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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tom bristow”
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  • A Cultural History of Climate Change

    Edited by Tom Bristow, Thomas Ford ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Green Thread

    Dialogues with the Vegetal World

    by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell, Christa Sommerer, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Alan Read, Andrew Howe, Hannah Stark, Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Anthropocene Lyric

    An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place

    by Tom Bristow ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Missing In Rangoon

    by Christopher G. Moore ...
    As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino's case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in Myanmar, while his best friend and protector Colonel Pratt of the Royal Thai Police has an order to cut off the supply of cold pills from Myanmar used for the ... Read more

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  • A Civil Action

    by Jonathan Harr ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations accused of killing children from water contamination that he risks losing everything."The legal thriller of the decade." —Cleveland Plain Dealer**Described as “a page-turner filled with greed, duplicity, heartache, and bare-knuckle ... Read more

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  • The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

    by Dan Egan ...
    **New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award"Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 ... Read more

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  • Our Way Out

    Principles for a Post-apocalyptic World

    by Marq De Villiers ...
    Global warming, energy shortages, overpopulation — it's no wonder that as a society, we're in an apocalyptic mood. Out of an endless stream of gloomy prognoses for humanity's future, we have emerged with little inspiration and few concrete ideas for change. Our Way Out is the first time that our most urgent global challenges have been treated as aspects of a single, larger crisis — and the first ... Read more

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  • Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

    An Autobiographical Novel

    Translated by Stephen Epstein, Young-nan Yu ...
    by Wan-suh Park ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability.Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small ... Read more

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  • Environmental Debt

    The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy

    by Amy Larkin ...
    An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crisesFor decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal ... Read more

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  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    by Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Book 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Read more

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  • The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

    by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih ...
    Translated by Vincent Yu-chung Shih ...
    The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at the time, it is simultaneously a taxonomy and history of genres and styles and a manual for good ... Read more

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