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Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520073347
"As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520917781
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.
Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0520205081
"As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival."—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Author : Anne Kostelanetz Mellor
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014365608
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Author : Cindy Jacobs
Publisher : Chosen Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493413720
Landmark Text Now Revised and Updated for a New Generation Practical, personal, biblical, and motivational, this bestselling book has been a go-to, definitive guide to intercessory prayer for years. Fully revised and updated, with an in-depth study guide, the fourth edition of this classic text offers new and vital insights on prayer and spiritual warfare. With compassion, strategic thinking, encouragement, and time-tested advice, international prayer leader Cindy Jacobs equips you to be an effective prayer warrior, covering essential topics and answering questions such as: · What is the purpose of intercession? · How do you know someone needs your prayers? · How do you pray? · Do your prayers really battle the enemy and thwart his plans? · What are the "gates" of the enemy? · And more! Whether you are a beginner or an expert intercessor, this training manual has everything you need to pray effectively--and possess the gates of the enemy.
Author : Tomomi Kinukawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89077548659
Author : Percy Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Acting
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000233287
Author : Stuart Banner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674020528
During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Today, indigenous people own much more land in some of these places than in others. And certain indigenous peoples benefit from treaty rights, while others do not. These variations are traceable to choices made more than a century ago--choices about whether indigenous people were the owners of their land and how that land was to be transferred to whites. Banner argues that these differences were not due to any deliberate land policy created in London or Washington. Rather, the decisions were made locally by settlers and colonial officials and were based on factors peculiar to each colony, such as whether the local indigenous people were agriculturalists and what level of political organization they had attained. These differences loom very large now, perhaps even larger than they did in the nineteenth century, because they continue to influence the course of litigation and political struggle between indigenous people and whites over claims to land and other resources. "Possessing the Pacific" is an original and broadly conceived study of how colonial struggles over land still shape the relations between whites and indigenous people throughout much of the world.
Author : Brian Charles Gassman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3484042
Author : Jesse M. Molesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023749208
Author : Paul W. Taylor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400838530
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, he offers a reasoned alternative to the prevailing anthropocentric view--that the natural environment and its wildlife are valued only as objects for human use or enjoyment. Respect for Nature provides both a full account of the biological conditions for life--human or otherwise--and a comprehensive view of the complex relationship between human beings and the whole of nature. This classic book remains a valuable resource for philosophers, biologists, and environmentalists alike--along with all those who care about the future of life on Earth. A new foreword by Dale Jamieson looks at how the original 1986 edition of Respect for Nature has shaped the study of environmental ethics, and shows why the work remains relevant to debates today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1676 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108057252598
Author : Abi Andrews
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937512804
THE OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN EDITION "Beguiling, audacious... rises to its own challenges in engaging intellectually as well as wholeheartedly with its questions about gender, genre and the concept of wilderness. The novel displays wide reading, clever writing and amusing dialogue." —The Guardian This is a new kind of nature writing — one that crosses fiction with science writing and puts gender politics at the center of the landscape. Erin, a 19-year-old girl from middle England, is travelling to Alaska on a journey that takes her through Iceland, Greenland, and across Canada. She is making a documentary about how men are allowed to express this kind of individualism and personal freedom more than women are, based on masculinist ideas of survivalism and the shunning of society: the “Mountain Man.” She plans to culminate her journey with an experiment: living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, a la Thoreau, to explore it from a feminist perspective. The book is a fictional time capsule curated by Erin, comprising of personal narrative, fact, anecdote, images and maps, on subjects as diverse as The Golden Records, Voyager 1, the moon landings, the appropriation of Native land and culture, Rachel Carson, The Order of The Dolphin, The Doomsday Clock, Ted Kaczynski, Valentina Tereshkova, Jack London, Thoreau, Darwin, Nuclear war, The Letters of Last Resort and the pill, amongst many other topics. "Refreshingly outward-looking in a literary culture that turns ever inward to the self, although it still has profound moments of introspection. Uplifting, with a thirsty curiosity, the writing is playful and exuberant. Riffing on feminist ideas but unlimited in scope, Andrews focuses our attention on our beautiful, doomed planet, and the astonishing things we have yet to discover." —Ruth McKee, The Irish Times
Author : Sheila D'moch Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Painting
ISBN : UOM:39015047465151
Author : Andrew Zimmerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCSD:31822025926601
