A Human Garden
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A Human Garden
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Author : Paul-André Rosental
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-12-01
A Human Garden written by Paul-André Rosental and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with History categories.
Well into the 1980s, Strasbourg, France, was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach, a garden city dating back to the high days of eugenic experimentation that offered luxury living to couples who were deemed biologically fit and committed to contractual childbearing targets. Supported by public authorities, Ungemach aimed to accelerate human evolution by increasing procreation among eugenically selected parents. In this fascinating history, Paul-André Rosental gives an account of Ungemach’s origins and its perplexing longevity. He casts a troubling light on the influence that eugenics continues to exert—even decades after being discredited as a pseudoscience—in realms as diverse as developmental psychology, postwar policymaking, and liberal-democratic ideals of personal fulfilment.
Gardens
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Author : Robert Pogue Harrison
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-10
Gardens written by Robert Pogue Harrison and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Architecture categories.
Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur'an; Plato's Academy and Epicurus's Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt - all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility - and its enduring importance to humanity.
Landscaping The Human Garden
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Author : Amir Weiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Landscaping The Human Garden written by Amir Weiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
For centuries, human perfection has been a powerful goal, but only in the twentieth century were national states able to achieve the capacity to impose radical change on entire societies in the name of rooting out imperfections. The contributions to this volume constitute an ambitious attempt to study a number of significant efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape--either through social policy or brute force--their societies and their populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. The cases examined include Germany during the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Soviet regime, Germany under the Nazis, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, French anti-abortion policies in the interwar era, the treatment of Japanese Americans during the World War II, attitudes toward postwar Soviet Jewry, the changing role of Israeli war widows, and the particular difficulties facing east central European governments from the World War I until 1956.
Tourism Magic And Modernity
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Author : David Picard
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Tourism Magic And Modernity written by David Picard and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Social Science categories.
Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.
Gardens
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Author : Robert Pogue Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-05-14
Gardens written by Robert Pogue Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-14 with Religion categories.
Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur'an; Plato's Academy and Epicurus's Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt - all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility - and its enduring importance to humanity.
Landscaping The Human Garden
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Author : Amir Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2003
Landscaping The Human Garden written by Amir Weiner and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.
This volume is an ambitious study of efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape—either through social policy or brute force—their societies and populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility.
The Human Garden Poetry Collection
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Author : Peggy Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Sarnia, ON : Sydenham Press
Release Date : 2005
The Human Garden Poetry Collection written by Peggy Fletcher and has been published by Sarnia, ON : Sydenham Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Gardens And Human Agency In The Anthropocene
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Author : Maria Paula Diogo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-26
Gardens And Human Agency In The Anthropocene written by Maria Paula Diogo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-26 with History categories.
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities.
In Love S Garden
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Author : John Cecil Clay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
In Love S Garden written by John Cecil Clay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with Flowers categories.
Human Resources Guide In Cultivating Your Personnel Garden
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Author : Maxine Wilborn
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-10-29
Human Resources Guide In Cultivating Your Personnel Garden written by Maxine Wilborn and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-29 with Reference categories.
Human Resources Guide to Cultivating Your Personnel Garden is a reference guide intended for human resources professionals in efforts to increase the importance of employees in the workforce. The guide will cover many topics, such as communication methods and styles, understanding the generational difference within your workforce, the importance of the employee evaluation, tips on conducting an ironclad investigation, and protecting your HR department. Ive been able to apply basic psychology in combination with useful tools acquired in my mental health clinical training in hopes to assist in developing a successful management team. My goal is to educate leaders by defining the wide range of cohort groups within your workforce and introducing new communication methods to exercise throughout your employees employment. If adopted, the benefits will be rewarding to the corporation and encouraging employment personal growth. The hope is not just to provide the human resources professionals with insight and ideas but to offer tools to be adopted by the management team.