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Earth and World
by Kelly OliverCritically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Witnessing
by Kelly OliverChallenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement-that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition-this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identity and subjectivity based on Hegelian notions of recognition. The author's... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment
by Kelly OliverThe central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery (Jessica James Mysteries #1)
by Kelly OliverShe just wants her degree. But when her professor is found dead in a bathtub, her real education begins… <P><P>If James Patterson and Janet Evanovich had a love child... meet Jessica James.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture
by Kelly OliverFamily Values shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our trad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the "Feminine"
by Kelly OliverIn Womanizing Nietzsche, Kelly Oliver uses an analysis of the position of woman in Nietzsche's texts to open onto the larger question of philosophy's relation to the feminine and the maternal. Offering readings from Nietzsche, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, Freud and Lacan, Oliver builds an innovative... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
by Kelly OliverEver since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and theref... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
by Kelly OliverNo longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproductio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
by Kelly OliverKatniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human
by Kelly OliverPhilosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animals s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions
by Kelly OliverCritically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing
by Kelly OliverFirst published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism
by Michael Naas • Christina Howells • Kelly Oliver • Elizabeth Rottenberg • Kir Kuiken • Lisa Guenther • Peggy Kamuf • Nicole Anderson • Stephanie Straub • Katie Chenoweth • Elissa Marder • Kas Saghafi • Sarah Tyson • Adam ThurschwellThis volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established D... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
by Michael Naas • David Wood • Timothy Clark • Matthias Fritsch • John Llewelyn • Kelly Oliver • Michael Marder • Karen Barad • Vicki Kirby • Cary Wolfe • Michael Peterson • Philippe Lynes • Claire Colebrook • Dawne McCance • Ted ToadvineEco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy launches a new mode of philosophical and ethical reflection with respect to the challenges posed by the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosophe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Cook with Amber: Fun, Fresh Recipes to Get You in the Kitchen
by Jamie Oliver • Amber Kelley"Amber's beautiful book is bursting with great ideas that make healthy eating a joy-and she's done a great job covering all the bases that, in my experience, teens and kids really want." -Jamie OliverFifteen-year-old Amber Kelley is inspiring a whole new generation of eaters to get in the kitchen an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling: Six short stories by Barbara Roden, Reggie Oliver & M.R. James, Chris Bell, Richard Christian Matheson, John Gaskin and Michael Kelly (Mammoth Books #194)
by Michael Kelly • Chris Bell • Richard Christian Matheson • John Gaskin • Barbara Roden • M. R. James • Reggie OliverSix short stories to shake you to your core.Out and Back by Barbara RodenAn abandoned amusement park attracts unwary thrill seekersThe Game of Bear - Reggie Oliver & M. R. JamesReggie Oliver completes M. R. James' unfinished classic.Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume - Chris BellVenturi - Ric... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Exploiting Childhood: How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
by James Hawes • Gail Dines • Renata Salecl • Stephen D. Brookfield • Liz Kelly • Susie Orbach • Maddy Coy • Agnes Nairne • Wayne Warburton • Oliver James • Jim Wild • Adam Barnard • Tim Lobstein • Camila Batmanghelidjh • Stephen Haff • Sharon GirlingChildren deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them? Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting in c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
by Amber Benson • Maureen Johnson • Francesca Lia Block • Ellen Hopkins • Melissa Marr • Wendy Toliver • Crissa-Jean Chappell • Sara Zarr • Hannah Moskowitz • Cyn Balog • Francisco X. Stork • Aprilynne Pike • Amy Reed • Jessica Burkhart • Lauren Oliver • Cynthia Hand • Megan Kelley Hall • Robison Wells • Dan Wells • E. Kristin Anderson • Tom Pollock • Jennifer L. Armentrout • Sarah Fine • Karen Mahoney • Rachel M. Wilson • Candace Ganger • Kelly Fiore-Stultz • Scott Neumyer • Tara Kelly • Kimberly McCreight • Cindy L. RodriguezYour favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD. <P><P>Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t get out of bed? Not the occas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation: Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Saas-Fee Advanced Course #45)
<p>Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not? ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022