Author: Louis Compton MiallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
See pages 310-358 for an account of Carl Linnaeus and the de Jussieus; and pages 370-375 for Linnaues and Buffon.
The Early Naturalists, Their Lives and Work, 1530-1789
Author: Louis Compton MiallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
See pages 310-358 for an account of Carl Linnaeus and the de Jussieus; and pages 370-375 for Linnaues and Buffon.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Selborne Magazine and "Nature Notes"
Author: Early American Nature Writers
Author: Daniel PattersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031334681X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading. Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.
Knowledge...
Author: Edwin Sharpe GrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 2134
Book Description
Reader's Index and Guide
Author: The Selborne Magazine and "Nature Notes," the Organ of the Selborne Society ....
Author: Religious Beliefs, Evolutionary Psychiatry, and Mental Health in America
Author: Kevin J. FlannellyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319524887
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book provides a new perspective on the association between religious beliefs and mental health. The book is divided into five parts, the first of which traces the development of theories of organic evolution in the cultural and religious context before Charles Darwin. Part II describes the major evolutionary theories that Darwin proposed in his three books on evolution, and the religious, sociological, and scientific reactions to his theories. Part III introduces the reader to the concept of evolutionary psychiatry. It discusses how different regions of the brain evolved over time, and explains that certain brain regions evolved to protect us from danger by assessing threats of harm in the environment, including other humans. Specifically, this part describes: how psychiatric symptoms that are commonly experienced by normal individuals during their everyday lives are the product of brain mechanisms that evolved to protect us from harm; the prevalence rate of psychiatric symptoms in the U.S. general population; how religious and other beliefs influence the brain mechanisms that underlie psychiatric symptoms; and the brain regions that are involved in different psychiatric disorders. Part IV presents the findings of U.S. studies demonstrating that positive beliefs about God and life-after-death, and belief in meaning-in-life and divine forgiveness have salutary associations with mental health, whereas negative beliefs about God and life-after-death, belief in the Devil and human evil, and doubts about one’s religious beliefs have pernicious associations with mental health. The last part of the book summarizes each section and recommends research on the brain mechanism underlying psychiatric symptoms, and the relationships among these brain mechanisms, religious beliefs, and mental health in the context of ETAS Theory.
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