1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480377003321

Autore

Tuan Yi-fu

Titolo

Passing strange and wonderful : aesthetics, nature, and culture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Island Press for Shearwater Books, 1993

ISBN

1-61091-296-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics, Comparative - Moral and ethical aspects

Nature (Aesthetics)

Environmental ethics

Human geography

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Aesthetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Light and Shadows -- PART I: AESTHETICS, NATURE, AND CULTURE -- Chapter 1. The Aesthetic in Life and Culture -- 2. The Development of the Aesthetic Impulse -- PART II: SENSORY DELIGHTS -- 3. Pleasures of the Proximate Senses -- 4. Voices, Sounds, and Heavenly Music -- 5. Visual Delight and Splendor -- PART III: A CULTURAL-AESTHETIC SPECTRUM -- 6. Australian Aborigines, the Chinese, and Medieval Europeans -- 7. American Place and Scene -- PART IV: SYNTHESIS OF SPACE AND THE STATE -- 8. Synesthesia, Metaphor, and Symbolic Space -- 9. Ritual and the Aesthetic-Moral State -- The Chinese Aesthetic-Moral State: T'ang Empire -- Renaissance Venice as an Aesthetic-Moral State -- France: The Sun King's Aesthetic-Moral State -- America the Beautiful and the Moral -- PART V: AESTHETICS AND MORALITY -- 10. Good and Beautiful -- Epilogue: Shadows and Light -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144388303321

Titolo

De beste de baas? : Verdienste, respect en solidariteit in een meritocratie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786611972721

9781281972729

128197272X

9789048501502

9048501504

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 pages)

Collana

Studies over politieke vernieuwing

Altri autori (Persone)

SwierstraTsjalling <1960->

TonkensEvelina Hendrika <1961->

BovensM. A. P

PekelharingPieter

PelsDick <1948->

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Social capital (Sociology)

Equality

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Verantwoording; 1 In het jaar 2034. Inleiding; 2 Competitie op alle fronten; 3 Meritocratie en de erosie van zelfrespect; 4 Verdient Oprah wel wat ze verdient?; 5 De diplomademocratie; 6 Meetlust: de wil tot meten; 7 Naar een aidocratie. Conclusies

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative study shows the downside of meritocracy, the equality ideology embarrassed by western European countries



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910304657303321

Titolo

日本良導絡自律神経学会雑誌

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Osaka, : Nihon Ryōdōraku Jiritsu Shinkei Gakkai, 1986-

ISSN

1884-7595

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Autonomic Nervous System

Acupuncture Therapy

Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Moxibustion

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Giapponese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.