Ingeborg Bachmann

Mark Anderson

A work of sharp, unforgettable images and an irresistible narrative. Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memories of her father, lives with the androgynous Malina, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an iminous influence. Plunging toward its riveting finale, MALINA brutally lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourese between women and men.

A Novel

Malina

Thinking Life is a narrative exploration of such themes as the decline of the contemporary university, man’s alienation from nature, modern melancholia, Dionysian intoxication, the relative value of knowledge, truth, and artistry in the life of the philosopher, and the creative construction of self. The author engages throughout with Plato and Nietzsche, with the Phaedo and The Gay Science in particular.


A Philosophical Fiction

Thinking Life

The Thinker-Artist (Sophia and Philosophia) is a work of philosophical fiction, or, more accurately, of philosophy and fiction side by side. The book is a follow-up to Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One and a transition to Plato and Nietzsche: Their Philosophical Art. It relates the semi-autobiographical story of a professor of philosophy engaged in writing a sequel to a book of Platonic philosophy while gradually coming to realize that he now has an altered philosophical perspective that is not completely compatible with his previous work. This new perspective is related to a psychological mystery involving the Professor, a strange new tenant in his home, and his past relationships with his father and uncle. The Professor's story is told through the medium of fiction. Every other chapter of the book is a chapter of non-fiction, of straight philosophy, these chapters constituting a draft of the professor's intended second book, entitled Sophia and Philosophia. One need not have read Pure or Plato and Nietzsche to follow The Thinker-Artist. It is related to these books as noted, but it can be understood and enjoyed on its own.


Sophia and Philosophia

The Thinker-Artist

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The Rights of Nature and the Testimony of Things begins by analyzing the ethical debates and political contexts relating to Latin American “rights of nature” legislation and the political ontology of nonhuman speech within a framework of intercultural and multispecies diplomacy. Author Mark Anderson shows how Latin American authors and thinkers complicate traditional humanistic perspectives on nature, the social, and politics, exploring how animals, plants, and environments as a whole might be said to engage in social relations and political speech or self-representation. Drawing Native Amazonian thought into productive tension with a variety of posthumanist theoretical frameworks—ranging from Derrida’s conceptualization of passive decision and hospitality to biosemiotics, Karen Barad’s theorization of intra-activity, and Isabelle Stengers’ proposal for cosmopolitical diplomacy—Anderson analyzes literary works by Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, José Eustasio Rivera, and Davi Kopenawa that reframe environmental ethics in terms of collective, multispecies work and reciprocal care and politics as a cosmopolitics of friendship rooted in diplomacy across difference. Finally, Anderson examines the points of connection and divergences between Latin American relational ontologies and Euro American posthumanist theories within Indigenous Latin American remodernization projects that reappropriate and repurpose ancestral practices as well as develop new technologies with the goal of forging alternative modernities compatible with a livable future for all species.

Literature and Environmental Ethics from Latin America

The Rights of Nature and the Testimony of Things

The Thinker-Artist (Sophia and Philosophia) is a work of philosophical fiction, or, more accurately, of philosophy and fiction side by side.
The book is a follow-up to Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One and a transition to Plato and Nietzsche: Their Philosophical Art. It relates the semi-autobiographical story of a professor of philosophy engaged in writing a sequel to a book of Platonic philosophy while gradually coming to realize that he now has an altered philosophical perspective that is not completely compatible with his previous work. This new perspective is related to a psychological mystery involving the Professor, a strange new tenant in his home, and his past relationships with his father and uncle.
The Professor's story is told through the medium of fiction. Every other chapter of the book is a chapter of non-fiction, of straight philosophy, these chapters constituting a draft of the professor's intended second book, entitled Sophia and Philosophia.
One need not have read Pure or Plato and Nietzsche to follow The Thinker-Artist. It is related to these books as noted, but it can be understood and enjoyed on its own.


Jonathan L. Gross

Jay Yellen

Graph Theory and Its Applications, Third Edition is the latest edition of the international, bestselling textbook for undergraduate courses in graph theory, yet it is expansive enough to be used for graduate courses as well. The textbook takes a comprehensive, accessible approach to graph theory, integrating careful exposition of classical developments with emerging methods, models, and practical needs. The authors’ unparalleled treatment is an ideal text for a two-semester course and a variety of one-semester classes, from an introductory one-semester course to courses slanted toward classical graph theory, operations research, data structures and algorithms, or algebra and topology. Features of the Third Edition Expanded coverage on several topics (e.g., applications of graph coloring and tree-decompositions) Provides better coverage of algorithms and algebraic and topological graph theory than any other text Incorporates several levels of carefully designed exercises that promote student retention and develop and sharpen problem-solving skills Includes supplementary exercises to develop problem-solving skills, solutions and hints, and a detailed appendix, which reviews the textbook’s topics About the Authors Jonathan L. Gross is a professor of computer science at Columbia University. His research interests include topology and graph theory. Jay Yellen is a professor of mathematics at Rollins College. His current areas of research include graph theory, combinatorics, and algorithms. Mark Anderson is also a mathematics professor at Rollins College. His research interest in graph theory centers on the topological or algebraic side.

Graph Theory and Its Applications

Zélia Bora

This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.

Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature

Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America

The Leadership Book has a very clear structure which has been specially designed to make the 50 sections quick and easy to use. Each challenge is approached in the same way: Understanding the issue, key leadership actions to take, the measures of success and the pitfalls to watch out for. The areas covered include: Leading your strategy, defining and managing your team, managing change and innovation, understanding the market, resolving conflict and communicating your vision. The Leadership Book offers fast effective solutions to pressing business challenges

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Victor Warner

Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts, Fourth Edition is the 'one-stop-shop' for practical contractual matters, making it essential reading for anyone involved in negotiating and drafting commercial contracts.This book includes:- A guide to the common legal issues in negotiating and drafting contracts- An explanation of the structure and content of a commercial contract- Good and bad practice in drafting (and in using clear, modern English)- The meaning and use of commonly-used words, phrases and legal jargon- The formalities for creating and signing contracts- Guidance on the interpretation of contracts- Steps to take, and what to check for in a contract to eliminate errors (including lists of what to check for in different situations)- Practical measures to protect documents from unwanted alteration, to remove metadata and sensitive information and to secure documents- Drafting and legal issues when contracting with consumersThe Fourth Edition has been fully updated to take account of important court decisions regarding the interpretation of contracts and changes in consumer legislation.Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts, Fourth Edition is for everyone who wishes to understand, or has to negotiate or draft, a commercial contract. This includes commercial lawyers, contract managers, in-house lawyers, lawyers in private practice, LPC course tutors and law and business students.

Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts

Patrick Heinrich

Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered. This volume depicts, roughly in chronological order, aspects which have led to the language crisis in the Ryukyus today. Taking account of these factors is important because endangered languages can only be maintained and revitalized on the basis of a comprehensive understanding of why these languages became endangered in the first place. The chapters of this book have been written by leading experts in Ryukyuan sociolinguistics and the scope encompasses the entire field. It sheds light on the dark side of language modernization, on a misplaced obsession with monolingualism, and on Japan’s difficulties in surmounting its invented self-image.

Mark Anderson

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