Bearing Meaning
Author : Robbie Kahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1998
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ISBN : 9780252067150
Author : Robbie Kahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1998
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ISBN : 9780252067150
Author : Dahr Jamail
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1620976056
Finalist for the 2020 PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Acclaimed on its hardcover publication, a global journey that reminds us "of how magical the planet we're about to lose really is" (Bill McKibben) With a new epilogue by the author After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—from Alaska to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows him to renew his passion for the planet's wild places, cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before. Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.
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Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Railroad cars
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Definitions and typical illustrations of railroads and industrial cars, their parts and equipment; cars built in America for export to foreign countries; descriptions and illustrations of shops and equipment employed in the construction and repair of cars.
Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 026236087X
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cognitively cumbersome and outdated. In Reckonings, Stephen Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present use numerals, reinterpreting historical and archaeological representations of numerical notation and exploring the implications of why we write numbers with figures rather than words.
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Great Britain. Courts
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Page : 896 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Benjamin Katz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1984588796
We belong to a gullible, partly delusional/hallucinating, self-destructive species: Homo sapiens. First, we create the conditions for global catastrophes including epidemics by following unsustainable policies, and then, as we are hit—as the COVID-19 pandemic shows—we react often too late, confused and short-sighted. Hence, we badly need a new, evolved global vision/mission to steer away from our innate and self-destructive shortcomings and flaws. This book includes two parts. Book One tells my true/legendary story with the Green Man, describing how such a vision/mission was conceived. Book Two describes a tour de force beyond Homo sapiens’s current wisdom, ultimate meaning, and fixed destiny, leading to the abovementioned new, evolved vision for a future civilization, which will focus on saving us from ourselves.
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Carmen Joy Imes
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830848363
What does the Old Testament—especially the law—have to do with your Christian life? In this warm, accessible volume, Carmen Joy Imes takes readers back to Sinai, arguing that we've misunderstood the command about "taking the Lord's name in vain." Instead, Imes says that this command is really about "bearing God's name," a theme that continues throughout the rest of Scripture.
Author : Therese Boos Dykeman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1498573215
Rhetoric at the Non-Substantialistic Turn: The East-West Coin presents a unique theory of rhetoric that encompasses both Eastern and Western approaches. Based on the Field-Being philosophy founded by Lik Kuen Tong, this theory gives an account of the ontological foundations of both kinds of rhetoric. Beginning with an exposition of the nature of Field-Being rhetoric as Eastern and Western, this book presents chapters on Eastern and Western rhetoric over history as power, ethics, art, creativity, politics, and communication. It acknowledges the thinking of many philosophers and rhetoricians who have contributed to East-West comparative studies in both fields and argues that both understandings of rhetoric are necessary for global communication.