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The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution
The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly...

Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Haney Foundation Series)
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Haney Foundation Series)

European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the...

Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship
Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion,...

De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes (Health, Technology and Society)
De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes (Health, Technology and Society)
Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming material life is made of. Yet identity cannot itself adopt the form of a...
The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)
The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)
In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics,...
Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
Accumulating Capital Today (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding...

How to Make Maps: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography
How to Make Maps: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a legible, clear, and coherent manner, drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography.

This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who...

Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of
colonial states. Although
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Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics (Not in series)
Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics (Not in series)
This book is an anthology of four papers that offers a cross-linguistic and inter- disciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the individual papers probe into the...
The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology
The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology
By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God's mind, had functioned across a wide range of central Christian doctrines, providing Christian
thinkers and mystical teachers with
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Elena Ferrante as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)
Elena Ferrante as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)

Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante constructs a theory of feminine experience which serves as the scaffolding for her own literary practice....

Business Analysis and Design: Understanding Innovation in Organisation
Business Analysis and Design: Understanding Innovation in Organisation
A logo is usually some form of graphic—a visualisation used by organisations, groups or even individuals to aid and promote instant recognition. When we use logos within this book, they are designed to promote recognition of some of the fundamentally different ways of thinking you will experience.

As a logo
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