Bücher der Reihe Elements

The contributors to Reactiving Elements explore how studying elements-as the foundations of the physical and social world-provide a way to imagine alternatives to worldwide environmental destruction.

Tara of Arhelm longs for one thing-freedom. So when a chance to escape from her enslavement in Virgos occurs, Tara immediately seizes it, surviving a perilous journey across the desert and mountains to finally arrive back in her native Tusklin. Once there, however, Tara discovers danger still awaits, for a portion of Tusklin has been seized by Virgos. Tara soon finds herself caught up in a rebellion against Virgos led by the mysterious rebel leader, Ryder, but as she becomes ever more involved, Tara begins to wonder what her motive for fighting the Virgoesians should be. Not hatred, perhaps, but something else, something that the elusive guardian birds of Tusklin know about…Find out more in the second volume of Elements, a fantasy adventure series for ages ten and up.

Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate as a way of exploring the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of colonialism.

The contributors to Reactiving Elements explore how studying elements-as the foundations of the physical and social world-provide a way to imagine alternatives to worldwide environmental destruction.

Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of the idea of energy from the Industrial Revolution to the present, showing how it has informed fossil fuel imperialism, the governance of work, and our relationship to the Earth.

Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature and the history of thermal media such as thermostats and infrared cameras to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control.

Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate as a way of exploring the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of colonialism.

Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise at Los Angeles International Airport since the 1960s, showing how noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically.

In The Book of Fire, award-winning astrologer Steven Forrest offers a triumphant celebration of human resilience. Supported by all nine astrological "Fire" symbols, your spirit can survive anything - and still go dancing the next day. Regardless of your Sun Sign, the healing magic starts with mastering the paths of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. It continues as you learn to embrace Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun itself. Your resilience finally blossoms in the three Fire houses: the first, fifth, and ninth.Together, these nine powerful words in astrology's rich vocabulary are the Life¿Givers. With them on your side, you can eat the Devil for breakfast and spit him out before lunch.In these pages, you will learn how to make friends with each one of these human allies, both as they appear in your natal chart and as they move through it via transits and progressions. Each one of them promises a vibrant gift from the sky - and each one of them is as close to the core of what it takes for you truly to thrive in this human world as the marrow in your bones.Next up: watch for three more volumes in Forrest's epochal Elements series: The Book of Earth, The Book of Air, and The Book of Water.

Derek P. McCormack analyzes artistic, political, and technological uses of the balloon to show how its properties and capacities are central to understanding how we sense, perceive, and modify meteorological and affective atmospheres as well as the force of the atmosphere in modern life.