Novel Environments

Author : Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810142619

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Fictional Environments by Victoria Saramago Pdf

Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization. From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.

Author : Aaron Marcus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642392382

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Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience in Novel Technological Environments by Aaron Marcus Pdf

The four-volume set LNCS 8012, 8013, 8014 and 8015 constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 282 contributions included in the DUXU proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this four-volume set. The 65 papers included in this volume are organized in the following topical sections: designing for safe and secure environments; designing for smart and ambient devices; designing for virtual and augmented environments; and emotional and persuasion design.

Author : Yann Martel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571307814

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Self by Yann Martel Pdf

From the author of Life of Pi, comes an edgy, funny and devastating novel. Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in the sudden shocking news of an accident abroad. And as adulthood begins, indecisively, boundaries are crossed between countries, languages and people . . .

Author : U. Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230251328

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Postcolonial Environments by U. Mukherjee Pdf

Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'.

Author : William Deverell
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773057118

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Stung by William Deverell Pdf

Award–winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur’s West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict. Realistic and riveting, Stung is a propulsive legal thriller by a beloved author at the height of his powers.

Author : Pamela Jean Yeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822009442534

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Evolution of a Bird Population Following Establishment in a Novel Environment by Pamela Jean Yeh Pdf

Author : Cherie Dimaline
Publisher : DCB
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770864870

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Pdf

Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden — but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

Author : Florian Rabitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009352642

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Transformative Novel Technologies in Global Environmental Governance by Florian Rabitz Pdf

Transformative Novel Technologiesare potential gamechangers in confronting environmental crises, but effective governance is essential.

Author : Ingrid R. G. Waldron
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630588

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There’s Something In The Water by Ingrid R. G. Waldron Pdf

In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies. By and large, the environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia fails to make race explicit, obscuring it within discussions on class, and this type of strategic inadvertence mutes the specificity of Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian experiences with racism and environmental hazards in Nova Scotia. By redefining the parameters of critique around the environmental justice narrative and movement in Nova Scotia and Canada, Waldron opens a space for a more critical dialogue on how environmental racism manifests itself within this intersectional context. Waldron also illustrates the ways in which the effects of environmental racism are compounded by other forms of oppression to further dehumanize and harm communities already dealing with pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as long-standing social and economic inequality. Finally, Waldron documents the long history of struggle, resistance, and mobilizing in Indigenous and Black communities to address environmental racism.

Author : Grzegorz M. Królczyk,Małgorzata Wzorek,Anna Król,Orest Kochan,Jun Su,Janusz Kacprzyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030112745

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Sustainable Production: Novel Trends in Energy, Environment and Material Systems by Grzegorz M. Królczyk,Małgorzata Wzorek,Anna Król,Orest Kochan,Jun Su,Janusz Kacprzyk Pdf

This book highlights recent research on sustainable production. In today’s manufacturing industry, cleaner production has become a central goal. “Sustainable production” describes activities that pose no threat to future generations and are not pursued at their expense. In addition, sustainable production is a concept that can improve environmental performance and focuses on technical aspects that can be used to improve efficiency and productivity. Sustainable production is not limited to the manufacturing sector, but affects all production sectors including energy, environment, and material systems – all of which face significant challenges in connection with sustainability, e.g. efforts to reduce production’s impact on the environment and to manage health and safety impacts. Key means of reducing environmental pollution from manufacturing involve reducing the main resources used in production (metals used in the machining processes, fluids/oils in production, water, and energy).

Author : Karl Peter Giese,Kasia Radwanska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319243641

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Novel Mechanisms of Memory by Karl Peter Giese,Kasia Radwanska Pdf

This book integrates discoveries from recent years to show the diversity of molecular mechanisms that contribute to memory consolidation, reconsolidation, extinction, and forgetting. It provides a special focus on the processes that govern functional and structural plasticity of dendritic spines. In nine chapters, new and important ideas related to learning and memory processes will be presented. Themes discussed include the role of AMPA receptors in memory, two signalling cascades involved in local spine remodelling and memory, the role of extracellular matrix proteins in memory, the regulation of gene expression and protein translation, and mechanisms of retrieval-induced memory modulation and forgetting. We believe that the study of these topics represents a great step toward understanding the complexity of the brain and the processes it governs.

Author : David M. Buss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118755853

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The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Volume 2 by David M. Buss Pdf

A complete exploration of the real-world applications and implications of evolutionary psychology The exciting and sometimes controversial science of evolutionary psychology is becoming increasingly relevant to more fields of study than ever before. The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Volume 2, Integrations provides students and researchers with new insight into how EP draws from, and is applied in, fields as diverse as economics, anthropology, neuroscience, genetics, and political science, among others. In this thorough revision and expansion of the groundbreaking handbook, luminaries in the field provide an in-depth exploration of the foundations of evolutionary psychology as they relate to public policy, consumer behavior, organizational leadership, and legal issues. Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain the reasons behind friendship, leadership, warfare, morality, religion, and culture — in short, what it means to be human. This enlightening text provides a foundational knowledgebase in EP, along with expert insights and the most up-to-date coverage of recent theories and findings. Explore the vast and expanding applications of evolutionary psychology Discover the psychology of human survival, mating parenting, cooperation and conflict, culture, and more Identify how evolutionary psychology is interwoven with other academic subjects and traditional psychological disciplines Discuss future applications of the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology As the established standard in the field, The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Volume 2 is the definitive guide for every psychologist and student to understand the latest and most exciting applications of evolutionary psychology.

Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107132818

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The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel by Ato Quayson Pdf

This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.

Author : Sangita Patil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429513268

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Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel by Sangita Patil Pdf

Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel tests the theories of ecofeminism against the background of India’s often different perceptions of environmental problems, challenging the hegemony of Western culture in thinking about human problems. This book moves beyond a simple application of the concepts of ecofeminism, instead explaining the uniqueness of Indian novels as narratives of ecofeminism and how they can contribute to the development of the theory of ecofeminism. In examining a selection of novels, the author argues that Indian texts conceptualize the ecological crisis more as a human problem than as a gender problem. The book proposes that we should think of ecofeminism as ecohumanism instead, seeing human beings and nature as a part of a complex web. Novels analysed within the text include Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (1954), Shivram Karanth’s Return to Earth (2002) and Na D’Souza’s Dweepa (2013). Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecofeminism, ecocriticism, ecological feminism, environmental humanities, gender studies, ecological humanities, feminist studies and Indian literature.

Author : Timo Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422429

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Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Timo Müller Pdf

Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James’s The Ambassadors to McCarthy’s The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time “before theory.” Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.