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An Ambivalent Tree

Author : Divya Rawat

Publisher : Divya Rawat

Page : 57 pages

File Size : 37,63 MB

Release : 2024-09-14

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

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"An ambivalent tree", is a lyrical imagery of human experience, woven together in strands of nature. This deeply personal book to humans shares experiences of the dynamic journey of life through various phases: from innocence of childhood to the wisdom of old. "Life is not just meant to be lived and experienced, rather it also requires feeling the touch of this delicate fabric", this is the message, the poet creatively preaches, through this aesthetic bind of white pages. When the moments are tough, just sit, give time to yourself and life. Feel the depths of human emotion, and learn it's relations with the divine nature. An Ambivalent Tree" is a book that will resonate with readers from all walks of life, inviting them to slow down, reflect, and truly feel the beauty and complexity of life.



Solidarity Under Siege

Author : Jeffrey L. Gould

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 28,69 MB

Release : 2019-05-23

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1108419194

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Depicts the rise and fall of the militant labor movement in modern El Salvador.



Life - The Outburst of Life in the Human Sphere

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 516 pages

File Size : 12,53 MB

Release : 2013-03-09

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9401720835

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Science and philosophy have both undergone radical transformations in recent times. Now they are poised for a pivotal alliance. Science has abandoned the mechanistic model of nature. Philosophy has broken through the tight, traditional circle of conceptualisation, intellectualistic preconceptions and cognitive presuppositions. The two now meet to focus on the palpitating, fluctuating stream of nature/life. Their traditional prejudices dispersed under the pressure of new evidence, philosophy/phenomenology of life and the sciences of life meet in the Archimedean point of the human creative condition (proper to the phenomenology of life) and the role of the human subject (central to the scientific view of reality). They necessitate each other: without the sciences of life, philosophy/phenomenology of life cannot penetrate the intricacies of nature/life; without recourse to philosophy to delineate, design, provide clues to the organisation of natural evidence, the sciences of life cannot devise new strategies for inquiry nor survey their field. The present collection throws open the barriers that separate nature and culture, works of physis and those of the spirit. Following the philosophical model of the ontopoieisis of life, focusing on its specifically human sphere - that of the human self-interpretation-in-existence - it encircles the vast, new horizons of the new alliance.



Azimuth VII (2019), nr. 13. Thinking in Exile – Pensare in esilio

Author : Rainer Guldin

Publisher : Inschibboleth edizioni

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 49,40 MB

Release : 2020-02-20T00:00:00

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 8855290606

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Since the early nineties, the reception of Vilém Flusser was mainly focused on his media theory. If on the one hand this focus allowed to launch the first development in the study of Flusser’s ideas, on the other hand, it ended to conceal other relevant topics and aspects of his thought. Even if his work appears fragmented into several areas, there is a source that produces this variety of topics and methodologies: a deep connection between exile, creativity, and thought. Flusser’s philosophy is thinking in exile between nations and national identities across different languages, between and outside defined disciplines and scientific fields. The entire Flusser’s oeuvre becomes an expression of a collapsed ground, also revealing an unexpected sense of freedom, both existential and philosophical. His path of thinking exhibits radical unfaithfulness towards homeness and reassuring boundaries, both spatial and epistemological, both literal and metaphorical. The purpose of this issue of Azimuth is to map this intersection in Flusser's thought, by taking into account the complexity of his multifaceted thinking and the overlapping of different fields.



Ngaju Religion

Author : Hans Schärer

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 27,18 MB

Release : 2013-03-09

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9401193460

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Hans Scharer was born at Wadenswil (near Zurich), Switzerland, in 1904. After his school years, he was trained for (Protestant) mis sionary work at the Missionshaus in BiHe. For seven years, 1932-1939, he lived among the Ngaju in southern Borneo; first with the Ngaju speaking people of the Katingan river area, later, for a shorter period. with those living along the Barito. He was granted European leave in 1939, and spent the years 1939-1944 studying Ethnology (as it then was called) under Professor J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong at Leiden University. He went home to Switzerland in 1944, but returned to Leiden in 1946 to complete his studies and defend his Ph. D. thesis on Die Gottesidee der N gadju Dajak in Sud-Borneo. It is this thesis which. published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, in 1946, is now being re-issued in English translation. Soon after, he left once more for the Ngaju territory, as Praeses of the Baseler Mission in south Borneo. He died there suddenly on December 10th, 1947, of blood-poisoning. These few biographical data are not merely of some slight historical interest: they help us to understand the man and his work. The present book is Scharer's only major work to have been published, and for Scharer himself it was, in a way, an experiment.



