Bruce Swan (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Literary journal, with stories about "Unhappy Families"; tributes to John Updike; reviews; essays on John Conrad and Franz Kafka. 502 pages. Interior pages clean and tight, light blue wraps very faintly faded at spine, otherwise fine.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the mating calls of chorus frogs to insect olfaction to elephant funerary rites to the memory-rich tastes of place, Sensoria offers an immersion in the sensual experiences of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smellingand their interactions, combinations, and more-than-human manifestations. This shimmering volume of sensation from Humans & Nature Press proposes possibilities and practices to heighten and expand readers empathic imaginations and sensory awareness of the natural world through everyday experiences with nature.Humans, along with all other creatures, are an entanglement of sensual relations, shaping and shaped by our somatic engagement with the world. The essays and poetry of Sensoria transport readers into compelling stories and ethical reflections that stretch the limits of the moral imagination, calling attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world, not just through the senses but within them. By exploring the sensorium among all forms of life endowed with different kinds of consciousness and communicative abilities, this volume highlights ecologically and socially diverse ways of touching the world with mind, and touching mind with the world.The sensory faculties are inherently about the capability of paying attention to other beings and forces that share our planet and whose lives are interwoven with our own. For each of the five senses, the contributors to Sensoriaincluding music composer David Rothenberg, historian of color Carolyn Purnell, bio-philosopher Andreas Weber, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam, neuroethologist Bill Hansson, travel writer and novelist Nick Hunt, and religious scholar Graham Harveyexplore and illuminate the biology and neurology of sensation as well as the imaginative possibilities for understanding the senses. This timely volume offers readers new ways of understanding relations in everyday encounters that link our inner and outer awarenessembodied experiences that shape what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell, and the way these perceptions can help us to attend more closely and respectfully to the lifeworlds of other-than-human creatures.A collection as diverse and generative as the senses themselves. Rich in experience and insight, these writings awaken and invite. Through vibrant and compelling stories and juxtapositions, were called to deeper perception, embodied engagement, and right action grounded in the sensory riches of the living Earth.David George Haskell, biologist and two-time Pulitzer-finalist author of How Flowers Made our World, Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 6.00x0.42x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Blue wrappers. Octavo. xxii, 169pp. Fine. Fiction by Ernest J. Finney, Andrew Plattner, K.K. Roeder. Essays by Geoffrey Tillotson and Denis Donoghue. Poetry by Joseph Harrison, Daniel Hoffman, David Middleton, Galdys Swan, Charles Wyatt. Essays by Robert Buffington, Eugene Goodheart. The State of Letters by David Heddendorf, Francis Blessington, Michael Gorra, George Garrett, Bruce Allen. Arts and Letters by Casey Clabough, Mark Harman, John McCormick, Donald Stone, Cushing Strout, and Ed Minus.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A stunning gathering of creative nonfiction, research, and poetry, Sensoria will broaden the moral imaginations of its readers and challenge conventional worldviews about human relations to the nonhuman world.Humans, along with all other creatures, are an entanglement of sensual relations, shaping and shaped by our somatic engagement with the world.The essays and poetry of Sensoria transport readers into compelling stories and ethical reflections that stretch the limits of the moral imagination, calling attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world, not just through the senses but within them.By exploring the sensorium among all forms of life endowed with different kinds of consciousness and communicative abilities, this volume highlights ecologically and socially diverse ways of touching the world with mind, and touching mind with the world.The sensory faculties are inherently about the capability of paying attention to other beings and forces that share our planet and whose lives are interwoven with our own.For each of the five senses, the contributors to Sensoriaincluding music composer David Rothenberg, historian of color Carolyn Purnell, bio-philosopher Andreas Weber, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam, neuroethologist Bill Hansson, travel writer and novelist Nick Hunt, and religious scholar Graham Harveyexplore and illuminate the biology and neurology of sensation as well as the imaginative possibilities for understanding the senses.This timely volume offers readers new ways of understanding relations in everyday encounters that link our inner and outer awarenessembodied experiences that shape what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell, and the way these perceptions can help us to attend more closely and respectfully to the lifeworlds of other-than-human creatures.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Features: Miracle on the Thames - They're Back!; The Devilish Salmon of Devil's Gap Gorge; John Swan - Sporting Artist (one of his paintings is featured on the cover); Happiness is an Icy River - photo essay of a golden morning on the Miramichi; The Right Way to Tie a "Riffling Hitch"; Festive Fondue - Not Cheese, Salmon; and more. 56 glossy pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.; Photography; 4to. Illustrated by Bossi, Robert; Swan, John (illustrator).…