Traces of Understanding
Author : Patrick L. Bourgeois
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 9789051831450
Author : Patrick L. Bourgeois
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 9789051831450
Author : Jon Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317821394
Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces offers a comprehensive introduction to perhaps the most exciting and challenging area of human geography. By focusing on the notion of ‘place’ as a key means through which culture and identity is grounded, the book showcases the broad range of theories, methods and practices used within the discipline. This book not only introduces the reader to the rich and complex history of cultural geography, but also the key terms on which the discipline is built. From these insights, the book approaches place as an ‘ongoing composition of traces’, highlighting the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the world around us. The second edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate recent literature and up-to-date case studies. It also adopts a new seven section structure, and benefits from the addition of two new chapters: Place and Mobility, and Place and Language. Through its broad coverage of issues such as age, race, scale, nature, capitalism, and the body, the book provides valuable perspectives into the cultural relationships between people and place. Anderson gives critical insights into these important issues, helping us to understand and engage with the various places that make up our lives. Understanding Cultural Geography is an ideal text for students being introduced to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses. The book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci and methodological techniques of cultural geography illuminate and make sense of the places we inhabit and contribute to. This is a timely update on a highly successful text that incorporates a vast foundation of knowledge; an invaluable book for lecturers and students.
Author : Karen Bassi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0472119923
An innovative multidisciplinary study of the relationship between visual perception and temporal meaning in ancient Greek literature and history writing
Author : Anthony J. Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0253006023
Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.
Author : Keith Sisman
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Churches of Christ
ISBN : 9780956493705
Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1588365689
Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebière is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father's wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men's conflicting diagnosis threatens to divide them--and to undermine all their professional achievements. From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.
Author : Joseph Lipman
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821850709
Requiring only some understanding of homological algebra and commutative ring theory, this book gives those who have encountered Grothendieck residues in geometry or complex analysis an understanding of residues, as well as an appreciation of Hochschild homology.
Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191089958
The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of the book's history, and what readers did to books often added to their value. Sometimes marks in books have no relation to the subject of the book, merely names, dates, prices paid; blank spaces were used for pen trials and doing sums, and flyleaves are occasionally the repository of records of various kinds. The Reader in the Book deals with that special class of books in which the text and marginalia are in intense communication with each other, in which reading constitutes an active and sometimes adversarial engagement with the book. The major examples are works that are either classics or were classics in their own time; but they are seen here as contemporaries read them, without the benefit of centuries of commentary and critical guidance. The underlying question is at what point marginalia, the legible incorporation of the work of reading into the text of the book, became a way of defacing it rather than of increasing its value-why did we want books to lose their history?
Author : Wenzel Geissler
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781783207251
This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Tanzania. The authors aim to understand the afterlife of scientific institutions and practices and the "aftertime" of scientific modernity and its attendant visions of progress and transformation. Straightforward scholarly work is juxtaposed here with altogether more experimental approaches to fieldwork and analysis, including interview fragments; brief, reflective essays; and a rich photographic archive. The result is an unprecedented view of the lingering traces of medical science from Africa's past.
Author : Jon Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135277508
"The book presents specific chapters outlining the history of cultural geography, before and beyond representation, as well as the methods and techniques of doing cultural geography. It investigates the places and traces of corporate capitalism, nationalism, ethnicity, youth culture and the place of the body. Throughout these chapters case study examples will be used to illustrate how these places are taken and made by particular cultures, examples include the Freedom Tower in New York City"--Publisher's description