The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe. In its investigation of an array of authors from the Romantic period to the present—including Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and Alexis Wright— Dancing with Disaster demonstrates the importance of the environmental humanities in the development of more creative, compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
History comes alive as Mark Baldwin, San Francisco gay man, is given the chance to travel back in time.
Willmott was “persistently”: Gallagher, Fire at Sea, 14. She andMarjorie: Interview with Doris Manske. On Friday morning: National Archives (Record Group 41, Testimony in the Investigation of the Burning of the Morro Castle, Entry 214).
Oh, no! Rikochet accidentally injured a dancing wrestler. How can he make things right in time for the big match? Dance, Rikochet, dance!
Dancing with disorder: design, discourse, disaster
Can Arrow save the day for Sara?
A starship containing 20 prisoners enters a small planet's atmosphere.
Both Irfan Khan and Nawab Khan who broke away from MUS to form their own group that later became part of the ICJB coalition have interesting insights to give ...
She gets into a fight with the drawing room furniture, is chased by a swarm of mosquitoes and finally saves her mistress' family from a great disaster! Full of fun and frolic, this is a book all children will enjoy.
This is a book about monsters.
Milly wants to win a medal for Irish dancing, just like her neighbor Abbie Horgan.