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  • Visionary Animal

    Rock art from southern Africa

    by Renaud Ego ...
    An illustrated collection that takes stock of current knowledge and proposes a new way of reading indigenous artFor thousands of years, nomadic hunter-gatherers assigned a fundamental role to the visualization of the animals who shared their lives. Some, such as the Cape eland, the largest of antelopes, were the object of a fascinated gaze, as though the graceful markings and shapes of their ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Spell of the Sensuous

    Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

    by David Abram ...
    Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for NonfictionAnimal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.For a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Biology of Wonder

    Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science

    by Andreas Weber ...
    A new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his "graceful prose" ( Publishers Weekly).The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. This schism is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us. Until we come to terms with the depths of our ... Read more

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  • What Is Paleolithic Art?

    Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

    by Jean Clottes ...
    Translated by Oliver Y. Martin, Robert D. Martin ...
    The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning.What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of ... Read more

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  • Ten Windows

    How Great Poems Transform the World

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our ... Read more

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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lines

    A Brief History

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.Ingold’s argument ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

    by Donald Richie ...
    Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Wild Mind, Wild Earth

    Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

    by David Hinton ...
    Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Life of Lines

    by Tim Ingold ...
    To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human.In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Chaos, Territory, Art

    Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

    by Elizabeth Grosz ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Matter and Desire

    An Erotic Ecology

    by Andreas Weber ...
    Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & EnvironmentIn Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive is an erotic process—constantly transforming the self through contact with others, desiring ever more ... Read more

    $15.99 USD