's precise anatomy and physiology make it so successful• covers a wide range of topics, from courtship and reproduction to communication, basking, nest-building, and hunting• reveals the alligator's sophisticated social life in detail• evaluates the alligator's environmental role as a keystone species• examines the complicated relationship between alligators and peopleBy G. Wilson Knight. 1965
First published in 1965, The Golden Labyrinth provides a coherent and readable history of the essential nature of British drama…
in a single volume. The treatment is philosophical and imaginative, and full of enthusiasm and clarity which have made Professor Wilson Knight’s works, of Shakespearian and other interpretations, so famous. The chapters in this book have been organized according to literary periods and will appeal to both students of literature and casual readers.Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises…
the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international literary legacy. The first part revolves around the metaphor of a rebellious scribe who queers literary tradition by clandestinely weaving changes into copies of the books he makes. This subversive writing act, named ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ after the protagonist of José Luis de Juan’s This Breathing World (1999), is examined in four highly intertextual works by other writers. The second part of the book explores Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo, who in their different ways seek to coin their own definitions of homosexual experience in opposition both to the homophobic discourses of the past and to the homonormative regimes of the commercialised and trivialised gay culture of today. In their novels, ‘Mazuf’s gesture’ involves playing a sophisticated queer game with readers and their expectations.In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to…
take to live sustainably and combat climate change. Are we sufficiently capable of changing our behaviour towards sustainability? What do we have to do in a more sustainable way, and how? The Sustainable Manifesto considers questions around behaviour-change and action for sustainability and connects this thinking to current research in both the natural and human sciences. Reich begins by addressing the most important risks to sustainability and looks in particular at climate change, biodiversity, land use and global phosphorus and nitrogen cycles. He goes on to identify the main causes that have led to the current crisis: specifically the human desire for expansion, growth in all areas, progress and competitive advantages that have forced consideration of the common good into the background. In this vein, the author highlights how economics and politics are two driving forces for which sustainability is difficult to comprehend, going against their basic principles of a liberal and now neo-liberal expansion of all markets. Finally, Reich demonstrates how sustainability could be possible if we reprioritize our life goals and face the reality of an ecological crisis and the necessary transformation of society in order to save our planet. Innovative and accessible, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sustainability, theories of learning, human behaviour, as well as those who are looking for answers on how to fight for a sustainable future.By Michael S. Martin, Tina Harris, Sarah Jane Blithe, Robin M. Boylorn, James McDonald, Cheris Kramarae, Shardé M. Davis, Melanie Duckworth, Janell C. Bauer, Angela N. Gist-Mackey, Ashley R. Hall, Anita Mixon, Andrea Ewing, Prisca S. Ngondo, Cerise L. Glenn, Kelly J. Cross, Idrissa Snider, Rebecca Mercado Jones, Jayna Marie Jones, Siobhan Smith-Jones, Johnny L. Jones, Savaughn Williams, Cassidy D. Ellis, Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri, Ruth J. Beerman, Lydia Huerta Moreno, Ana Gomez Parga, Maureen Ebben, Kathleen Rushforth, Sara DeTurk, Danette M. Pugh-Patton, Antonio L. Spikes, Jenna N. Hanchey. 2022
In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been…
met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even as mass shootings continue. Expressed dissent to political power is labeled as “fake news.” DREAMers, Muslims, Trans military members, women, black bodies, the LGBTQI+ community, Latina/o/x communities, rape survivors, sex workers, and immigrants have all been systematically silenced. During this difficult time and despite such restrictions, advocates and allies persist and resist, forming dialogues that call to repel inequality in its many forms. Addressing the oppression of women of color, white women, women with (dis)abilities, and LBTQI+ individuals across cultures and contexts remains a central posit of feminist struggle and requires “a distinctly feminist politics of recognition.” However, as second wave debates about feminism have revealed, there is no single way to express a feminist politic. Rather, living feminist politics requires individual interpretation and struggle, collective discussion and disagreement, and recognizing difference among women as well as points of convergence in feminist struggle. Badass Feminist Politics includes a diverse range of engaging feminist political projects to not only analyze the work