Naturebot

Author : James Barilla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000362350

Get Book

Naturebot by James Barilla Pdf

Naturebot: Unconventional Visions of Nature presents a humanities-oriented addition to the literature on biomimetics and bioinspiration, an interdisciplinary field which investigates what it means to mimic nature with technology. This technology mirrors the biodiversity of nature and it is precisely this creation of technological metaphors for the intricate workings of the natural world that is the real subject of Naturebot. Over the course of the book, Barilla applies the narrative conventions of the nature writing genre to this unconventional vision of nature, contrasting the traditional tropes and questions of natural history with an expanding menagerie of creatures that defy conventional categories of natural and artificial. In keeping with its nature writing approach, the book takes us to where we can encounter these creatures, examining the technological models and the biotic specimens that inspired them. In doing so, it contemplates the future of the human relationship to the environment, and the future of nature writing in the 21st century. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of biomimetics, environmental literary studies/ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities.

Author : Cheryll Glotfelty,Peter Goin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000509700

Get Book

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change by Cheryll Glotfelty,Peter Goin Pdf

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change narrates the forty-year quest of award-winning and internationally exhibited contemporary photographer Peter Goin to document human-altered landscapes across America and beyond. It is a collaborative work between an artist and a literary critic, a retrospective of an accomplished environmental photographer, and an innovative education in visual reading. Enduring howling wind, pounding rain, and blistering sun, Goin bears witness to radioactive landscapes, abandoned mines, simulated swamps, rechanneled rivers, controlled burns, overgrown ruins, industrialized agriculture, shrinking reservoirs, feral spaces in the city, architected wilderness, sacred wastelands, contested borderlands, and more. Based on more than seventy hours of taped interviews with the artist spanning over a decade, trailblazing ecocritic Cheryll Glotfelty narrates the arc of Goin's career, sharing excerpts from their conversations that reveal his brilliant mind and piquant personality while situating his work within the broader context of environmental thinkers. This beautifully illustrated volume, with 200 images in color and black-and-white showcasing Goin’s work, will be a fascinating and insightful read for upper-level students, academics, and researchers in photography, environmental history and culture, landscape studies, and environmental humanities.

Author : Horst Marschner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080571874

Get Book

Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants by Horst Marschner Pdf

An understanding of the mineral nutrition of plants is of fundamental importance in both basic and applied plant sciences. The Second Edition of this book retains the aim of the first in presenting the principles of mineral nutrition in the light of current advances. This volume retains the structure of the first edition, being divided into two parts: Nutritional Physiology and Soil-Plant Relationships. In Part I, more emphasis has been placed on root-shoot interactions, stress physiology, water relations, and functions of micronutrients. In view of the worldwide increasing interest in plant-soil interactions, Part II has been considerably altered and extended, particularly on the effects of external and interal factors on root growth and chapter 15 on the root-soil interface. The second edition will be invaluable to both advanced students and researchers. Key Features * Second Edition of this established text * Structure of the book remains the same * 50% of the reference and 50% of the figures and tables have been replaced * Whole of the text has been revised * Coverage of plant (soil interactions has been increased considerably)

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9780300243581

Get Book

The Decline of Magic by Michael Hunter Pdf

A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.

Author : Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1732
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00049188

Get Book

The Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun Within the Realm of Scotland ... Together with the Life of John Knoxe the Author and Several Curious Pieces Wrote by Him, Particularly that ... Intitles The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women by Knox Pdf

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : anboco
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736408159

Get Book

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication I by Charles Darwin Pdf

The object of this work is not to describe all the many races of animals which have been domesticated by man, and of the plants which have been cultivated by him; even if I possessed the requisite knowledge, so gigantic an undertaking would be here superfluous. It is my intention to give under the head of each species only such facts as I have been able to collect or observe, showing the amount and nature of the changes which animals and plants have undergone whilst under man's dominion, or which bear on the general principles of variation. In one case alone, namely in that of the domestic pigeon, I will describe fully all the chief races, their history, the amount and nature of their differences, and the probable steps by which they have been formed. I have selected this case, because, as we shall hereafter see, the materials are better than in any other; and one case fully described will in fact illustrate all others. But I shall also describe domesticated rabbits, fowls, and ducks, with considerable fullness.

