Animal Envy

Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609807535

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Animal Envy by Ralph Nader Pdf

Ralph Nader's newest work of the imagination, Animal Envy, is a fable about the kinds of intelligences that are all around us in other animals. What would animals tell us—about themselves, about us—if there were a common language among all animal species? A bracingly simple idea, one that has been used before in books like George Orwell's Animal Farm and E. B. White's Charlotte's Web among others, but never like this. In Animal Envy, Ralph Nader proposes, quite plausibly, that a programmer has created a "digital translation" app whereby animals of different species, from insects to whales, can speak to one another, and through a "hyper-advanced converter" these animals can then also speak, both collectively and individually, to humans. It is decided that there will be a global assembly. It will be called "The Great Talkout." Humans are persuaded to reserve 100 hours of network coverage so The Great Talkout may begin and will be viewed by humans everywhere, in all human languages, as well as all animal languages. The narrative that ensues is deeply felt and powerfully informed. Just as he did when he wrote Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, Nader shows here that his visionary genius knows no limits.

Author : William Lauder Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503377037

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Mind in the lower animals, in health and disease v. 2 by William Lauder Lindsay Pdf

Author : William Lauder Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : UCAL:B4091944

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Mind in the Lower Animals in Health and Disease: Mind in disease by William Lauder Lindsay Pdf

Author : William Lauder Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : WISC:89094656253

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Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease: Mind in health by William Lauder Lindsay Pdf

Author : Oxana Timofeeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350012028

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The History of Animals: A Philosophy by Oxana Timofeeva Pdf

Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "animal question". While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and borders. Timofeeva shows the way towards the full acceptance of our animality; an acceptance which does not mean the return to our animal roots, or anything similar. The freedom generated by this acceptance operates through negativity; is an effect of the rejection of the very core of metaphysical philosophy and Christian culture, traditionally opposed to our 'animal' nature and seemingly detached from it. With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book is accessible, jargon-free and ideal for students and all those interested in re-imagining how we engage with animals and the environment.

Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781644213742

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Out of Darkness by Ralph Nader Pdf

A collection of columns and essays that reveal Ralph Nader at his outspoken and prescient best, fighting the good fight against corporate corruption, unbalanced political power, consumer dangers, big pharma, and climate deniers. Features an introduction by Lewis Lapham. This collection is classic Nader—exhorting us to make our world and nation a better place, even when faced with unchecked political and corporate power, and perverse market and regulatory incentives. He starts with the declaration that the national Democratic Party bureaucrats are either inept or bewildered. With its record-setting campaign fundraising, he bemoans how the Party can’t seem to figure out how to go on the offensive against the overtly lying, cruel, corrupt, law-breaking, Wall Street over Main Street, Trumpian Republican Party. In another essay he praises Canada, explaining that the majority of citizens love their health care system—Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital , everybody in, nobody out and far less expensive with better outcomes overall. Highlighting heroes like Pete Seeger, Wendell Berry, the journalist Helen Thomas, Nader also celebrates citizens like the lesser-known charismatic George S. Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority who brought immense energy, vision, and ambitious, overdue plans to the forefront for American’s public drinking water. Meanwhile, he doesn’t shy away from enemies—for example Nader slams the evils of Big Pharma’s strength and hold over Congress and infinite greed. Nader also brings American history to the present day with creative twists. “We need to remember Ben Franklin, our frugal forebear, who coined the phrase ‘a penny saved is a penny earned,’” he writes. “Today he would say ‘a trillion BTUs saved is a trillion BTUs earned.’” Ranging from hernia repair to auto safety reports and warnings about lethal super-bugs and global pandemics from 2013, Nader’s essays and newspaper columns will inform and activate his legions of fans.

Author : Theophrastus Paracelsus,Franz Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Alchemists
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012070462

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The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus by Theophrastus Paracelsus,Franz Hartmann Pdf

Author : Franz Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:AH46I4

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The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus by Franz Hartmann Pdf

Author : Mark A. Gillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038107945

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Envy as a Retarding Force in Science by Mark A. Gillman Pdf

This is a study of the role that the human emotion of envy has had - and continues to play - in scientific and academic research. From detailed case histories, it shows that envy of colleagues and rivals can be a serious inhibiting factor in both the direc

Author : R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226059686

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The Anonymous Marie de France by R. Howard Bloch Pdf

This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Evidence about Marie de France's life is so meager that we know next to nothing about her-not where she was born and to what rank, who her parents were, whether she was married or single, where she lived and might have traveled, whether she dwelled in cloister or at court, nor whether in England or France. In the face of this great writer's near anonymity, scholars have assumed her to be a simple, naive, and modest Christian figure. Bloch's claim, in contrast, is that Marie is among the most self-conscious, sophisticated, complicated, and disturbing figures of her time-the Joyce of the twelfth century. At a moment of great historical turning, the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century, Marie was both a disrupter of prevailing cultural values and a founder of new ones. Her works, Bloch argues, reveal an author obsessed by writing, by memory, and by translation, and acutely aware not only of her role in the preservation of cultural memory, but of the transforming psychological, social, and political effects of writing within an oral tradition. Marie's intervention lies in her obsession with the performative capacities of literature and in her acute awareness of the role of the subject in interpreting his or her own world. According to Bloch, Marie develops a theology of language in the Lais, which emphasize the impossibility of living in the flesh along with a social vision of feudalism in decline. She elaborates an ethics of language in the Fables, which, within the context of the court of Henry II, frame and form the urban values and legal institutions of the Anglo-Norman world. And in her Espurgatoire, she produces a startling examination of the afterlife which Bloch links to the English conquest and occupation of medieval Ireland. With a penetrating glimpse into works such as these, The Anonymous Marie de France recovers the central achievements of one of the most pivotal figures in French literature. It is a study that will be of enormous value to medievalists, literary scholars, historians of France, and anyone interested in the advent of female authorship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106005756462

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Lauder Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : MINN:31951000932428K

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Mind in disease by William Lauder Lindsay Pdf

Author : American Poland-China Record Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Poland
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094269234

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American Poland-China Record by American Poland-China Record Association Pdf

Author : Patricia Cox Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250350

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In the Eye of the Animal by Patricia Cox Miller Pdf

In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how ancient texts and images celebrated a continuum of human and animal life.

Author : Caroline Case
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317822011

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Imagining Animals by Caroline Case Pdf

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered in children who are hard to reach. Caroline Case examines how the emergence of animal imagery in therapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children in autistic states of mind, or with a background of trauma, abuse or depression. She also looks at animal / human relationships, and animal symbolism, as well as three-dimensional claywork and the development of personality. Subjects covered include: * animals on stage in therapy - anthropomorphic animal objects * the location of self in animals * entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood. The book concludes with a compelling extended case study, which describes analytic work with a child with multiple symptoms, using the various therapeutic tools of play and art, painting and clay, and the development of character, plot and narrative. Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which will be of interest to all arts and play therapists working with children as well as adult psychotherapists interested in the use of imagery.