(Izdošanas datums: 29-Mar-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003853312)
This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.Rather than conflating the planetary with anthropogenic climate change, planetary geo-engineering...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003853336)
This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.Rather than conflating the planetary with anthropogenic climate change, planetary geo-engineering...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Dec-2023, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478027812)
In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the epicenters of the outbreak in China and Hong Kong. As the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighte...Lasīt vairāk
Zélia M. Bora, Martha Galvan-Mandujano, Animesh Roy, Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros, Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros, Juan Pascual Gay, Mercedes Pascual Zavala, Juan R. Coca...
An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics is a critique of the realities of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and its intertwined relationship with the environment. Through a critical gaze into the history of the region as it ha...Lasīt vairāk
Zélia M. Bora, Martha Galvan-Mandujano, Animesh Roy, Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros, Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros, Juan Pascual Gay, Mercedes Pascual Zavala, Juan R. Coca...
An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics is a critique of the realities of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and its intertwined relationship with the environment. Through a critical gaze into the history of the region as it ha...Lasīt vairāk
Pandemic Planet gives young readers a clear, insightful, non-alarmist introduction to viruses and pandemics.Covid-19 has changed our world almost beyond recognition, but viruses and pandemics have always been with us. Pandemic Planet explores how we...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Sep-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Zone Books, ISBN-13: 9781942130772)
A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague talesMany are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Sep-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Zone Books, ISBN-13: 9781942130772)
A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague talesMany are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226803524)
A timely and nuanced book that sets the authors experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of great thinkers who confronted their own plagues.In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the wo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226803524)
A timely and nuanced book that sets the authors experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of great thinkers who confronted their own plagues.In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the wo...Lasīt vairāk
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "e;ha...Lasīt vairāk
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "e;ha...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-May-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Penguin Random House Children's UK, ISBN-13: 9780241512654)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new i...Lasīt vairāk
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need....Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual production, The Literature of Catastrophe reimagines the emer...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual production, The Literature of Catastrophe reimagines the emer...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Jul-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192516367)
Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Jul-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192516350)
Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Nov-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813941783)
Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Physicians and medical writers warned of noxious matter...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Nov-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813941783)
Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Physicians and medical writers warned of noxious matter...Lasīt vairāk
