Bruin john (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 1280 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, andtopics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism¿s impact across disciplines and areas of study.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. pck edition. 1243 pages. 9.25x6.25x3.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, andtopics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism's impact across disciplines and areas of study.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A review copy of the scarce first edition of this volume of poetry from South African activist Dennis Brutus, published under a pseudonym. The first edition of this work.Stamped 'Review Copy' to the verso of the front wrap.Published under the pseudonym John Bruin so the book could be distributed in South Africa, where Brutus's work was banned. It was re-issued in 1975 using his real name.Brutus was born in Southern Rhodesia, but later moved to South African where he was jailed for his anti-apartheid activism, and became a political refugee. He moved to the United States in 1983. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Wraps lightly age toned to perimeters, with the odd light handling mark to front wrap. Stamp to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Paes clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 28pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Covers and a few pages of text are lightly tanned, very good or better. The first edition of this title issued anonymously. Brutus was born in Southern Rhodesia but lived in South African where he was jailed for his anti-apartheid activism and became a political refugee, moving to the United States in 1983. The pseudonym was used so the book could be distributed in South Africa, where his work is banned. It was re-issued in 1975 using he author's real name.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sewn paper wrappers (softcover), 62p : illustrations (chiefly in colour) ; 28 cm. Very good. Cave Myths (Endless Spelunking) associatively traces the genealogy of the cave as a generative space for ideas in contemporary art. It brings together an intergenerational selection of works by artists who engage with the cave and notions around the subterranean, and its seemingly endless potential for artistic exploration. We return to the cave all the time, to try and unravel its eternal secrets; in our contemporary post-truth reality, in which ideological bankruptcy and technological hubris have outlined a horizon of global collapse, the urgency of a return to the origins of civilization feels more poignant than ever.…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition thus, 1975 edition. Octavo. 28pp. Slightly tanned at spine, near fine. Signed twice, once on the cover and again on the first page. Originally issued in 1970 using only a pseudonym, while this re-issue sports a rear cover listing other publications by Dennis Brutus, a Southern Rhodesia-born poet who grew up in South African, jailed for his anti-apartheid activism.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. American Edition. Pages 254-336 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: Biggest Hold-up on Record - robbery of the U.S. Mail at Toledo, Ohio in February, 1921; Salvaging a God - a tale of South Sea natives and one of their gods; Pekin (Peking / Beijing) to London, Mostly by Car- Fantastic photo-illustrated article on Capt. D.M. McCallum's 15,000 mile adventure, including photos of Angkor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada (part 3 of 3) - H.P. Musson's homestead turns out to be all rocks and precipices!; The People of Pierre Le Loupe - George E. Stuart-Reid volunteers with the North-West Mounted to finally capture a half-breed murderer after a long and arduous hunt; A Day in the Life of a South African Farmer; Over Niagara Falls in a Rubber Ball! - Amazing photo-illustrated article on Jean Albert Lussier and his daring exploit; How I Won My Horse - Margaret S. Coffman and her challenging 300-mile Texas ride; The Big Leopard - John de Bruin recounts how he was attacked - with photo; When Raj Mungal Saw Red - a valuable elephant goes rogue in Sabalpur, India; The Snake Worshippers - a story from Calcutta about the Ooriyas, natives of the province of Orissa on the east coast of India; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part 2 of 2 of this photo-illustrated account of Emil Trinkler and his trip to this strange land of desolate mountains and fertile valleys, with photos of the huge cliff carvings at Bamian; Following the Frontier Trail - Newspaperwoman Edith Ammons Kohl recounts her experiences in the vast range country of Wyoming; My Strangest Experience - a story of the occult by a trooper in the B.S.A. police. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Norman Sutcliffe; T.H. Peddie; W.J. Gale; Dudley Tennant; John De Walton; E.J. Kealey; S. Tresilian; Cyril Holloway; S.H. Vedder; Francis E. Hiley; G.W. Goss; Nicolson (cover) (illustrator). …

Zustand: Very Good.