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  • Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration

    by Audrey Murfin ...

    $96.69 USD

  • Animal Fashions

    Colonialism, Collecting, and Gender

    Edited by Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz, Sibyl Bucheli ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines material artifacts that inhabit the intersection between fashion, colonialism and biological specimen collection. More broadly, this book demonstrates the significance of animal fashion in the nineteenth century, its relation to the Victorian imperial project, and the way the female body has been used to display the exploitation of natural resources as a product of colonialism ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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    **"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." —**Cultivating PlaceIn Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy ... Read more

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  • Curated Decay

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    by Caitlin DeSilvey ...
    Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows ... Read more

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  • Fashion History

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    by Linda Welters, Abby Lillethun ...
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    Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges ... Read more

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  • The Language of Trees

    How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds, and Rewild Our Lives

    by Katie Holten ...
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  • The Natural History of the Rich

    A Field Guide

    by Richard Conniff ...
    A tantalizing, droll study of the idiosyncratic existence of the very rich, through the unexpected lens of the naturalist.Journalist Richard Conniff probes the age-old question "Are the rich different from you and me?" and finds that they are indeed a completely different animal. He observes with great humor this socially unique species, revealing their strategies for ensuring dominance and ... Read more

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  • The Art of Feminism

    Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017

    by Helena Reckitt, Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson ...
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  • The Domestic Space Reader

    Edited by Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei ...
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  • What to Save and Why

    Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation

    by Erich Hatala Matthes ...
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    Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change

    by Malcolm Miles ...
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    By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thinking about art ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

    Edited by Dan Hicks, Mary C. Beaudry ...
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