the ethnography of charles darwin study of his writings

God's Masterwork: Hosea Through Malachi

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Swindoll, Charles R., PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Publishers, In the Minor Prophets of the Bible, stern-minded men proclaimed God's displeasure over sin, announced His Judgement, offered His mercy and forgiveness, and reminded people that God would keep His covenants with them. This study is for all who have struggled to follow the Lord, yet long to more clearly hear His voice.

T'Ai Chi Chi Kung: Fifteen Ways to a Happier You

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Choy, Peter Chin Kean, PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, Peter Chin Kean Choy has been teaching sold-out T'ai Chi classes for over twenty years, helping thousands of people apply an understanding of nature to the maintenance of health and the cure of illness. His unique approach -- a combination of T'ai Chi and Chi Kung (which means "study of chi energy") based on the Tao of color -- has continually brought new dynamism and vigor to the lives of his students. Now, through the fifteen fundamental exercises in his book, he shows how to easily harness the chi (or "intrinsic energy") of life, even in the simplest of daily activities.

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris: The Unfinished Genesis of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harris, Wilson / Bundy, Andrew / Bundy, A. F. M., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown. This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.

How to Study the Modern Painters by Means of a Series of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Charles Henry Caffin, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA

Charles of the Wild

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hassett, John / Hassett, Ann, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), At Number 9 Belknap Street lives a small moody dog named Charles. The lady who owns him is afraid he will catch cold, and Charles is not allowed outdoors, even in his handsome lamb's-wool sweater. But Charles can't be contained forever. One night when he sniffs the smells of the wild and hears the far-off calling of wolves through an open window, he escapes from the apartment. With charmingly detailed pictures and comical text, John and Ann Hassett tell of Charles's liberation into the wild. Follow Charles as he roams along cobblestone streets, howls at streetlamps he mistakes for the moon, and discovers the joys of jelly doughnuts. A story of friendship, Charles of the Wild will capture the hearts of all readers who dream of the wild but still can find adventure in a park full of squirrels on a sunny afternoon.

Charles Simic: Selected Early Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simic, Charles, PUBLISHER: George Braziller, When this selection of Charles Simic's work first appeared, it was hailed as "easily the best volume of poetry published in .... Simic] is one of the wisest poets of his generation, and one of the best".* For this new edition of his selected poems, Simic has added twenty-eight poems and extensively revised others, making this the most complete collection available of his early work. In the spare, haunting vision of these poems, the familiar takes on a disturbing, often sinister, presence. A fork "resembles a bird's foot/Worn around the cannibal's neck" and a bird's chirp is "Like a match flickering / In a new grave". Life's horrors -- violence, hunger, poverty, illness -- lurk unnervingly in the background. And yet, despite the horror, a sense of wonder pervades these poems, transforming the ordinary world into a mysterious place of unknowable forces. Classic displays of the economy and grace of Simic's work, these poems occupy an established place in American poetry.

The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Twain, Mark / Tuckey, John S. / Tuckey, John Sutton, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, Mark Twain explores the darker side of life in these little-known later writings. The tone is lightened considerably by Twain's sagely ironic humor that balances his tough-mindedness.

A Pilates' Primer: Pilates' Return to Life Through

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pilates, Joseph H. / Miller, William J., PUBLISHER: Presentation Dynamics, This Millenium Edition includes the only two published works of Joseph Pilates. Newly copyrighted, edited and revised, this book makes available in one volume all of his early Twentieth Century philosophies, principles, and theories about health and fitness, as well as the exercises, poses, and instructions fundamental to his exciting fitness program. You will also learn every single one of his original 34 mat exercises taught to his own students. Living testimony to the validity of his own teachings, Joseph Pilates shares in these writings his fundamental tenets of posture, body mechanics, correct breathing, spinal flexibility, physical education, and his law of natural exercises.

Judgements of Value: Selected Writings on Music

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooper, Martin / Cooper, Martin / Cooper, Dominic, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This book presents a collection of the writings of Martin Cooper, chief music critic of the Daily Telegraph from , a well-known broadcaster on the BBC, and author of several books and translations. Topics discussed include nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, opera, literature, philosophy, religion, and the nature of criticism.

