Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226474717
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Levi-Strauss focuses on the opposition between Wild Cat and Coyote to explore the meaning and uses of gemellarity, or twinness, in Native American culture. The concept of dual organization that these tales exemplify is one of non-equivalence: everything has an opposite or other, with which it coexists in unstable tension. In contrast, Levi-Strauss argues, European notions of twinness - as in the myth of Castor and Pollux - stress the essential sameness of the twins.
Author: Timothy Zahn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429996617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel. But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything...and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit. Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races the Modhri from station to station to acquire a set of valuable sculptures from a long-dead civilization. What the Modhri wants with them is anybody's guess, but if Compton can't outwit it, the whole galaxy will find out the hard way.
Author: Ross Barnett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472957334
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished. Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.
Author: Fiona Quinn
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508998952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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20-year-old Lexi Sobado is a woman with a psychic gift caught in the middle of a sinister web of crime and corruption. The victim of a stalker, Lexi finds herself romantically entangled with the special agent charged with protecting her. Thing is, Lexi herself has worked for the intelligence community in the past. What she hides, what she reveals and what she keeps trying to uncover become the juggling act our heroine deals with as she tries to save her own life and stop the killer.
Author: Kim Baldwin
Publisher: Elite Operatives
ISBN: 9781602821378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Love stories. Suspense fiction. Please note this is a gay fiction title. When a sadistic serial killer known as the Headhunter resurfaces, a government blunder forces the Elite Operatives Organization into action. Operation Mask falls to Lynx. She has the determination, skills, and most importantly, the right profile, but her youth and lack of experience in the field could put more than the mission in jeopardy. Her search takes her deep into the jungles of Asia, where she must battle not only the ruthless purveyors of the international skin trade, but also her growing feelings for a mysterious mercenary with her own agenda for the Headhunter.
Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher:
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
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Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Maurice Godelier
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784787086
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 459
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Anthropologist Claude Lvi-Strauss was among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this rigorous study, Maurice Godelier traces the evolution of his thought. Focusing primarily on Lvi-Strauss's analysis of kinship and myth, Godelier provides an assessment of his intellectual achievements and legacy. Meticulously researched, Lvi-Strauss is written in a clear and accessible style. The culmination of decades of engagement with Lvi-Strauss's work, this book will prove indispensible to students of his thought and structural anthropology more generally.
Author: Michael McKeon
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801863974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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McKeon and others delve into the significance of the novel as a genre form, issues in novel techniques such as displacement, the grand theory, narrative modes such as subjectivity, character, and development, critical interpretation of the structure of the novel, and the novel in historical context.
