Vestal Fire

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295803524

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Vestal Fire by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable contribution--breathtaking in the scope of its research and exhilarating to read. Pyne takes the reader on a journey through time, exploring the terrain of Europe and the uses and abuses of its lands as well as, through migration and conquest, many parts of the rest of the world. Whether he is discussing the Mediterranean region, Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles, central Europe, or colonized islands; whether he is considering the impact of agriculture, forestry, or Enlightenment thinking, the author brings an unmatched insight to his subject. Vestal Fire takes its title from Vesta, Roman goddess of the hearth and keeper of the sacred fire on Mount Olympus. But the book's title also suggests the strengths and limitations of Europe's peculiar conception of fire, and through fire, of its relationship to nature. Between the untamed fire of the wilderness and the tended fire of the hearth lies a never-ending dialectic in which human beings struggle to control natural forces and processes that in fact can sometimes be directed but never wholly dominated or contained.

Author : John Durham Peters
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226421353

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The Marvelous Clouds by John Durham Peters Pdf

Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the very infrastructures combining nature and culture that allow human life to thrive. Through an encyclopedic array of examples from the oceans to the skies,The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called new media. Digital media, Peters argues, are an extension of early practices tied to the establishment of civilization such as mastering fire, building calendars, reading the stars, creating language, and establishing religions. New media do not take us into uncharted waters, but rather confront us with the deepest and oldest questions of society and ecology: how to manage the relations people have with themselves, others, and the natural world.

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108047319

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The Golden Bough by James George Frazer Pdf

The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108082488

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Fastorum libri sex by Ovid Pdf

This 1929 five-volume edition of Ovid's unfinished Fasti offers text, English translation and a detailed commentary, with illustrations.

Author : Compton Mackenzie
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571251625

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Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie Pdf

For a short time before the First World War, Compton Mackenzie lived on Capri, 'island of pleasure' as it has been called. The stay was fruitful, resulting in two 'romans a clefs', Vestal Fire and Extraordinary Women, published in 1927 and 1928 respectively. These see Compton Mackenzie at his satirical best. Both are reissued in Faber Finds. The island of Capri, in the early twentieth-century, was a remarkably tolerant place providing a haven in particular for those with the sort of sexual appetites that were banned elsewhere. Homosexuals, both male and female, retreated to Capri and many were to find themselves appearing in fictional guise in Compton Mackenzie's two novels. Narrative drive is not what you will find here, instead there is delicious and wicked social comedy that exuberantly charts the endless feuds and machinations.

Author : Kristin Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316519912

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Queer Kinship after Wilde by Kristin Mahoney Pdf

Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.

Author : Compton Mackenzie
Publisher : New York G.H. Doran [c1927]
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Capri Island (Italy)
ISBN : IND:32000001859646

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Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie Pdf

Author : Wayne P. Van Meter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009851077

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Chemical analysis procedures for forest fire retardant constituents by Wayne P. Van Meter Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295746197

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Fire by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal economies of hunting and foraging, agricultural and pastoral uses of fire, fire ceremonies, fire as an idea and a technology, and industrial fire. In this revised and expanded edition, Pyne looks to the future of fire as a constant, defining presence on Earth. A new chapter explores the importance of fire in the twenty-first century, with special attention to its role in the Anthropocene, or what he posits might equally be called the Pyrocene.

Author : Harvey Spencer Lewis
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616404888

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Rosicrucian Manual by Harvey Spencer Lewis Pdf

Originally published by The Supreme Grand Lodge of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) in 1918 and again in 1929, with several reissues, the Rosicrucian Manual is an official manual for new members of the AMORC and Rosicrucianism. The AMORC Imperator and author of the book, H. Spencer Lewis, describes the manual as a "Guide to the Work and Studies of the Order." It contains a greeting and preliminary instructions, as well as a description of the AMORC and its important officers, general and special instructions to Members and Lodges, Mystic Symbols and their meanings, magical and alchemical explanations, and a dictionary and FAQ. HARVEY SPENCER LEWIS (1883-1939), a well-known Rosicrucian author, mystic, occultist, alchemist, and inventor, was the founder of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) in the USA, as well as its first Imperator from 1915 until his death. Born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, Lewis used his training as a commercial artist for an advertising company to promote the AMORC in its early days through print ads and pamphlets. Lewis believed it was his mission to spread modern mysticism throughout the United States, which he did by promoting AMORC tours, appearing on radio shows, giving demonstrations, writing books, and inventing mystical devices. His inventions include the Luxatone, the Cosmic Ray Coincidence Counter, and the Sympathetic Vibration Harp.

Author : Alan MacEachern
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228002857

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The Miramichi Fire by Alan MacEachern Pdf

On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England, while also exploring social memory and the question of how history becomes established, warped, and forgotten. Alan MacEachern explains how the imprecise and conflicting early reports of the fire's range, along with the quick rebound of the forests and economy of New Brunswick, led commentators to believe by the early 1900s that the fire's destruction had been greatly exaggerated. As an exercise in digital history, this book takes advantage of the proliferation of online tools and sources in the twenty-first century to posit an entirely new reading of the past. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226687971

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Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens’s Birds by Cary Wolfe Pdf

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens’s evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case. Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a “nonrepresentational” conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens’s poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. Ecological Poetics is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology.

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368902476

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X004110192

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Proceedings: Symposium On Fire In Wilderness and Park Management... U.S. Department Of Agriculture... September 1995 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marianne Pade
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 8772895853

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Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum by Marianne Pade Pdf

The conference was part of the international research network Renaissance: The Origins of Modernity organized by the University of Copenhagen. The 13 papers include discussions of the reception of the political Aristotle from Brunetto Latini to Dante Alighieri, Greek and Latin learning in Theodore Gaza's Antirrheticon, and Caspar Bartholin. One of the papers is in Italian. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.