Nature Remade

Author : Luis A. Campos,Michael R. Dietrich,Tiago Saraiva,Christian C. Young
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226783437

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Nature Remade by Luis A. Campos,Michael R. Dietrich,Tiago Saraiva,Christian C. Young Pdf

"In this fourth volume in our Convening Science series with the Marine Biological Laboratory, contributors, including historians, biologists, and philosophers, explore the development of bioengineering. The essays show how engineering is both a means to a functional end and a method of learning about the world. The book is organized around three themes--controlling and reproducing, knowing and making, and envisioning--to chart the increasing sophistication of our engineering of biological systems and to change our sense of the scales at which engineering occurs, to include not just genetics but also ecosystem-level intervention. The volume will attempt to make the case for "the centrality of engineering for understanding and imagining modern life.""--

Author : Prof. Alan H. Goodman,Prof. Deborah Heath,M. Susan Lindee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520929975

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Genetic Nature/Culture by Prof. Alan H. Goodman,Prof. Deborah Heath,M. Susan Lindee Pdf

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious—or more fraught with paradox—than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. Individual essays address issues raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution, and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases; gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals. The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology, nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of genetics, Genetic Nature/Culture is a model of fruitful dialogue, presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the two-cultures debate.

Author : John P. Herron,Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0826319165

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Human/nature by John P. Herron,Andrew G. Kirk Pdf

Provocative essays explore how ideas about human nature inform or shape human understanding of nature and the environment.

Author : Oliver Morton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691175904

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The Planet Remade by Oliver Morton Pdf

First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2015.

Author : Nathaniel Rich
Publisher : MCD
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780374716301

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Second Nature by Nathaniel Rich Pdf

From the author of Losing Earth, a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing. We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions—between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact—have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories—obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported—point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich’s stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we’ve lost?It is, What world do we want to create in its place?

Author : Peter J. Schakel
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830875771

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Is Your Lord Large Enough? by Peter J. Schakel Pdf

"Every year you grow, you will find me bigger." --Aslan to Lucy in Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis was, of course, a brilliant apologist, and his books contain much to feed your intellect. But Lewis was also very concerned about Christian formation and strongly desired to help believers deepen their faith and broaden their vision of God. In this book Peter Schakel opens to you the more practical parts of Lewis's wonderful writings. Covering areas of potential struggle such as prayer, suffering, doubt and love, Schakel draws principles from Lewis's nonfiction as well as illustrations from the Chronicles of Narnia to stir your imagination and soul so that you might see God in new ways. In addition, the author quotes from contemporaries of Lewis, showing how their thinking fit with Lewis's. With reflection questions included, this deeper look at Lewis's formational writings is valuable for your personal devotions or for group discussions. Either way, as you read you will find God bigger and bigger.

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015035735755

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Living in the Landscape by Arnold Berleant Pdf

"Many more of our decisions to conserve nature have been motivated by environmental aesthetics than by environmental ethics, more by beauty than by duty. This book by Arnold Berleant is therefore especially welcome and important. It will help to advance an inquiry that has been badly neglected but is sorely needed". -- J. Baird Callicott, author of Earth's Insights. "In the past thirty years, Arnold Berleant has been calling attention to the ethics and aesthetics of the environment. He is indeed America's latter-day Henry David Thoreau". -- E. F. Kaelin, author of An Aesthetics for Art Educators.

Author : Lawrence Lessig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781440634628

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Remix by Lawrence Lessig Pdf

The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture — a war waged against those who create and consume art. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms every intrepid, creative user of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the postwar world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.

Author : Heidi M. Ravven,Lenn E. Goodman,Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities Lenn E Goodman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 079145309X

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Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy by Heidi M. Ravven,Lenn E. Goodman,Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities Lenn E Goodman Pdf

Explores Jewish aspects of Spinoza's philosophy from a wide variety of perspectives.

Author : Michael Peppiatt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300246780

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The Making of Modern Art by Michael Peppiatt Pdf

A new collection of key texts from a leading critic of modern art The critic Michael Peppiatt has been described by Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation.” For more than 50 years, he has written trenchant and lively dispatches from the center of the international art world. In this new volume of key works, Peppiatt gives his unique insight into the making, collection, display, and interpretation of modern art. Covering the whole spectrum of modern art—from pioneers such as Gustav Klimt and Chaim Soutine, to collectors and dealers who played a pivotal role in the modern art world, to artists such as Francis Bacon, Bill Jacklin, and Frank Auerbach, with whom he had close relationships—Peppiatt interweaves personal anecdote with critical judgment. Each text is accompanied by a new short introduction, written in Peppiatt’s signature vivid and jargon-free style, in which he contextualizes his writings and reflects on significant moments in a lifetime of artistic engagement. This volume will provide readers with an exhilarating tour of 20th-century art.

Author : Earl of Listowel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317210863

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A Critical History of Modern Aesthetics by Earl of Listowel Pdf

First published in 1933. The purpose of this work was to bridge a gap in English philosophical literature by completing the elaborate history of Bosanquet and to stimulate and enrich the whole study of aesthetics by means of his personal destructive and constructive criticism. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy.

Author : Gwenn Seemel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387682508

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Crime Against Nature by Gwenn Seemel Pdf

Author : Ilana Feldman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822348214

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In the Name of Humanity by Ilana Feldman Pdf

Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870707132

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MoMA Highlights Since 1980 by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

At the core of The Museum of Modern Art's new building in Midtown Manhattan are dramatic and expansive new galleries devoted to showcasing the Museum's world-famous collection of international contemporary art. Contemporary Highlights presents this impressive collection in a portable size. This new handbook features curators' selections of the most significant artworks of the past twenty-five years. Interweaving 250 highlights from the Museum's seven curatorial departments - architecture and design, drawing, film, media, painting and sculpture, photography and prints, and illustrated books - this volume presents a broadly chronological overview of the innovative, provocative and always fascinating art of the past quarter century. Each work is presented on its own page in full colour, and each is accompanied by a brief and accessible essay outlining the work's significance. As a companion to MoMA Highlights or on its own, Contemporary Highlights is an indispensable publication for those interested in contemporary art and the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816553402

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Five Suns by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

A climate defined by wet and dry seasons, a mostly mountainous terrain, a biota prone to disturbances, a human geography characterized by a diversity of peoples all of whom rely on burning in one form or another: Mexico has ideal circumstances for fire, and those fires provide a unique perspective on its complex history. Narrating Mexico’s evolution of fire through five eras, historian Stephen J. Pyne describes the pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880–1980), and contemporary (1980–2015) fire biography of this diverse and dynamic country. Creatively deploying the Aztec New Fire Ceremony and the “five suns” that it birthed, Pyne addresses the question, “Why does fire appear in Mexico the way it does?” Five Suns tells the saga through a pyric prism. Mexico has become one of the top ten “firepowers” in the world today through its fire suppression capabilities, fire research, and industrial combustion, but also by those continuing customary practices that have become increasingly significant to a world that suffers too much combustion and too little fire. Five Suns completes a North American fire-history trilogy written by Pyne over the past 40 years, complementing his histories of Canada and the United States.