Art of the Photograph, The
Based on his popular lecture series and drawing from a career spanning 40 year of award-winning image-making, Art Wolfe shares his magnum opus: a rich array of insights, advice and techniques aimed at dramatically shifting the way readers see, off...
Earth Is My Witness
Earth Is My Witness is the most extensive collection of Art Wolfe photography ever compiled. This lavishly produced work spans the globe, bringing the beauty of the planet's quickly disappearing landscapes, wildlife, and cultures into stunning foc...
There Are Doors
This is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternative universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways - inter-dimensional gateways - to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life for her love.
Natural Law Liberalism
Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and ...
Heidegger's Eschatology
Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophi...
Solar Photovoltaic Projects in the Mainstream Power Market
This is the first and probably the only book devoted to utility-scale solar power - perhaps the fastest-growing sector of the global energy market. Philip Wolfe's book describes the development and operation of large-scale solar power stations, an...
Trees
Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia.
Trees
Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia.
Wild Lives
Wild Lives is a celebration of the extraordinary diversity of species that inhabit the planet. Some are common, some rare, and many are conservation success stories, species that have been brought back from the edge of extinction. Over his forty-y...
Wild Elephants
Legendary for their size and intelligence, elephants are one of the most charismatic of megafauna. That they are under siege from poachers is no secret, and the rapidity of their declining numbers is horrifying. However, amidst the steady stream o...
Before the Law
Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the ...
Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell ...
Castle of Days
'The Washington Post' has called Gene Wolfe 'the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced.' This volume joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's 'Book of Days 'and 'The Castle of the Otter'--and add thirty-nine short essays collected here for the first time, to fashion a rich and engrossing architecture of wonder.
Tales From The Underground
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist...
Moral Freedom
What is the difference between right and wrong? What does it mean to lead a good life? How binding is the marriage vow? What are your obligations to an employer? To your friends? To yourself? Is it always immoral to tell a lie? "[A]n alert an...
Man In Full
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom Wolfe Charlie Croker, once a fabled college football...
Soldier of Sidon
Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in 'Latro In The Mist' ('Soldier of the Mist' and 'Soldier of Arete') are generally considered classics of contemporary fantasy. Latro now finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, he is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes him to forget.
Starwater Strains: New Science Fiction Stories
The author of Innocents Abroad presents a follow-up collection of twenty-five primarily science fiction stories, in a volume that includes such tales as 'Viewpoint,' 'Petting Zoo,' and 'Empires of Foliage and Flower.' Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Pirate Freedom
It starts with a confession from a priest. His past has reached further back than what many would consider possible. Before he was a priest, he was the pirate Captain Cristofo, and before he was a pirate, he was just Chris, a boy living in a monastery in Cuba the day after tomorrow. One day Chris realizes that he is not meant for the monastery he has grown up in, and leaves. On the streets of Havana everything looks strange and out-of-date, but Chris is too busy trying to find his next meal and a safe place to sleep to contemplate the city's odd lack of modern conveniences. He finds that this world is a much harder one than the one he remembers; it's a place where people steal, lie, and cheat. Where slaves are sold at auction, and the Spanish, French, and English are all battling for supremacy. When Chris is offered the opportunity to work on a ship in exchange for food and a small bit of money, he takes it, and thus begins his life as a pirate. People die, treasures are found, women
On Blue's Waters: Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun'
ON BLUE'S WATERS is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn is the only one who can locate the great leader Silk, and convince him to return to Blue and lead them all to prosperity. Horn sets sail in a small boat, in a small boat, on a long and difficult quest across the planet Blue in search of the now legendary Patera Silk. The story will continue in In Green's Jungles and Return to the Whorl.
Litany of the Long Sun
'Litany of the Long Sun' contains the full texts of 'Nightside the Long Sun' and 'Lake of the Long Sun,' that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long Sun. This great work is set on a huge generation starship in the same future as the classic Book of the New Sun (also available in two volumes from Orb).
Return to the Whorl
Gene Wolfe's 'Return to the Whorl' is the third volume, after' On Blue's Waters 'and' In Green's Jungles,' of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being. 'Return to the Whorl' brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.
Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems - the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him - served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They...
Art and Posthumanism
A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the "bio" of biopolitics and bioart? How do ...
Surgeon
Trusted surgeon. Loving wife. Murderer? Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and ...
All About the Baby Sleep Solution
Sleep expert Lucy Wolfe, creator of the gentle stay-and-support approach, which has helped thousands of parents and babies get a good night's sleep, turns her attention to common problems that interrupt your baby's sleep routine.
Traces of History
Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native A...
You Can't Go Home Again
This classic of American literature tells the story of George Webber, a rising novelist, who returns to his hometown only to face a wave of hatred and rejection from the inhabitants, who feel his latest work ridicules their way of life. George goes into exile, first in New York, then London and continental Europe, living life to the full but burdened by the belief that he can never return to his roots. This work, although published posthumously and heavily edited from Wolfe's surviving manuscri