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Author | : Alan Dean Foster |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-04-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575131969 |
When a team of scientists starts to investigate the flora and fauna of the distant planet of Xica, it soon becomes apparent that this is a unique opportunity to study alien life forms. The planet offers a rich and varied eco-system and each of the scientists recognises what this could mean for their individual reputations. And then, their dreams come true - they establish first contact with a humanoid civilization. But this is a planet where nature breaks all the rules, where logic falls apart, and where nothing is as it seems. And their dreams turn into a nightmare.
Author | : Erwin Schrödinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Biology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Denise Gigante |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300155581 |
Gigante offers a way to read ostensibly difficult poetry and reflects on the natural-philosophical idea of organic form and the discipline of literary studies.
Author | : Amélie Nothomb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781609450885 |
An author begins a letter-exchanging relationship with an American soldier stationed in Iraq who excessively overeats to deal with the horrific violence around him.
Author | : Rudolf A. Raff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2012-12-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022625657X |
Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life, Raff analyzes the rise of this new experimental discipline and lays out new research questions, hypotheses, and approaches to guide its development. Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms. Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative, and functional biology. This new synthesis will interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists, and geneticists.
Author | : Steven M. Stanley |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
Genre | : Adaptation (Biology). |
ISBN | : 0813711258 |
Author | : Anahid Nersessian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 022670131X |
"The Romantic period in literature coincided with two of the most significant transformations in modern history: the Industrial Revolution and, with it, the inflection point of the Anthropocene. Literary critics have shown that much of Romantic poetry expresses an uncanny insight into both of these transformations, including the human and ecological costs of what we now call a carbon-based economy. But was art really capable of making sense of the emerging crisis-or of changing the future? In a superbly nuanced work of literary criticism, Anahid Nersessian shows that poets began to disqualify themselves from explaining the train of consequences that industry set in motion. Their form of knowledge-if knowledge it be-was of an order different from science or economics, and could not bear the burden of accounting for environmental calamity. Romanticism, Nersessian argues, is of the Anthropocene but not about it, and she cautions against investing its poetry with a straightforwardly testimonial power. In doing so, she models an approach to criticism that reads within what Charles Olson calls "the shapeful," emphasizing the role of rhetorical figures in fashioning the posture a poem takes on a historical question. While focusing on the Romantics, Nersessian also ranges back to the seventeenth century (e.g., the poetry of Andrew Marvell) and forward to examples of contemporary poetry and conceptual art (e.g., Derek Jarman's poetry, and installations by Agnes Denes and Helen Mirra). Within literary studies, this is a widely anticipated book by one of the most brilliant critics of her generation"--
Author | : Alfred Schutz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134479174 |
This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson’s conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.
Author | : Sydney Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781565842830 |
Young people between the ages of 13 and 19 from all over the US were interviewed for this book. In it, they discuss fears, plans, ambitions, and even nostalgia for the simplicity of childhood.
Author | : Darlene R. Stille |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2007-07-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836884432 |
Examines the different types of simple organisms, from bacteria to sea sponges.