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Author : Amélie Nothomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609450884
An author begins a letter-exchanging relationship with an American soldier stationed in Iraq who excessively overeats to deal with the horrific violence around him.
Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504093453
Humanity makes first—and possibly last—contact with an alien species in this sci-fi adventure from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Humanx Commonwealth series. Earth’s most elite team of scientists has made an astonishing discovery. Far from our solar system is the life-sustaining planet Xica, home of an advanced intelligent species who have created a human-like civilization. Invited to visit, the scientists explore a world of miraculous wonders that defies the very laws of nature as they know it. But Xica’s secrets may threaten not only their lives but the lives of everyone on Earth . . .
Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300155587
Gigante offers a way to read ostensibly difficult poetry and reflects on the natural-philosophical idea of organic form and the discipline of literary studies.
Author : Eva-Maria Houben
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783839445730
How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity - indeed, as playing - is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.
Author : Steven M. Stanley
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Adaptation (Biology).
ISBN : 9780813711256
Author : Anahid Nersessian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780226701318
"The Romantic period in literature coincided with two of the most significant transformations in modern history: the Industrial Revolution and, with it, the inflection point of the Anthropocene. Literary critics have shown that much of Romantic poetry expresses an uncanny insight into both of these transformations, including the human and ecological costs of what we now call a carbon-based economy. But was art really capable of making sense of the emerging crisis-or of changing the future? In a superbly nuanced work of literary criticism, Anahid Nersessian shows that poets began to disqualify themselves from explaining the train of consequences that industry set in motion. Their form of knowledge-if knowledge it be-was of an order different from science or economics, and could not bear the burden of accounting for environmental calamity. Romanticism, Nersessian argues, is of the Anthropocene but not about it, and she cautions against investing its poetry with a straightforwardly testimonial power. In doing so, she models an approach to criticism that reads within what Charles Olson calls "the shapeful," emphasizing the role of rhetorical figures in fashioning the posture a poem takes on a historical question. While focusing on the Romantics, Nersessian also ranges back to the seventeenth century (e.g., the poetry of Andrew Marvell) and forward to examples of contemporary poetry and conceptual art (e.g., Derek Jarman's poetry, and installations by Agnes Denes and Helen Mirra). Within literary studies, this is a widely anticipated book by one of the most brilliant critics of her generation"--
Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000024503822
Foster presents a spellbinding odyssey of a planet miraculously like Earth. Until close observation shows that on this world, nothing is as it seems. Welcome to Xica, where nine scientists from Earth have established first contact with a humanoid civilization. Now all they have to do is live to tell about it. From the author of Greenthieves.
Author : Rudolf A. Raff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226256573
Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life, Raff analyzes the rise of this new experimental discipline and lays out new research questions, hypotheses, and approaches to guide its development. Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms. Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative, and functional biology. This new synthesis will interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists, and geneticists.
Author : Jenni Sorkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226303253
Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the artistic avant-garde by looking at the central role of women in the field: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and Ken Price. Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues, crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and feminist collectivism.
Author : Darlene R. Stille
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836884434
Examines the different types of simple organisms, from bacteria to sea sponges.
Author : Dennis Des Chene
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Seele
ISBN : 0801437636
Author : Dennis Des Chene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0801437636
Des Chene considers the work of scholastic writers such as Suarez and the Coimbrans, who provided thorough and sometimes profound studies of Aristotle's definitions of the soul and of life."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alfred Schutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134479177
This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson’s conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.
Author : Sydney Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 1565842839
Young people between the ages of 13 and 19 from all over the US were interviewed for this book. In it, they discuss fears, plans, ambitions, and even nostalgia for the simplicity of childhood.
Author : Heikki Ikäheimo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000605808
What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts. The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, Hegel, Taylor, Fraser, and Honneth and utilizes the insights and conceptual tools developed across these chapters for developing a case for the universal importance of recognition for humans. It argues in favour of a universalist anthropological position, unusual in the literature on recognition, that aims to construe a philosophically sound basis for a discourse of common humanity, or of a shared human life-form for which moral relations of recognition are essential. This synthetic conception of the importance of recognition provides tools for articulating deep intuitions shared across cultures about what makes human life and forms of human co-existence better or worse, and thus tools for mutual understanding about the deepest shared concerns of humanity, or of what makes us all human persons despite our differences. Recognition and the Human Life-Form will appeal to readers interested in philosophical anthropology, social and political philosophy, critical theory, and the history of philosophy. It also provides ideas and conceptual tools for fields such as anthropology, education, disability studies, international relations, law, politics, religious studies, sociology, and social research. Chapter 5 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.