Product Description: Blue in Bloom by Jane Bennett takes a look at human behavior while giving quiet inspiration on life’s daily struggles. It is honest with no mincing of words. It is a personal connection with the color blue that eventually gives her the strength to persevere...read more

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, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Little ones will delight in playing with the bendable, soft bunny ears on the cover of this charming book. Simple illustrations and a rhyming story line make this little book perfect for bedtime -- or anytime!

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Product Description: A guide to finding, identifying and understanding Australian wildlife. This text provides readers with the background on natural history, habitats and wildlife in action. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Dynamic and unpredictable, this collection weaves together poignant tales rooted in contemporary South Africa. The short stories explore the poverty and violence of the modern nation, but also the unexpected joys of human interaction, examining everything from violence and the life of beggars to desire and dreams of Nelson Mandela...read more