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We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that...

Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of...

Letters To Guns represents a collection of poems that examine the para-physical natures of love and history, at times re-imagining both. As the poems progress, eight letters arrive written by non-human addressees (a nightgown, a grove of trees, a wooden spoon, others) at random points over the last 2,200...

This book is your ultimate Terence McKenna resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Terence McKenna's whole picture right away. Get countless...

This academic article, written at Colorado State University in the fall of 2013 for an Ethnopsychiatry course, reveals how vocal tone - "prosody" - is affected by acculturation to particular musical scales, and how a lack of exposure to or affinity for foreign music can crucially affect intercultural...

This brief theory paper is suggestive of a plant-based medicinal method to help bipolar and schizophrenic sufferers of untreatable psychoses. The argument is founded on scientific research in psychology, psychopharmacology, origins of religion.

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown...

Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice...

Per sopravvivere a Snuggstown, turbolento sobborgo di Dublino, ci sono due possibilità: pagare il pizzo alla mala, oppure riscuoterlo per suo conto. E per un poliziotto, ce n'è una sola: chiudere entrambi gli occhi. Ma se nella chiassosa cittadina ti capita di nascere con il talento per la boxe,...

Il pub di Foley, al centro di Dublino, è famoso per molte cose, ma per i Browne soprattutto per una: è la sede tradizionale da ventisette anni a questa parte di tutti i loro festeggiamenti. Ora perciò che l’ultimo dei Browne, Aaron, il figlio di Mark, ha deciso di venire al mondo, Agnes e i suoi...

It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated failed ceasefires. It inflicted suffering beyond belief and generated...

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Alaska is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the skyscrapers of downtown Vancouver disappear behind the trees...

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national and international legal governance. The book reviews the legal status of customary law and its relationship with positive and natural law from...

Traditional thermal and freezing processing techniques have been effective in maintaining a safe high quality food supply. However, increasing energy costs and the desire to purchase environmentally responsible products have been a stimulus for the development of alternative technologies. Furthermore,...