Tait Adrian (67 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 155 p. 22 cm. B&w drawings. Green cloth in dustjacket. Jacket has tears and wear to edges. Some stains to white rear panel. Corners bumped. Some soiling to cloth. Faint stains on p. 1 and opposite.

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Este es el primer libro que revela cómo, en la actualidad, ya hay profesionales de distintos sectores que están empezando a colaborar incorporando en su trabajo y en sus vidas la aceptación de un colapso social probable o inminente. Esta corriente social y cultural, llamada Adaptación Profunda, se ocupa de los cambios personales y colectivos que podrían ayudar a nuestras sociedades a prepararnos para una ruptura o un colapso como consecuencia del clima. Los autores de esta obra parten de la premisa de que nuestros actuales sistemas económicos, sociales y políticos no podrán ser resilientes al cambio climático y, como respuesta a esta asunción, describen una serie de alternativas solidarias y creativas mediante las cuales la gente está proponiendo respuestas al desafío más difícil que la humanidad haya tenido que afrontar jamás. La corriente Adaptación Profunda ofrece un marco de apoyo transversal y multidisciplinar para responder a la aterradora realidad de la creciente perturbación climática. El compromiso de este movimiento está dirigido a reducir el sufrimiento colectivo al tiempo que salvamos lo máximo posible de la sociedad y del mundo natural. Editado por el creador del concepto de Adaptación Profunda, Jem Bendell, y un destacado activista, pensador y estratega climático, Rupert Read, este libro es la introducción esencial al concepto, la práctica y el movimiento mundial emergente de Adaptación Profunda al actual caos climático. Este es el momento adecuado para un libro, como este, que discuta las diversas implicaciones de anticipar el colapso social. Adaptación profunda es una agenda y un marco para responder al potencial, probable o inevitable colapso de las sociedades industriales de consumo debido a los impactos ?directos o indirectos? del cambio climático y de la degradación ambiental causados por los humanos. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works. The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of his works.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837-1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. As this book emphasises, environmental injustice - simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution - was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality; a product of industrial modernity's radical reformation of British society, it particularly affected the working classes. As each chapter reveals in detail, this form of environmental inequality (or 'classism') drew sharply critical reactions from figures as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, and from within the Chartist movement, as working-class writers themselves reacted to the hazardous realities of a divided society. But as this book also reveals, these writers recognised that a truly just society respects the needs of the nonhuman and takes account of the material world in all its own aliveness; even if only tentatively, they reached for a more inclusive, emergent form of justice that might address the social and ecological impacts of industrial modernity, an idea which is no less relevant today.This book represents an indispensable resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Victorian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 207 pages. Illustrated.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Este es el primer libro que revela cómo, en la actualidad, ya hay profesionales de distintos sectores que están empezando a colaborar incorporando en su trabajo y en sus vidas la aceptación de un colapso social probable o inminente.Esta corriente social y cultural, llamada Adaptación Profunda, se ocupa de los cambios personales y colectivos que podrían ayudar a nuestras sociedades a prepararnos para una ruptura o un colapso como consecuencia del clima.Los autores de esta obra parten de la premisa de que nuestros actuales sistemas económicos, sociales y políticos no podrán ser resilientes al cambio climático y, como respuesta a esta asunción, describen una serie de alternativas solidarias y creativas mediante las cuales la gente está proponiendo respuestas al desafío más difícil que la humanidad haya tenido que afrontar jamás.La corriente Adaptación Profunda ofrece un marco de apoyo transversal y multidisciplinar para responder a la aterradora realidad de la creciente perturbación climática. El compromiso de este movimiento está dirigido a reducir el sufrimiento colectivo al tiempo que salvamos lo máximo posible de la sociedad y del mundo natural.Editado por el creador del concepto de Adaptación Profunda, Jem Bendell, y un destacado activista, pensador y estratega climático, Rupert Read, este libro es la introducción esencial al concepto, la práctica y el movimiento mundial emergente de Adaptación Profunda al actual caos climático.Este es el momento adecuado para un libro, como este, que discuta las diversas implicaciones de anticipar el colapso social. Adaptación profunda es una agenda y un marco para responder al potencial, probable o inevitable colapso de las sociedades industriales de consumo debido a los impactos directos o indirectos del cambio climático y de la degradación ambiental causados por los humanos.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works. The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of his works.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the "scientific romance," an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness - or "agentiality" - of the nonhuman animal and more-than-human, natural world today makes it particularly noteworthy. In a succession of short stories and novels, many now forgotten, writers such as Grant Allen, John Davidson, George Griffith, and Henry Marriott Watson dramatized the possibility that "Nature" had not been "conquered" by industrial modernity, but might instead be reacting to it with an unexpected dynamism. Long before environmental issues such as climate change came to the public's attention, they asked whether humankind might one day inadvertently create existential threats to its own survival. In so doing, these pioneers of sf depicted their world in terms that anticipate the recent new materialist focus on a mutable and dynamic reality, responsive and perhaps resistant to human endeavor.…

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