Trying Leviathan
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Trying Leviathan
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Author : D. Graham Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-04
Trying Leviathan written by D. Graham Burnett and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-04 with History categories.
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts--pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers--took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy--and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.
The Leviathan S Whisper
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Author : Veronica Hess
language : en
Publisher: Palabre
Release Date : 2025-01-07
The Leviathan S Whisper written by Veronica Hess and has been published by Palabre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-07 with Fiction categories.
In the crushing darkness of the Mariana Trench, a city whispers. Iridessa, a marvel of bioluminescent coral and geothermal energy, has thrived for millennia, hidden from the surface world. But the ocean keeps secrets poorly. Five years after the inexplicable loss of his research vessel, Dr. Kael Niretti returns to the trench, drawn by anomalous energy readings. He seeks answers, and he needs Elara Vance, a cryptographer whose fascination with ancient oceanic myths borders on obsession, to find them. Their descent into the abyss aboard the *Chimera* reveals a breathtaking spectacle: Iridessa, a city of light in a realm of eternal night. But their arrival awakens the Leviathan, a colossal being of bio-engineered flesh and bone, guardian of the trench and a force of nature. Its awakening throws the delicate balance of the ocean into chaos. Within Iridessa, Councilor Valerius wrestles with the Leviathan's wrath. Ancient prophecies speak of divine retribution, but Kael and Elara offer a different explanation: Iridessa’s energy source, the very heart of the planet, is disrupting the delicate balance of life. The Leviathan’s code is not a threat, but a desperate plea. Trapped between ancient traditions and scientific revelations, Kael and Elara race against time to convince the council that the Leviathan is not their enemy, but a key to their survival. They uncover a hidden archive, revealing a forgotten civilization’s catastrophic misuse of geothermal power – a chilling echo of Iridessa’s present. They must re-establish a symbiotic connection with the Leviathan, a connection severed by centuries of ignorance, before the ocean’s delicate ecosystem collapses. As the council prepares for a ritualistic sacrifice, Valerius faces an impossible choice: uphold tradition or embrace the science of the outsiders. His decision will determine not only Iridessa’s fate, but the future of the ocean itself. Dive into the depths of 'The Leviathan's Whisper' and uncover a world of ancient secrets, scientific marvels, and the desperate fight for a symbiotic future. Will humanity listen to the whispers of the deep, or repeat the mistakes of a forgotten past?
Leviathans Of Jupiter
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Author : Ben Bova
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Leviathans Of Jupiter written by Ben Bova and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Fiction categories.
In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures—a city-sized leviathan—saved the doomed ship. This creature's act convinced Grant that the huge creatures were intelligent, but he lacked scientific proof. Now, several years later, Grant prepares a new expedition to prove once and for all that the huge creatures are intelligent. The new team faces dangers from both the hostile environment and from humans who will do anything to make sure the mission is a failure, even if it means murdering the entire crew. One of Library Journal's Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2011
The Leviathan S Lantern
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Author : Lauren Santiago
language : en
Publisher: Palabre
Release Date : 2025-01-07
The Leviathan S Lantern written by Lauren Santiago and has been published by Palabre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Marrowspire, humanity's last city, clings to the bioluminescent back of the Leviathan, a colossal creature of unknown age. For generations, the Drifters have lived in symbiosis with the Leviathan, their history lost to the ocean's depths, their lives a precarious dance on the giant's breathing back. Twelve-year-old Isska Avani, a resourceful scavenger with a knack for ancient technology, unearths a relic whispering of a mythical place: the Leviathan's Lantern, a submerged city rumored to hold the secrets of humanity's past. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Isska embarks on a perilous journey into the ocean’s abyss with her two closest friends: Rhea Voss, a Drifter with an intuitive connection to the ocean currents, and Kaelen Baines, a brilliant tinkerer ostracized for his unconventional ideas. Together, they navigate the uncharted depths in a retrofitted submersible, facing shimmering forests of bioluminescent jellyfish, terrifying underwater storms, and the chilling wrath of mechanical sea predators. Meanwhile, back in Marrowspire, Elder Elara Morell, the city's spiritual leader, views Isska’s quest as a sacrilegious threat to their delicate balance with the Leviathan. As whispers of dissent turn into open accusations, Isska’s quest becomes a race against time, not only to uncover the truth but to save her city from the rising tide of fear and suspicion. Within the breathtaking spectacle of the Leviathan's Lantern, they discover a devastating truth: the Leviathan is dying, its fading light a harbinger of Marrowspire's extinction. Armed with forbidden knowledge and ancient technology, Isska and her friends must choose between clinging to comforting myths or facing a harsh reality. Their return to Marrowspire ignites a clash between tradition and progress, faith and reason, as they fight to convince the Drifters to embrace a future independent of the dying god they worship. Can they awaken their city to the truth before it's too late, or will the Leviathan’s final breath extinguish humanity’s last hope?
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language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Animal Satire
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Author : Robert McKay
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Animal Satire written by Robert McKay and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.
Ahab S Rolling Sea
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Author : Richard J. King
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-11-11
Ahab S Rolling Sea written by Richard J. King and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this “invigorating study,” a maritime historian delves into the environmental and scientific concerns beneath the surface of Melville’s epic tale (Nature). One of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is also a landmark of nature writing. In conversation with the works of Emerson and Thoreau, this epic of the sea draws on Melville’s own travels to the Pacific. The author spent more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight into a cherished masterwork, its adventurous author, and our own evolving relationship with the briny deep.
The Lawyer S Conscience
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Author : Michael S. Ariens
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2023-07-21
The Lawyer S Conscience written by Michael S. Ariens and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-21 with Law categories.
In 1776, Thomas Paine declared the end of royal rule in the United States. Instead, “law is king,” for the people rule themselves. Paine’s declaration is the dominant American understanding of how political power is exercised. In making law king, American lawyers became integral to the exercise of political power, so integral to law that legal ethics philosopher David Luban concluded, “lawyers are the law.” American lawyers have defended the exercise of this power from the Revolution to the present by arguing their work is channeled by the profession’s standards of ethical behavior. Those standards demand that lawyers serve the public interest and the interests of their paying clients before themselves. The duties owed both to the public and to clients meant lawyers were in the marketplace selling their services, but not of the marketplace. This is the story of power and the limits of ethical constraints to ensure such power is properly wielded. The Lawyer’s Conscience is the first book examining the history of American lawyer ethics, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to the “professionalism” crisis facing lawyers today.
Clearing The Coastline
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Author : Matthew McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2011-01-11
Clearing The Coastline written by Matthew McKenzie and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A social and ecological history of the rise and demise of Cape Cod's coastal fisheries in the nineteenth century
Notes From The Ground
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Author : Benjamin R. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-20
Notes From The Ground written by Benjamin R. Cohen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This text examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, this text shows how and why agrarian Americans accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.