Virtuous Waters

Author : Casey Walsh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520965393

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Virtuous Waters by Casey Walsh Pdf

At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations, environments, and infrastructures. The book shows that while modern concepts and infrastructures have come to dominate both the hydrosphere and the scholarly literature on water, longstanding popular understandings and engagements with these heterogeneous liquids have been reproduced as part of the same process. Attention to these dynamics can help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century.

Author : Sandra Postel
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610917902

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Replenish by Sandra Postel Pdf

"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." --Elizabeth Kolbert "Remarkable." --New York Times Book Review "Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." --Booklist, starred review "An informative, purposeful argument." --Kirkus We spend billions of dollars on irrigation, dams, sanitation plants, and other feats of engineering to control water for our own prosperity. What if the answer was not control, but replenishment? Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. Forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff, and "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Postel argues that efforts like these will be essential as we adjust to a hotter, wilder climate. Will we continue to fight the water cycle, endangering ourselves and the planet, or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers?

Author : Treasury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600059487

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Treasury of Choice Quotations by Treasury Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017792228

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Treasury of Choice Quotations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Confucius
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781605206431

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The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius Pdf

Notable not only for its comprehensiveness but also for its inclusion of the Chinese pictograms, this complete text of the *Analects* of the greatest philosopher of Chinese history is a must-own volume for any student of Confucius (551Bi479 Be. From the disposition of a land's rulers to the value of prayer, the thoughts of Confucius have powerfully shaped the moral life and political structures of Asian nations, and influenced the direction of the Western world as well. Here, Legge offers an enlightening introduction to the *Analects,* copious notes that place the sayings in cultural context, and much more assistance for the lay reader in understanding the depth of Confucius' wisdom. This three-in-one volume, originally published in this form in 1893, also includes *The Great Learning,* the Confucian illustration of illustrious virtue, and *The Doctrine of the Mean,* the thinker's explication of the path of duty. Scottish scholar JAMES LEGGE (1815-1897) was the first professor of Chinese language and literature at Oxford University, serving from 1876 to 1897. Among his many books are The Life and Teaching of Confucius (1867), The Religions of China (1880), and the 50-volume Sacred Books of the East (1879-1891).

Author : Christie Pearson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262044219

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The Architecture of Bathing by Christie Pearson Pdf

A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781888375343

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Finding Our True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh Pdf

Finding Our True Home presents a new definitive translation of the Amitabha Sutra along with Thich Nhat Hanh’s first commentary on one of the most practiced forms of Buddhism in the world, the Pure Land school. Introduced in the Buddha’s own lifetime, Pure Land practice puts us in touch with the beauty in our own world and brings us the security, solidity, and freedom we need in order to truly enjoy it. Realizing that Buddha is within us, we see that the Pure Land (paradise) is here and now, rather than in the future. Finding Our True Home will open a new Dharma door to many students of meditation.

Author : FU-CHUN PENG
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781631816376

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ON THE WISDOM OF CHINA by FU-CHUN PENG Pdf

Truthfully and accurately, this book attempts to elucidate the nature and forms of China’s ancient wisdom and reinterpret its ideological significance, thereby activating its inherent vitality and promoting the construction of contemporary Chinese thought. The wisdom of China, with its own discourse system, gives unique stipulations to existence, thought and language. Confucianism, Taoism and Chan Buddhism, as the historical manifestations of Chinese wisdom, respectively express the thoughts between man and man, between man and nature, and between man and mind. In fact, these three aspects exactly constitute the whole of man’s life world. The thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Chan Buddhism are mainly and respectively represented in The Four Books and Five Classics, Lao-Zi and Zhuang-Zi, and Tan-Jing (The Sutra of Hui Neng). The wisdom of China, different from the non-natural wisdom of the West, is fundamentally a natural wisdom, according to which nature is the basis of human existence, thought and language. However, in early modern times, the natural history of China was confronted with an unprecedented crisis. Ever since then, China has entered the post natural era. The coexistence of Heaven and man, as the new wisdom of China, can be created in the age of globalization through preserving the living elements and eliminating the dead parts in the traditional Chinese wisdom.

Author : Patricia Fanthorpe
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781770707580

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The World's Most Mysterious Objects by Patricia Fanthorpe Pdf

Objects can carry romantic myths, embody dangerous curses, or provide links to our past. Some mysterious items, like the Hope Diamond, can still be found today, while others, like the Philosophers’ Stone, have vanished into the mists of time. Gifted and sensitive psychometrists can apparently pick up an object and learn many things about its past and its previous owners. The World’s Most Mysterious Objects provides a glimpse into these enigmas, exploring everything from psychic weapons and spiritual icons to alchemical experiments and strange devices. With this intriguing book, find out what secrets the world could be hiding.

Author : John Askew Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590845376

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The gossiping guide to Wales. By A. Roberts by John Askew Roberts Pdf

Author : Askew Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Wales
ISBN : NYPL:33433003291014

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The Gossiping Guide to Wales by Askew Roberts Pdf

Author : Harish Naraindas,Cristiana Bastos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317615118

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Healing Holidays by Harish Naraindas,Cristiana Bastos Pdf

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure. It brings together analyses of recent trends of "medical tourism", such as underinsured middle-class Americans traveling to India for surgery, pious Middle Eastern couples seeking assisted reproduction outside their borders, or consumers of the exotic in search of alternative healing, with analyses of the centuries-old Euro-American tradition of traveling to spas. Rather than seeing these two forms of medical travel as being disparate, the book demonstrates that, as noted in the introduction ‘what makes patients itinerant in both the old and new kind of medical travel is either a perceived shortage or constraint at ‘home’, or the sense of having reached a particular kind of therapeutic impasse, with the two often so intertwined that it is difficult to tell them apart. The constraint may stem from things as diverse as religious injunctions, legal hurdles, social approbation, or seasonal affliction; and the shortage can range from a lack of privacy, of insurance, technology, competence, or enough therapeutic resources that can address issues and conditions that patients have. If these two intertwined strands are responsible for most medical tourism, then which locales seem to have therapeutic resources are those that are either ‘natural,’ in the form of water or climate; legal, in the form of a culture that does not stigmatise patients; or technological and professional, in the form of tests, equipment, or expertise, unavailable or affordable at home; or in the form of novel therapeutic possibilities that promise to resolve irresolvable issues’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.

Author : Sr. John Dominic Rasmussen, OP
Publisher : Lumen Ecclesiae Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798985679052

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An Educator's Guide to Living a Virtuous Life | 2nd Edition by Sr. John Dominic Rasmussen, OP Pdf

An Educator’s Guide to living a virtuous life aids educators and parents in understanding the importance of living a virtuous life. It will assist you in teaching those entrusted to your care. The guide answers the following questions: why, what, who, and how to educate in virtue. The Educator’s Guide provides the content needed to educate youth in discipleship and virtue by providing in-depth knowledge of the theological and moral virtues, as well as the corresponding gifts of the Holy Spirit. Educators will help students clearly understand how everyone is called to be a disciple of Christ, and that through a personal encounter with Him, each of us is gifted with interior happiness and true freedom.

Author : James Legge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375054786

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The Chinese Classics by James Legge Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Author : Eric J. Silverman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003812579

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Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality by Eric J. Silverman Pdf

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family, our nation, and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Section 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Section 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Section 3 focuses on the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally, Section 4 looks at specific applications of partiality expressed as our loyalty to country, religion, sports teams, and employers. Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.