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General Books -> Featured Sections -> New Non-Fiction; 7 Items.
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New Non-Fiction
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Author: Ana Maria Martinez & Chris Saker
Title: **1) Las Nubes: Conservation in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica
The Las Nubes Biological Reserve is a 124 hectare protected rainforest on the Pacific slopes of Costa Rica. it was donated to York University by Dr. M.M. Fisher in 1998. Here students and researches from York's Faculty of Environmental Studies work with local communities to further the common interests of habitat preservation and sustainable development.
This book features colour imagery of this fragile ecosystem by renowned nature photographer Brent Cole. Las Nubes is abundant in flora and fauna.
Retail Price: $39.95
SKU# 12636617
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Author: Benoit Peeters
Title: Derrida
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This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world – a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system.
Retail Price: $42.00
SKU# 12704095
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Author: Judith Butler
Title: Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
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Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism.
Retail Price: $21.95
SKU# 12771196
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Author: Peter Sloterdijk
Title: Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault
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Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals.
Retail Price: $21.50
SKU# 12818082
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Author: Vivek Chibber
Title: Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capitalism
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In this devastating critique, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition.
Retail Price: $31.50
SKU# 12693702
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Author: David Cannadine
Title: The Undivided Past : Humanity Beyond our Differences
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David Cannadine compellingly argues against the pervasive and pernicious idea that conflict is the inevitable state of human affairs. The Undivided Past is an urgently needed work of history, one that is also about the present and the future.
Retail Price: $32.00
SKU# 12775620
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Author: Ian Stewart
Title: Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
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In 'Visions of Infinity', celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart provides a fascinating overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still. He explains why these problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole.
Retail Price: $30.00
SKU# 12808571
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