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Author |
: George Perkins Marsh |
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Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 1864 |
ISBN-10 |
: IBNN:BN000643405 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man and Nature, Or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh by : George Perkins Marsh
Author |
: George Perkins Marsh |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 618 |
Release |
: 1892 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HN5ZDC |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (DC Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies by : George Perkins Marsh
Author |
: Diane Cook |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2014-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062333124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062333127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man V. Nature by : Diane Cook
A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories that illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, and the veneer of civilization over our darkest urges. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In "Girl on Girl," a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can't have in "Meteorologist Dave Santana." And in the title story, a long-fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. Below the quotidian surface of Diane Cook's worlds lurks an unexpected surreality that reveals our most curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior. Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of "not-needed" boys takes refuge in a murky forest where they compete against one another for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched from their suburban yards by a man who stalks them. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.
Author |
: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington |
Publisher |
: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 1951 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015065938188 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man on His Nature by : Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Author |
: Alan Watts |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2012-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307822987 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307822982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nature, Man and Woman by : Alan Watts
From “perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West—and an author who ‘had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable’” (Los Angeles Times)—a guide that draws on Chinese Taoism to reexamine humanity’s place in the natural world and the relation between body and spirit. Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas—that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow superior to the body; that all sexuality entails a seduction—that in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Here, Watts fundamentally challenges these assumptions, drawing on the precepts of Taoism to present an alternative vision of man and the universe—one in which the distinctions between self and other, spirit and matter give way to a more holistic way of seeing.
Author |
: Allen G. Debus |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1978-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521293286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521293280 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man and Nature in the Renaissance by : Allen G. Debus
An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution.
Author |
: Alan Watts |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 76 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105036138522 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature of Man by : Alan Watts
This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics, the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift in the meaning of "fitness" in evolutionary theory, the practice of normal science in Nazi Germany, and the making and selling of science textbooks. While the topics are diverse, a common theme unites them - each explores links between biological science, social power, and public policy.
Author |
: Mary Midgley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2004-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134438457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134438451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beast and Man by : Mary Midgley
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.
Author |
: Elie Metchnikoff |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105046540311 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature of Man by : Elie Metchnikoff
Author |
: J. Drew Lanham |
Publisher |
: Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2016-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781571318756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1571318755 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Home Place by : J. Drew Lanham
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic