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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “charles heller”
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  • Through the Ruins

    Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1

    by Charles Heller, CASSILS, Emily Johnson, Faustin Linyekula, Lorenzo Pezzani, The White Pube, Ashmina Ranjit, Mark Sealy, Hamed Sinno ...
    Explore creative resistance with global activists and artists.Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1 presents a range of contemporary practices at the intersection of human rights and the arts. Activists, scholars, and artists from around the globe share personal stories, theories, and histories, revealing the richness and range of creative tools of resistance. Each chapter ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shul Going

    2500 Years of Impressions and Reflections on Visits to the Synagogue

    by Charles Heller ...
    Covering 2500 years, here are the impressions of synagogue worshipers and visitors, Jews and non-Jews, told in their own words, from Jeremiah to George Washington, Liszt, and Yossele Rosenblatt, from the slums of Rio to the shtetls of Ukraine to the temple in Jerusalem. Here is the Jewish experience--tragic, comic, and inspiring by turns. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cantor

    From the Mishnah to Modernity

    by Wayne Allen ...
    Wayne Allen traces the evolution of the office of synagogue cantor as reflected in the primary sources of Jewish law as well as in Jewish lore from the third century to the present day. Allen explores the ambivalence of both Jewish authorities and the Jewish public toward the cantor and speculates on the future of the position. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Logics

    Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

    by Matthew Brauer, Olivia Durand, Brian T. Edwards, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Heller, Nicole Horne, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Shanaaz Mohammed, Martin Munro, Supriya M. Nair, Aaron Pinnix, Nathalie Roelens, Marie Sandoz, Philip Steinberg, Bradley Stephens, Anne-Katrin Weber ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Viapolitics

    Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion

    Edited by William Walters, Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani ...
    Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics of migration and bordering across a range of sites. They show how these elements constitute a key site of knowledge ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Open Borders

    In Defense of Free Movement

    by Andrew Burridge, Charles Heller, Michael Huemer, Natasha King, Meryem Lakhdar, Christine Leuenberger, Jenna M. Loyd, Thomas Nail, Joseph Nevins, Peter Mancina, No Borders Morocco, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Lorenzo Pezanni, Said Saddiki, Rozalinda Borcila, Nandita Sharma, Jacqueline Stevens, Maurice Stierl, Elisabeth Vallet, Semillas Autonomas ...
    Series Book 41 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk reaction to build walls and close borders by arguing that there is not a moral, legal, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • Ecology without Nature

    Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

    by Timothy Morton ...
    In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Orality and Literacy

    30th Anniversary Edition

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    Series series New Accents
    Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Cartography

    The Ideal and Its History

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    "In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of 'cartography' to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps." —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 MapsOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is Migration History?

    by Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder ...
    Series series What is History?
    The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues across several disciplines. It takes in its scope an overview of migrations through history, how classic theories have interpreted such movements, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

    Intersections in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Michele Langfield, William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights.It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich ... Read more

    $66.99 USD