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Wizards And Scientists
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Author : Stephan Palmié
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-19
Wizards And Scientists written by Stephan Palmié and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-19 with Social Science categories.
In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmié offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them. Highlighting the ways that Afro-Cuban discourses serve as a means of moral analysis of social action, Palmié suggests that the supposedly irrational premises of Afro-Cuban religious traditions not only rival Western rationality in analytical acumen but are integrally linked to rationality itself. Afro-Cuban religion is as “modern” as nuclear thermodynamics, he claims, just as the Caribbean might be regarded as one of the world’s first truly “modern” locales: based on the appropriation and destruction of human bodies for profit, its plantation export economy anticipated the industrial revolution in the metropolis by more than a century. Working to prove that modernity is not just an aspect of the West, Palmié focuses on those whose physical abuse and intellectual denigration were the price paid for modernity’s achievement. All cultures influenced by the transcontinental Atlantic economy share a legacy of slave commerce. Nevertheless, local forms of moral imagination have developed distinctive yet interrelated responses to this violent past and the contradiction-ridden postcolonial present that can be analyzed as forms of historical and social analysis in their own right.
Wizards And Scientists
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Author : Stephan Palmié
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-19
Wizards And Scientists written by Stephan Palmié and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-19 with Religion categories.
DIVQuestions the disciplinary assumptions of history and anthropology, and Western claims to “own” modernity, using Cuba and Afro-Cuban religion as a case study./div
The Wizard And The Prophet
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Author : Charles Mann
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-04-16
The Wizard And The Prophet written by Charles Mann and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Science categories.
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Wizards Of Oz
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Author : Peter Spinks
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Release Date : 1999
Wizards Of Oz written by Peter Spinks and has been published by Allen & Unwin Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Discoveries in science categories.
A round-up of the recent activities and findings of science in Australia.
The Super Cool Science Of Harry Potter
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Author : Mark Brake
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-09-15
The Super Cool Science Of Harry Potter written by Mark Brake and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discover the scientific secrets of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, and more in J. K. Rowling’s universe. Movie-goers and young readers the world over have been spellbound by the tales of “the boy who lived.” J. K. Rowling’s stories have conjured ideas of magic and sorcery into our minds like no other book series before. But nature is its own magic. And Muggle scientists have uncovered answers for the weird and wonderful questions from the magic world. Questions such as: Who was the real Merlin? Who really was the last great wizard? Do real-life love potions work? Platform 9¾: are there real hidden railway stations in London? And many more! The Super Cool Science of Harry Potter is for any young fan of Harry Potter. You don’t need to be a witch or wizard to weave your magical way through the facts about your favorite characters, potions, spells, and mysteries from the boy wizard’s world!
The Wizard And The Prophet
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Author : Charles C. Mann
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2018-01-25
The Wizard And The Prophet written by Charles C. Mann and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Nature categories.
Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet 'Does the earth’s finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann’s brilliant book.' Wall Street Journal In forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? In this unique, original and important book, Charles C. Mann illuminates the four great challenges we face – food, water, energy, climate change – through an exploration of the crucial work and wide-ranging influence of two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt. Vogt (the Prophet) was the intellectual forefather of the environmental movement, and believed that in our using more than the planet has to give, our prosperity will bring us to ruin. Borlaug’s research in the 1950s led to the development of modern high-yield crops that have saved millions from starvation. The Wizard of Mann’s title, he believed that science will continue to rise to the challenges we face. Mann tells the stories of these scientists and their crucial influence on today’s debates as his story ranges from Mexico to India, across continents and oceans and from the past and the present to the future. Brilliantly original in concept, wryly observant and deeply researched, The Wizard and the Prophet is essential reading for readers of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens or Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, for anyone interested in how we got here and in the future of our species.
Master Mechanics Wicked Wizards
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Author : Glen Scott Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Master Mechanics Wicked Wizards written by Glen Scott Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A wide-ranging examination of how scientists have been portrayed in American culture.
Master Mechanics Wicked Wizards
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Author : Glen Scott Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Master Mechanics Wicked Wizards written by Glen Scott Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Science in mass media categories.
For Math And Science Wizards
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Author : Betty Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Release Date : 2002
For Math And Science Wizards written by Betty Burnett and has been published by Rosen Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Wizards Aliens And Starships
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Author : Charles L. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Wizards Aliens And Starships written by Charles L. Adler 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 2019-11-19 with Mathematics categories.
Resource added for the Laboratory Science Technician program 105065.