The Orchid Folios
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The Orchid Folios
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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The Orchid Folios
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Author : Mok Zining
language : en
Publisher: Ethos Books
Release Date : 2022-08-12
The Orchid Folios written by Mok Zining and has been published by Ethos Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-12 with Fiction categories.
“When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.
Industrial Strength Denial
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Author : Barbara Freese
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Industrial Strength Denial written by Barbara Freese and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Psychology categories.
How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our future. Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their critics’ motives, and otherwise rationalizing their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have let corporations continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering, death, and environmental destruction. And, by undermining social trust in science and government, corporate denial has made it harder for our democracy to function. Barbara Freese, an environmental attorney, confronted corporate denial years ago when cross-examining coal industry witnesses who were disputing the science of climate change. She set out to discover how far from reality corporate denial had led society in the past and what damage it had done. Her resulting, deeply-researched book is an epic tour through eight campaigns of denial waged by industries defending the slave trade, radium consumption, unsafe cars, leaded gasoline, ozone-destroying chemicals, tobacco, the investment products that caused the financial crisis, and the fossil fuels destabilizing our climate. Some of the denials are appalling (slave ships are festive). Some are absurd (nicotine is not addictive). Some are dangerously comforting (natural systems prevent ozone depletion). Together they reveal much about the group dynamics of delusion and deception. Industrial-Strength Denial delves into the larger social dramas surrounding these denials, including how people outside the industries fought back using evidence and the tools of democracy. It also explores what it is about the corporation itself that reliably promotes such denial, drawing on psychological research into how cognition and morality are altered by tribalism, power, conflict, anonymity, social norms, market ideology, and of course, money. Industrial-Strength Denial warns that the corporate form gives people tremendous power to inadvertently cause harm while making it especially hard for them to recognize and feel responsible for that harm.
Making Kin Ecofeminist Essays From Singapore
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Author : Esther Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Ethos Books
Release Date : 2022-08-05
Making Kin Ecofeminist Essays From Singapore written by Esther Vincent and has been published by Ethos Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-05 with Social Science categories.
Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ecofeminist essays focuses on the crafts, minds, bodies and subjectivities of a diverse group of women making kin with the human and non-human world as they navigate their lives. From ruminations on caregiving, to surreal interspecies encounters, to indigenous ways of knowing, these women writers chart a new path on the map of Singapore’s literary scene, writing urgently about gender, nature, climate change, reciprocity and other critical environmental issues. In a climate-changed world where vital connections are lost, Making Kin is an essential collection that blurs boundaries between the personal and the political. It is a revolutionary approach towards intersectional environmentalism.
Reichenbachia
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Author : Henry F C Sander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-06
Reichenbachia written by Henry F C Sander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-06 with categories.
Named in honor of the renowned German orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Reichenbachia was a collaboration between Sander and English landscape painter Henry George Moon, who created most of the illustrations. Work on Reichenbachia began in 1886 and lasted until 1890, with the first volume being published in 1888, with the subsequent three volumes being published in two-year intervals.This collection features images from all volumes and series of the original Reichenbachia series.
Raffles Renounced Towards A Merdeka History
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Author : Alfian Sa'at
language : en
Publisher: Ethos Books
Release Date : 2022-08-19
Raffles Renounced Towards A Merdeka History written by Alfian Sa'at and has been published by Ethos Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-19 with History categories.
Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.
The Orchid
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Author : Peter Francis Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Ardent Media
Release Date : 1978
The Orchid written by Peter Francis Hunt and has been published by Ardent Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Gardening categories.
Driven By Nature
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Author : Peter H. Raven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-15
Driven By Nature written by Peter H. Raven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's safe to say that few people have lived lives as thoroughly devoted to plants as Peter H. Raven has. The longtime director--now president emeritus--of the Missouri Botanical Garden, author of numerous leading textbooks and several hundred scholarly articles, Raven has been a tireless champion of sustainability and biodiversity, earning him the plaudit of "Hero for the Planet" from Time. Driven by Nature is the first chronicle of this prominent scientist and conservationist's life. Moving from his idyllic childhood in the San Francisco of the 1940s to his four decades leading the Missouri Botanical Garden, Raven's autobiography take readers across multiple continents and decades. Driven by Nature follows the globetrotting botanist from China to the American Midwest as he works to foster concern for a changing planet, further the cause of biological education, and build the Missouri Botanical Garden into the world-renowned haven for plant life it is today. Raven brings his story into the twenty-first century with a timely epilogue that reinforces the crucial importance of scientific learning, active conservation, and committed activism in the face of a rapidly changing natural world. Featuring an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist E. O. Wilson, this beautifully illustrated book should thrill nature lovers, plant enthusiasts, and environmentally-conscious readers looking to take action to preserve our planet's biodiversity.
Through The Letterbox
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Author : George Bruce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Through The Letterbox written by George Bruce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Haiku, English categories.
Greatrex
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Author : David Bruce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Greatrex written by David Bruce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.