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Bird Relics

Author : Branka Arsić
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674495388

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Branka Arsic shows that Thoreau developed a theory of vitalism in response to his brother’s death. Through grieving, he came to see life as a generative force into which everything dissolves and reemerges. This reinterpretation, based on sources overlooked by critics, explains many of Thoreau’s more idiosyncratic habits and obsessions.

Relics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226568706

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World-renowned zoologist and photographer Naskrecki leads readers on a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.

Excursions with Thoreau

Author : Edward F. Mooney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501305665

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Excursions with Thoreau by Edward F. Mooney Pdf

Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of “a child of the mist”; his exalting “sympathy with intelligence” over plain knowledge; and his preferring “befitting reverie”-not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Author : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X004722001

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Pdf

House Documents

Author : USA House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11037549

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House Documents by USA House of Representatives Pdf

House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:555038374

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Science
ISBN : NWU:35556005077995

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

40TH CONGRESS, 3RD SESSION. HOUSE OF REPRESEN6TATIVES EX. DOC. NO. 83. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOLLOWING THE OPERATIONS, EXPENDITURES, AND CONDITION OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR 1868

Author : House of Representatives,40th Congress,3d Session Ex Doc No.83
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555034734

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40TH CONGRESS, 3RD SESSION. HOUSE OF REPRESEN6TATIVES EX. DOC. NO. 83. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOLLOWING THE OPERATIONS, EXPENDITURES, AND CONDITION OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR 1868 by House of Representatives,40th Congress,3d Session Ex Doc No.83 Pdf

The Birds of Wiltshire

Author : Alfred Charles Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCAL:B3319942

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Relics of the Buddha

Author : John S. Strong
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691188119

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Relics of the Buddha by John S. Strong Pdf

Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of religion, influenced by a characteristic Protestant bias against relic worship, declared such practices to be superstitious and fraudulent, and far from the true essence of Buddhism. John Strong's book, by contrast, argues that relic veneration has played a serious and integral role in Buddhist traditions in South and Southeast Asia-and that it is in no way foreign to Buddhism. The book is structured around the life story of the Buddha, starting with traditions about relics of previous buddhas and relics from the past lives of the Buddha Sakyamuni. It then considers the death of the Buddha, the collection of his bodily relics after his cremation, and stories of their spread to different parts of Asia. The book ends with a consideration of the legend of the future parinirvana (extinction) of the relics prior to the advent of the next Buddha, Maitreya. Throughout, the author does not hesitate to explore the many versions of these legends and to relate them to their ritual, doctrinal, artistic, and social contexts.