Author: Clayton Colman HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Baltimore: Biography
Author: Clayton Colman HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Lineage Book
Author: Daughters of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Author: Daughters of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Cognitive Semantics Approach to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Author: Dr. Anna DrogoszPublisher: Æ Academic Publishing
ISBN: 1683461649
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION ranks among the most influential of modern scientific theories. Applying the methodology of COGNITIVE SEMANTICS , this study investigates how metaphors based on domains of JOURNEY, STRUGGLE, TREE and HUMAN AGENCY serve to conceptualize key concepts of Darwin’s theory — such as evolutionary change, natural selection, and relationships among organisms. At the outset the author identifies original metaphors in The Origin of Species, to turn to their realizations in modern discourse on evolution in later chapters. Thus, the study uncovers how metaphors contribute to structuring the theory by expressing it in a coherent and attractive way, and how they provide mental tools for reasoning. As the first comprehensive study of conceptual metaphors that underlie Darwin’s theory and affect the way we talk and think about evolution, it may be of interest not only to linguists and evolutionary biologists but also to anyone interested in the interconnection between thought and language.
Evolutionary Biology
Author: R. Paul ThompsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867660
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this well in the much-quoted title of his 1973 paper 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution'. The correctness of this assertion is even more obvious today: philosophers of biology and biologists agree that the fact of evolution is undeniable and that the theory of evolution explains that fact. Such a theory has far-reaching implications. In this volume, eleven distinguished scholars address the conceptual, metaphysical and epistemological richness of the theory and its ethical and religious impact, exploring topics including DNA barcoding, three grand challenges of human evolution, functionalism, historicity, design, evolution and development, and religion and secular humanism. The volume will be of great interest to those studying philosophy of biology and evolutionary biology.
Of Apes and Ancestors
Author: Ian HeskethPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802092845
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
By reconstructing the Oxford debate of 1860 on the merits of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin's hypothesis.
A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Thomson of Plymouth, Mass
Author: Charles Hutchinson ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Plymouth (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The basis of this work is a 'Genealogy of John Thomson' by Ignatius Thomson, published in 1841.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Kirk
Author: Gilbert CopeThe Todd Genealogy; Or, Register of the Descendants of Adam Todd, of the Names of Todd, Whetten, Brevoort, Coolidge, Bristed, Sedgwick, Kane, Renwick, Bull, Huntington, Dean, Astor, Bentzen, Langdon, Boreel, Wilks, De Nottbeck, Ward, Chanler, Cary, Tiebout, Bruce, Robbins, Waldo, Woodhull, Odell, Greene and Foster, with Notices and Genealogies of Many Persons and Families Connected with the Beforementioned Descendants
Author: Richard Henry GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Descendants of Aztec Pictography
Author: Elizabeth Hill BoonePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477329358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.