Vision Of Nature
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A Vision Of Nature
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Author : Michael Tobias
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1995
A Vision Of Nature written by Michael Tobias and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Nature categories.
Tobias examines the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, the ascetics of Sinai and Tibet, and the Pure Land Buddhists. He introduces the reader to the Jains of India, whose lifestyle is one of the most ecologically balanced in all of human history. In profiling various artists of 19th-century Europe and America, Tobias discovers incisive continuities among such luminaries as British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Austrian impressionist Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, and American intimist painters Ralph Blakelock and George Inness.
An Intimate Vision Of Nature
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Author : Douglas Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-28
An Intimate Vision Of Nature written by Douglas Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-28 with categories.
New Visions Of Nature
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Author : Martin A. M. Drenthen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-08-25
New Visions Of Nature written by Martin A. M. Drenthen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-25 with Philosophy categories.
"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here.’ They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature.
Imagining The Earth
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Author : John Elder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Imagining The Earth written by John Elder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American poetry categories.
Aristotle S Vision Of Nature
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Author : Charles H. Kahn
language : en
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1965
Aristotle S Vision Of Nature written by Charles H. Kahn and has been published by New York : Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Philosophy of nature categories.
Eyes To See
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Author : Michael F. Land
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018-11-22
Eyes To See written by Michael F. Land and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Nature categories.
Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far more about vision, the many times it has independently evolved in nature, and the astonishing variety of ways to see. The human eye, with a lens forming an image on a sensitive retina, represents just one. Scallops, shrimps, and lobsters all use mirrors in different ways. Jumping spiders scan with their front-facing eyes to check whether the object in front is an insect to eat, another spider to mate with, or a predator to avoid. Mantis shrimps can even measure the polarization of light. Animal eyes are amazing structures, often involving precision optics and impressive information processing, mainly using wet protein - not the substance an engineer would choose for such tasks. In Eyes to See, Michael Land, one of the leading world experts on vision, explores the varied ways in which sight has evolved and is used in the natural world, and describes some of the ingenious experiments researchers have used to uncover its secrets. He also discusses human vision, including his experiments on how our eye movements help us to do everyday tasks, as well as skilled ones such as sight-reading music or driving. He ends by considering the fascinating problem of how the constantly shifting images from our eyes are converted in the brain into the steady and integrated conscious view of the world we experience.
Visions Of Nature
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Author : Jarrod Hore
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-05-31
Visions Of Nature written by Jarrod Hore and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with History categories.
Introduction : dispossession in focus : between ancestral ties and settler territoriality -- Six geobiographies : senses of site in the white settler world -- Space and the settler geographical imagination : the survey, the camera, and the problematic of waste -- A clock for seeing : revelation and rupture in settler colonial landscapes -- Tanga Whaka-ahua or, the man who makes the likenesses : managing indigenous presence in colonial landscapes -- Colonial encounter, epochal time, and settler romanticism in the nineteenth century -- Noble cities from primeval rorest : settler territoriality on the world stage -- Settler nativity : nations and natures into the twentieth century -- Conclusion : settler colonialism, reconciliation, and the problems of place.
Natural Visions
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Author : Finis Dunaway
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-12-20
Natural Visions written by Finis Dunaway 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 2016-12-20 with Political Science categories.
Walden Pond. The Grand Canyon.Yosemite National Park. Throughout the twentieth century, photographers and filmmakers created unforgettable images of these and other American natural treasures. Many of these images, including the work of Ansel Adams, continue to occupy a prominent place in the American imagination. Making these representations, though, was more than a purely aesthetic project. In fact, portraying majestic scenes and threatened places galvanized concern for the environment and its protection. Natural Visions documents through images the history of environmental reform from the Progressive era to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, showing the crucial role the camera played in the development of the conservation movement. In Natural Visions, Finis Dunaway tells the story of how visual imagery—such as wilderness photographs, New Deal documentary films, and Sierra Club coffee-table books—shaped modern perceptions of the natural world. By examining the relationship between the camera and environmental politics through detailed studies of key artists and activists, Dunaway captures the emotional and spiritual meaning that became associated with the American landscape. Throughout the book, he reveals how photographers and filmmakers adapted longstanding traditions in American culture—the Puritan jeremiad, the romantic sublime, and the frontier myth—to literally picture nature as a place of grace for the individual and the nation. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and a host of other artists, Natural Visions will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in American cultural history, the visual arts, and environmentalism.
Lost Vision Of Nature
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Author : JOSEPH. MILNE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Lost Vision Of Nature written by JOSEPH. MILNE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Wisdom Of The Elders
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Author : David T. Suzuki
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1992
Wisdom Of The Elders written by David T. Suzuki and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Nature categories.
Explores beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment in the ecological wisdom of the world's indigenous peoples.