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{"id":6812282978363,"title":"Surrender","handle":"surrender","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, \u003ci\u003eSurrender\u003c\/i\u003e explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning author and essayist Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape of the West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in the Mountain States. She witnesses the annual tribal bison hunt near Yellowstone National Park, where she meets a scavenger community honing ancestral skills. She joins Finisia Medrano, a transgender rewilder who for many years has been living on the “hoop,” following her food source by seasonal migration. She attends the Ecosex Convergence — an annual gathering of people who place their relationship with the earth above everything else — and attends a workshop led by Reverend Teri Ciacchi, a sexologist, priestess of Aphrodite, and holistic spiritual healer in the Living Love Revolution Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurrender\u003c\/i\u003e is a keen and compelling examination of the outsider eco-cultures blossoming in the new American West in an era of increasing climatic disruption, rising sea levels, animal extinctions, melting glaciers, and catastrophic wildfires.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:28:37-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T15:01:19-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Environmentalism","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Pocock Joanna","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-09-24"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40197115052091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007249","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Surrender - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":400,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007249","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40197117214779,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007256","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Surrender - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007256","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40197117935675,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007263","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Surrender - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007263","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cc759e97-9d25-4933-9c6e-007dcb199548.jpg?v=1654446255"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cc759e97-9d25-4933-9c6e-007dcb199548.jpg?v=1654446255","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A photograph shows dry, flat land with patches of yellow grass. The head and spine and part of the ribcage of an animal skeleton is on the ground. A sparse layer of frost and snow are on the ground. In the distance is a group of people, with two people further away. Mist hangs in the air and a grassy mountain is barely visible behind the people. Text: Surrender. The Call of the American West. Joanna Pocock. “Candid and beautifully written… A necessary read for our times.” – Edward Burtynsky.","id":22171027800123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cc759e97-9d25-4933-9c6e-007dcb199548.jpg?v=1654446255"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cc759e97-9d25-4933-9c6e-007dcb199548.jpg?v=1654446255","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, \u003ci\u003eSurrender\u003c\/i\u003e explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning author and essayist Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape of the West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in the Mountain States. She witnesses the annual tribal bison hunt near Yellowstone National Park, where she meets a scavenger community honing ancestral skills. She joins Finisia Medrano, a transgender rewilder who for many years has been living on the “hoop,” following her food source by seasonal migration. She attends the Ecosex Convergence — an annual gathering of people who place their relationship with the earth above everything else — and attends a workshop led by Reverend Teri Ciacchi, a sexologist, priestess of Aphrodite, and holistic spiritual healer in the Living Love Revolution Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurrender\u003c\/i\u003e is a keen and compelling examination of the outsider eco-cultures blossoming in the new American West in an era of increasing climatic disruption, rising sea levels, animal extinctions, melting glaciers, and catastrophic wildfires.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Beautiful, wise, and deeply moving, this is ambulatory philosophy at its finest — for readers of Rebecca Solnit, Lauren Elkin, Garnette Cadogan, and Iain Sinclair.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Joanna Kavenna, author of A Field Guide to Reality","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eLand and water, flesh and blood. The planet and the body. Society and the person. \u003cem\u003eSurrender\u003c\/em\u003e maps these profound fractal relationships with a precision and sensitivity that stunned me. Here is a singular spiritual travelogue of the American West that is worthy of D. H. Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air and Blood Will Out","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eWritten with great narrative richness and an anthropologist’s intrepid gaze, \u003cem\u003eSurrender\u003c\/em\u003e is fascinating, urgent, and profoundly compelling. It is an important addition to nature’s library.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRONG MARKET FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePerfect for the nonfiction reader and fans of \u003cem\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEducated\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWild\u003c\/em\u003e. The category is continuing to grow, and our collective interest in the future of our environment, our planet, and our place in the world has readers reaching for titles like these.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRESURGENT INTEREST IN THE AMERICAN WEST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAfter the success of Patrick deWitt’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e, which was made into an acclaimed film in 2018 starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal, there has been new interest in this storied setting.