Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Home Place
Author: J. Drew Lanham
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic
T. H. Huxley
Author: James G. Paradis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The development of nineteenth-century attitudes toward science and the world is examined in light of Huxley's ethics and philosophies, varied interests in science and culture, and significant role in the Victorian intellectual milieu.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The development of nineteenth-century attitudes toward science and the world is examined in light of Huxley's ethics and philosophies, varied interests in science and culture, and significant role in the Victorian intellectual milieu.
Man, His Nature and Place in the World
Author: Arnold Gehlen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231052184
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231052184
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Man in the Landscape
Author: Paul Shepard
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032714X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture--their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032714X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture--their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.
Man and Nature
Author: George P. Marsh
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486847284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
A carefully curated library of the world's greatest literature. Dover Thrift Editions are the most affordable choice for today's readers. The series offers a vast selection of complete and unabridged titles, each a classic work of fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama. Book jacket.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486847284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
A carefully curated library of the world's greatest literature. Dover Thrift Editions are the most affordable choice for today's readers. The series offers a vast selection of complete and unabridged titles, each a classic work of fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama. Book jacket.
The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Author: Carveth Read
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Man's place in nature
Author: Max Scheler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Man and Nature in the Renaissance
Author: Allen G. Debus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521293280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521293280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution.
Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World
Author: Norman Crowe
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262032223
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Arguing that humanity has lost its symbiotic relationship with nature regarding housing, a cultural evaluation of architecture considers the evolution of structure development and the possibility of combining the expertise of environmentalists and builders to promote indigenous architecture. UP.
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262032223
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Arguing that humanity has lost its symbiotic relationship with nature regarding housing, a cultural evaluation of architecture considers the evolution of structure development and the possibility of combining the expertise of environmentalists and builders to promote indigenous architecture. UP.