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An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsStanding out even during a recent golden age of nature writing, Ed Yong dazzles with a deeply considered exploration of the many modes of sensory perception that life has evolved to navigate the world, written with exhilarating freshness
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How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic
"An exciting, deep, and moving contribution to Disability Studies. How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a model for real-time pandemic theorizing that includes the most affected—as subjects, interlocutors, collaborators, and authors. This eloquent record of the brutal first years of Covid is set in its early epicenter of New York City. The holdings and methods of this impressive anthology will inform the ways we continue to engage with the critical connections between Covid, illness, disability, and place in the future." (Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY) "So many forces want us to forget about the pandemic, to say that it's over and not a concern anymore. How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the wisdom of disabled oracles who resisted and challenged the system during the first three years of the pandemic in New York City. After reading this book, it'll leave you wondering what could have happened if our ableist society centered disabled people and took them seriously." (Alice Wong, author of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life) "Captures the history and textures of our present moment during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, using the best ethnographic tools to take us into New York City's most impacted spaces and communities. In the process, How to be Disabled in a Pandemic opens up new paths of inquiry about chronic illness, institutional violence, accessibility, and mutual aid. A must-read for disability activists and scholars." (Aimi Hamraie, author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability) "Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the impact of COVID-19 in the United States. To be living with a disability in this country is to be a disposable person in the eyes of the state, even with the rights struggled for by generations of people living with disabilities. Over the past half-decade, New York City and the US implemented policies that made life more dangerous for disabled people, but disabled communities, of which there are many, figured out ways forward together to fight for their own survival—they will not be silent." (Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University) "This volume chronicles the experiences and activism of disabled people in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes contributions from scholars, writers and organizers." (Ms. Magazine)
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How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic
Documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. The book reveals key themes of the pandemic, including hierarchies of disability vulnerability, the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production.
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The Tai-Kadai Languages
The volume goes a good way towards remedying the lack of available grammatical descriptions for Tai-Kadai. With consultations and input from a range of contributors, the book is a compact 40,000-word overview of Thai. The work includes relevant cross-referencing to sections of the volume treating other languages in the family, as well as sign-posting to sources in the bibliography.
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The Tai-Kadai Languages
The volume goes a good way towards remedying the lack of available grammatical descriptions for Tai-Kadai. With consultations and input from a range of contributors, the book is a compact 40,000-word overview of Thai. The work includes relevant cross-referencing to sections of the volume treating other languages in the family, as well as sign-posting to sources in the bibliography.
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I Contain Multitudes
“Beautiful, smart, and sometimes shocking” (Wired), I Contain Multitudes lets us peer into the vast world of the microbiome for the first time, allowing us to see how ubiquitous, complex, and vital microbes really are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. This book will change both our view of nature, and our sense of where we belong in it.
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I Contain Multitudes
A groundbreaking, marvelously informative “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a radically reconceived picture of life on earth. For most of human existence, microbes were hidden, visible only through the illnesses they caused. When they finally surfaced in biological studies, they were cast as rogues. Only recently have they immigrated from the neglected fringes of biology to its center. Even today, many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us—the microbiome—are invaluable parts of our lives. I Contain Multitudes lets us peer into that world for the first time, allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, guide our behavior, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. While much of the prevailing discussion around the microbiome has focused on its implications for human health, Yong broadens this focus to the entire animal kingdom, giving us a grander view of life. With humor and erudition, Ed Yong prompts us to look at ourselves and our fellow animals in a new light: less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent multitudes we assuredly are. When we look at the animal kingdom through a microbial lens, even the most familiar parts of our lives take on a striking new air. We learn the secret, invisible, and wondrous biology behind the corals that construct mighty reefs, the glowing squid that can help us understand the bacteria in our own guts, the beetles that bring down forests, the disease-fighting mosquitoes engineered in Australia, and the ingredients in breast milk that evolved to nourish a baby’s first microbes. We see how humans are disrupting these partnerships and how scientists are now manipulating them to our advantage. We see, as William Blake wrote, the world in a grain of sand. I Contain Multitudes is the story of these extraordinary partnerships, between the familiar creatures of our world and those we never knew existed. It will change both our view of nature and our sense of where we belong in it.
€ 30,50