being done on the ground but provide an overview for action that can be taken on by those seeking to engage in feminist activism in their own communities. Contributors included here are working for equality and equity and resisting violent, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and sexist language and action during this tension-filled political moment. Collectively, the book explores what it means to live and communicate feminist politics in everyday choices and actions, and how we can facilitate learning by analyzing these examples. Taking up current issues and new theoretical perspectives, the authors offer novel perspectives into what it means to live feminist politics. This book is a testament to resilience, resistance, communication, and forward thinking about what these themes all mean for new feminist agendas. Learning how to resist oppressive structures through words and actions is particularly important for students. Badass Feminist Politics features scholars from non-dominant groups taking up issues of marginalization and oppression, which can help people accomplish their social justice goals of inclusivity on the ground and in the classroom.By Brian Bates, Susan J. Wolfson, Mark A. McCutcheon, Lisa Crafton, Siobhan Watters, Lisbeth Chapin, L. Adam Mekler, Robin Hammerman. 2022
Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational…
volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). Seven chapters written by leading and emerging scholars pay homage to Robinson's later perspectives of the novel and a concluding postscript contains remembrances by his colleagues and students. This volume not only makes explicit the question of what it means to be human, a question Robinson invited students and colleagues to examine throughout his career, but it also illustrates the depth of the field and diversity of those who have been inspired by Robinson's work. Frankenstein and STEAM offers direction for continuing scholarship on the intersections of literature, science, and technology. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.By Jan Miel. 1970
Originally published in 1970. The question of man's freedom to exercise his will—as active an issue among twentieth-century philosophers and…
theologians as it was in the Jesuit and Jansenist camps known to Pascal—is basic to this study. Pascal's theological thinking, which Professor Miel demonstrates to be the source of unity and coherence in virtually all phases of his thought, is preoccupied by a concern for man's limitations. In his analysis of Pascal's theology, Miel is concerned not only with characterizing Pascal's theological position but also with evaluating it in terms of the history of the church. In a concise and lucid review of the Christian doctrine of grace from the pre-Augustinians through the Renaissance, the author identifies the intellectual-theological atmosphere that created the need for Pascal's strong defense of Augustinian theology. Miel considers Pascal's Écrits sur la grâce, Lettres provincials, and Pensées as well as shorter compositions and correspondence. He establishes the content of Pascal's vision of grace and free will, noting both its originality and its sense of history. Most importantly, he asserts that Pascal's affirmation of Jansenism predated his association with Port Royal and, indeed, was basic to all his adult thought and work. The author finds in the writings of Pascal a style that anticipates twentieth-century theology, a sophistication that belies charges of Pascal's theological naïveté, and a concern to uphold rather than to undermine doctrinal traditions of the church.By Theodore Ziolkowski. 2013
Explore 2,000 years of conspiracy in literature.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHuman beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there…
have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world’s first conspiracy. Whereas recent generations have tended to find their conspiracies in politics and government, the past often sought its mysteries in religious cults or associations. In ancient Rome, for example, the senate tried to prohibit the cult of Isis lest its euphoric excesses undermine public morality and political stability. And during the Middle Ages, many rulers feared such powerful and mysterious religious orders as the Knights Templar.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers of the twenty-first century. Arguing that the lure of the arcane throughout the ages has remained a constant factor of human fascination, Ziolkowski demonstrates that the content of conspiracy has shifted from religion by way of philosophy and social theory to politics. In the process, he reveals, the underlying mythic pattern was gradually co-opted for the subversive ends of conspiracy.Cults and Conspiracies considers Euripides’s Bacchae, Andreae’s Chymical Wedding, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, among other seminal works. Mimicking the genre’s quest-driven narrative arc, the reader searches for the significance of conspiracy fiction and is rewarded with the author’s cogent reflections in the final chapter. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco’s notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content."