Author : Phillip D. Reisner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1490785213
My idea of arboreal thought is an analogy based on the arboreal hypothesis that suggests a ground-running biped of some kind that adapted itself to living in trees. The hypothesis suggests that the biped began climbing trees, then leaping branches, then parachuting branches, and finally developing feathered, flapping wings to fly.
Author : Anne E. Russon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139451383
Research on the evolution of higher intelligence rarely combines data from fields as diverse as paleontology and psychology. In this volume we seek to do just that, synthesizing the approaches of hominoid cognition, psychology, language studies, ecology, evolution, paleoecology and systematics toward an understanding of great ape intelligence. Leading scholars from all these fields have been asked to evaluate the manner in which each of their topics of research inform our understanding of the evolution of intelligence in great apes and humans. The ideas thus assembled represent a comprehensive survey of the various causes and consequences of cognitive evolution in great apes. The Evolution of Thought will therefore be an essential reference for graduate students and researchers in evolutionary psychology, paleoanthropology and primatology.
Author : Nathan J. Jun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739132418
The study of anarchism as a philosophical, political, and social movement has burgeoned both in the academy and in the global activist community in recent years. Taking advantage of this boom in anarchist scholarship, Nathan J. Jun and Shane Wahl have compiled twenty-six cutting-edge essays on this timely topic in New Perspectives on Anarchism.
Author : S. Hallsworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137358106
This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.
Author : S. Jungkeit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137269022
As stories of borders, territorial disputes, and migration have escalated in recent years, so too space has emerged as a critical concept in theoretical literature. This book explores the imagination of space at the dawn of modern, liberal theology in the writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher wrote against the backdrop of expanding European colonialism and nationalism, providing a powerful ethics of space for a rapidly shrinking planet. Selectively appropriated, Schleiermacher's spaces of modern theology can be a valuable contribution to contemporary attempts to theorize the importance of space and place in human geographies.
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Military art and science
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Author : Ailsa Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1316810739
Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion, Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman culture, proposing an organic model which defies the current legalistic approach. She approaches Roman religion as a 'thinking' religion (in contrast to the ingrained idea of Roman religion as orthopraxy) and warns against writing the environment out of our understanding of Roman religion, as has happened to date. In addition, the individual trees showcased in this book have much to tell us which enriches and thickens our portraits of Roman religion, be it about the subtleties of engaging in imperial cult, the meaning of numen, the interpretation of portents, or the way statues of the Divine communicate.
Author : Fanghanel, Alexandra
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529202582
Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women’s bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively ‘solved’ by the continued proliferation of rape culture in everyday life. Indeed, despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and sexism in contemporary debates, gendered violence continues to be normalised. Using case studies from the US and UK – the de/sexualised pregnancy, the troublesome naked protest, the errant BDSM player – Fanghanel interrogates how the female body is figured through, and revolts against, gendered violence. Rape culture currently thrives. This book demonstrates how it happens, the politics that are mobilised to sustain it, and how we might act to contest it.
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Page : 978 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Literature
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Author : Michael Starr
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2017-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476628874
The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions of the present and the possible future, and modern science fiction continues to be indebted to his "scientific romances," such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Interpreted and adapted for more than a century, Wells's texts have resisted easy categorization and are perennial subjects for emerging critical and theoretical perspectives. The author examines Wells's works through the post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Via this critical perspective, concepts now synonymous with science fiction--such as time travel, alien invasion and transhumanism--demonstrate the intrinsic relevance of Wells to the genre and contemporary thought.
