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“shankar raman”

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  • At the Feet of Living Things

    Twenty-Five Years of Wildlife Research and Conservation in India

    by Aparajita Datta, Rohan Arthur, T.R. Shankar Raman ...
    Have you wondered what it is like to follow hornbills in a dense rainforest? Or felt the pain of a mountain shepherd losing his sheep to a leopard? Or how it feels when a child discovers birdwatching is more exciting than being glued to a screen? The world of nature conservation is full of adventure, but it is also hard, fraught with challenges and setbacks, made worthwhile by the privilege of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Renaissance Literatures and Postcolonial Studies

    by Shankar Raman ...
    Series series Postcolonial Literary Studies

    $26.99 USD

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    War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century.Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and ... Read more

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  • The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)

    Literature and the History of Violence

    Edited by Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and ... Read more

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  • Endangered

    by Tim Flach ...
    The acclaimed wildlife photographer presents "a powerful visual record of threatened animals and ecosystems facing the harshest of challenges" ( The Guardian, UK).In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world—to settings ... Read more

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  • Race and Sex in Latin America

    by Peter Wade ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities, but the importance of this has been under explored.Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature on race and sex in the region, covering historical aspects and contemporary debates.He includes both black and indigenous people in the frame, as well as mixed and white people, ... Read more

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  • Metaphor Island

    Patterns for Survival from the Nilgiri Highlands

    by Godwin Vasanth Bosco ...
    The Ecological and social crises that engulf the planet are intensifying. As we deny the consequences of the disruptions we cause, and promote inadequate solutions, we lose grip on the extent of change needed globally. Perhaps we will only listen if a voice from nature speaks out explicitly.Based on seven years of in-depth research, Godwin Vasanth Bosco finds that a remarkable mountainous ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Travel Writing

    by Glenn Hooper ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Discovering Big Cat Country

    On the trail of tigers and snow leopards

    by Eric Dinerstein ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    With their elusive and solitary nature, tigers and snow leopards are a challenge for even the most seasoned field biologists to track and study. Yet scientist and conservation leader Eric Dinerstein began his career in the heart of Nepal’s tiger country and the perilous Himalayan slopes of the snow leopard, where he discovered the joys—and frustrations—of studying wildlife in some of the most ... Read more

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  • The Culture of the Seven Years' War

    Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

    Edited by Frans de Bruyn, Shaun Regan ...
    The Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century – Winston Churchill called it the first “world war” – and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years’ War remains woefully understudied.The Culture of the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Tigers of the World

    The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris

    Edited by Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus ...
    Series series Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
    Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast ... Read more

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  • Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

    Performance, Geography, Privacy

    Edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms ... Read more

    $61.99 USD