Visions Upon The Land

Author : David Zurick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813145594

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Land of Pure Vision by David Zurick Pdf

Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen. In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of essays by prominent scholars that examine the impact of representing war in film and the influence that cinematic images of battle have on human consciousness, belief, and action. The contributors explore a variety of topics, including the aesthetics of war as portrayed on-screen, the effect war has on personal identity, and the ethical problems presented by war. Drawing upon analyses of iconic and critically acclaimed war films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Rescue Dawn (2006), Restrepo (2010), and Zero Dark Thirty (2012), this volume's examination of the genre creates new ways of thinking about the philosophy of war. A fascinating look at the manner in which combat and its aftermath are depicted cinematically, The Philosophy of War Films is a timely and engaging read for any philosopher, filmmaker, reader, or viewer who desires a deeper understanding of war and its representation in popular culture.

Author : Isaac Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Private revelations
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081818031

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Vision of Isaac Child, of Plumstead, which He Saw Concerning the Land of His Nativity by Isaac Child Pdf

Author : Michael A. Bryson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813921723

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Visions of the Land by Michael A. Bryson Pdf

The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.

Author : Karl Hess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000110077

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Visions Upon the Land by Karl Hess Pdf

In Visions upon the Land, Karl Hess, Jr., a leading thinker on western environmental issues, applies the concepts of laissez-faire politics to the management of western rangelands. He looks at how the history of the American West has been shaped by people's visions of the land as it should be, rather than as it is, and proposes a radical new system for the management of western public lands. Hess argues that three distinct visions - the Jeffersonian agrarian vision, the Progressive landscape vision, and the environmental vision - have had an enormous impact on the development of the West, and that it is these visions, not the lack of a national "land ethic", that have led to widespread environmental degradation. The decline of public lands is attributed to actors usually ignored in traditional analyses - to fundamental failures in government policy, to ecological destabilization caused by government intrusion, and to the destructiveness of sweeping ideologies. Rather than looking to the popular but ultimately futile solution, of more laws and regulations to control natural resources, this book examines innovative reforms that go beyond a simple prescription.

Author : James Flamank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Glimpses of the past, the present and the future
ISBN : OXFORD:600049117

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The land of vision; or, Glimpses of the past, the present, and the future [by J. Flamank]. by James Flamank Pdf

Author : Emma Widdis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300092912

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Visions of a New Land by Emma Widdis Pdf

This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support of state initiatives in the years up to the Second World War, helping to create a new Russian identity & territory, an 'imaginary geography' of Sovietness.

Author : William GIBSON (of the U.S. Navy.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018651921

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A Vision of Faery Land, and other poems by William GIBSON (of the U.S. Navy.) Pdf

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HX5286

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A Vision of Faery Land and Other Poems by William Gibson Pdf

Author : Roger Baumann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231552639

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Black Visions of the Holy Land by Roger Baumann Pdf

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social change. Most attention to the political significance of Black churches, however, focuses on domestic protest and electoral politics. Yet some Black churches take a deep interest in the global issue of Israel and Palestine. Why would African American Christians get involved—and even take sides—in Palestine and Israel, and what does that reveal about the political significance of “the Black Church” today? This book examines African American Christian involvement in Israel and Palestine to show how competing visions of “the Black Church” are changing through transnational political engagement. Considering cases ranging from African American Christian Zionists to Palestinian solidarity activists, Roger Baumann traces how Black religious politics transcend domestic arenas and enter global spaces. These cases, he argues, illuminate how the meaning of the ostensibly singular and unifying category of “the Black Church”—spanning its history, identity, culture, and mission—is deeply contested at every turn. Black Visions of the Holy Land offers new insights into how Black churches understand their political role and social significance; the ways race, religion, and politics both converge and diverge; and why the meaning of overlapping racial and religious identities shifts when moving from national to global contexts.

Author : H. B. Hackett,Ezra Abbot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382808709

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Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible by H. B. Hackett,Ezra Abbot Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : GODSWORD GODSWILL ONU
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329023772

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VISIONS AND DREAMS by GODSWORD GODSWILL ONU Pdf

Author : Sally McAra
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824863289

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Land of Beautiful Vision by Sally McAra Pdf

Land of Beautiful Vision is the first book-length ethnography to address the role of material culture in contemporary adaptations of Buddhism and the first to focus on convert Buddhists in New Zealand. Sally McAra takes as her subject a fascinating instance of an ongoing creative process whereby a global religion is made locally meaningful through the construction of a Buddhist sacred place. She uses an in-depth case study of a small religious structure, a stupa, in rural New Zealand to explore larger issues related to the contemporary surge in interest in Buddhism and religious globalization. Her research extends beyond the level of public discourse on Buddhism to investigate narratives of members of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) about their relationship with the land, analyzing these and the FWBO’s transformative project through a thematic focus on key symbolic landmarks at their site, Sudarshanaloka. In considering cross-cultural interactions resulting in syncretism or indigenization of alien religions, many anthropological studies concentrate on the unequal power relations between colonizing and colonized peoples. McAra extrapolates from this literature to look at a situation where the underlying power relations are quite different. She focuses on individuals in an organization whose members seek to appropriate knowledge from an "Eastern" tradition to remake their own society—one shaped by its unresolved colonizing past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Debt, Imprisonment for
ISBN : HARVARD:HWLZXS

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The Right-aim School Bible by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000026383822

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Continuity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Mormons
ISBN : NYPL:33433075797096

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Vision by Anonim Pdf