Jane Bennett: 22 books
Vibrant Matter
A Political Ecology of Things
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces...
The Enchantment of Modern Life
Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder,...
Political Matter
Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion...
Romance BDSM Diary Pride
Fifty Confessions of a Prejudice Murderer 18 Year-Old Teenage Stripper Runaway Grey Pussycat Named Jane Bridget Bennett Darcy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A 18 year old girl runs away from wealthy upbringing in Manhattan and hides out in Harlem where she becomes a stripper. Before running away from home she became pregnant by one of her 150 rich prep school boy suitors. She talks about classic lit characters and translates them into modern young adults...
New Materialisms
Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how...
Isaac's House
A Love Story of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
As a transplanted northern boy, I never understood the motives for such commitment to sacrifi ce from the men and women of the South. I have now been granted a look into the depth of family, faith and community that drove this war for independence. Isaacs House is more than just a good novel. It is...
Joab
A Novel of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Jane Bennett Gaddy has captured in her third installment of the Payne family, JOAB, a piece of the history for Faulkners little postage stamp of native soil with a combination of history and fiction. She places Joab in Oxford, known as Jefferson in the Faulkner novels, at a time when this town was...
Thoreau's Nature
Ethics, Politics, and the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild,' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human...
Rachel, After the Darkness
A Novel of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Rachel, After the Darkness is a continuation of the struggle in which Jane Gaddy intricately describes the South following the war and during the reunification of a broken Nation. Rachels husband and son are gone, having fallen at Gettysburg. Three sons have married, and Rachel and her youngest, Samuel,...
The Pill
Are you sure it's for you?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
While the Pill is taken by most women and girls at some stage in their lives, few realise it is not without side-effects. Clear links have been made to depression, nausea, headaches and migraines, as well as a loss of libido. Contrary to what most of us believe, it is not a failsafe contraception....
by Jane Bennett Gaddy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
I was born in the flat fertile Mississippi Delta in 1940. I grew up in a white clapboard plantation house on the heels of the Great Depression when cotton was still running the show in the south and well before the Civil Rights Movement. Love took me out of the Delta, and it was love that brought...
The Mississippi Boys
A Novel of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Summer wheat, heavy with grain, waved in the July wind, and when touched by the afternoon sun, cast a golden glow on the rocks of Cemetery Ridge. Jonathan stood with his countrymen, rifle drawn, wiping sweat from his eyes with the sleeve of a ragged Confederate uniform. Then the nod, Longstreet to...
The Body on the Lido Deck
A Toni Day Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Twin Falls pathologist Toni Day is on a Caribbean cruise with her husband and parents when she is jerked out of a peaceful slumber by a horrific scream. After several unsuccessful attempts to reclaim sleep, Toni heads to the ships deck to read. But shortly after the sun rises, everything changes when...
by Angela Jones, Rebecca Jane Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The concept of ‘live’ has changed as a consequence of mediated culture. Interaction may occur in real time, but not necessarily in shared physical spaces with others. The Digital Evolution of Live Music considers notions of live music in time and space as influenced by digital technology. This...
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