Kirjahaku

In the 1400s, a sadistic murderer stalks an English city. When Duke Timothy's daughter is found murdered in her bed, he enlists the help of a wizard's apprentice to solve the mystery. What the apprentice finds is a horror that will haunt the ages. In the 1690s, two apparitions visit a New England woman and tell her that she must kill a murderous judge before he can kill again. In the 1960s, a high school senior has found a bodyguard to protect him from the bully who has terrorized him for years-but at what price? These stories and more are all connected by a lovely red jewel.

Provides a significant picture of the ecological crisis from the interdisciplinary perspective of postcolonial cultural studies, in order to map the emerging virtual and ecological territories of the twenty-first century "electropolis." This book spins a historical fable about the trends in European thought that have contributed to the rise of industrial civilization and to the ecological crisis. It explores alternative visions of nature and culture, from Romanticism to ecological theory, in an effort to rewrite the story of natural and cultural history. Its themes include ecological poetics, technological artistry, evolutionary learning, the play of communication, and the struggle for a viable ecological ethic.