Author : David Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781852830366
David Taylor takes the reader on an imaginary trip around the world in a hot air balloon, allowing children to visit the world's biggest and strongest animals. These mighty creatures live on land, in the sea and in the air, and include elephants, whales and eagles.
Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Cat breeds
ISBN : 0671686496
Packed with fascinating facts, practical tips, and more than 750 spectacular full-color photos, The Ultimate Cat Book is the most beautiful and authoritative feline guidebook ever published. Full-color photos.
Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781554071975
Guide to training older or rescued dogs. Covers problems from anxiety-related disorders to socializing difficulties for a range of breeds.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674970276
“We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” —John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist tradition—Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs—assert that language is a tool that human beings developed to encode and communicate information. In The Language Animal, Taylor explains that this view neglects the crucial role language plays in shaping the very thought it purports to express. Language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning and fundamentally shapes human experience. The human linguistic capacity is not something we innately possess. We first learn language from others, and, inducted into the shared practice of speech, our individual selves emerge out of the conversation. Taylor expands the thinking of the German Romantics Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt into a theory of linguistic holism. Language is intellectual, but it is also enacted in artistic portrayals, gestures, tones of voice, metaphors, and the shifts of emphasis and attitude that accompany speech. Human language recognizes no boundary between mind and body. In illuminating the full capacity of “the language animal,” Taylor sheds light on the very question of what it is to be a human being.
Author : David Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1979-12
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9780708903872
Author : Sunaura Taylor
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1620971291
2018 American Book Award Winner A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its difference from “animal”? Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled—and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls “cripping animal ethics.” Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice—which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition—are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir, science, and the radical truths these disciplines can bring—whether about factory farming, disability oppression, or our assumptions of human superiority over animals—Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical and personal, by a brilliant new voice.
Author : Jonathan Gottschall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0547391404
A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.
Author : Wendy Wren
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780748793495
Strategies for encouraging lower ability students to discuss themes and teaching points are given in starter and plenary suggestions in the Teacher's Guide. Extra emphasis is given on helping lower ability students with writing assignments. Comprehensive coverage of the Framework objectives and strategies. Offers suggestions for delivery of activities from all 36 sections in the two student books, including Speaking and Listening, and Drama.
Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812979370
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
Author : David T. Hardison
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1462872964
An Officers Love Story was inspired by a dream I had! It is a gift to me from God and Great Masters! a gift for pulling from the Ethereal Realm The Latest Testament! It is the book of all books, of all time! It contains Masters Master Keys of Pitch Black Philosopher Stones, and Universal Scrolls! the frequency vibration rate of the universe is Aum! When Aum enters man it is Om! Aum permeates all; through our foods, air, manna, dew, elements, sunbeams, breaths, medulla oblongata and the crown of our head! Everything is in Aum! Oms in everything! Om is Lifetrons and Lightrons units of R.N.A. messages making mans D.N.A. do what it does; attract reproduce and submit to the will of God: this book is bodacious truth! And Im giving it to the world, all at once! It is a direct result of the good karmic seeds, I have sown! And I share these gifts of grace with you once again! Volume two will be published by early 2012! It will usher in the Golden Age, and stand for all times! This story is about everything I have ever seen done felt thought and dreamt! It is the culmination of every book I have ever read! And all the cosmic experiences the Masters have led me to! It is the absolute total sum culmination of all of my past lives, that Allah has allotted my little soul light! Its all that I have witnessed, learned, and thought that I have learned! All the love and experiences with women! Every sex act: all of the people I have encountered along the way! Even the shadows are in this deep well! Every movie or commercial! Every documentary and historic event! Every celebrity or politician speech! Every game, game show! Everything! Even Trumps Apprentice! My eternal souls experiences and expressions for a billion years! all that I have experienced, done, seen and thought of, are in An Officers love Story! I Am The Biggest Blackest Man Ever! Bar None! And Im Conducting The Biggest Blackest Soul Train, Ascending, Into Heaven! Welcome aboard! And behold me bring this dream to life!! This is my sixth book to be published by the one and only Xlibris Corporation @Xlibris.com! They are the very best! Check out my website WWW.TheLatestTestament.org And WWW.AnOfficersLoveStory.org. This creation was the easiest to write! It is my longest book, and was the easiest to bring forth! It originated from a dream I had last year in April or May of 2010! Easy because all I have to do is turn on my computer, sit, place my hands in the typing position, and wallah, the words begin flowing! I use the music playing on my radio now, my recordings, and all of the music I have ever heard! All of the art Ive seen! All of the places I have been! I use the television, sounds from outside, the bumblebee buzzing by, the birds, ants and the dogs barking from across the way! I use every book, phrase and word Ive ever read! From Baldwin to Hess! Alex Haley, Eldridge Cleaver Malcolm, Kalil Gabrion, George Jackson; the Holy Bible, Koran, Upanishads, Bahagavad Gita, Vedas, Yoga Philosophy, Kabala, the Rosicrucians and John Shaft! Damn right! Everything! Lottee, Dottie and the whole damn party! And from every extra sensory perception! Every visit, from Great Divine Masters; Jesus, Babaji etc.! Babaji is Purely Omnipervasive! Yogananda, Thirumoolar, the Magnificent Siddhas! And The 5 Phases of the Kriya Yoga Tradition! Every song and every sound Ive ever heard! Every hour days months and years, I spent in Kriya concentration, breathing Pranayamas, looking and waiting for meditation that came to me, as bliss on the waves of Om! And every body strengthening, and employed mental forces exercise I have ever undergone! Every poor board I have broken! All of the people I have taught martial arts to! All of the years of dynamic instructions I have joyfully received! Every event, that happened to, and around me in the military, and while sailing the seas! Every order that I have
