Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791479218
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium The second of Maeterlinck's four celebrated nature essays—along with those on the life of the bee, ant, and termite—"The Intelligence of Flowers" (1907) represents his impassioned attempt to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity that constitutes a form of intelligence. Appearing one hundred years after the first publication, Philip Mosley's new translation of the original French essay, and the related essay "Scents," maintains the verve of Maeterlinck's prose and renders it accessible to the present-day reader. This is a book for those who are excited by creative encounters between literature and science as well as current debates on the relationship of humankind to the natural world.
The Intelligence of Flowers
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791479218
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium The second of Maeterlinck's four celebrated nature essays—along with those on the life of the bee, ant, and termite—"The Intelligence of Flowers" (1907) represents his impassioned attempt to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity that constitutes a form of intelligence. Appearing one hundred years after the first publication, Philip Mosley's new translation of the original French essay, and the related essay "Scents," maintains the verve of Maeterlinck's prose and renders it accessible to the present-day reader. This is a book for those who are excited by creative encounters between literature and science as well as current debates on the relationship of humankind to the natural world.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791479218
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium The second of Maeterlinck's four celebrated nature essays—along with those on the life of the bee, ant, and termite—"The Intelligence of Flowers" (1907) represents his impassioned attempt to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity that constitutes a form of intelligence. Appearing one hundred years after the first publication, Philip Mosley's new translation of the original French essay, and the related essay "Scents," maintains the verve of Maeterlinck's prose and renders it accessible to the present-day reader. This is a book for those who are excited by creative encounters between literature and science as well as current debates on the relationship of humankind to the natural world.
The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon
Author:
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Intelligence of the Flowers
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher: Musson
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Musson
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Flowers for Algernon
Author: Daniel Keyes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 015603008X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 015603008X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.
Dog Flowers
Author: Danielle Geller
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 1984820400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 1984820400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.
The Intelligence
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Systems Thinking with Flowers
Author: Krystal Languell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737803607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737803607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ungifted
Author: Scott Kaufman
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465025544
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Questioning everything we know about the childhood predictors of adult greatness, a cognitive psychologist, who was told as a child that he wasn't smart enough to graduate from high school, explores the latest research to uncover the truth about human potential.
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465025544
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Questioning everything we know about the childhood predictors of adult greatness, a cognitive psychologist, who was told as a child that he wasn't smart enough to graduate from high school, explores the latest research to uncover the truth about human potential.
The Hidden Geometry of Flowers
Author: Keith Critchlow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780863158063
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A beautiful and original book from a renowned thinker and geometrist
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780863158063
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A beautiful and original book from a renowned thinker and geometrist
Flower
Author:
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838660857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838660857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.