Author: Candace Slater
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520226410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The skill with which [Slater] combines various levels and modalities of narrative, utilizing her personal experience as a colorful unifying thread, is truly remarkable."—Antonio Candido, author of Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society (Howard S. Becker, editor) "A very important book, that quite gracefully, elegantly, and persuasively moves beyond the usual 'myth and history' format to put at its center stories about the Amazon and the people who tell them. Entangled Edens persuasively argues that the Amazon can only be grasped, understood, and come to terms with through its myths and stories. It addresses a very real failing of modern environmentalism, which for all its virtues, tends to dehumanize and metaphorically depopulate, when it does not villainize, populations that do share its concerns or share them in very different ways. Instead of forcing us to choose between land and people, Slater uses the stories and the people who tell them to rethink human relations with nature and each other."—Richard White, author of The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River "Elegant, erudite, profoundly serious, Entangled Edens is a source of inspiration and knowledge for the reader interested in the Amazon. Without the cultural tradition and the life experience of Amazonia’s people, any analysis of the Amazon risks becoming inconsequential or opportunistic. This is one of the powerful messages of this important reflection on the Amazon, whose greatest riches are ultimately its people. Candace Slater has written a book that will last."—Milton Hatoum, author of The Tree of the Seventh Heaven(1994) and The Brothers (2002)
Entangled Edens
Author: Candace Slater
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520226410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The skill with which [Slater] combines various levels and modalities of narrative, utilizing her personal experience as a colorful unifying thread, is truly remarkable."—Antonio Candido, author of Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society (Howard S. Becker, editor) "A very important book, that quite gracefully, elegantly, and persuasively moves beyond the usual 'myth and history' format to put at its center stories about the Amazon and the people who tell them. Entangled Edens persuasively argues that the Amazon can only be grasped, understood, and come to terms with through its myths and stories. It addresses a very real failing of modern environmentalism, which for all its virtues, tends to dehumanize and metaphorically depopulate, when it does not villainize, populations that do share its concerns or share them in very different ways. Instead of forcing us to choose between land and people, Slater uses the stories and the people who tell them to rethink human relations with nature and each other."—Richard White, author of The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River "Elegant, erudite, profoundly serious, Entangled Edens is a source of inspiration and knowledge for the reader interested in the Amazon. Without the cultural tradition and the life experience of Amazonia’s people, any analysis of the Amazon risks becoming inconsequential or opportunistic. This is one of the powerful messages of this important reflection on the Amazon, whose greatest riches are ultimately its people. Candace Slater has written a book that will last."—Milton Hatoum, author of The Tree of the Seventh Heaven(1994) and The Brothers (2002)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520226410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The skill with which [Slater] combines various levels and modalities of narrative, utilizing her personal experience as a colorful unifying thread, is truly remarkable."—Antonio Candido, author of Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society (Howard S. Becker, editor) "A very important book, that quite gracefully, elegantly, and persuasively moves beyond the usual 'myth and history' format to put at its center stories about the Amazon and the people who tell them. Entangled Edens persuasively argues that the Amazon can only be grasped, understood, and come to terms with through its myths and stories. It addresses a very real failing of modern environmentalism, which for all its virtues, tends to dehumanize and metaphorically depopulate, when it does not villainize, populations that do share its concerns or share them in very different ways. Instead of forcing us to choose between land and people, Slater uses the stories and the people who tell them to rethink human relations with nature and each other."—Richard White, author of The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River "Elegant, erudite, profoundly serious, Entangled Edens is a source of inspiration and knowledge for the reader interested in the Amazon. Without the cultural tradition and the life experience of Amazonia’s people, any analysis of the Amazon risks becoming inconsequential or opportunistic. This is one of the powerful messages of this important reflection on the Amazon, whose greatest riches are ultimately its people. Candace Slater has written a book that will last."—Milton Hatoum, author of The Tree of the Seventh Heaven(1994) and The Brothers (2002)
Vanishing Edens
Author: Shirley Walker
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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The Shadow on the Dial
Author: Orton H. Carmichael
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Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Compleat System of General Geography
Author: Varenius
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Leukocytes
Author: Randall Glenn
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1682354660
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Leukocytes are colorless cells that circulate in the blood and body fluids, and are involved in counteracting foreign substances and diseases. Author Randall Glenn writes in Leukocytes: Book Two: “Adam and Eve were not the products of procreation, as the rest of us are. What coursed through their veins was the original, untainted recipe – pure blood, sinless blood.” His first book The Truth About Salvation was about entering the strait gate of salvation. This second book is not a structured storyline type of book. It’s more a coffee table collection of thoughts upon the narrow way that follows the strait gate, with thoughts on the Godhead, Christ, and the short journey of life.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1682354660
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Leukocytes are colorless cells that circulate in the blood and body fluids, and are involved in counteracting foreign substances and diseases. Author Randall Glenn writes in Leukocytes: Book Two: “Adam and Eve were not the products of procreation, as the rest of us are. What coursed through their veins was the original, untainted recipe – pure blood, sinless blood.” His first book The Truth About Salvation was about entering the strait gate of salvation. This second book is not a structured storyline type of book. It’s more a coffee table collection of thoughts upon the narrow way that follows the strait gate, with thoughts on the Godhead, Christ, and the short journey of life.
