The Genius of the West
Title | The Genius of the West PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Rougier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | History |
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"Publication of the Principles of Freedom Committee."Abridged translation of Le Génie de l'Occident. Includes bibliographical references.
Genius of the West
Title | Genius of the West PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1855 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Consulting the Genius of the Place
Title | Consulting the Genius of the Place PDF eBook |
Author | Wes Jackson |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 158243848X |
Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, if one prefers, nature in general—as the measure against which we judge all of our agricultural practices. Jackson believes the time is right to do away with annual monoculture grains, which are vulnerable to national security threats and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs. Soil erosion and the poisons polluting our water and air—all associated with agriculture from its beginnings—foretell a population with its natural fertility greatly destroyed. In this eloquent and timely volume, Jackson argues we must look to nature itself to lead us out of the mess we've made. The natural ecosystems will tell us, if we listen, what should happen to the future of food.
The Genius of Place
Title | The Genius of Place PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher C. Apap |
Publisher | University of New Hampshire Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611689260 |
The Genius of Place examines how, after the War of 1812, concerns about the scale of the nation resulted in a fundamental reorientation of American identity away from the Atlantic or global ties that held sway in the early republic and toward more localized forms of identification. Instead of addressing the sweep of the nation, American authors, artists, geographers, and politicians shifted from the larger reach of the globe to the more manageable scope of the local and sectional. Paradoxically, that local representation became the primary mode through which early Americans construed their emerging national identity. This newfound cultural obsession with locality impacted the literary consolidation and representation of key American imagined places - New England, the plantation, the West - in the decades between 1816 and 1836. Apap's examination of the intersections between local and national representations and exploration of the myths of space and place that shaped U.S. identity through the nineteenth century will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary readership.
Heroism and Genius
Title | Heroism and Genius PDF eBook |
Author | William J Slattery |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1681497883 |
"Every chancellery in Europe, every court in Europe, was ruled by these learned, trained and accomplished men the priesthood of that great and dominant body." — President Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom With stubborn facts historians have given their verdict: from the cultures of the Jews, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Germanic peoples, the Catholic Church built a new and original civilization, embodying within its structures the Christian vision of God and man, time and eternity. The construction and maintenance of Western civilization, amid attrition and cultural earthquakes, is a saga spread over sixteen hundred years. During this period, Catholic priests, because they numbered so many men of heroism and genius in their ranks, and also due to their leadership positions, became the pioneers and irreplaceable builders of Christian culture and sociopolitical order. Heroism and Genius presents some of these formidable men: fathers of chivalry and free-enterprise economics; statesmen and defiers of tyrants; composers, educators, and architects of some of the world's loveliest buildings; and, paradoxically, revolutionary defenders of romantic love.
A Stroke of Genius
Title | A Stroke of Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Paul West |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
West examines his symptoms as he suffers from heart disease, diabetes, migraines, and muses over hospital minutiae, existentialism, and the enigma of his biological clock.
Magazine of Western History
Title | Magazine of Western History PDF eBook |
Author | William Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 726 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Local history |
ISBN |