"Thinking about animals..." book to appear in paperback edition

We have been informed that a paperback edition of our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, published by Lexington Books, will be published this Spring. The hardcover edition appears in 2016.

No reference

There seemed to be - according to a Google Scholar notification - a reference to our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, but it appears that our book is just listed, in Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essays, as one of the former books in the same series.

"Thinking about animals..." book on Amazon bestseller list for Nature Literature Criticism

According to Amazon.com, our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene is currently #37 (Kindle version) and #39 (Hardcover version) in the category Nature Literature Criticism.

This does not indicate a very high sale, since the overall sales ranking in Books is #3,578,294.

Sales data for "Thinking about animals..."

According to a royalty statement from Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group), our book Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene  sold 114 copies last year, 24 of which have been returned (net sale: 90, i.e. 82 Cloth and 8 Electronic).

Thinking... book available on Hawaii

Our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene is now available at the Hawaii State Public Library System.

Two books featured in UiS book exhibition

Our books Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene (Lexington Books 2016) and Animal umwelten in a changing world: Zoosemiotic perspectives (Tartu University Press 2016) were included in the annual University of Stavanger book exhibition on Friday December 16th during the Christmas end-of-term event at Kjell Arholms hus. After what I´ve heard, there were some 20 books in the exhibitions, all featuring UiS scholars.

"Thinking about animals..." book of the month

Our book Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene is "book of the month" (månedens bok) at the university library of Stavanger´s page for social work.

Full reference for Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene

Here is the full reference for our recent book:

Tønnessen, Morten, Kristin Armstrong Oma and Silver Rattasepp (eds) (2016). Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books. Partially available in Google Books.

ISBS general meeting attended; mentions of some of my work

Today I attended the Annual Meeting of the ISBS, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, held at the 16th gathering of biosemiotics. The meeting included an announcement, by Don Favareau, of the first Biosemiotic Achievement Award (for 2015). In the President´s address, Kalevi Kull mentioned several works I have been involved in one way or another, including, among ten recent books he mentioned, The semiotics of animal representations (Rodopi 2014) and Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene (Lexington Books 2016), both of which I have co-edited - and this blog.

Some 25 people were present.

"Thinking about animals..." book featured in MAI bulletin

The book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, edited by me, Kristin Armstrong Oma and Silver Rattasepp, is featured in Minding Animals International´s Bulletin no. 33, p. 14.

Discount book flyer for "Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene"

I have uploaded a discount book flyer for the book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene to my Academia.edu profile. Using the discount code gives 30% discount on the book.

Reference for "Thinking about animals..." introductory chapter

Here´s the bibliographical reference for the introductory chapter in Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, written by Kristin Armstrong Oma and myself:

Tønnessen, Morten and Kristin Armstrong Oma (2016). Introduction: Once upon a time in the Anthropocene. In Morten Tønnessen, Silver Rattasepp and Kristin Armstrong Oma (eds), Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene (Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books), vii–xix.

"Thinking about animals" book top 1000 in Ecology, Zoology at Amazon

Our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene now ranks in the top 1000 in both Ecology and Zoology at Amazon. Specifically, it is currently:

#719 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Biology & Life Sciences > Ecology

#836 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Biology & Life Sciences > Zoology

#1268 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Environmental Studies 

Overall Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,051,301 in Books.

Book flyers arranged

Lexington Books has arranged book flyers for our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene. They are valid until the end of the year, with a 30% discount.

"Thinking about animals..." on Amazon

Here is Amazon´s page for our new book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene.

Current sales data indicate:
#1766 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Biology & Life Sciences > Ecology
#1861 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Biology & Life Sciences > Zoology
#3046 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Environmental Studies

Cover of "Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene"

See here for info from the publisher, Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield).

"Thinking about animals..." book received

Today I received my two copies of our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene (Lexington Books, April 2016). Good to have it here.

"Thinking about animals..." book in Google Books

Our book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene, published now in April by Lexington Books, is now partially available in Google Books.

Response to "Thinking about animals..." book proof queries compiled

Yesterday I finished coordinating and compiling response to proof queries for our forthcoming book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene. 17 pages, no less.

Table of contents for "Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene"

Here is the Table of Contents for our forthcoming book Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene (Lexington Books):

Acknowledgments 

Introduction: Once upon a Time in the Anthropocene

Morten Tønnessen & Kristin Armstrong Oma 

Part I: Beyond Human Eyes 

Chapter 1: Held Hostage by the Anthropocene
Susan M. Rustick 

Chapter 2: Dangerous Intersubjectivities from Dionysos to Kanzi
Louise Westling 

Chapter 3: Animals in a Noisy World
Almo Farina 

Part II: Phenomenology in the Anthropocene 

Chapter 4: A Phenomenological Approach to the Imaginary of Animals
Annabelle Dufourcq 

Chapter 5: Speaking with Animals: Philosophical Interspecies Investigations
Eva Meijer 

Chapter 6: Desire and/or Need for Life? Towards a Phenomenological Dialectic of the Organism
Sebastjan Vörös & Peter Gaitsch 

Part III: Beast No More 

Chapter 7: Understanding the Meaning of Wolf Resurgence, Ecosemiotics, and Landscape Hermeneutics
Martin Drenthen 

Chapter 8: Behaving like an Animal? Some Implications of the Philosophical Debate on the Animality in Man
Carlo Brentari 

Chapter 9: Seeing with Dolphins: Reflections on the Salience of Cetaceans
Katharine Dow 

Part IV: New Beginnings 

Chapter 10: Out of the Metazoic? Animals as a Transitional Form in Planetary Evolution
Bronislaw Szerszynski 

Chapter 11: Dangerous Animals and Our Search for Meaningful Relationships with Nature in the Anthropocene
Mateusz Tokarski 

Chapter 12: Don Quixote’s Windmills
Gisela Kaplan 

About the Contributors 

Index