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The Social Dinosaur - The Life Of The Mesozoic In The Popular Imagination

de Dr Will (University Of Birmingham, Uk) Tattersdill

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A history of Dinosaurs in popular literature and culture, from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World to Jurassic Park.
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Forest Ecology And Fantasy Fiction - Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin

de Dion (Bath Spa University, Uk) Dobrzynski

~~121,67€~~ 109,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book explores how they engage with forest ecologies, histories and futures, both real and imagined.
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Science And Affect In Contemporary Literature - Bodies Of Knowledge

de Shannon Lambert

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, practices, and products. This book brings into dialogue close readings of scientific writing and contemporary literary works by authors like Jeanette Winterson, Richard Powers, Hanya Yanagihara, Thalia Field, and Jenny Offill. Combining narrative and affect studies, it uses formal strategies such as moving metaphor, visceral or affective description, plot-level analogy, contraction, and rhythm to engage with western scientific epistemologies, which still tends towards the impassive, universal, and objective. While each chapter focuses on a different field (or fields) of science, all foreground bodies-human and nonhuman-as a way of exploring knowledge production. Through close readings, the book argues that select ''scientific stories'' raise important questions about how ''knowledge'' is defined and who (and what) is invited into its processes of production.
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Science And Affect In Contemporary Literature - Bodies Of Knowledge

de Shannon Lambert

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, practices, and products. This book brings into dialogue close readings of scientific writing and contemporary literary works by authors like Jeanette Winterson, Richard Powers, Hanya Yanagihara, Thalia Field, and Jenny Offill. Combining narrative and affect studies, it uses formal strategies such as moving metaphor, visceral or affective description, plot-level analogy, contraction, and rhythm to engage with western scientific epistemologies, which still tends towards the impassive, universal, and objective. While each chapter focuses on a different field (or fields) of science, all foreground bodies-human and nonhuman-as a way of exploring knowledge production. Through close readings, the book argues that select ''scientific stories'' raise important questions about how ''knowledge'' is defined and who (and what) is invited into its processes of production.
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Physics And The Modernist Avant-Garde - Quantum Modernisms And Modernist Relativities

de Rachel Fountain Eames

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets - William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens - whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers'' thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science''s new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein''s visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.
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Physics And The Modernist Avant-Garde - Quantum Modernisms And Modernist Relativities

de Rachel Fountain Eames

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets - William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens - whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers'' thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science''s new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein''s visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.
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Rereading Darwin S Origin Of Species - The Hesitations Of An Evolutionist

de James Tierney e Richard G. Delisle

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Widely seen as evolution''s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin''s greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin''s masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries'' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin - and this other side of On the Origin of Species - helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.
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Rereading Darwin S Origin Of Species - The Hesitations Of An Evolutionist

de James Tierney e Richard G. Delisle

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Widely seen as evolution''s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin''s greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin''s masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries'' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin - and this other side of On the Origin of Species - helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.
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Twins And Recursion In Digital, Literary And Visual Cultures

de Edward King

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 The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin plot to address its current cultural tensions. In this study, Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising relationship between humans and digital information, their environment and their genetics. As King demonstrates, twins tell us about the changing forms of connectivity and power in contemporary culture and what new conceptions of the human they present us with. Taking account of a broad range of literary, cultural and scientific practices, Entwined Being probes discussions surrounding twins such as: - The way in which they appear in behavioral genetics as a way of identifying inherited predispositions to social media - How their faces interrupt biometric interfaces such as facial recognition software and undermine advances in neo-liberal surveillance systems - How they represent the uncanny and the weird in the horror genre and how this questions ideologies of communications media and the connectivity it enables - Their association with telepathy and cybernetics in science fiction - Their construction as models for entangled being in ecological thought Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bruce Chatwin, Shelley Jackson, Brian de Palma, Peter Greenway and David Cronenberg, as well as science fiction literature and the television series Orphan Black, King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in times of digital integration and ecological crisis.
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Twins And Recursion In Digital, Literary And Visual Cultures