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJoanna has won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and was a finalist for the Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Award. Her essays, reviews, and travel pieces have appeared in \u003cem\u003eDistinctly Montana\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLitro\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eMost ecological movements look back. Some communities model themselves after an agrarian idyll from a hundred and fifty years ago: the life of the homesteader growing their food, keeping goats, making their own soap and keeping bees. Some communitarians go even further back, to our Palaeolithic ancestors with their migration, foraging, replanting of seeds, and brain-tanning hides as their baseline for the Good Life. What all rewilders, off-gridders, ancestral skills practitioners, and those seeking to live in harmony with the planet seemed to have in common was a nostalgia for a world that once existed but was now lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe striking thing about the ecosex movement is its insistence on looking forward. In their eyes, social change is needed to envision a planet fit to be lived on. Their focus on consent is perhaps necessary for the uncharted waters they are diving into. Nostalgia is replaced by excitement over what the world \u003cem\u003ecould\u003c\/em\u003e be. Who cares what it once was. Ecosexuals are not trying to recreate some lost Eden, but are instead imagining a whole new one with a new kind of society better suited for survival. They all drive cars and most of them rely on technology — a Surrender Facebook page exists — but most of them, though not living off-grid, are concerned with environmental issues. It is an approach that stands out from the others. Unlike so many ecologically based movements, this one is not misanthropic — it celebrates humans, rather than wishing them dead for their ecocidal ways.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A bewitching and deeply affecting book. Pocock’s elegant interweaving of the intimate and the expansive, the personal and the universal, culminates in a work that forces us to consider our own place in, and impact upon, a world that could itself have more past than future.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Spectator","OtherText_Review_1":"[A] poignant, insightful examination of the American West.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeName_0":"Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize","PrizeName_1":"Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Prize","PrizeName_2":"Arts Foundation Futures Award for Environmental Writing","PrizeName_3":"A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-09-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root.","Subtitle":"The Call of the American West","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
Surrender
Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root.
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{"id":7267103408187,"title":"Survival","handle":"survival","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen first published in 1972, \u003cem\u003eSurvival\u003c\/em\u003e was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: \"What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?\" Her answer is \"survival and victims.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-05-13T10:31:25-04:00","created_at":"2024-05-13T10:19:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Atwood Margaret","pub date: 2012-06-20"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41713161273403,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892521","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Survival - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":372,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892521","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41713161371707,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892538","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Survival - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892538","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41713161404475,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897670","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Survival - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897670","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_11c0681b-12f3-4365-9bef-84ca4d8b8b9d.jpg?v=1715610163"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_11c0681b-12f3-4365-9bef-84ca4d8b8b9d.jpg?v=1715610163","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24539301118011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_11c0681b-12f3-4365-9bef-84ca4d8b8b9d.jpg?v=1715610163"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_11c0681b-12f3-4365-9bef-84ca4d8b8b9d.jpg?v=1715610163","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWhen first published in 1972, \u003cem\u003eSurvival\u003c\/em\u003e was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: \"What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?\" Her answer is \"survival and victims.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Survival
First published in 1972, Survival is considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature.
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{"id":6582764306491,"title":"Swearing Is Good For You","handle":"swearing-is-good-for-you","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn delightfully fun and accessible language, backed by riveting historical case studies and the latest cutting-edge research, Dr. Emma Byrne explores the science behind swearing and why bad language might actually be good for us. Swearing, it turns out, is socially and emotionally essential. Not only has some form of swearing been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, prevent violence, help stroke victims recover their language, and help people work together as a team. \u003ci\u003eSwearing Is Good For You\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:15:47-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:15:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi International","By (author) Byrne Emma","pub date: 2017-11-25"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403473010747,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001780","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swearing Is Good For You - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001780","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413928493115,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001773","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swearing Is Good For You - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":280,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001773","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413928656955,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001797","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swearing Is Good For You - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001797","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbfbdcf7-744d-4724-808c-9fa09943e32d.jpg?v=1723949540"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbfbdcf7-744d-4724-808c-9fa09943e32d.jpg?v=1723949540","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743102087227,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbfbdcf7-744d-4724-808c-9fa09943e32d.jpg?v=1723949540"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbfbdcf7-744d-4724-808c-9fa09943e32d.jpg?v=1723949540","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn delightfully fun and accessible language, backed by riveting historical case studies and the latest cutting-edge research, Dr. Emma Byrne explores the science behind swearing and why bad language might actually be good for us. Swearing, it turns out, is socially and emotionally essential. Not only has some form of swearing been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, prevent violence, help stroke victims recover their language, and help people work together as a team. \u003ci\u003eSwearing Is Good For