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  • Triangularity

    Essays on Poetry, Science, and Spirit

    de Alice Major ...
    In a world defined by specialization and fragmentation, Alice Major’s Triangularity is a profound, timely challenge. Through personal essays and interspersed poems, Major reveals the deep connections between poetry, science, and spirit, proposing a new intellectual geometry. Science and spirit are the two sides of human inquiry—one seeking empirical mechanics, the other divine meaning. Poetry is ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Knife on Snow

    de Alice Major ...
    What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow covered yard? With Knife on Snow, Alice Major employs history, myth, and science to understand a world ablaze.From the bitumen hills of Fort McMurray to the barren reaches of Iceland, Knife on Snow depicts an earth bathed in dragon’s breath, where like the Norse gods bound to their fate, we stand transfixed by the ... Leer más

    Antes $11.59 USD Ahora $3.99 USD

  • The Office Tower Tales

    de Alice Major ...
    Series Libro English - cuRRents
    In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Sheherazad in PR, and Pandora, expectant grandmother from accounting, who gather to share tales during coffee breaks from their male-dominated engineering ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Welcome to the Anthropocene

    de Alice Major ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Standard candles

    de Alice Major ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena—from the centres of galaxies to the mysteries of her own backyard—with the most grounded and grounding ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Intersecting Sets

    A Poet Looks at Science

    de Alice Major ...
    Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Jade Spindle

    de Alice Major ...
    An adventure in another world â a slender string universe that runs close to ours and was settled long ago by people of the Yellow Emperor. Headstrong Joss, her gangly twin Mark and their friends find an accidental channel to this alien landscape where they are tipped into its battles, journeys and intrigues. They meet naive kings, scheming courtiers, peasant girls and potters in a world where a ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • Born to Walk

    The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act

    de Dan Rubinstein ...
    The case for getting back on our feetThe humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive ... Leer más

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  • Signal Fires

    de Christopher Dewdney ...
    Christopher Dewdney’s love for the landscape and the flora and fauna of southwestern Ontario has provoked some of the most gorgeously erotic prose ever to appear in this country. From that love, augmented by ardent research in the field, emerges a marvellously compelling, futuristic vision of time and space collapsed into near-simultaneity. Books IV and V of The Natural History of Southwestern ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Cosmos

    A Poem

    de James Applewhite ...
    Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in relation to the universe as described by Big Bang cosmology -- and as experienced by human beings in the everyday world. Applying experiences from his present-day life as well as a multitude of memories from his ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • This World Is Full of Monsters

    A Tor.com Original

    de Jeff VanderMeer ...
    An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth, in this Tor.com Original science fiction tale from Jeff VanderMeer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

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  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD