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  • What Is Extinction?

    A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals

    by Joshua Schuster ...
    WINNER, 25th ANNUAL SUSANNE M. GLASSCOCK BOOK PRIZELife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Ecology of Modernism

    American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics

    by Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Calamity Theory

    Three Critiques of Existential Risk

    by Joshua Schuster, Derek Woods ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Modernism and the Anthropocene

    Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Joseph Anderton, Emily Chester, Stuart Christie, Julia Daniel, Ted Howell, Jessica Martell, Robert Savino Oventile, Michael Sloane, Charles Tung, Timothy Wientzen, Glenn Willmott, Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

    by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander, Marjorie Perloff, Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein, Maria Damon, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jerome Rothenberg, Joshua Schuster, Eric Murphy Selinger, Alicia Ostriker, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Amy Feinstein, Thomas Fink, Kathryn Hellerstein, Adeena Karasick, Meg Schoerke, Norman Fischer, Bob Holman, Merle Lyn Bachman ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition- ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Neurocritical Care Management of the Neurosurgical Patient E-Book

    Edited by Monisha Kumar, Joshua Levine, James Schuster, W. Andrew Kofke ...
    Kumar and colleagues' Neurocritical Care Management of the Neurosurgical Patient provides the reader with thorough coverage of neuroanatomical structures, operative surgical approaches, anesthetic considerations, as well as the full range of known complications relating to elective and non-elective neurosurgical procedures. Drawing upon the expertise of an interdisciplinary team of physicians from ... Read more

    $137.69 USD

  • Will Alexander’s Poetics

    Readings Across the Radiant Glossaries

    Edited by Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume brings together academic and poetic essays which focus on Will Alexander’s complete oeuvre. The collection explores Alexander’s long career in African American avant-garde poetry, and sheds light on other genres of Alexander’s work in addition to poetry, including: essays, plays, aphorisms, novels, dialogues and drawings. Each contribution contextualizes Alexander’s work in the many ... Read more

    $134.09 USD