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  • Sinking Lessons

    by Philip Armstrong ...
    The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells—from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld. The cast of characters includes members of the poet's family ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Zealand Book of Beasts

    Animals in Our Culture, History and Everday Life

    by Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong, Deidre Brown ...
    Touching on indigenous Maori relationships with the now-extinct, flightless moa; the attitudes of Pakeha, or European, settlers toward sheep; the iconography of whales and dolphins; the problems of pest-control; and the pleasures of pet-keeping, this modern-day bestiary is a fascinating study of human–animal relations. In the book's four parts, the authors unravel the contradictory ways New ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pleasure in Drawing

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    The renowned philosopher contemplates the medium of drawing in "a book full of dazzling insights, imaginative curves and provocative renewals" (Sarah Clift, University of King's College).In 2007, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy curated an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. This book, originally written for that exhibition, explores the interplay between drawing and form—viewing the act of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Busting Business Bullshit

    by Philip Armstrong Feyng ...
    Are you questioning why your company operates the way it does?Do the daily frustrations of work leave you yearning for change to preserve your sanity?Are you stuck on tasks that seem pointless or angry that your voice is consistently ignored?Tired of office politics and the endless stream of nonsense from your leaders?If any of this resonates, this book is for you.This isn't your typical business ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis

    by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    The link between psychoanalysis as a mode of interpretation and Shakespeare's works is well known. But rather than merely putting Shakespeare on the couch, Philip Armstrong focuses on the complex and fascinatingly fruitful mutual relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory. He shows how the theories of Freud, Rank, Jones, Lacan, Erikson, and others are themselves in a large ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature

    by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world, as these have been represented across a wide range of literary texts. It includes in‑depth discussion of both familiar and less familiar works from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to today. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Practice of Clinical and Counselling Supervision

    Australian and International Applications

    Edited by Nadine Pelling, Philip Armstrong ...
    Quality supervision assists in quality service provision. The Practice of Clinical and Counselling Supervision: Australian and International Applications is the third edition of the leading Australian state-of-the-art text for supervision training applicable to a vast range of applied therapists. Counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and clinical nurse supervisors will all ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Intoxication

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    From Plato’s Symposium to Hegel’s truth as a “Bacchanalian revel,” from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sheep

    by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series Book 78 - Animal
    The Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in fitted coats, early Christians made the shepherd synonymous with their divine saviour. In Sheep, Philip Armstrong traces the natural and cultural history of both the wild and domestic species of Ovis: from the Old World mouflon to the corkscrew-horned flocks of the Egyptians, to the ‘Trojan sheep’ of Homer’s Odyssey, to the vast migratory mobs ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Disavowed Community

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Commonalities
    Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity

    by Philip Armstrong ...
    What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity.In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

    Edited by Louise Westling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from ... Read more

    $29.59 USD