The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral and Physical Relations; With an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs Which Impair Or Destroy the Reproductive Function; With the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms

The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral and Physical Relations; With an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs Which Impair Or Destroy the Reproductive Function; With the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms
Author: Michael Ryan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2019-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780371218716

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity

Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity
Author: R. Egan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230106005

This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.

Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change

Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change
Author: Barbara Rose Johnston
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2011-12-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400717741

Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and social systems analysis, as the functioning viability of nature is both sustained and threatened by humans.

Rabelais and His World

Rabelais and His World
Author: Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780253203410

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.