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Author | : Elliot Bostwick Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780878467600 |
A new world imagined -- Native peoples of the Americas -- Europe and the Americas -- Africa, the New East, Asia, and the Americas.
Author | : Hendrik Spruyt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108491219 |
Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.1500-1900, and how these polities engaged the European colonial powers.
Author | : Rob Gonsalves |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1481449745 |
Rob Gonsalves—master of magical realism—presents another mesmerizing picture book in his Imagine a… series, that will “stimulate wonder and imagination” (Booklist, starred review). Imagine a world where the sky becomes the Earth; where a waterfall freefalls to become dancing women; where you can cut mountains out of curtains, and ships sail into the sky. This amazing world is what Rob Gonsalves has created. His vision inspires and astounds—and he wants to share that vision with you. With stunning illustrations that stretch the limits of the imagination, this fourth installment in the Imagine a… series explores a world that is boundless and beautiful, inviting you to imagine a world of possibilities—to imagine this world.
Author | : Alma Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1107137292 |
A fully revised and updated second edition of this successful guide to childcare advice in different cultures around the globe.
Author | : Freeman J. Dyson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674539099 |
Chapters have such headings as: Stories, Science, Technology, Evolution, and Ethics.
Author | : Benedict Anderson |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2006-11-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 178168359X |
What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.
Author | : John Keene |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 081122435X |
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
Author | : Paige West |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2012-02-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822351501 |
West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.
Author | : Caspar Henderson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013-04-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 022604470X |
From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology—they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs about human beings and the natural order. Today, we no longer fear sea monsters or banshees. But from the infamous honey badger to the giant squid, animals continue to captivate us with the things they can do and the things they cannot, what we know about them and what we don’t. With The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Caspar Henderson offers readers a fascinating, beautifully produced modern-day menagerie. But whereas medieval bestiaries were often based on folklore and myth, the creatures that abound in Henderson’s book—from the axolotl to the zebrafish—are, with one exception, very much with us, albeit sometimes in depleted numbers. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings transports readers to a world of real creatures that seem as if they should be made up—that are somehow more astonishing than anything we might have imagined. The yeti crab, for example, uses its furry claws to farm the bacteria on which it feeds. The waterbear, meanwhile, is among nature’s “extreme survivors,” able to withstand a week unprotected in outer space. These and other strange and surprising species invite readers to reflect on what we value—or fail to value—and what we might change. A powerful combination of wit, cutting-edge natural history, and philosophical meditation, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is an infectious and inspiring celebration of the sheer ingenuity and variety of life in a time of crisis and change.
Author | : Mitchell Stephens |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137002603 |
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us—believers and nonbelievers—now think and live.