Tag: 2022
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Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee; Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022) 272 pp. £30 Hb. £16.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780691180472 Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds (Random House, 2022), 416 pp. £10.99 Pb. £9.99 e-book. ISBN: 9780141991146 Both books reviewed here are invitations to travel to imagined worlds: to the…
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Cogan, Lucy and O’Connell, Michelle, eds, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lucy Cogan and Michelle O’Connell, eds, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) 280 pp. £119.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783021133626 The long nineteenth century was a time of vast scientific advances, when new knowledge of chemistry, anatomy and medicine developed at an unprecedented rate, changing the way people interpreted the world…
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Hall, Kersten T., Insulin – The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin – The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) 480 pp. £31.49 Hb. ISBN: 9780192855381 Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant Whether you interpret Kant’s famous quote in a moral sense,…
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Campos, Liliane and Pierre-Louis Patoine (eds), Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance
Liliane Campos and Pierre-Louis Patoine (eds.), Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance (Open Book Publishers, 2022) xvi + 402. £31.41 Hb. £22.91 Pb. ISBN: 978-1-80064-750-3 We live in a world whose multiscalar entanglements can no longer be ignored: the climate crisis is more conspicuous than ever, while our agency and indeed…
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Reynolds, Andrew S., Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences
Andrew S. Reynolds, Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 223 pp. $14.95 Pb. ISBN 9781108938778 I think most of us know that popular science arrives to us refracted through many media. As we follow the ray to the source, we may find that it arrives to us a little slant,…
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Johns-Putra, Adeline and Kelly Sultzbach (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultbach (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) 300 pp. £66.05 Hb. £22.99 Pb. ISBN: 978-1316512166 This authoritative and academically rigorous collection of essays offers valuable insight into the relationship between literature and climate change. It positions itself within a field of research which is…