Biosafety of Forest Transgenic Trees

Author : Cristina Vettori

Publisher : Springer

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 35,63 MB

Release : 2016-02-20

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9401775311

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This book provides up-to-date information on the environmental impact of transgenic trees on genetically modified tree (GMT) communication strategy. It is useful to public/private organisations as well as to private and public research bodies and universities worldwide since it reports on the global status of GMT research and policy. A high number of genetically modified trees (GMTs) with altered or novel characteristics have been produced in the last 15 years. However, their very low public acceptance is a basic problem in their commercialization. Breeders anticipate economic and ecological benefits, like reduced product costs and less pressure on native forests, while opponents fear risks, such as unintended spread of GMTs. But what is true? To answer this question, the COST Action FP0905 focused on key aspects related to GMTs: (a) biological characterization; (b) assessment of possible environmental impacts; (c) socio-economic implications and public acceptance/concerns; (d) providing science-based information to communicate with the public.



Ambivalence

Author : Hili Razinsky

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 24,24 MB

Release : 2016-12-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1786601540

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Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambivalence is incompatible with entrenched philosophical conceptions of personhood, judgement, and action, and is denied or marginalised by thinkers of diverse concerns. This book takes a radical new stance, bringing the study of core philosophical issues together with that of ambivalence. The book proposes new accounts in several areas – including subjectivity, consciousness, rationality, and value – while elucidating a wide range of phenomena expressive of ambivalence, from emotional ambivalence to self-deception. The book rejects the view that ambivalence makes a person divided, showing that our tension-fraught attitudes are profoundly unitary. Ambivalence is not tantamount to confusion or to paralysis: it is always basically rational, and often creative, active, and perceptive as well. The book develops themes from Wittgenstein, Davidson, Sartre, and Freud. It engages with contemporary debates in Analytic Philosophy in addition to work ranging from Aristotle to Cultural Studies and Empirical Psychology, and considers a rich set of examples from daily life and literature.



Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Author : Bron Taylor

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 1927 pages

File Size : 34,16 MB

Release : 2008-06-10

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1441122788

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The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, originally published in 2005, is a landmark work in the burgeoning field of religion and nature. It covers a vast and interdisciplinary range of material, from thinkers to religious traditions and beyond, with clarity and style. Widely praised by reviewers and the recipient of two reference work awards since its publication (see www.religionandnature.com/ern), this new, more affordable version is a must-have book for anyone interested in the manifold and fascinating links between religion and nature, in all their many senses.



Genealogies of Legal Vision

Author : Peter Goodrich

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 365 pages

File Size : 30,2 MB

Release : 2015-06-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1317683897

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It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against this constraint and in furtherance of an incipient visual turn in legal studies, Genealogies of Legal Vision seeks to revive the classical ars iuris and to this end traces the history of regimes of visual control. Law always relied in significant measure upon the use of visual representations, upon pictures, architecture, costume and statuary to convey authority and sovereign norm. Military, religious, administrative and legal insignia found juridical codification and expression in collections of signs of office, in heraldic codes, in genealogical devices, and then finally in the juridical invention in the mid-sixteenth century of the legal emblem book. Genealogies of Legal Vision traces the complex lineage of the legal emblem and argues that the mens emblematica of the humanist lawyers was the inauguration of a visiocratic regime that continues into the multiple new technologies and novel media of contemporary governance. Bringing together leading experts on the history and art of legal emblems this collection provides a ground-breaking account of the long relationship between visibility, meaning and normativity.



European Paganism

Author : Ken Dowden

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 391 pages

File Size : 35,34 MB

Release : 2013-05-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1134810229

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European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent. Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing the unpolluted rivers and mountains? In European Paganism Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspects of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice to pilgrimage lunar festivals and tree worship. It includes: a 'timelines' chart to aid with chronology many quotations from ancient and modern sources translated from the original language where necessary, to make them accessible a comprehensive bibliography and guide to further reading