Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson |
Autore | Anderson John G. T. <1957-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 508 |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - History
Naturalists - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic books
ancient history anthropology astrobiology and bioscience beginning of study books for history lovers creation of life darwin development of sciences discussion books engaging environmental change environmental conservation protection history of science home school history books human civilization human history informative books learning from experts natural history nonfiction books philosophers quarantine reads science and math science books scientists start of civilization |
ISBN |
1-283-86037-6
0-520-95445-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Adam'S Task, Job'S Challenge -- 1. From Hunter-Gatherers To Kings Of Kings -- 2. A Wonderful Man: Aristotle And Greek Natural History -- 3. The Spoils Of An Empire -- 4. An Emperor And His Descendants -- 5. New Worlds -- 6. Ray, Linnaeus, And The Ordering Of The World -- 7. Journeys Near And Far -- 8. Before The Origin -- 9. Forms Most Beautiful: Darwin -- 10. The Geography Of Nature: Humboldt -- 11. Hearts Of Light: Wallace And Bates -- 12. Spoils Of Other Empires -- 13. Breadfruit And Icebergs -- 14. Naturalists In New England: Thoreau, Agassiz, And Gray -- 15. From Muir And Alexander To Leopold And Carson -- 16. The Slow Death (And Resurrection) Of Natural History -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Anderson John G. T. <1957-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 | ||
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Dissimulation and the culture of secrecy in early modern Europe [[electronic resource] /] / Jon R. Snyder |
Autore | Snyder Jon R. <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.2094/0903 |
Soggetto topico |
Secrecy - Social aspects - Italy - History
Truthfulness and falsehood - Social aspects - Italy - History Interpersonal communication - Italy - History Secrecy - Social aspects - Europe - History Truthfulness and falsehood - Social aspects - Europe - History Interpersonal communication - Europe - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
16th century
17th century affairs aristocracy canonical writing commoners communication controversy court writings culture of secrecy disguise dishonesty dissimulation early modern europe europe inner lives italy masking emotions modern history moral philosophy naples netherlands philosophers political silence political theory private lives rene descartes secrecy secret thoughts textbooks treatises visual arts writers and intellectuals |
ISBN |
1-282-36103-1
9786612361036 0-520-94444-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Lost Horizons -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Not Empty Silence. The Age of Dissimulation -- 2. Taking One's Distance. Civil and Moral Dissimulation -- 3. Confidence Games. Dissimulation at Court -- 4. The Government of Designs. Dissimulation and Reason of State -- 5. The Writing on the Walls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Snyder Jon R. <1954-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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The fate of place [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical history / / Edward S. Casey |
Autore | Casey Edward S. <1939-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (507 p.) |
Disciplina | 114 |
Soggetto topico |
Place (Philosophy)
Space and time |
Soggetto non controllato |
aristotle
bachelard concept of place concept of space contemporary thought continental philosophy creation stories deleuze derrida descartes foucault guattari heidegger historical history of thought husserl irigaray kant leibniz merleau ponty mythology newton nonfiction study phenomenological approaches philosophers philosophical philosophy theory plato religion speculations tschumi western philosophy western thought |
ISBN | 0-520-95456-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Disappearing Places -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. From Void to Vessel -- Part Two. From Place to Space -- Part Three. The Supremacy of Space -- Part Four. The Reappearance of Place -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792041603321 |
Casey Edward S. <1939-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 | ||
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The maternal factor [[electronic resource] ] : two paths to morality / / Nel Noddings |
Autore | Noddings Nel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 171/.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Caring
Motherhood - Moral and ethical aspects Ethics, Evolutionary Feminist ethics |
Soggetto non controllato |
care driven justice
educators ethical caring ethics of care ethics evolution evolutionary theory family gender roles gender studies global peace justice maternal feelings maternal instincts maternity men and women modern philosophy morality nonfiction nurturing patriarchal religion personal care philosophers professional success professional women public care spiritual path women in the workplace women womens advancement |
ISBN |
1-282-76406-3
9786612764066 0-520-94780-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. The Evolution of Morality -- TWO. The Caring Relation -- THREE. Ethical Caring and Obligation -- FOUR. The Limits of Autonomy -- FIVE. Relation, Virtue, and Religion -- SIX. Emotions and Reason -- SEVEN. Needs, Wants, and Interests -- EIGHT. War and Violence -- NINE. Convergence -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788998603321 |
Noddings Nel | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Songs of experience [[electronic resource] ] : modern American and European variations on a universal theme / / Martin Jay |
Autore | Jay Martin <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (442 p.) |
Disciplina | 128/.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Experience
History - Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
aesthetics
