Author: UDAYA KUMAR ALAJANGI Publisher: Shashwat Publication ISBN: 9360873470 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 199
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Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western thought. Born in London to a prominent family, Bacon received an excellent education and showed remarkable intellectual promise from a young age. Bacon's literary legacy is perhaps best represented by his essays, a collection of short, thought-provoking reflections on a wide range of subjects, including truth, friendship, marriage, and ambition. Written in clear, concise prose, Bacon's essays offer timeless insights into the human condition and continue to be studied and admired for their wisdom and wit. The transformative wisdom of Francis Bacon concised as "Life Changing Lessons from Francis Bacon's Essays," where each essay is distilled into ten concise, powerful insights. Through clear and accessible language, readers are guided on a journey of self-discovery, enlightenment, and personal growth. From reflections on truth and virtue to contemplations on adversity and ambition, Bacon's timeless wisdom offers practical guidance for navigating life's complexities with integrity and purpose. Authored by Udaya Kumar Alajangi, this book serves as a beacon of light, illuminating paths to fulfillment and inspiring readers to embody the timeless virtues espoused by Bacon.
Author: Carolyn Merchant Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317395883 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 211
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Autonomous Nature investigates the history of nature as an active, often unruly force in tension with nature as a rational, logical order from ancient times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with subsequent advances in mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, nature came to be perceived as an orderly, rational, physical world that could be engineered, controlled, and managed. Autonomous Nature focuses on the history of unpredictability, why it was a problem for the ancient world through the Scientific Revolution, and why it is a problem for today. The work is set in the context of vignettes about unpredictable events such as the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the Bubonic Plague, the Lisbon Earthquake, and efforts to understand and predict the weather and natural disasters. This book is an ideal text for courses on the environment, environmental history, history of science, or the philosophy of science.
Author: George Watson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521200042 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1322
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author: Jostein Gaarder Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1466804270 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 599
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author: Vandana Shiva Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 1623170516 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 265
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Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.
Author: Geoffrey Treasure Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9781884964909 Category : British Languages : en Pages : 1490
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A reference work which presents the history of Britain in biographical form. The two volumes contain over 1500 short biographies of men and women who played an important part in their time.
Author: UDAYA KUMAR ALAJANGI
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Author: Carolyn Merchant
Author: George Watson
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Author: Vandana Shiva
Author: Geoffrey Treasure
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