Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and ...(展开全部)

This is a groundbreaking, highly original work of postmodern feminist theology from one of the most important authors in the field. The Face of the Deep deconstructs the Christian doctrine of creation which claims that a transcendent Lord unilaterally created the universe out of nothing. Catherine Keller's impassioned, graceful meditation develops an alternative representation ...(展开全部)

A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the...(展开全部)

著有《盐》、《鳕鱼》、《巴斯克人的世界史》、《岛屿组成的大陆：探寻加勒比的命运》、《被选择的少数：欧洲犹太人的复兴》，以及2004年初面市的《1968：撼动世界的一年》。其中，《鳕鱼》获得了詹姆·比尔德食品写作优秀奖。

Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical ...(展开全部)

A wondrous nonfiction debut from the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia, Why Fish Don’t Exist tells the story of a 19th-century scientist possessed with bringing order to the natural world—a dark and astonishing tale that becomes an investigation into some of the biggest questions of our lives. When Lulu Miller was starting out as a science reporter, she encountered a story that wo...(展开全部)

Duration: 04:57:57 A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. "Lulu Miller draws a heartening lesson—that chaos, which comes for us all, can be defeated by sheer human stubbornness." —Los Angeles Times David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a ma...(展开全部)

A wondrous nonfiction debut from the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia, Why Fish Don’t Exist tells the story of a 19th-century scientist possessed with bringing order to the natural world—a dark and astonishing tale that becomes an investigation into some of the biggest questions of our lives. When Lulu Miller was starting out as a science reporter, she encountered a story that wo...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 安·奥克利 （Ann Oakley ），英国社会学家、作家、伦敦大学学院社会学和社会政策教授。长期从事性和性别、家务、分娩、身体社会学、女权主义研究。代表作有《看不见的女人：家庭事务社会学》《性、性别和社会》等 2011年，英国社会学协会授予其终身成就奖。牛津大学萨默维尔学院授予其荣誉院士的称号。 ———— ◎译者简介 王瀛晨，南开大学管理学学士；伦敦大学国王学院在读硕士，专业方向新兴经济体与国际发展问题。

Deleuze's concept of `becoming' provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now. Bankston tracks the concept of becoming and its underlying temporal processes across Deleuze's writings, arguing that expressions of becoming(s) appear in two modes of temporality: an appropriation of Nietzsche's eternal return (the becoming of th...(展开全部)