A Bird of Passage: The Story of My Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lang, Otto, PUBLISHER: SkyHouse Publishers, This legendary skier gives a firsthand account of his colorful life and his impact on the world of skiing. One of the well-known "ski pioneers", Lang directed the famed Sun Valley Ski School. He is also famous for his film direction and photography.

Things Fall Apart

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Achebe, Chinua, PUBLISHER: San Val, Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and the loss of his own place within it.

Essays on Medieval German Literature and Iconography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pickering, F. P., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In making this selection of twelve essays spanning the period , Professor Pickering has borne in mind that many of his recent readers are not students of German, but of comparative literature, art, history or theology, and he has translated three of the twelve for the occasion. He has grouped them according to their 'approach' and introduced each with reference to his other writings.

The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: MacDougall, David, PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press, In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised "Transcultural Cinema" and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words. In ten chapters, MacDougall explores the relations between photographic images and the human body-the body of the viewer and the body behind the camera as well as the body as seen in ethnography, cinema, and photography. In a landmark piece, he discusses the need for a new field of social aesthetics, further elaborated in his reflections on filming at an elite boys' school in northern India. The theme of the school is taken up as well in his discussion of fiction and nonfiction films of childhood. The book's final section presents a radical view of the history of visual anthropology as a maverick anthropological practice that was always at odds with the anthropology of words. In place of the conventional wisdom, he proposes a new set of principles for visual anthropology. These are essays in the classical sense--speculative, judicious, lucidly written, and mercifully jargon-free. "The Corporeal Image" presents the latest ideas from one of our foremost thinkers on the role of vision and visual representation in contemporary social thought.

Chinese pictorial art

CHINESE PICTORIAL ART As Viewed by the Connoisseur Notes on the Means & Methods of Traditional Chinese Connoiseurship of Pictorial Art, Based Upon a Study of the Mounting of Scrolls in China & Japan: VAN GULIK, R.H. Book in english language. LIMITED EDITION of 950 copies This volume presents an entirely new approach to the study of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Taking as point of departure the views of traditional Chinese connoisseurship, the author tries to arrive at the formulation of the basic requirements for a critical study of antique Chinese scrolls. 537 pages,Very Good red hardcover Istituto Italiano per Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente Publication Date: Euro

Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of Its Elements and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: de Leeuw, Ton / De Groot, Rokus, PUBLISHER: Amsterdam University Press, Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle "Music of the Twentieth Century" is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. "Music of the Twentieth Century" goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

The Poetry of Ibn Khafajah: A Literary Analysis

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Al-Nowaihi, Magda M., PUBLISHER: Brill Academic Publishers, This study is an attempt to identify and describe the distinctive features of the poetic style of the acclaimed medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Khafa?jah, who has been credited with starting a new school of poetry, in Andalus and elsewhere. It offers a close reading of his poetry, concentrating on the three basic elements of style - imagery, rhetorical devices, and structural patterns. It shows how Ibn Khaf?jah creatively uses the poetic tradition available to him to form new images and scenes, create multi-layered poems, and bestow different levels of unity and coherence on his poems. The study demonstrates some of the ways by which the various elements of style are combined and interrelated, to produce original, meaningful, and highly moving poems in the Khafajian style.

The Path of Economic Growth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lowe, Adolph, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The writings on the theory of economic growth share almost without exception two characteristics - they deal exclusively with steady growth or equilibrium dynamics, and they try to predict the actual course of long-term development on the basis of greatly oversimplified behaviour assumptions. This book, first published in , studies the many variants of a disequilibrium path, which growth processes pursue under the impact of major growth stimuli - changes in labour supply, in natural resources, and in technology. The study gives direction to public policies, sharply distinguishing between the requirements of market economies and of planned systems.

Notebook M

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Savigny, Gillian, PUBLISHER: Insomniac Press, Gillian Savigny 's Notebook M imagines what scientific creativity might accomplish if given the space to play, free of the burden of empirical proof and the need to control meaning. Inspired by Charles Darwin 's own Notebook M, in which he brought his scientific sensibility towards decidedly unscientific notions of metaphysics, morals, imagination, and expression, in this collection the poet dons a lab coat and brings together the techniques and procedures of poetry and science. The result is a remarkably accomplished first collection of poetry. Natural selection becomes a technique to pull poems from Darwin 's prose, in a series of found poems. Metaphor becomes an experiment a way of testing hypotheses about the nature of being and seeing. Savigny manipulates the lyric mode to address issues pertinent to both poets and scientists: issues of authorship, originality, copyright, and value. Invested with wonder, mystery, wit, and pathos, these poems strain against their own procedures and logic, affirming the wild, expressive potential of words.

