Life S Form

Author : Samantha Fowler,Rebecca Roush,James Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9888407457

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Concepts of Biology by Samantha Fowler,Rebecca Roush,James Wise Pdf

Concepts of Biology is designed for the single-semester introduction to biology course for non-science majors, which for many students is their only college-level science course. As such, this course represents an important opportunity for students to develop the necessary knowledge, tools, and skills to make informed decisions as they continue with their lives. Rather than being mired down with facts and vocabulary, the typical non-science major student needs information presented in a way that is easy to read and understand. Even more importantly, the content should be meaningful. Students do much better when they understand why biology is relevant to their everyday lives. For these reasons, Concepts of Biology is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand.We also strive to show the interconnectedness of topics within this extremely broad discipline. In order to meet the needs of today's instructors and students, we maintain the overall organization and coverage found in most syllabi for this course. A strength of Concepts of Biology is that instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Concepts of Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand--and apply--key concepts.

Author : Dennis Des Chene
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Seele
ISBN : 0801437636

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Life's Form by Dennis Des Chene Pdf

Author : Christian Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110518283

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Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic by Christian Martin Pdf

This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein’s approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein’s earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Author : Rudolf A. Raff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226256573

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The Shape of Life by Rudolf A. Raff Pdf

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 : Lisa Bartee,Walter Shiner,Catherine Creech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636350410

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Principles of Biology by Lisa Bartee,Walter Shiner,Catherine Creech Pdf

The Principles of Biology sequence (BI 211, 212 and 213) introduces biology as a scientific discipline for students planning to major in biology and other science disciplines. Laboratories and classroom activities introduce techniques used to study biological processes and provide opportunities for students to develop their ability to conduct research.

Author : Steven M. Stanley
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Adaptation (Biology).
ISBN : 9780813711256

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Relation of Shell Form to Life Habits of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) by Steven M. Stanley Pdf

Author : Roy Brand
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030547721

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Art and the Form of Life by Roy Brand Pdf

Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme—philosophy as the art of living—and gives it a contemporary twist. The book examines a series of watershed moments in artistic practice alongside philosophers’ most enduring questions about the way we live. Coupling Tino Sehgal with Wittgenstein, cave art with Foucault, Stanley Kubrick with Nietzsche, and the Bauhaus with Walter Benjamin, the book animates the idea that life is literally ours to make. It reflects on universal themes that connect the long histories of art and philosophy, and it does so using a contemporary approach. Drawing on great philosophical works, it argues that life practiced as an art form affords an experience of meaning, in the sense that it is engaging, creative, and participatory. It thus effects a fundamental renewal of experience.

Author : George M. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942341822

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Inanimate Life by George M. Briggs Pdf

Author : Claudio Campagna,Daniel Guevara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783031345340

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Speaking of Forms of Life by Claudio Campagna,Daniel Guevara Pdf

Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to “mass extinctions” of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary, and thus, avoidable choices and actions. “Speaking of Forms of Life” shows that at the root of this crisis is the tragic inadequacy of the language predominantly used to represent and address what we are doing, including the language of “sustainable development,” “rights” for animals and the rest of nature, their “intrinsic value,” and conservation of species as “populations.” This talk alienates us from the other living things, from what they actually are, have and do, and it perpetuates the harm and loss. Campagna and Guevara compellingly argue, on rigorous but accessible grounds, that there is an alternative language to guide conservation, in confronting the radically urgent, ethical issues it faces. This is a language with which we are all familiar, mastered by naturalists, from Aristotle to Audubon. It articulates the primary value in life and the standard that must guide how human beings should live, as one form of life, among countless others. This book is a homecoming for those who practice conservation to, above all else, secure a creature’s ability to satisfy the necessities of its form of life.

Author : Dennis Des Chene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0801437636

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Life's Form by Dennis Des Chene Pdf

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 : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400836437

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A General Theory of Visual Culture by Whitney Davis Pdf

What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "visuality" is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon.

Author : Robert Hooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1665
Category : Hair
ISBN : IBNF:CF005643240

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Micrographia by Robert Hooke Pdf

Author : James Lovelock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198784883

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Gaia by James Lovelock Pdf

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.

Author : Sir Henry Wilmot Seton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Equity pleading and procedure
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061317983

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Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal by Sir Henry Wilmot Seton Pdf

Author : Jing Xie
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811204838

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Chinese Urbanism: Urban Form And Life In The Tang-song Dynasties by Jing Xie Pdf

Since the 1990s, the urban landscape of China has witnessed revolutionary changes that are unrivalled in any country of the world throughout history. Rapid urbanization, facilitated by the modern planning mechanism for growth, provides a feast for property developers. Yet, associated urban problems such as housing affordability, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and environmental deterioration are aggravated. This book takes a historic approach to investigate the planning philosophy, urban form and life of the past. Through a detailed study of urban development from early times through the imperial period with a focus on the Tang-Song dynasties, this book attempts to articulate the good qualities of urban landscapes from the past that still have instructive value for modern practices. The focus on the Tang-Song period is not only because China was the most advanced civilization of its time, but also because it underwent a similar process of 'urbanization', evident by tremendous economic growth, a dramatic rise of urban population, and an extended building boom. Through evaluating the streets, city layout, public places, urban communities, houses and gardens, and using interdisciplinary research in urban planning, urban design, architecture, history, and cultural studies, this book asserts that the past is quintessentially important. The past not only truthfully records the course of social and cultural formation of urban community and its associated physical fabric, but also regulates the directions we may take in the future.