Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 1, 1984)
Title | Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 1, 1984) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 102 |
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ISBN | 9781422370520 |
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 4, 1984)
Title | Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 4, 1984) PDF eBook |
Author | American Philosophical Society |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 178 |
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Genre | |
ISBN | 9781422370551 |
The Flight of the Iguana
Title | The Flight of the Iguana PDF eBook |
Author | David Quammen |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-10-16 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1476728739 |
The award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo examines weird and wonderful aspects of nature in this collection of wise, witty, and insightful essays. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, David Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies. A distinguished essayist, Quammen’s reporting is masterful and thought provoking and his curiosity and fascination with the world of living things is infectious.
Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries
Title | Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Athelstan Spilhaus |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780871691965 |
"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.
Wandering God
Title | Wandering God PDF eBook |
Author | Morris Berman |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0791493245 |
The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the history of ideas" (KIRKUS Reviews), "filled with piquant details" (Common Boundary), and "an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly, good-natured jeremiad" (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships. In an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century.
Beyond Babylon
Title | Beyond Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art, Ancient |
ISBN | 1588392953 |
This important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World
Title | The American Indian Mind in a Linear World PDF eBook |
Author | Donald L. Fixico |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-07-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135389608 |
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.