Melancholies of Knowledge Coping with / advice about death and bereavement

Melancholies of Knowledge Coping with / advice about death and bereavementScholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature's place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science. "We need the integration of our disciplines, the end to false dichotomizations, the recognition that we cannot grasp human uniqueness until we both practice art and understand science. We must celebrate a novelist who can teach scientists so much

This volume articulates the challenges that lie ahead as scholars draw from genomic studies

It focusses particularly on Botrytis infection of ornamental geophytes

Through a transpersonal

Welcoming a set of identical twins into the world

More encounters with sometimes rich

Sir Edward Herbert and the actor Nathan Field

In this new interpretation of Plato's Phaedo

It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population

An annotated translation of an essential work of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist thought

and in very little time discover the existence of the great beasts

It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency

revealing the tragedy of the sonless mother and the intolerable heaviness of existence