You\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487004071","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770890152","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770894457","BASICMainSubject":"SCI090000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"SCIENCE \/ Cognitive Science","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDR. EMMA BYRNE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a research scientist at Queen Mary, University of London. She has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and an MRes in Visualization, Imaging, and Virtual Environments. Her research has been published in \u003cem\u003eScience\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe BMJ\u003c\/em\u003e, and has been covered by the \u003cem\u003eBBC\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eScottish Daily Record\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also written popular science articles for \u003cem\u003eForbes\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Her research has been published in \u003cem\u003eScience\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe BMJ\u003c\/em\u003e, and has been covered by the \u003cem\u003eBBC\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eScottish Daily Record\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also written popular science articles for \u003cem\u003eForbes\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e. Dr. Byrne appears regularly on \u003cem\u003eSky News\u003c\/em\u003e and the BBC as an expert on swearing and artificial intelligence. \u003cem\u003eSwearing Is Good For You\u003c\/em\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Byrne, Emma","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid you know that chimpanzees can swear? Or that we do most of our swearing in our first language? Have you ever noticed that swearing is an excellent painkiller?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn delightfully fun and accessible language, backed by riveting historical case studies and the latest cutting-edge research, Dr. Emma Byrne explores the science behind swearing and why bad language might actually be good for us. Swearing, it turns out, is socially and emotionally essential. Not only has some form of swearing been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, prevent violence, help stroke victims recover their language, and help people work together as a team. \u003ci\u003eSwearing Is Good For You\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487001780","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001780\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"pop science; language; brain science; pop culture; wired; new scientist; swear words; swear like a sailor; holy sh*t a brief history of swearing; what the f; the life changing magic of not giving a f**k; gifts for dads; potty mouth; go the fuck to sleep; psychology; sociology; speech pathology; women writers; the rude story of english; confidence game; born liars; blink malcolm gladwell; gift book; joke gift books","OtherText_Accolades_0":"A good book about bad language by a trash-talking woman? Sign me up! Swearing Is Good for You makes science feel downright celebratory.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Norris","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a ‘twat.’ I had no idea what a twat was – I thought it was just a silly way of saying ‘twit’ – but that smack taught me that some words are more powerful than others and that I had to be careful how I used them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as you’ve no doubt gathered, that experience didn’t exactly cure me of swearing. In fact it probably went some way towards piquing my fascination with profanity. Since then I’ve had a certain pride in my knack for colourful and well-timed swearing: being a woman in a male-dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when I discovered that other scientists have been taking swearing seriously for a long time – and that I’m not the only person who finds judicious profanity useful – I was fucking delighted! I first began to realise there was more to swearing than a bit of banter or blasphemy when I happened to read a study that involved 67 volunteers, a bucket of ice water, a swear word and a stopwatch. I was working in a neuroscience lab at the time and that study changed the course of my research. It set me on a quest to study swearing: why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, I’m definitely not the only person who uses swearing as a way of fitting in at work. Research shows that swearing can help build teams in the work place. From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share the same lexicon of swearing tend to work more effectively together, feel closer, and be more productive than those that don’t. These same studies show that managing stress in the same way that we manage pain – with a fucking good swear – is more effective than any number of team building exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has also helped to develop the field of neuroscience. By providing us with a useful emotional barometer, swearing has been used as a research tool for over 150 years. It has helped us to discover some fascinating things about the structure of the human brain, such as its division into left and right hemispheres, and the role of cerebral structures like the amygdala in the regulation of emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has taught us a great deal about our minds, too. We know that people who learn a second language often find it less stressful to swear in their adopted tongue, which gives us an idea of the childhood developmental stages at which we learn emotions and taboos. Swearing also makes the heart beat faster, and primes us to think aggressive thoughts while, paradoxically, making us less likely to be physically violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd swearing is a surprisingly flexible part of our linguistic repertoire. It re-invents itself from generation to generation as taboos shift. Profanity has even become part of the way we express positive feelings – we know that football fans use ‘fuck’ just as frequently when they’re happy as when they are angry or frustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat last finding is one of my own. With colleagues at City University, London, I’ve studied thousands of football fans and their bad language during big games. It’s no great surprise that football fans swear, and that they are particularly fond of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit.’ But we noticed something interesting about the ratio between these two swearwords. The ‘fuck-shit’ ratio is a reliable indicator of which team has scored because, it turns out that ‘shit’ is almost universally negative while ‘fuck’ can be a sign of something good or bad. Swearing amongst football fans also isn’t anywhere near as aggressive as you might think; fans on Twitter almost never swear about their opponents and reserve their outbursts for players on their own team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing is one of those things that comes so naturally, and seems so frivolous, that you might be surprised by the number of scientists who are studying it. But neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians have long taken an interest in bad language, and for good reason. Although swearing might seem frivolous it teaches us a lot about how our brains, our minds and even our societies work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won’t just look at swearing in isolation. One of the things that makes swearing so fucking amazing is the sheer breadth of connections it has with our lives. Throughout this book I’ll cover many different topics, some of which may seem like digressions. There are plenty of pages that contain no profanity whatsoever but, from the indirectness of Japanese speech patterns to the unintended consequences of potty training chimpanzees, everything relates back to the way that we use bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this book simply an attempt to justify rudeness and aggression? Not at all. I certainly wouldn’t want profanities to become commonplace: swearing needs to maintain its emotional impact in order to work. We only need to look at the way that swearing has changed over the last 100 years to see that, as some swearwords become mild and ineffectual through over-use or shifting cultural values, we reach for other taboos to fill the gap. Where blasphemy was once the true obscenity, the modern unsayables include racist and sexist terms as swearwords. Depending on your point of view this is either a lamentable shift towards political correctness or timely recognition that bigotry is ugly and damaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.\"","OtherText_Review_0":"[Swearing] deserves a closer, clinical look. And Emma Byrne, a scientist and a journalist who has done research in the field, is well qualified to be our guide.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Written in an engaging and conversational style . . . Byrne provides a refreshing, entertaining, instructive examination of a ‘surprisingly flexible part of a linguistic repertoire.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2017-11-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","Subtitle":"The Amazing Science of Bad Language"}
Swearing Is Good For You
In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.
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Through him, I learned the importance of traditional Indigenous thinking and approaches to food, which continues to influence and guide the uniqueness of Albertan cuisine today. I’m so happy that Shane and Jennifer have captured these ideas in tawâw for us all to savour. 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Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine.
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Technology and Empire
Brilliant analysis of the implications of technology-driven globalization on everyday life from one of Canada's most influential philosophers.
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Tecumseh and Brock
A powerful and compelling new work on the War of 1812, from bestselling author, historian, political scientist, and scholar James Laxer.
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Tessa and Scott
Tessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story — now updated and expanded with a new introduction and three all-new chapters.
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The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy
Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, and Justin Trudeau squared off on September 28, 2015, for the first-ever election debate on Canada’s foreign policy.
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{"id":6811309244475,"title":"The Age of Creativity","handle":"the-age-of-creativity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us.” — from \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. 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Emily Urquhart is a curious and frank guide, who captures her subject with clear and perfect brushstrokes.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kyo Maclear, award-winning and bestselling author of Birds Art Life","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Wise and thoughtful, Emily Urquhart’s The Age of Creativity leads us through the landscape of imagination. The bonds of familial love, the workings of memory, the drive to create, and the process of aging are all explored with Urquhart’s trademark blending of intelligence and warmth. This important work delves into the life of an artist who surveys the transformation of his work over decades and the parallel trajectory of his life. 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The Age of Creativity
A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart.
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{"id":7118293598267,"title":"The Age of Insecurity","handle":"the-age-of-insecurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity. 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It's a stunning work of social theory, but to call it that doesn't convey how much it touches on the troubles of this very moment, as well as their origins—while always reminding us that things can be different.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things To Me","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eInsecurity is as important to understanding our world as inequality. But unlike inequality, it is understudied, undertheorized, and underdiscussed. This book is an attempt to address the gap in literature. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe premise is that in reality, the status quo isn’t really working for anyone, even the affluent and comparatively privileged; and contrary to their convictions, it isn’t working for those fighting, sometimes violently, to retain their relative advantage in a rapidly changing world. 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What makes this book worth the reader’s time is its idiosyncratic blend of the personal and the public, the emotional and the economic.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Commonweal Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eA must-read.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Peace News","OtherText_Review_quote_0":"\u003cp\u003eAstra Taylor is a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity's most profound questions yet entirely devoid of pretensions and compulsively readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_0_Auth":"Naomi Klein","OtherText_Review_quote_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhether she is writing about gender discrimination in the tech industry, the plight of refugees, or the rights of the natural world, Taylor reveals in her essays a forthright commitment to “the cause of common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_1_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_quote_2":"\u003cp\u003eBlending big-picture thinking with the history of the populist struggle in America [Taylor] makes a strong case that the time for change is now.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. 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The Age of Insecurity
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?
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The Art of the Obit
Award-winning journalist Sandra Martin reveals the cult and craft of obituary writing from the ancient Greeks to a wired-up 24/7 world.
