The Figure Of Nature

Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253023360

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The Figure of Nature by John Sallis Pdf

One of America’s preeminent philosophers “has produced a book with fascinating new insights into the ancient conception of nature” (Choice). Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, Sallis traces the complex development of the Greek concept of nature. Beginning with the mythical vision embodied in the figure of the goddess Artemis, he reanimates the sense of nature that informs the fragmentary discourses of Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles and shows how Plato takes up pre-Socratic conceptions critically while also being transformed. Through Sallis’s close reading of the Theaetetus and the Phaedo, he recovers the profound and comprehensive concept of nature in Plato’s thought.

Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253023122

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The Figure of Nature by John Sallis Pdf

Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, Sallis traces the complex development of the Greek concept of nature. Beginning with the mythical vision embodied in the figure of the goddess Artemis, he reanimates the sense of nature that informs the fragmentary discourses of Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles and shows how Plato takes up pre-Socratic conceptions critically while also being transformed. Through Sallis's close reading of the Theaetetus and the Phaedo, he recovers the profound and comprehensive concept of nature in Plato's thought.

Author : Charles Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1626543836

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The Natural Way to Paint by Charles Reid Pdf

Learn to figure paint in watercolor with a world-renowned instructor! The Natural Way to Paint will teach you a natural approach to seeing and painting the human form in watercolor. By learning to carefully observe and capture the basic shapes and subtle nuances in human figures, you'll be able to infuse your work with newfound life and energy. Reid begins with lessons and practical exercises in contour and gesture drawing, which will help you learn to see and capture the essence of your subject. Once you've established a strong foundation of drawing skills, it's time to pick up your brush! Reid will guide you through detailed lessons on:* Painting technique and color theory* Moving from silhouettes to three-dimensional forms* Capturing and rendering facial features* Composing and designing a variety of figure paintingsPacked with examples, demonstrations, and detailed assignments, The Natural Way to Paint is the ultimate guide to beautiful figure painting in watercolor.

Author : Andil Gosine
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478021889

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Nature's Wild by Andil Gosine Pdf

In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially influenced human/animal divide. Gosine refutes this presupposed binary and embraces animality through a series of case studies: a homoerotic game called puhngah, the institution of gender-based dress codes in Guyana, and efforts toward the decriminalization of sodomy in Trinidad and Tobago—including the work of famed activist Colin Robinson, paintings of human animality by Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Gosine's own artistic practice. In so doing, he troubles the ways in which individual and collective anxieties about “wild natures” have shaped the existence of Caribbean people while calling for a reassessment of what political liberation might look like. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Author : Sergei Eremenko
Publisher : Amazon
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781951630775

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Soliton Nature by Sergei Eremenko Pdf

Dedicated to a broad audience and scientists, this new-generation, easy-to-read, pictorial, interactive book uses beautiful photography, video channel, and computer scripts in R and Python to demonstrate existing and explore new solitons – the magnificent and versatile energy concentration phenomenon of nature. With 200 images and videos collected around the world and on magnificent Australian beaches, we describe captivating stand-alone ocean solitons capable of travelling hundreds of miles uninterrupted. Along with scary tsunamis, the tricky solitonic bores propagating upstream narrow river channels may cause disasters for coastal cities. Sudden killer rogue waves endanger even large ships. Powerful tornadoes, surfing tubes, whirlpools and rotating galaxies are solitonic vortices. Unique videos of breathers and soliton envelope waves, with legendary 'Ninth Wave' in the middle, are commented by some legendary scientists. Beautiful photography of square grid waves confirms tendency of nature to produce multi-dimensional formations. Solitonic dislocations and defects are widespread in metal shapes around us. Solitonic energy localization effects appear in swing movements of humans perfected them in many sports and dances. We also explore new solitonic hypothesis and theories. Geosolitons may have played an important role in formation of mountain ranges and sedimentary rocks. Using solitonic functions for heart blood pressure pulses may lead to new-generation devices. Solitonic dislocation and stability effects may exist in behaviour of correlated financial markets. New class of atomic solitons can be used to describe Higgs boson (‘the god particle’) fields, spacetime quanta and other fundamental building blocks of nature. Readers are welcomed to subscribe and provide own videos to our dedicated video channel and website www.solitonnature.com.

