Author: Doris Felps GilpatrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Family Genealogy of John B. Olfers
Author: Doris Felps GilpatrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts. 1736-1900
Author: Lucy Jane Cutler KelloggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bernardston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: William Henry EgleBritish Family Names; Their Origin and Meaning, With Lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Names
Author: Henry BarberPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015689770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Parables for the Virtual
Author: Brian MassumiPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822383578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. If such concepts are as fundamental as signs and significations, he argues, then a new set of theoretical issues appear, and with them potential new paths for the wedding of scientific and cultural theory. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with new distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Parables for the Virtual tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multi-faceted argument.
Our Common Insects
Author: Alpheus Spring PackardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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The Sociology of Black Africa
Author: Georges BalandierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fan (African people).
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Nineveh, the Great City
Author: Lucas Pieter PetitPublisher:
ISBN: 9789088904974
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated volume contains more than 65 chapters by international specialists, providing a detailed and thorough study of the Ancient city of Nineveh, the once-flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq.
Lagoa Santa Karst: Brazil's Iconic Karst Region
Author: Augusto S. AulerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030359409
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s. It covers the speleogenesis, geology, vegetation, fauna, hydrogeology, geomorphology, and anthropogenic use of the Lagoa Santa Karst and is the first English-language book on this major karst area. The area, which has been at the heart of the debate on the origin and age of human colonization in the Americas, is characterized by a classical and scenic karst landscape with limestone cliffs, karst lakes and karst plains, in addition to numerous solution dolines. More than 1,000 caves have been documented in the area, many with significant archeological and paleontological value. Despite its great importance, the Lagoa Santa Karst faces severe environmental threats due to limestone mining and the expansion of the metropolis of Belo Horizonte and its surrounding towns. The growing recognition of the area’s remarkable significance has led to increasing concern, and a number of protected areas have now been established, improving the conservation status of this landmark karst area.