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In this collection, prize-winning Irish essayist Chris Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a girl's ear, a vulture's egg, the letters in a Scrabble game, a sprig of witch-hazel, and the chasms of complexity contained in an ordinary moment. Whether he's writing about owls, leaves, a street in his hometown, the symbiotic interrelationships in the stomach of a termite, a souvenir cigarette box from a ship sunk in World War II, or the coinci...

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In his latest collection, Hummingbirds Between the Pages, prizewinning Irish essayist Chris Arthur muses on subjects ranging from Charles Darwin's killing of a South American fox to the carnal music sounding in a statue of the Buddha, from how Egyptian seashells contain echoes of World War II to a child's first encounter with death. Whether he's looking at skipping stones, old photographs, butterflies, the resonance of a remembered phrase, or ...

This book argues that the dialectic of Marx's Capital has a "systematic, " rather than historical, character. It sheds new light on Marx's great work, while going beyond it in many respects.

Bringing a diverse range of material into play, from fifteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhism to how we look at paintings, and from the nature of a briefcase to the ancient nest-sites of gyrfalcons, Chris Arthur reveals the extraordinary dimensions woven invisibly into the ordinary things around us. Arthur roots the book in his own unique vision of the world, but he addresses elemental issues of life and death, love and loss, that circle the wo...

Consumer fi nancial literacy education often appears as a helpful, commonsense solution to neoliberalism and the individualization of responsibility for economic risk. However, in Financial Literacy Education: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizen this particular literacy is argued to be both ineffective and unjust. Socially created poverty, unemployment and economic insecurity require more than individual consumer solutions, they requir...

Consumer fi nancial literacy education often appears as a helpful, commonsensesolution to neoliberalism and the individualization of responsibility for economic risk.However, in Financial Literacy Education: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizenthis particular literacy is argued to be both ineffective and unjust. Socially createdpoverty, unemployment and economic insecurity require more than individual consumersolutions, they require col...

This book argues that the dialectic of Marx's Capital has a "systematic, " rather than historical, character. It sheds new light on Marx's great work, while going beyond it in many respects.

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne corrects this collective lapse of memory and introduces modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.