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Deep things out of darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a history of natural history / / John G. T. Anderson
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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.
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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
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
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Flügel Peter  
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006
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Subjectivity [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic investigations / / edited by Joao Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman
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
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
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Tolerance : the beacon of the enlightenment / / edited and translated by Caroline Warman
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.
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Warman Caroline  
Open Book Publishers, 2016
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Vulnerable responsibility : Small vices for caregivers
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
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Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910639978303321
Burggraeve Roger  
Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2018
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