Author : John Gower
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734097973

Get Book

Confessio Amantis by John Gower Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Confessio Amantis by John Gower

Author : Kathryn T. Gines
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253011756

Get Book

Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question by Kathryn T. Gines Pdf

A systemic analysis of anti-Black racism in the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt. While acknowledging Hannah Arendt’s keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt’s treatment of the “Negro question.”Gines focuses on Arendt’s reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to laws making mixed marriages illegal, and to the growing civil rights movement in the south. Reading them alongside Arendt’s writings on revolution, the human condition, violence, and responses to the Eichmann war crimes trial, Gines provides a systematic analysis of anti-black racism in Arendt’s work. “Hannah Arendt: political progressive and committed anti-racist theorist? Think again. As Kathryn Gines makes inescapably clear, for Arendt the “Negro” was the problem, whether in the form of savage “primitives” inseparable from Heart-of-Darkness Africa, social climbers trying to get their kids into white schools, or unqualified black university students dragging down academic standards. [Gines’s] boldly revisionist text reassesses the German thinker’s categories and frameworks.” —Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University “Takes on a major thinker, Hannah Arendt, on an important issue—race and racism—and challenges her on specific points while raising philosophical and methodological shortcomings.” —Richard King, Nottingham University “Gines carefully moves through Arendt scholarship and Arendt’s texts to argue persuasively that explicit discussions of the “Negro question” point up the limitations of her thinking.” —Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University “Gines has delivered an intellectually challenging book, that presents one of the most important figures in Western philosophy of the 2nd half of the 20th century in a different and, perhaps, somewhat less favorable perspective.” —Philosophia “Offers a wealth of research that will be valuable to scholars and graduate students interested in how racial bias operates in Arendt’s major works. Gines’s writing style is lucid and to the point, and her engagement with secondary sources is comprehensive.” —Hypatia

Author : S. Chandra,M. Srivastava
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401728119

Get Book

Pteridology in the New Millennium by S. Chandra,M. Srivastava Pdf

The National Botanical Research Institute came into being as the 13th among a chain of National Laboratories established during April, 1953 under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research by the Govt. of India for advanced research in fields of specialisation which have a direct bearing on socio-economic, industrial and scientific advancement of the nation. Christened initially as National Botanic Gardens, the nucleus around which the institution took shape under its founder- Director Late Prof. K. N. Kaul, was a large herbarium of Indian flora and a centu- old botanical garden spread over 35 ha of land on the banks of River Gomti in the heart of Lucknow city. It’s a matter of great pleasure and profound satisfaction to me that a Golden Jubilee volume entitled, “Pteridology in the New Millennium” is being published and released during the Golden Jubilee year of NBRI in the honour of Professor B. K. Nayar who laid the foundation of the Pteridology Laboratory of the NBRI, which is now a well equipped laboratory for the study of Indian pteridophytes. Professor Nayar is a holistic Botanist as evident through his contributions and publications in almost all the areas of study of Pteridophyta. The contribution of Professor Nayar towards the development of modern Pteridology and the role of NBRI in it is indeed great and very important. His publications will be valuable for the younger generation of scientists in the field as well as for the more mature research workers and teachers.

Author : Alexander Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Hymns
ISBN : UCAL:$C25424

Get Book

Hymns and Sacred Songs by Alexander Hume Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172102838321

Get Book

Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : John Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Reformation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018749239

Get Book

The Works of John Knox by John Knox Pdf

Author : Peter Hume Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UOM:39015030640166

Get Book

Scotland Before 1700 by Peter Hume Brown Pdf

Author : A. D. F. Price
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221087476

Get Book

Financing International Projects by A. D. F. Price Pdf

International contractors are often required to participate in securing project finance.

Author : Kevin J. McGinley,Nicola Royan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443818988

Get Book

The Apparelling of Truth by Kevin J. McGinley,Nicola Royan Pdf

Prepared to honour the work of R. J. Lyall, this collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI, from his accession as an infant to the throne of Scotland, through the Union of the Crowns, to his final years as king of Great Britain. Its emphasis is on James’s reign as a whole, stressing the continuities in literary culture throughout the time of his rule, rather than the more familiar narrative of disjunction caused by his accession to the English throne in the 1603 Union of Crowns. In addition, the collection extends its focus beyond a concentration on the environment of James’s court to situate the literature of his reign in terms of both regional and international contexts. The essays range widely in their approaches and cover topics as diverse as book history and printing; textual scholarship and editing; language, rhetoric, and prosody; gender attitudes in James’s reign; travel writing and colonial contexts; Latin literary culture; and courtly culture and the politics of literary representation. Such variety is also evident in the languages discussed, which include Scots, English, Latin and French, in the generic range of the subject texts, from epic poetry to travel writing, and in the writers discussed, from the very familiar, such as John Knox and Robert Aytoun, to the currently less well-known, such as William Lithgow and Thomas Hudson. All the contributors are respected scholars in the discipline, including some of the most senior figures in the field. Taken as a whole, this collection is the most extensive and varied treatment of Scottish literary culture of this period to date, and will be a key collection for all students and specialists in the field.