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Risk Criticism

Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty

by Molly Wallace ...

Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global ... Read more

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Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global
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Bright I Burn

A Novel

by Molly Aitken ...

Narrated by Avena Mansergh-Wallace ...

Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • IRISH BESTSELLER • A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in IrelandIn thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities—and she vows that she will ... Read more

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BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • IRISH BESTSELLER • A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in IrelandIn thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities—and she vows that she will
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From Cogito to Covid

Rethinking Lacan’s “Science and Truth”

Edited by Molly A. Wallace, Concetta V. Principe ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan’s 1965 essay “Science and Truth” to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth. In doing so, it re-considers the established understanding of its argument that psychoanalysis is the only science for the human subject.Over fifty years after Lacan attempted to formalize the relationship between science and psychoanalysis ... Read more

$134.09 USD

This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan’s 1965 essay “Science and Truth” to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth. In doing so, it re-considers the established understanding of its argument that psychoanalysis is the only science for the human subject.Over fifty years after Lacan attempted to formalize the relationship between science and psychoanalysis
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Perma/Culture:

Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis

Edited by Molly Wallace, David Carruthers ...

Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and ... Read more

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In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and
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From Mediation to Nation-Building

Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict

by Mohammad Ashraf, Elham Atashi, Linda Bishai, Steven L. Burg, Stephen D. Collins, Neil A. Cruickshank, Caroline A. Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie, Daniela Irrera, Dijon Jones, David D. Laitin, Paul T. McCartney, Cdr. Brigid Myers Pavilonis, Victor Peskin, Mateja Peter, Molly S. Wallace, Sam Whitt, Donald R. Zoufal, I.M. Lobo de Souza, David Forsythe, Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, James DeShaw Rae ...

The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national ... Read more

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The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national
... Read more
Pro iPhone Development with Swift 4

Design and Manage Top Quality Apps

by Molly Maskrey, Wallace Wang ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Acquire and master the information required to take you to the next level beyond basic iPhone development using Swift.In this follow up work to the best selling Beginning iPhone Development with Swift, you’ll learn how to improve your apps by managing the performance of your programs using parallelization, getting data in and out of the cloud, using gestures, the camera, 3D touch, sensors as well ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Acquire and master the information required to take you to the next level beyond basic iPhone development using Swift.In this follow up work to the best selling Beginning iPhone Development with Swift, you’ll learn how to improve your apps by managing the performance of your programs using parallelization, getting data in and out of the cloud, using gestures, the camera, 3D touch, sensors as well
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Birds of a Lesser Paradise

Stories

by Megan Mayhew ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

7 hours 28 min

An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world.Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world and wildlife, Megan Mayhew Bergman’s ... Read more

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An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world.Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world and wildlife, Megan Mayhew Bergman’s
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No Place to Bury the Dead

A Novel

by Karina Sainz Borgo ...

Narrated by Maria McCann ...

Unabridged

7 hours 27 min

“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the
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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

A Novel

by Andrey Kurkov ...

Narrated by Andrew Byron ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

“A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns.”—ObserverLonglisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine, filled with a charming cast of eccentrics who together make up the beating heart of the city.Strange, almost magical, things ... Read more

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“A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns.”—ObserverLonglisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine, filled with a charming cast of eccentrics who together make up the beating heart of the city.Strange, almost magical, things
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Nobody's Empire

A Novel

by Stuart Murdoch ...

Narrated by Stuart Murdoch ...

Unabridged

13 hours 29 min

“Dazzles with indie charm. . . . By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Nobody’s Empire is a romantic world of possibility and youthful yearning.”—Minnesota Star Tribune“Murdoch proves he’s as good a novelist as he is a musician.""—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)One of the great lyricists of our time, the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow-based band Belle and Sebastian, pens a ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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“Dazzles with indie charm. . . . By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Nobody’s Empire is a romantic world of possibility and youthful yearning.”—Minnesota Star Tribune“Murdoch proves he’s as good a novelist as he is a musician.""—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)One of the great lyricists of our time, the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow-based band Belle and Sebastian, pens a
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Long Division

A Novel

by Kiese Laymon ...

Narrated by Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long
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Our Narrow Hiding Places

A Novel

by Kristopher Jansma ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn’s life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her home on the New Jersey shore, visits with friends, and tai chi at the local retirement community. But when her ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn’s life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her home on the New Jersey shore, visits with friends, and tai chi at the local retirement community. But when her
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