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  • Wild Forest Lands

    Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks

    by Philip G. Terrie, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven ...
    Series series New York State Series
    The Adirondack Forest Preserve is the largest publicly protected wilderness in the Eastern United States, with a state constitutional provision guaranteeing that it be "forever kept as wild forest lands." But just what does "wilderness" mean today? How has our understanding of that concept shifted, from the colonial implications of the term as first applied to the Adirondacks to a more inclusive ... Read more

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  • Dante's Purgatorio

    by Philip Terry ...
    A sequel to Philip Terry's Dante's Inferno (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still, where the poet and his guide Ted Berrigan climb a mountain made out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS). Dante's artists are replaced with contemporary artists and artists-in-residence on the Essex Alp, ... Read more

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  • Dante's Inferno

    by Philip Terry ...
    Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of Shakespeare's sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the 12th to the 20th and 21st centuries, and relocating it to the modern "walled city" of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and ministers for education; the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by Philip Terry ...
    Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails, this collection of poetry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch. Dynamic and ... Read more

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  • Quennets

    by Philip Terry ...
    The poetic form used in these pages is one invented by Raymond Queneau in his 1975 book Morale élémentaire; it has come to be called the "quennet", after its inventor, as it has one more line than a sonnet. The three sequences which make up this collection experiment with psychogeographical quennets inspired by walking around the Essex estuary and the Berlin Wall Trail, with the final sequence ... Read more

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  • Dictator

    by Philip Terry ...
    Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerrière. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerrière considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near ... Read more

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  • Ovid Metamorphosed

    by Philip Terry ...
    The shape-shifting poetry of Ovid's Metamorphoses has fascinated writers and artists from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes, Rembrandt to Picasso. Its eternal freshness is haunted by an ancient idea: that a person's true nature is revealed when their physical shape is changed- the wolf-like man becomes a wolf, the obsessive spinner a spider.For this dazzling collection Philip Terry asked leading writers ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Inevitable Imposter

    Identify and Defeat Imposter Syndrome

    by PHILIP TERRY-SMITH ...
    Impostor syndrome is the faulty belief that one is a fraud and not deserving of their achievements. Impostor syndrome can be debilitating to one's personal and professional life. It also affects one's mental and physical health and even their relationships in a variety of ways. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Labour and Locality

    Uneven Development and the Rural Labour Process

    Edited by Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe, Sarah Whatmore ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1992, the volume shows through the lens of labour processes how global forces are played out at the local level. A range of important issues is addressed, including the commoditization and transformation of rural labour, and the role played by state policy in restructuring rural labour markets. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Rural Restructuring

    Global Processes and Their Responses

    Edited by Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe, Sarah Whatmore ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1990, this volume discusses the broad theme of rural restructuring looking at the nature of rural related responses to global processes of change. This book provides global viewpoints which show readers a more integral and critical analysis on rural areas based on the changing realities of the 1990s. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Rural Enterprise

    Shifting Perspectives on Small Scale Production

    Edited by Sarah Whatmore, Philip Lowe, Terry Marsden ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1991, the focus of the contributions in this book is the relationships between rurality and small-scale production, particularly in Europe. This remains relevant, as then, as when the book was first published, the issues covered had a particular resonance in the shifting terrain of Europe and the political debates surrounding its common future. The contributors explore the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Gender and Rurality

    Edited by Sarah Whatmore, Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which they interpret. The chapters address the gendered power relations of rural households and agricultural science; women’s mobilisation in farming and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD