Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
The Middle Ages represented a flowering of spirituality and culture which, in Europe, has not been equalled since. This book examines some of the great writers and thinkers of the period and the events in which they took part.
Author : Chris Caseldine
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1789144728
For all who yearn to travel to the home of the sagas, a beautifully illustrated companion to the terrain of Iceland—from puffins to ponies, glaciers and volcanoes to legendary trolls. Described by William Morris as “most unimaginably strange,” the landscape of Iceland has fascinated and inspired travelers, scientists, artists, and writers throughout history. This book provides a contemporary understanding of the landscape as a whole, not only its iconic glaciers and volcanoes, but also its deserts, canyons, plants, and animals. The book examines historic and modern scientific studies of the landscape and animals, as well as accounts of early visitors to the land. These were captivating people, some eccentric but most drawn to Iceland by an enthrallment with all things northern, a desire to experience the land of the sagas, or plain scientific and touristic curiosity. Featuring many spectacular illustrations, this is a fine exploration of a most singular landscape.
Author : Kent H. Redford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300230974
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made, which has informed conservation for centuries, has become blurred. When scientists can reshape genes more or less at will, what does it mean to conserve nature? The tools of synthetic biology are changing the way we answer that question. Gene editing technology is already transforming the agriculture and biotechnology industries. What happens if synthetic biology is also used in conservation to control invasive species, fight wildlife disease, or even bring extinct species back from the dead? Conservation scientist Kent Redford and geographer Bill Adams turn to synthetic biology, ecological restoration, political ecology, and de-extinction studies and propose a thoroughly innovative vision for protecting nature.
Author : A. Siewers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023010052X
Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.
Author : Adam Scovell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1800347030
Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.
Author : J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0195393694
"Examining work by William Wells Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Caroline Kirkland, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and others, Strange Nation investigates America's often vexed relationship with the practice of literary nationalism"--
Author : Patrick McCaughey
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art, Australian
ISBN : 9780522861204
'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, produced such original and powerful art? And why is it so little known beyond our shores? Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters is Patrick McCaughey's answer.
Author : Dennis Detwiller
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2021-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781940410548
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Charities
ISBN :
Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1429945257
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
