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"This dynamic entry in the burgeoning field of environmental humanities is built around fifteen objects that represent the scope and peril of the Anthropocene--among them a monkey wrench, a jar of beach sand, a Blackberry, a mirror, and a cryogenic freezer box. The objects are framed by six more expansive essays reflecting on the meanings of the Anthropocene for scholarship and the world ..."--Provided by publisher.

Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis of the challenges bequeathed to the modern world by Nietzsche. Spurs, then, is aptly titled, for Derrida's deconstructions of Nietzsche's meanings will surely act as spurs to further thought and controversy. This dual-language edition offers the English-speaking reader who has some knowledge of French an opportunity to examine the stylistic virtuosity of Derrida's writing--of particular significance for his analysis of the question of style.

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of this language, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies also looks at Tocharian in relationship to other Indo-European languages.Contents of volume 17: Douglas Q. Adams, "Tocharian B arkañ yet again" 1; Adam A. Catt, "Tocharian B ly(¿¿ )ptsentar: A new class VIII present" 11; Ching Chao-jung ¿¿¿, "On the names of cereals in Tocharian B " 29; Ilya B. Itkin, "The tender ghost: Tocharian B lalä¿e 'tender' : Tocharian A ?" 65; Bernhard Koller, "Vir¿a spelling and Tocharian A prosody" 77; Dieter Maue, "Tumschukische Miszellen / Miscellanea Tumšcica IV" 109; Ogihara Hirotoshi ¿¿¿¿, "Remarks on fragment B431 of the Berlin Turfan collection" 133; Michaël Peyrot, "Further Sanskrit-Tocharian bilingual Ud¿avarga fragments" 153; Georges-Jean Pinault, "Glossary of the Tocharian B Petrovsky Buddhastotra" 213; Douglas Q. Adams, "Review of Markus Hartmann, Das Genussystem des Tocharischen" 249

Focuses on one exemplary manager: Helmut Maucher, the former Nestle CEO who turned his company into a powerful global enterprise without being distracted by passing fads. This book - a combination of interviews, essays, and other works by Maucher - offers a unique exchange of ideas between three of the world's corporate management pioneers.

In the five years since the outbreak of one of the worst global financial crises, systemic risk has become a buzzword and developed into an acute threat. This volume draws upon political economy as an approach to analyze the concept of systemic risk as well as corresponding dilemmas of political order, legitimacy, and expertise.

This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.

In this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labour, and how theatre and sacrement combined in them to do theological work.

Examines Bogdanov's roles as revolutionary, novelist, and scientist, presenting his protagonist as a coherent thinker who pursued his ideas in a wide range of venues. This title offers an analysis of the interactions between scientific ideas and societal values.

How much do we really know about Thomas Edison, the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? This text gives a complex portrait of the inventor and an account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and changed.

Examine Gutai, Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art.

This volume provides a survey and synthesis of knowledge of the over 650 species of land and marine mammals found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. Chapters present taxonomic information, ecological and behavioural characteristics, conservation status, and distribution maps for most species.