A compleat system of general geography, improved by sir I Newton and dr. Jurin, and now tr., with additional notes [&c.] by mr. Dugdale. The whole revised by P. Shaw
Author: Bernardus Varenius
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Eden
Author: D R Thorpe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446476952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
Anthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great War, an Oxford first and a secure parliamentary constituency from his mid-twenties. He was Foreign Secretary at the age of 38, and the first British statesman to meet Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Eden's dramatic resignation from Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1938, outlined here in the fullest detail yet, made an international impact. This ground-breaking book examines his controversial life and tells the inside story of the Munich crisis (1938), the Geneva Conference (1954), Eden's battles with Churchill over the modernisation of the post-war Conservative Party and his rivalry with Butler and Macmillan in the early 1950s, culminating in a fascinating analysis of the Suez crisis.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446476952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
Anthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great War, an Oxford first and a secure parliamentary constituency from his mid-twenties. He was Foreign Secretary at the age of 38, and the first British statesman to meet Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Eden's dramatic resignation from Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1938, outlined here in the fullest detail yet, made an international impact. This ground-breaking book examines his controversial life and tells the inside story of the Munich crisis (1938), the Geneva Conference (1954), Eden's battles with Churchill over the modernisation of the post-war Conservative Party and his rivalry with Butler and Macmillan in the early 1950s, culminating in a fascinating analysis of the Suez crisis.
Reinventing Eden
Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136161244
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136161244
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Edens of Italy
Author: Joseph Cross
Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Passionate Intellect
Author: Michael Kirkham
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846313716
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This critical study looks at the first four decades of Charles Tomlinson’s poetic career, and is the only published full-scale, exclusive treatment of his poetry. Tomlinson is a major British poet whose work has received more recognition in North America and continental Europe than it has in his own country, where still, in some quarters, its character is misunderstood and therefore misjudged. The purpose of Kirkham’s study is to increase understanding and appreciation of the exceptional achievement of Tomlinson’s poetry, emphasising both the startling originality of his vision – a unified vision of a natural-human world – and the subtlety of his poetic art. The study is a reading of the poems which aims to show what they yield to close scrutiny and to remove misconceptions. Known for its analytical rendering of sense-impressions and its avoidance of the personal pronoun, the objectivism of Tomlinson’s poetry is not an exercise in asceticism, but a means of enlarging the circumference of the perceiving self, an expansion of self which is not at the same time an inflation of the self-regarding ego. Its theme is not objects as such but relations, the relation of the perceiving self to the other, of the human to the non-human world. Its reputation for cool detachment is based on a misreading: it is a poetry of energy and excitement, which combines self-restraint with passionate conviction.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846313716
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This critical study looks at the first four decades of Charles Tomlinson’s poetic career, and is the only published full-scale, exclusive treatment of his poetry. Tomlinson is a major British poet whose work has received more recognition in North America and continental Europe than it has in his own country, where still, in some quarters, its character is misunderstood and therefore misjudged. The purpose of Kirkham’s study is to increase understanding and appreciation of the exceptional achievement of Tomlinson’s poetry, emphasising both the startling originality of his vision – a unified vision of a natural-human world – and the subtlety of his poetic art. The study is a reading of the poems which aims to show what they yield to close scrutiny and to remove misconceptions. Known for its analytical rendering of sense-impressions and its avoidance of the personal pronoun, the objectivism of Tomlinson’s poetry is not an exercise in asceticism, but a means of enlarging the circumference of the perceiving self, an expansion of self which is not at the same time an inflation of the self-regarding ego. Its theme is not objects as such but relations, the relation of the perceiving self to the other, of the human to the non-human world. Its reputation for cool detachment is based on a misreading: it is a poetry of energy and excitement, which combines self-restraint with passionate conviction.