The Later Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bettenson, Henry, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The century and a quarter following the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) has been called the 'Golden Age of Patristic literature.' It is this period that Henry Bettenson covers in this companion volume to The Early Christian Fathers, selecting from the writings of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome, Augustine of Hippo, Cyril of Alexandria, and other Fathers of the Christian Church. Their central concerns were formulating the doctrine of the Trinity after the Nicene conclusions, and enunciating the doctrine of the divinity and humanity of Christ. The writings served to clarify if not to solve the issues and they continue to be valuable and relevant for all who wish to understand the Christian doctrine. As in The Early Christian Fathers, Mr. Bettenson has translated everything afresh and provided some brief sketches of the lives of each of the Fathers represented in the selection.

Ali, Child of the Desert

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: London, Jonathan / Lewin, Ted, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, Captures the dramatic beauty and danger of the Sahara Seated atop his camel, Ali felt the desert roll beneath him. Three days' ride ahead lay the Moroccan market town of Rissani, at the edge of the Great Sahara, where Ali and his father would sell their camels. But suddenly, out of nowhere, the wind came howling, and the whirling sand swallowed the sun, the camel herd, and his father. Stranded on the vast Sahara, Ali must summon all his courage to first find food and shelter, then his father. In the process, he learns the true nature of the desert and its people.

The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pope, Alexander / Price, Martin / Miller, Christopher R., PUBLISHER: Signet Classics, One of The Enlightenment's greatest poets, Alexander Pope was famous for his wit, brilliant epigrams, and razor-sharp satire of fashionable society's foibles. Presented here in their entirety are several of his principal works, including the delightful mock-epic "The Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Criticism" and his satirical masterpiece, "The Dunciad."

A Study in Scarlet

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Doyle, Arthur Conan / Edwards, Owen / Edwards, Dudley, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, this was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction--Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion--make their auspicious debut. The two detectives are immediately in fine form as Holmes plucks the solution to the mystery from the heart of Victorian London.

Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carroll, John B. / Whorf, Benjamin L., PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf () grasped therelationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape ourinnermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and ourways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages wespeak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages as well as more general reflections on language andmeaning.

A Preface to Milton: Revised Edition: Preface Books Series

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Potter, Lois, PUBLISHER: Longman Publishing Group, A must read before tackling the works of Milton "A bible of Milton.."."Daily Telegraph (UK)." Explores important places and people in Milton's life and their effect on he and his writings. Examines three of his major works including "Paradise Lost." This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the life and works of John Milton, one of the great writers of the English language, ranking second only to Shakespeare. Clearly and concisely it outlines his life and cultural background and their effects on his work, setting him firmly in the context of the tumultuous 17th century times in which he lived and wrote. In this fascinating introduction, A Preface to Milton, Lois potter leases us in no doubt about his importance in the canon of English literature. Dr. Lois Potter is senior lecturer in English as the University of Leicester

The Cock's Spur

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Price, Charles F., PUBLISHER: John F. Blair Publisher, In his new novel, Charles Price continues the story begun in his first two critically acclaimed books -- Hiwassee and Freedom's Altar. In this rollicking tale of cockfighting and moonshining, antihero Ves Price makes a bargain with the Devil himself -- a revenuer bent on putting an end to area distilling. At the heart of the moonshining activity is Webb Darling, who rules his kingdom from atop his mountain fortress. As Ves increasingly sells out his friends and neighbors and incurs the wrath of Darling, a second plot heats up starring Hamby McFee, a renowned trainer of fighting cocks. As the once-wealthy Curtis family spirals into decline, Hamby finds himself emerging as the head of the household where he was formerly a slave. Torn between the reluctant loyalty he feels toward the Curtises and a desire for a fresh start elsewhere, Hamby becomes the unwilling hero of the novel.

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