america american tradition comparative analysis concept of experience epistemological europe european tradition experience historical perspective history of ideas human experience intellectual historians linguistics marxist humanists modern culture modern philosophy nonfiction philosophers political perspective poststructuralists power of experience religious experiences theoretical perspective universal themes western thought |
ISBN |
1-282-35851-0
9786612358517 0-520-93979-4 1-59734-905-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The trial of "experience" : from the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon -- Experience and epistemology : the contest between empiricism and idealism -- The appeal of religious experience : Schleiermacher, James, Otto, and Buber -- Returning to the body through aesthetic experience : from Kant to Dewey -- Politics and experience : Burke, Oakeshott, and the English Marxists -- History and experience : Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, and Ankersmit -- The cult of experience in American pragmatism : James, Dewey, and Rorty -- Lamenting the crisis of experience : Benjamin and Adorno -- The poststructuralist reconstitution of experience : Bataille, Barthes, and Foucault. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783315103321 |
Jay Martin <1944-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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Studies in Jaina history and culture : disputes and dialogues / / edited by Peter Flügel |
Autore | Flügel Peter |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FlügelPeter <1959-> |
Collana | Routledge advances in Jaina studies |
Soggetto topico |
Jainism - History
Jaina civilization |
Soggetto non controllato |
community
women doctrine nuns tradition philosophers john cort tapa gaccha |
ISBN |
1-134-23552-6
1-280-51804-9 9786610518043 0-203-00853-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; PART I ORTHODOXY AND HERESY; 1 ADDA OR THE OLDEST EXTANT DISPUTE BETWEEN JAINS AND HERETICS (SUYAGADA 2,6); 2 THE LATER FORTUNES OF JAMALI; 3 THE DATING OF THE JAINA COUNCILS; PART II THE QUESTION OF OMNISCIENCE AND JANA LOGIC; 4 THE JAIN-MIMAMSA DEBATE ON OMNISCIENCE; 5 WHY MUST THERE BE AN OMNISCIENT IN JAINISM?; 6 IMPLICATIONS OF THE BUDDHIST-JAINA DISPUTE OVER THE FALLACIOUS EXAMPLE IN NYAYA-BINDU AND NYAYAVATARA-VIVRTI*; PART III ROLE MODELS FOR WOMEN AND FEMALE IDENTITY
7 RESTRICATIONS AND PROTECTION8 THINKING COLLECTIVELY ABOUT JAIN SATIS; 9 RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND THE CREATION OF PERSONHOOD AMONG SVETAMBAR MURTIPUJAK JAIN WOMEN IN JAIPUR; PART IV SECTARIAN MOVEMENTS; 10 RETHINKING RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY; 11 A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY DIGAMBAR JAIN MYSTIC AND HIS FOLLOWERS*; 12 DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS IN JAINA MONASTICISM; PART V PROPERTY, LAW AND ETHICS; 13 ARCHITECTURAL, SCULPTURAL AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE; 14 JAINA LAW AS AN UNOFFICIAL LEGAL SYSTEM; 15 AHIMSA AND COMPASSION IN JAINISM; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765885403321 |
Flügel Peter | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006 | ||
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Subjectivity [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic investigations / / edited by Joao Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (478 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BiehlJoao Guilherme
GoodByron KleinmanArthur |
Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Research
Ethnology - Philosophy Subjectivity Ethnopsychology Medical anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
economists ethnographers ethnography free trade economics human agency literary critics medical technologies modern philosophy modern subject modes of being multidisciplinary national identity nationalism nonfiction nonwestern societies personal identity personal lives personhood philosophers physicians psychologists science historians social scholars social sciences subjectivity terrorism transformed communities war western societies |
ISBN |
1-282-35844-8
9786612358449 0-520-93963-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity -- Introduction -- 1 The Vanishing Subject -- 2 The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity -- 3 How the Body Speaks -- 4 Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation -- Introduction -- 5 Hamlet in Purgatory -- 6 America's Transient Mental Illness -- 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse -- Introduction -- 8. The Subject of Mental Illness -- 9. The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis -- 10 Hoarders and Scrappers -- Introduction -- 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? -- 12 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace -- 13 "To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age" -- 14 A Life -- Epilogue: To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780638403321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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Tolerance : the beacon of the enlightenment / / edited and translated by Caroline Warman |
Autore | Warman Caroline |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Open Book Publishers, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (132 pages) |
Collana | Open Book Classics |
Soggetto topico |
Enlightenment - France
Toleration Philosophy, French - 18th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthology
enlightenment tolerance freedom philosophers equality Denis Diderot France God Jean-Jacques Rousseau Voltaire |
ISBN |
1-78374-206-2
