The Ornaments of Life

The Ornaments of Life
Title The Ornaments of Life PDF eBook
Author Theodore H. Fleming
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 615
Release 2013-10-03
Genre Science
ISBN 022602332X

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The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As The Ornaments of Life reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants—toucans, monkeys, leaf-nosed bats, and hummingbirds to name a few—are an important component of the infrastructure that supports life in the forest. These fruit-and-nectar eating birds and mammals pollinate the flowers and disperse the seeds of hundreds of tropical plants, and unlike temperate communities, much of this greenery relies exclusively on animals for reproduction. Synthesizing recent research by ecologists and evolutionary biologists, Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress demonstrate the tremendous functional and evolutionary importance of these tropical pollinators and frugivores. They shed light on how these mutually symbiotic relationships evolved and lay out the current conservation status of these essential species. In order to illustrate the striking beauty of these “ornaments” of the rainforest, the authors have included a series of breathtaking color plates and full-color graphs and diagrams.

Tree of Treasures

Tree of Treasures
Title Tree of Treasures PDF eBook
Author Bonnie Mackay
Publisher Penguin
Pages 226
Release 2016-09-27
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1101991836

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A beautifully illustrated look at Christmas ornaments and the memories they hold on our trees First highlighted in the New York Times, Bonnie Mackay’s annual Christmas tree showcases a lifetime collecting almost 3,000 ornaments. Now, through beautiful photography and illuminating vignettes, Tree of Treasures shares the heartfelt stories behind a hundred of those cherished possessions, whether it’s the story of a family member, like Mackay’s grandfather, a well-known vaudeville performer; long-held relationships with friends and colleagues in the international community of Christmas crafts makers; a memory of a beloved pet; and much more. From serene lace angels and vintage Santas, to exquisite glass-blown spheres and small silk purses, Tree of Treasures showcases ornaments both beautiful and well-loved, illuminating how ornaments, as we unpack and hang them each holiday season, tell the story of our lives.

Ornament and Silence

Ornament and Silence
Title Ornament and Silence PDF eBook
Author Kennedy Fraser
Publisher Vintage
Pages 269
Release 2014-01-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0804152039

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From one of The New Yorker’s most revered writers comes “a brilliant collection” (The New York Times Book Review) about women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families—from Virginia Woolf and Flaubert’s mistress to Russian novelist Nina Berberova and English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at The New Yorker, tending her English garden and—on every page—delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose.

Ornaments of the Metropolis

Ornaments of the Metropolis
Title Ornaments of the Metropolis PDF eBook
Author Henrik Reeh
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 276
Release 2004
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780262182379

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Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life.

Adorenaments

Adorenaments
Title Adorenaments PDF eBook
Author FamilyLife Staff
Publisher
Pages 24
Release 2004-03-01
Genre
ISBN 9781572292383

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Create lasting memories with this family keepsake! Use Adorenaments at Christmas to focus your family on Jesus. Discover why He is the best gift ever! Worship Him more deeply, as you appreciate and celebrate together the names of Christ. - Twelve richly illustrated ornaments will find a special place on your Christmas tree and in your family's heart. - Keepsake boardbook makes a beautiful display for ornaments and preserves them in storage. - Colorful, easy-to-read devotional book guides your family's Advent preparation. - Simple steps help you lead children to Christ.

Ornaments of the Metropolis

Ornaments of the Metropolis
Title Ornaments of the Metropolis PDF eBook
Author Henrik Reeh
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 261
Release 2006-09-08
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0262681633

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Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life. For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer deciphers the subjective experience of the city by viewing fragments of the city as dynamic ornaments; an employment exchange, a day shelter for the homeless, a movie theater, and an amusement park become urban microcosms. Reeh focuses on three substantial works written by Kracauer before his emigration to the United States in 1940. In the early autobiographical novel Ginster, Written by Himself, a young architect finds aesthetic pleasure in the ornamental forms that are largely unused in the profession of the time. The collection Streets of Berlin and Elsewhere, with many essays from Kracauer's years in Berlin, documents the subjectiveness of urban life. Finally, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time shows how the superficial—in a sense, ornamental—milieu of the operetta evolved into a critical force during the Second Empire. Reeh argues that Kracauer's novel, essays, and historiography all suggest ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life. The book also includes a series of photographs by the author that reflect the ornamental experience of the metropolis in Paris, Frankfurt, and other cities.

Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584)

Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584)
Title Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 325
Release 2023-08-07
Genre History
ISBN 900447014X

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The True Record of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shilu, 1584) by the Jesuit missionary Michele Ruggieri was the first Chinese-language work ever published by a European. Despite being published only a few years after Ruggieri started learning Chinese, it evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context and was a pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange. This book features a critical edition of the Chinese and Latin texts, which are both translated into English for the first time. An introduction, biography, and rich annotations are provided to situate this text in its cultural and intellectual context.