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  • Extraction to Extinction

    Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources

    by David Howe ...
    Tracing our environmental impact through time, David Howe demonstrates how humanity’s exploitation of Earth’s natural resources has pushed our planet to its limit and asks: What’s next for our depleted planet?Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or perhaps the remains of a 400-million-year-old volcano. Humanity's ability to fashion ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance

    The Lake District - landscape, people, art and achievements

    by David Howe ...
    David Howe tells the story of the Lake District, England's most dramatic landscape. Home to vistas of stunning beauty and a rich heritage, it is an area of England that fascinates, inspires – and has bewitched David for a lifetime.With passion and an endless curiosity, he reveals how half a billion years of shifting ice, violent volcanoes and (of course) falling rain have shaped the lakes and ... Read more

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  • Sense-Making

    New Sensory Methods for Exploring the Past and Imagining Possible Futures

    Series series Sensory Studies
    In this highly innovative work, the senses are liberated from the confines of the present to serve as vehicles for accessing other historical periods and imagined futures. Sense-Making builds on the burgeoning field of sensory ethnography by introducing a pair of methodologies—sensory (re)construction and sensorial extrapolationCexpressly devised to facilitate time-travel.The first part offers a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Science and Sensibility

    From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below

    by David Howe ...
    In an outer arm of the spiralling Milky Way galaxy can be seen an insignificant speck. This is our home, planet Earth. Its skies, clouds, lands and seas, and indeed life itself have long drawn the interest of scientists and artists alike. Our cultural and scientific history is evidence enough that curiosity and wonder are the twin drivers of both scientific and artistic imaginations. In Science ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Attachment across the Lifecourse

    A Brief Introduction

    This thought-provoking and illuminating guide will be a helpful companion for students and professionals across the fields of psychology, counselling, social work, and health.It explains the key concepts and describes how the main attachment types play out both in childhood and later life, and it identifies some of the intriguing questions being explored by research, such as: 'What part do ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Sixth Sense Reader

    Edited by David Howes ...
    Series series Sensory Formations
    What is the sixth sense? Is it physical, mental or spiritual? Do we all possess it or is it unique to exceptional individuals? Might there be a seventh sense and an eighth sense as well? What role does culture play in determining the range of our perceptual abilities? The search for a supplementary sense has taken many directions and yielded numerous possibilities for an "additional faculty" of ... Read more

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  • Sensorium

    Contextualizing the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures

    by David Howes ...
    Series series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
    Do the senses have a history? How many might there be? Are the senses so many independent channels, or do they interact with and modulate each other? If so, how might we cultivate the capacity to see feelingly or hear colours? What makes smell 'the affective sense'? These are among the questions to be addressed in this Element. It pries the senses and perception loose from the psychology ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Researching Disability Sport

    Theory, Method, Practice

    Series series Disability Sport and Physical Activity Cultures
    Marking a new direction for disability sport scholarship, this book explores cutting-edge issues and engages creatively with contemporary approaches to research in this important emerging discipline.Featuring contributions from leading and up-and-coming scholars around the world, the book’s wide-ranging chapters offer novel perspectives on the relationship between theory, method, and empiricism in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory

    As a social worker, you must make sense of complex situations and determine the needs of various individuals. As star constellations offer a guide by which to navigate, social work theories offer ways to make sense of practice.Tackling the major theories used within social work, this book gives a concise and engaging overview of how practice is influenced by each approach described. The book ... Read more

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  • The Sensory Studies Manifesto

    Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences

    by David Howes ...
    The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is now on mixing and manipulating the senses.The Sensory Studies Manifesto tracks these transformations and opens multiple lines of investigation ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sensorial Investigations

    A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law

    by David Howes ...
    Series series Perspectives on Sensory History
    David Howes’s sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people.In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded alternative insights into how the senses function and argues convincingly that each culture should be ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Empire of the Senses

    The Sensual Culture Reader

    Edited by David Howes ...
    Series series Sensory Formations
    With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The senses are gateways of knowledge, instruments of power, sources of pleasure and pain - and they are subject to dramatically different ... Read more

    $45.99 USD