LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rod giblett

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  • Swamp Deaths
    Rod Giblett
    With its rich blend of fiction and faction (’non-fiction’) crossing between history and philosophy, and combining memoir and biography, Swamp Deaths is a unique series of detective stories written by a swamp ghost writer. It mixes different types of texts and creates new and intriguing ways of environmental storytelling that will fascinate and delight rusted-on readers of detec...
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    23,98 €

  • Psychoanalytic Ecology
    Rod Giblett
    Psychoanalytic Ecology applies Freudian concepts, beginning with the uncanny, to environmental issues, such as wetlands and their loss, to alligators and crocodiles as inhabitants of wetlands, and to the urban underside. It also applies other Freudian concepts, such as sublimation, symptom, mourning and melancholia, to environmental iss ...
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    44,08 €

  • Modern Melbourne
    Rod Giblett
    An analysis of the city of Melbourne using a wide range of historical, literary and artistic sources, including writers on modernity and the modern city. This environmental humanities and eco-cultural study of the history and culture of Melbourne and its site places it within the international context of other cities, such as Paris and London.Podcast: My Marvellous Melbourne, e...
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    51,18 €

  • New Lives of the Saints
    Rod Giblett
    New Lives of the Saints presents for the first time the works and work of many environmental apostles. It delights and inspires the reader to begin or continue to lead a life of environmental action for conservation and contemplation of nature for spiritual succor in the age of climate change. ...
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    60,64 €

  • Black Swan Saga
    Rod Giblett
    The legend of Saint George and the Dragon is well known. It’s in books and statues and on coins. But that is not the true story. Black Swan Saga tells the true story. St George is misguided by stories of heroes killing dragons, and rescuing and marrying a princess. In the true story, the Dragon and the Princess rescue St George from a wetland. An evil lord twists this true stor...
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    8,34 €

  • Cities and Wetlands
    Rod Giblett
    From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a w...
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    61,34 €

  • Canadian Wetlands
    Rod Giblett
    In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett critiques the Canadian canon’s popular representation of wetlands and proposes alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers. ...
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    82,49 €

  • Black Swan Lake
    Rod Giblett
    Rod Giblett came to live by Forrestdale Lake in southwestern Australia in 1986. Based in part on a nature journal he kept for several years, Black Swan Lake traces the life of the plants and animals of the surrounding area through the seasons. Presenting a wetlands calendar that charts the yearly cycle of the rising, falling and drying waters of this internationally significant...
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    55,27 €

  • Photography and Landscape
    Juha Tolonen / Rod Giblett
    With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplifi...
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    43,90 €

  • People and Places of Nature and Culture
    Rod Giblett
    Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model, People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. This book demonstrates the problems inherent in the notion that humans have a mastery over the Earth and projects what needs to change. ...
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    45,13 €

  • Sublime Communication Technologies
    Rod Giblett
    This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime. ...
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    48,26 €

  • Sublime Communication Technologies
    Rod Giblett
    This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime. ...
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    66,71 €