2-8218-8168-1 1-78374-205-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction by Caroline Warman -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789 -- 2. Voltaire, 'Prayer to God', from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763 -- 3. Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts, 1746; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 -- 4. Nicolas de Condorcet, 'On Admitting Women to the Rights of Citizenship', 1790 -- 5. John Locke, Letter on Toleration, 1686 -- 6. Denis Diderot, 'Aius Locutius', from the Encyclopédie, 1751 -- 7. Montesquieu, 'On the Enslavement of Negroes', from The Spirit of the Laws -- 8. Jean-François Marmontel, 'Minds are not Enlightened by the Flames of an Executioner's Pyre', from Belisarius, 1767 -- 9. Three aphorisms from Diderot The Philosopher and Marshal ***'s Wife Have a Deep Chat, 1774; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, or On Education, 1762; and Frederick the Great of Prussia -- 10. Abbé Grégoire, On Freedom of Worship, 1794 -- 11. Immanuel Kant, 'Dare to Know', from What is Enlightenment?, 1784 -- 12. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784 -- 13. Pierre Bayle, On Tolerance, or A philosophical Commentary on these Words of the Gospel, Luke XIV. 23, Compel Them to Come in, 1686 -- 14. Alexandre Deleyre, 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie,1756 -- 15. Four aphorisms from Louis de Jaucourt, 'Intolerant', from the Encyclopédie, 1765;William Warburton, Essay on Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 1744; Rousseau, Émile, or On Education; and Anon., 'Refugees', from the Encyclopédie, 1765 -- 16. Jean le Rond d'Alembert, On the Suppression of the Jesuits, 1765 -- 17. Jeanne-Marie Roland, Personal Memoirs, 1795 -- 18. Evariste de Parny, The War of the Gods, 1799 -- 19. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791 -- 20. Pierre Bayle, On Tolerance, 1686 -- 21. Voltaire, La Henriade, 1723 -- 22. Three aphorisms from Diderot, The Eleutheromaniacs, 1772; Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762; and Moses Mendelssohn, Morning Hours, 1786 -- 23. Montesquieu, The Persian Letters, 1721 -- 24. Abbé Grégoire, 'New Observations on the Jews and in Particular on the Jews of Amsterdam and Frankfurt', 1807 -- 25. Rétif de la Bretonne, Paris Nights, 1788 -- 26. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, 1786; and Rousseau, The Social Contract -- 27. Voltaire, Candide, 1759 -- 28. d'Alembert, 'Geometer', from the Encyclopédie, 1757 -- 29. Rabaut Saint-Étienne, 'No Man Should Be Harassed for His Opinions nor Troubled in the Practice of His Religion', 1789 -- 30. Three aphorisms from Diderot, 'Letter to My Brother', 1760; Voltaire, Treatise on Metaphysics, 1735; and Rousseau, The Citizen, or An Address on Political Economy, 1765 -- 31. Diderot, Extract from a Letter to Princess Dashkova, 3 April 1771 -- 32. Voltaire, 'Free Thinking', from Dictionaryof Philosophy, 1764 -- 33. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 'Reflections on Slavery', from A Voyage to the Island of Mauritius, 1773 -- 34. Pierre de Marivaux, The French Spectator, 5 October 1723 -- 35. Louis-Alexandre Devérité, Collected Documents of Interest on the Case of the Desecration of the Abbeville Crucifix, which Occurred on 9th August 1765, 1776 -- 36. Anon., The Private and Public Life of the Posterior Marquis de Villette, Retroactive Citizen, 1791 -- 37. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Marivaux, The French Spectator; and Pierre Jean George Cabanis, On Sympathy, 1802 -- 38. Leandro Fernández de Moratín, 'A Philanthropic Congregation', 1811 -- 39. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws -- 40. Voltaire, 'On Universal Tolerance', 1763 -- 41. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Marivaux, The French Spectator; and Voltaire, 'Fanaticisme', from Portable Philosophical Dictionary -- 42. Condorcet, Anti-superstitious Almanack, 1773-1774 -- 43. Montesquieu, Persian Letters -- 44. José Cadalso y Vázquezde Andrade, Defence of the Spanish Nation against Persian Letter 78 by Montesquieu, 1775 -- 45. Nicolas-Edme Rétif, known as Rétif de la Bretonne, Ninth Juvenal. The False Immorality of the Freedom of the Press, 1796 -- 46. Condorcet, Anti-superstitious Almanack 47. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise, 1779 -- 48. Three aphorisms from Germaine de Staël, Reflections on the French Revolution, 1818; Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments; and Rousseau, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, 1782 -- 49. Luis Guttiérez, Cornelia Bororquia, or the Inquisition's Victim, 1801 -- 50. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 'Fraternal Harmonies', 1815 -- 51. Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage, 1772 -- 52. Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs, posthumous -- 53. Three aphorisms from Alexandre Deleyre, 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie; Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, 1789; and Voltaire, Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 9 November 1764 -- 54. Helvétius, Essays on the Mind, 1758 -- 55. Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Portrait of Paris, 1781 -- 56. Juan Pablo Forner, In Praise of Spain and its Literary Merit, 1786 -- 57. Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, 'The Two Persians', 1792 -- 58. Three aphorisms from Rousseau, Émile, or on Education; Voltaire, Letter to the King of Prussia, 20 December 1740; and Jaucourt, 'Tolerance', censored article from the Encyclopédie -- 59. Voltaire, On the Horrible Danger of Reading, 1765. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213855003321 |
Warman Caroline | ||
Open Book Publishers, 2016 | ||
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Vulnerable responsibility : Small vices for caregivers |
Autore | Burggraeve Roger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (154 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Medical ethics & professional conduct |
Soggetto non controllato |
caregiver
philosophy science caretakers philosophers morality vulnerable neurotic small vices responsibility laziness anger Levinasian goodness demands challenges hesitation shuddering tension shock vulnerability of the caregiver vices for the virtuous caring of the caregiver group discussions amongst caregivers social sciences healthcare |
ISBN | 1-928424-17-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910639978303321 |
Burggraeve Roger | ||
Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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