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Author : Salvatore Liporace,Patrizia Cappellaro De Martino
Publisher : Certrè SaS di Mario Remeggio & C.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9788890052033
Author : Stephen Voss
Publisher : Stephen Voss Photography
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0692585168
A photography book of bonsai trees. Photographs were taken at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in Washington, DC.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808608
LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
Author : Harry Tomlinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bonsai
ISBN : 0868244112
Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786747030
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Author : Levi R. Bryant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547762522
Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought of Roy Bhaskar, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhman, Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour and the developmental systems theorists, Bryant develops a realist ontology that he calls "onticology". This ontology argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations such that subjects themselves are a variant of objects. Drawing on the work of the systems theorists and cyberneticians, Bryant argues that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure. In this way, he is able to integrate the most vital discoveries of the anti-realists within a realist ontology that does justice to both the material and cultural. Onticology proposes a flat ontology where objects of all sorts and at different scales equally exist without being reducible to other objects and where there are no transcendent entities such as eternal essences outside of dynamic interactions among objects. Contents: Towards a Finally Subjectless Object Grounds For a Realist Ontology The Paradox of Substance Virtual Proper Being The Interior of Objects Regimes of Attraction, Parts, and Structure The Four Theses of Flat Ontology
Author : Prudence Gibson,Baylee Brits
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781947447691
Covert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of vegetal life for the arts and culture. This stretches to changes in our perception of 'nature' and to the adapting roles of botany, evolutionary ecology, and environmental aesthetics in the humanities. Its editors and contributors seek various expressions of vegetal life rather than the mere representation of such, and they proceed from the conviction that a rigorous approach to thinking with and through vegetal life must be interdisciplinary. At a time when urgent calls for restorative care and reparative action have been sounded for the environment, this essay volume presents a range of academic and creative perspectives, from evolutionary biology to literary theory, philosophy to poetry, which respond to the perplexing problems and paradoxes of vegetal thinking. Representations of vegetal life often include plant analogies and plant imagery. These representations have at times obscured the diversity of plant behavior and experience. Covert Plants probes the implications of vegetal life for thought and how new plant science is changing our perception of the vegetal - around us and in us. How can we think, speak, and write about plant life without falling into human-nature dyads, or without tumbling into reductive theoretical notions about the always complex relations between cognition and action, identity and value, subject and object? A full view of this shifting perspective requires a 'stereoscopic' lens through which to view plants, but also simultaneously to alter our human-centered viewpoint. Plants are no longer the passive object of contemplation, but are increasingly resembling 'subjects, ' 'stakeholders, ' or 'actors.' As such, the plant now makes unprecedented demands upon the nature of contemplation itself. Moreover, the aesthetic, political, and legal implications of new knowledge regarding plants' ability to communicate, sense, and learn require intensive, cross-disciplinary investigation. By doing this, we can intervene into current attitudes to climate change and sustainability, and hopefully revise, for the better, human philosophies, ethics, and aesthetics that touch upon plant life. TABLE OF CONTENTS// Baylee Brits and Prudence Gibson, "Introduction: Covert Plants" - Prudence Gibson and Michael Marder, "Art Expresses Its Own Appearance: A Conversation with Michael Marder" - Prudence Gibson, "The Colour Green" - Baylee Brits, "Brain Trees: Neuroscientific Metaphor and Botanical Thought" - Dalia Nassar, "Metaphoric Plants: Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants and the Metaphors of Reason" - Stephen Muecke, "Mixed up with Trees: The Gadgur and the Dreaming" - Monica Gagliano, "Eco-psychology and the Return to the Dream of Nature" - Suzanne Anker, "The Blue Rose" - Susie Pratt, "Trees as Landlords and Other Public Experiments: An Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko" - Tessa Laird, "Spores from Space: Becoming the Alien" - Jennifer Mae Hamilton, "Gardening After the Anthropocene: Creating Different Relations between Humans and Edible Plants in Sydney" - Lucas Ihlein, "Agricultural Inventiveness: Beyond Environmental Management?" - Andrew Belletty, "An Ear to the Ground" - Ben Woodard, "Continuous Green Abstraction: Embodied Knowledge, Intuition, and Metaphor" - Lisa Dowdall, "Figures" - Poems by Luke Fischer, Justin Clemens, Paul Dawson, and Tamryn Bennett.
Author : Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous
Publisher : NA World Services Inc
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Janet Frame
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458784124
Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writers block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be ''among people, even for five or ten minutes.'' And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. From the author of An Angel at My Table comes an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging. Written in 1963 when Janet Frame was living in London, this is of a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive.
Author : David George Haskell
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781863959261
Author : William M. Ciesla,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000063987824
The objective of this paper is to provide a global review of the non-wood uses of conifers. For the purposes of this paper, conifers are defined as trees and shrubs of the botanical orders Coniferales, Taxales and Ginkgoales (Rushforth 1987). Although some services are briefly mentioned, the focus of this paper is on products which conifers provide species, which are important sources of non-wood forest products, and places where these products are harvested. With the exception of essential oils, which can be obtained from several parts of the tree, the products described are organized by the part of the tree from which they are obtained (e.g. foliage, bark and roots, resin, seeds and cones). Where possible, data on levels of production and international trade are presented. Problems associated with the sustainable management of these products and compatibility or conflicts with other land uses are also presented. Both contemporary and historical or traditional uses of non-wood products from conifers are discussed.
Author : Jampa Ludrup
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781614290742
Explains the fundamentals of feng shui with instructions, diagrams, and photographs, revealing how simple changes to the home can improve romance, health, and prosperity.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0916856046
Tips on living sober.
Author : Paul Allen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241953716
What's it like to start a revolution? How do you build the biggest tech company in the world? And why do you walk away from it all? Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an entire industry. This is the story of how it came about: two young mavericks who turned technology on its head, the bitter battles as each tried to stamp his vision on the future and the ruthless brilliance and fierce commitment.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : OCLC:30420355