de Edward King

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin plot to address its current cultural tensions. In this study, Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising relationship between humans and digital information, their environment and their genetics. As King demonstrates, twins tell us about the changing forms of connectivity and power in contemporary culture and what new conceptions of the human they present us with. Taking account of a broad range of literary, cultural and scientific practices, Entwined Being probes discussions surrounding twins such as: - The way in which they appear in behavioral genetics as a way of identifying inherited predispositions to social media - How their faces interrupt biometric interfaces such as facial recognition software and undermine advances in neo-liberal surveillance systems - How they represent the uncanny and the weird in the horror genre and how this questions ideologies of communications media and the connectivity it enables - Their association with telepathy and cybernetics in science fiction - Their construction as models for entangled being in ecological thought Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bruce Chatwin, Shelley Jackson, Brian de Palma, Peter Greenway and David Cronenberg, as well as science fiction literature and the television series Orphan Black, King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in times of digital integration and ecological crisis.
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Writing Remains - New Intersections Of Archaeology, Literature And Science

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 Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of archaeological knowledge in literature and literary criticism. The book''s eight chapters explore a wide array of archaeological approaches and methods, including scientific archaeology, identifying intersections with literature and literary studies which are textual, conceptual, spatial, temporal and material. Examining literary authors from Thomas Hardy and Bram Stoker to Sarah Moss and Paul Beatty, scholars from across disciplines are brought into dialogue to consider fictional narrative both as a site of new archaeological knowledge and as a source and object of archaeological investigation.
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Writing Remains - New Intersections Of Archaeology, Literature And Science

38,15€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of archaeological knowledge in literature and literary criticism. The book''s eight chapters explore a wide array of archaeological approaches and methods, including scientific archaeology, identifying intersections with literature and literary studies which are textual, conceptual, spatial, temporal and material. Examining literary authors from Thomas Hardy and Bram Stoker to Sarah Moss and Paul Beatty, scholars from across disciplines are brought into dialogue to consider fictional narrative both as a site of new archaeological knowledge and as a source and object of archaeological investigation.
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Imagining Solar Energy - The Power Of The Sun In Literature, Science And Culture

de Gregory Lynall

39,34€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power''s history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day - have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours.
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Imagining Solar Energy - The Power Of The Sun In Literature, Science And Culture

de Gregory Lynall

39,34€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power''s history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day - have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours.
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Herman Melville And Neurodiversity, Or Why Hunt Difference With Harpoons? - A Primitivist Phenomenology

de Pilar Martinez Benedi e Ralph James (Grinnell College, Usa) Savarese

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% IMEDIATO

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Science And Affect In Contemporary Literature - Bodies Of Knowledge

de Shannon (Ghent University, Belgium) Lambert

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% IMEDIATO

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Science And Affect In Contemporary Literature - Bodies Of Knowledge

de Shannon (Ghent University, Belgium) Lambert

~~121,67€~~ 109,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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Physics And The Modernist Avant-Garde - Quantum Modernisms And Modernist Relativities

de Rachel Fountain (Independent Scholar) Eames

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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Twins And Recursion In Digital, Literary And Visual Cultures

de Dr Edward (University Of Bristol, Uk) King

40,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Imagining Solar Energy - The Power Of The Sun In Literature, Science And Culture

de Dr Gregory (University Of Liverpool, Uk) Lynall

44,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Narrative In The Age Of The Genome - Genetic Worlds

de Dr Lara (University Of Exeter, Uk) Choksey

43,25€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Twins And Recursion In Digital, Literary And Visual Cultures

de Dr Edward (University Of Bristol, Uk) King

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Rereading Darwinâ€™S Origin Of Species - The Hesitations Of An Evolutionist

de James Tierney e Richard G. Delisle

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Herman Melville And Neurodiversity, Or Why Hunt Difference With Harpoons? - A Primitivist Phenomenology

de Pilar Martinez Benedi e Ralph James (Grinnell College, Usa) Savarese

98,50€

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