Author : Jane Harper
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250105646

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Force of Nature by Jane Harper Pdf

Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018) BookBrowse Best Books of 2018 Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel BookRiot’s 25 Best Suspense Books from 2018 Davitt Awards shortlist for Adult Crime Novel 2018 Dead Good Reads shortlist for Best Small Town Mystery 2018 Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn’t come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder? “Force of Nature bristles with wit; it crackles with suspense; it radiates atmosphere. An astonishing book from an astonishing writer.” —A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window Select praise for The Dry: "One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read. Every word is near perfect. Read it!" —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A breathless page-turner ... Ms. Harper has made her own major mark.” —The New York Times

Author : John Michell
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Morphology
ISBN : 0500271593

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Simulacra by John Michell Pdf

Author : Jedediah Purdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674368224

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After Nature by Jedediah Purdy Pdf

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.

Author : Francesca Rochberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226406275

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Before Nature by Francesca Rochberg Pdf

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way that is kindred to our modern science. With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is difficult—if not impossible—to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, observation, prediction, and explanation in relation to science—without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science with a distinctive historical and methodological approach, Before Nature will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022003362

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The World of Wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art. (Correspondence.) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780745684352

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Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour Pdf

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the many unexpected connections between human activity and the natural world oblige every one of us to reopen the earlier notions of nature and redistribute what had been packed inside. So the question now arises: what will replace the old ways of looking at nature? This book explores a potential candidate proposed by James Lovelock when he chose the name 'Gaia' for the fragile, complex system through which living phenomena modify the Earth. The fact that he was immediately misunderstood proves simply that his readers have tried to fit this new notion into an older frame, transforming Gaia into a single organism, a kind of giant thermostat, some sort of New Age goddess, or even divine Providence. In this series of lectures on 'natural religion,' Bruno Latour argues that the complex and ambiguous figure of Gaia offers, on the contrary, an ideal way to disentangle the ethical, political, theological, and scientific aspects of the now obsolete notion of nature. He lays the groundwork for a future collaboration among scientists, theologians, activists, and artists as they, and we, begin to adjust to the new climatic regime.

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780698184541

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The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Pdf

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.

Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Botany
ISBN : UCR:31210010714432

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Views of Nature by Alexander von Humboldt Pdf

Author : Emanuel Loewy
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 123038734X

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The Rendering of Nature in Early Greek Art by Emanuel Loewy Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv differentiation Soon after the middle of the sixth century B.C., we meet something new in the drawing (in the stricter sense) of the Greeks. They begin to take a marked interest in the trunk of the human figure. They present it in aspects never seen till now, obliquely and in back view, making it bend or twist, and fitting it out amply with anatomical details. At the same date, and often applied to the same problems of drawing, there appears a more striking innovation--foreshortening (1). The new interest and the new method are related. It is easy to understand that we of to-day are relatively ignorant of the forms of the nude human trunk, but there were also good reasons for the same ignorance in the primitive art of the ancients. In every scene of which we are spectators our attention is called (1) Hartwig, Meisterschalen, pp. 154 sqq.; cf. p. 365; Delbriick, Beitrage, pp. 27 sqq. 76 first and foremost to the acting or speaking parts of the body, to the limbs or head respectively, and of the mere intermediary trunk itself there remains at best a vague memory-picture. Thus it is that in the earliest productions of art the drawing of the trunk oscillates between the front view and the profile; its forms are uncertain and ill understood. There was almost no occasion at all to exhibit the back of a body when figures were systematically juxtaposed (2). The intelligent interest in the trunk, then, is a sign of an increased observation of nature which is making energetic progress towards such images as were unknown to the unschooled imagination; and such an increased observation is required for foreshortening. (2) In the well-known archaic righting scheme (ex. the Euphorbos plate in the British Museum, A 268; Roscher, Lexikon der...

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Pdf

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.