Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
By: Stacy Alaimo
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human …
Want to Read $ 9.96"Dropping down dead, the birds, like Fe’s chemical, are heavier than air. Once Fe does comprehend her incomprehensible world, she realizes her own unintentional but harmful actions. She recollects how she had “more than once dumped [the chemical] down the drain at the end of the day,"-Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
"Dropping down dead, the birds, like Fe’s chemical, are heavier than air. Once Fe does comprehend her incomprehensible world, she realizes her own unintentional but harmful actions. She recollects how she had “more than once dumped [the chemical] down the drain at the end of the day,"-Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
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By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. The Ecological Thought
By: Timothy Morton
3.87
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are co… read more
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"The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean."-Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought
3. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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4. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
By: Jane Bennett
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Vibrant Matterthe political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and … read more
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5. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
By: Eduardo Kohn
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very founda… read more
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6. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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7. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
By: Carolyn Merchant
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern sci… read more
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8. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
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9. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
By: Mary Prince
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more
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10. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
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"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
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11. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
12. Gut Feminism
By: None
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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13. The End of Eddy
By: Édouard Louis , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more
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14. So Far from God
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3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love … read more
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15. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. Under the Feet of Jesus
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3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
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17. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
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18. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
By: None
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
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19. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
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20. Água Viva
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4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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21. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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22. Cher connard
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3.62
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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23. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
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24. My Work
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4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
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25. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
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"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
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26. Pollution Is Colonialism
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4.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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27. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
By: Stacy Alaimo
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human … read more
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"Dropping down dead, the birds, like Fe’s chemical, are heavier than air. Once Fe does comprehend her incomprehensible world, she realizes her own unintentional but harmful actions. She recollects how…"-Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
28. Posthuman Feminism
By: Rosi Braidotti
4.24
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new ge… read more
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29. Transgender Marxism
By: Jules Joanne Gleeson
3.95
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30. Dear Science and Other Stories (Errantries)
By: Katherine McKittrick
4.59
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31. A Narrative of the Life of John Marrant
By: John Marrant
3.14
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