Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plantstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. Thebook’s main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental,vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and todo that from within the discipline of literary studies. Literary studies inAustralia continue to reflec...

Why do representatives of different religious traditions find the transhumanist vision of the future not only theologically compatible but even inspiring? Transhumanism is a global movement seeking radical human enhancement. The trans in transhumanism marks the transition from the present stage in human evolution into the future, namely, post-human existence. Containing chapters written by adherents to a variety of religious traditions, Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics prov...

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environmental consciousness in the twenty-first century. This volume examines key thinkers and aspects of Daoist, Confucianist, Buddhist, indigenous, animistic, and neo-Confucianist thought. With a particular focus on animistic perspectives on environmental healing and environmental consciousness, the contributors also engage with media studies (eco-cin...

Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. This edited collection tackles the question of how to teach English language and cultur...

Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest centers for promoting ecocriticism outside the West and has continued to play a central role in shaping ecocriticism in East Asia. This is the first English anthology dedicated to the vibran...

Trauer ist ein unvermeidbarer Bestandteil des Lebens, mit dem jede:r mehr oder weniger konfrontiert wird. Sie hat auch unmittelbare Auswirkungen auf das Arbeitsumfeld. Deshalb braucht jedes Unternehmen eine Trauerkultur. Durch geeignete Maßnahmen können Unternehmen sicherstellen, dass sie gut auf solche Situationen vorbereitet sind und sowohl menschlich als auch organisatorisch angemessen reagieren. Die Autor:innen beleuchten vielfältige Themenfelder, die bisher nicht im Zusammenhang mit T...

Stop walking to get somewhere. Start walking to arrive.We spend our lives in motion, yet we are rarely truly moved. In our modern rush, we have turned walking—one of humanity's most fundamental and inherently mindful acts—into a mechanical means of transportation. We walk to lose time, not to inhabit it, treating our bodies as mere delivery systems for our minds.Walking in Silence: The Art of Meditative Movement is a transformative guide to reclaim...

We live in a world that equates holding on with strength—and letting go with loss. From childhood, we're taught to strive, secure, and accumulate: to cling tightly to success, relationships, identities, even our pain, as if our worth depends on what we can keep within our grip. But life, in its quiet wisdom, keeps revealing a different truth: everything flows. Nothing remains fixed—not joy, not sorrow, not people, not even the self we believe ourselves to be.Non-Graspin...

We have built a life that looks full but feels hollow.In the twenty-first century, we are surrounded by an architecture of excess. We buy bins to organize clutter, subscribe to apps to manage our time, and wear exhaustion as a badge of honor—yet no matter how elegantly we arrange the surface, the pressure remains. The Forest Monk's Path is a study in subtraction, inviting you to step away from the "unprocessed noise" of modern life and rediscover the clari...

Wisdom is not an intellectual data-acquisition project; it is what remains when the agitation of the heart is finally stilled.In Metta: As Foundational Wisdom, Emery Ralph explores the ancient pillar of Metta (loving-kindness) as a practical technology for internal restructuring. Most of us treat love as a passive experience dictated by chemistry or whim, mourning when it departs. Ralph argues that true wisdom arises through a deliberate orientati...

We often treat our lives like solid objects—fixed, rigid, and resistant to change. We build walls to protect our progress and cling to moments as if they were stones in our pockets. But the deeper truth of our existence is far more fluid: from the rhythm of our breath to the cells that compose our being, we are creatures of water living in a world that never stops moving.In The Luminous Current, author Emery Ralph invites you to transition from a solid life to a fluid one....

The Two Truths is a philosophical and psychological framework designed to foster mental flexibility by distinguishing between how we label the world and how it actually exists. The framework operates through two distinct lenses:The Conventional Truth: This is the "map" of reality, consisting of the names, labels, and social boundaries we use to survive and navigate society. It treats objects and identities—like a "$20 bill," ...