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Anti-War Theatre After Brecht

Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

by Lara Stevens ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner
... Read more
Hypergamy

by Lara Stevens ...

‘Hypergamy: marriage into an equal or higher caste or social group’ --Merriam Webster. Who are you dating? Have you considered hypergamy? Perhaps you should. There are real, consequential reasons behind women’s long-held preferences for mates of high breeding, wealth, and ability. My well-researched book discusses the nature, history, and current-day implications of this preference and practice, ... Read more

$3.99 USD

‘Hypergamy: marriage into an equal or higher caste or social group’ --Merriam Webster. Who are you dating? Have you considered hypergamy? Perhaps you should. There are real, consequential reasons behind women’s long-held preferences for mates of high breeding, wealth, and ability. My well-researched book discusses the nature, history, and current-day implications of this preference and practice,
... Read more
Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance

by Peta Tait, Denise Varney, Lara Stevens ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places drama and theatrical performance staged in Australia within the context of international scholarship to address major concerns about changing ecological systems. Exploring the staging of calamities ranging from droughts and floods to forest fires and rising seas, it examines a strikingly diverse body of ... Read more

$106.59 USD

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places drama and theatrical performance staged in Australia within the context of international scholarship to address major concerns about changing ecological systems. Exploring the staging of calamities ranging from droughts and floods to forest fires and rising seas, it examines a strikingly diverse body of
... Read more
Performing Climates

by Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay
... Read more
Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School-The What, Why, and How

A Step-by-Step Guide With Activities, Games, and Lesson Planning Tools

by Jennifer Knudsen, Harriette Stevens, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Hee-Joon Kim, Nikki Shechtman ...

Series series Corwin Mathematics Series
Get them talking: Your formula for bringing math concepts to life!Want your middle schoolers to intelligently engage with mathematical ideas? Ready to help them construct and critique viable arguments that meet tough Standards for Mathematical Practice 3 standards? Look no further. This research-based gem will help you foster the critical reasoning and argumentation skills every student needs for ... Read more

$31.49 USD

Get them talking: Your formula for bringing math concepts to life!Want your middle schoolers to intelligently engage with mathematical ideas? Ready to help them construct and critique viable arguments that meet tough Standards for Mathematical Practice 3 standards? Look no further. This research-based gem will help you foster the critical reasoning and argumentation skills every student needs for
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Animal Wife

by Lara Ehrlich ...

Narrated by Eileen Frances Stevens ...

Unabridged

3 hours 45 min

“In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are each about girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from ... Read more

$24.99 USD

“In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are each about girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from
... Read more
Feminist Ecologies

Changing Environments in the Anthropocene

Edited by Peta Tait, Denise Varney, Lara Stevens ...

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational ... Read more

$134.09 USD

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational
... Read more
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The Skull Throne (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Demon Cycle 4

by Peter V. Brett ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Dylan Lynch, Eva Wilhelm, Joe Brack, Bradley Smith, Katy Carkuff, Lily Beacon, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, Ken Jackson, Christopher Scheeren, Julie-Ann Elliott, Terence Aselford, Johann Dettweiler, Casie Platt, Thomas Keegan, Thomas Penny, Ren Kasey, Michael John Casey, Kimberly Gilbert, Nora Achrati, Christopher Graybill, Alyssa Wilmoth, David Coyne, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Drew Kopas, Nick DePinto, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Yasmin Tuazon, Steven Carpenter, Lara Supan, Margie Tompros ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Demon Cycle
Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty.Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, it is a seat of honor and ancient, powerful magic, keeping the demon corelings at bay. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world, forging its isolated peoples into a unified army to rise up and end the demon war once and for all.But Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, stood ... Read more

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The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty.Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, it is a seat of honor and ancient, powerful magic, keeping the demon corelings at bay. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world, forging its isolated peoples into a unified army to rise up and end the demon war once and for all.But Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, stood
... Read more

Female Erasure

What You Need To Know About Gender Politics' War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Edited by Barrett Ruth ...

FEMALE ERASURE is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposing the origins and harmful effects of transgender ideology on the lives of women and children today disguised as progressive politics.This anthology comes at a time when gender identity politics and profits from an emerging medical transgenderism industry for children, teens, and adults ... Read more

$9.99 USD

FEMALE ERASURE is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposing the origins and harmful effects of transgender ideology on the lives of women and children today disguised as progressive politics.This anthology comes at a time when gender identity politics and profits from an emerging medical transgenderism industry for children, teens, and adults
... Read more
Staying with the Trouble

Making Kin in the Chthulucene

by Donna J. Haraway ...

Series series Experimental Futures
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and ... Read more

$20.89 USD

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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and
... Read more

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Why Have Children?

The Ethical Debate

by Christine Overall ...

Series series Basic Bioethics
A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Read more

$15.99 USD

A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more
... Read more
Ways of Being

Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

by James Bridle ...

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few
... Read more

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