The Cosmic Zygote
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The Cosmic Zygote
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Author : Peter G. Roe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Cosmic Zygote written by Peter G. Roe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Social Science categories.
A South American Lowland Cosmological Model
The Cosmic Serpent
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Author : Jeremy Narby
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1999-04-05
The Cosmic Serpent written by Jeremy Narby and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-05 with Science categories.
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it.
The Cosmology Of The Bh Gavata Pur A
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Author : Richard L. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 2007
The Cosmology Of The Bh Gavata Pur A written by Richard L. Thompson and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Hindu cosmology categories.
From the flat earth to the sun`s chariot traditional spiritual texts seem wedded to outmoded cosmologies that show, at best, the scientific limitations of their authors. The Bhagavata Purana, one of the classical scriptures of Hinduism, seems, at first glance, to be no exception. However, a closer examination of this text reveals unexpected depths of knowledge in ancient cosmology. This shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical, geographical, and spiritual world models. By viewing the text in the light of modern astronomy, Richard Thompson shows how ancient scientists expressed exact knowledge in apparently mythological terms. Comparison with the ancient traditions of Egypt and the Near East shows early cultural connections between India and these regions including a surprisingly advanced science. However, quantitative science is only part of the picture. This work also offers a clear understanding of how the spiritual dimension was integrated into ancient Indian cosmology. Contents Introduction to Bhagavata Cosmology, 1. Introduction to Texts, 2. The Islands and Oceans of Bhu-mandala, 3. The Solar System in Projection, 4. The Solar system in three Dimensions, 5. The Earth and Local Geography, 6. The Realm of the Demigods, 7. The Greater Universe, 8. Notes on Time and Chronology, 9. General Observations, Appendices, Bibliography, List of tables, Glossary, Index.
A Complete Story Of Time
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Author : Deva Prakash Kalita
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-29
A Complete Story Of Time written by Deva Prakash Kalita and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with Science categories.
Only physics and mathematics can answer the ultimate question that can be arising, by our intelligence. The string theory slowly approaches to solve the ultimate problem, where from the creation starts? In Indian philosophy some theory are written in a very abstract way, which has an absolute similarity with modern string theory. In search of pure knowledge, it is required to define knowledge and one has to define ultimate, at least philosophically. I hope, scientific observation and imagination with mathematical calculation will define ultimate theory in this century. This responsibility was already taken by the string cosmologist, success is no longer. This book will be helpful, for imagination of ultimate, to those who born in 21th century. I hope that they will establish the law of conservation of time. A quick process to think ultimate and the whole universe, is the second part of the story. But it will take a long time. Please wait, till then, good buy.
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language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
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Tropical Forests In Prehistory History And Modernity
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Author : Patrick Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Tropical Forests In Prehistory History And Modernity written by Patrick Roberts and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Social Science categories.
In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time. Far from being pristine, primordial ecosystems, this book illustrates how our species has inhabited and modified tropical forests from the earliest stages of its evolution. While agricultural strategies and vast urban networks emerged in tropical forests long prior to the arrival of European colonial powers and later industrialization, this should not be taken as justification for the massive deforestation and biodiversity threats imposed on tropical forest ecosystems in the 21st century. Rather, such a long-term perspective highlights the ongoing challenges of sustainability faced by forager, agricultural, and urban societies in these environments, setting the stage for more integrated approaches to conservation and policy-making, and the protection of millennia of ecological and cultural heritage bound up in these habitats.
Of Passionate Curves And Desirable Cadences
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Author : George P. Mentore
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Of Passionate Curves And Desirable Cadences written by George P. Mentore and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Compelling and evocative, Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences reveals the vital cultural interconnections at the heart of a rain-forest Amerindian society. The Waiwai, who live in the remote interior of Guyana and in neighboring Brazil, follow a customary subsistence lifestyle built around swidden agriculture and hunting. ø How do the Waiwai experience and think about themselves and their place in the so-called modern world around them? The anthropologist George Mentore draws on years of living with the Waiwai, a compelling theoretical perspective grounded in ethnographic subjectivity, and his own Guyanese heritage to depict the social and cultural world of the Waiwai. Mentore describes the relationship between the Waiwai cultural construction of the body, settlement, houses, fields, wildlife, power, knowledge, and gift giving in a variety of contexts and roles. This web of relationships, as well as the various spaces discovered and illuminated between Mentore's social being and theirs, point to a complex organization of culture that is distinctively Waiwai. When considering the Waiwai people?s ?plaited? design of passion and intimacy in the way it relates to humans, plants, and animals, Mentore promises the reader that through his text you will encounter a community of truth that tames logic and desire, where well being, beauty, morality, and care encircle the transcendent self.
Scoping The Amazon
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Author : Stephen Nugent
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07
Scoping The Amazon written by Stephen Nugent and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07 with History categories.
Savage cannibal or utopian proto-environmentalist? Nugent examines both popular images of Amazon peoples in film and general books as well as changing anthropological views of the rainforest and its people.
General History Of The Caribbean
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Author : Sued-Badillo, Jalil
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Release Date : 2003-12-31
General History Of The Caribbean written by Sued-Badillo, Jalil and has been published by UNESCO Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-31 with Political Science categories.
This is the first in a six-volume publication which examines the history of the Caribbean, its people and landscape on a thematic basis. This volume covers the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organisations over time, in and around the region. Topics covered include: ethnohistorical research; biogeographic teleconnections; the Palaeoindians in Cuba and surrounding regions; agricultural societies; indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the hierarchy of chiefdoms; and the development of slavery.
Handbook Of South American Archaeology
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Author : Helaine Silverman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-04-04
Handbook Of South American Archaeology written by Helaine Silverman and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-04 with Social Science categories.
Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.