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World Body
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Author : Clark Blaise
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2006
World Body written by Clark Blaise and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
"World Body" is the fourth and final volume of the new and selected stories of Clark Blaise. The first three volumes are celebrations of variant lives within the familiar outline of a not-quite Clark Blaise whom Clark Blaise would nevertheless recognize. In "World Body" it is evident that Blaise's fiction and its autobiographical sources have drifted further apart; the stories here explode the easy identification of a writer with his own life-experience. Blaise weaves an intricate tapestry of terror and desire.
Body And World
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Author : Samuel Todes
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2001-04-27
Body And World written by Samuel Todes and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-27 with Philosophy categories.
Body and World is the definitive edition of a book that should now take its place as a major contribution to contemporary existential phenomenology. Samuel Todes goes beyond Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his description of how independent physical nature and experience are united in our bodily action. His account allows him to preserve the authority of experience while avoiding the tendency towards idealism that threatens both Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Todes emphasizes the complex structure of the human body; front/back asymmetry, the need to balance in a gravitational field, and so forth; and the role that structure plays in producing the spatiotemporal field of experience and in making possible objective knowledge of the objects in it. He shows that perception involves nonconceptual, but nonetheless objective forms of judgment. One can think of Body and World as fleshing out Merleau-Ponty's project while presciently relating it to the current interest in embodiment, not only in philosophy but also in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and anthropology. Todes's work opens new ways of thinking about problems such as the relation of perception to thought and the possibility of knowing an independent reality; problems that have occupied philosophers since Kant and still concern analytic and continental philosophy.
What Can A Body Do
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Author : Sara Hendren
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-08-18
What Can A Body Do written by Sara Hendren and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Design categories.
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
In The Body Of The World
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Author : Eve Ensler
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-04-05
In The Body Of The World written by Eve Ensler and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
I have been exiled from my body. I was ejected at a very young age and I got lost. Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body - how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent many years disassociated from her own - a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. While working in the Congo, Ensler is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of treatment she is forced to become first and foremost a body - pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully - and gratefully - joined to the body of the world.
The Human Body As Material Subject Of The World
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Author : Samuel Todes
language : en
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Release Date : 1990
The Human Body As Material Subject Of The World written by Samuel Todes and has been published by Dissertations-G this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Body, Human (Philosophy) categories.
Hello World My Body
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Author : Jill McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2018-02-13
Hello World My Body written by Jill McDonald and has been published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! Young children are fascinated by their eyes, ears, nose, fingers, and toes. Here’s a Hello, World! board book that teaches toddlers all about the human body, with shapes, sizes, colors, and super-simple facts. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each sturdy page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. ("How many fingers can you count on each hand?") It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar System •Weather •Backyard Bugs •Birds •Dinosaurs •My Body •How Do Apples Grow? •Ocean Life •Moon Landing •Pets •Arctic Animals •Construction Site •Rainforest Animals •Planet Earth •Reptiles •Cars and Trucks •Music •Baby Animals •On the Farm
Your Wonderful Body
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Your Wonderful Body written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the functions of the human body in a question and answer format, emphasizing ways of keeping the body fit and healthy. Includes a wall poster, 8 duplicating masters, and booklet (8 p.).
The Virtual Body Of Christ In A Suffering World
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Author : Deanna A. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Release Date : 2016-11-01
The Virtual Body Of Christ In A Suffering World written by Deanna A. Thompson and has been published by Abingdon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Religion categories.
We live in a wired world where 24/7 digital connectivity is increasingly the norm. Christian megachurch communities often embrace this reality wholeheartedly while more traditional churches often seem hesitant and overwhelmed by the need for an interactive website, a Facebook page and a twitter feed. This book accepts digital connectivity as our reality, but presents a vision of how faith communities can utilize technology to better be the body of Christ to those who are hurting while also helping followers of Christ think critically about the limits of our digital attachments. This book begins with a conversion story of a non-cell phone owning, non-Facebook using religion professor judgmental of the ability of digital tools to enhance relationships. A stage IV cancer diagnosis later, in the midst of being held up by virtual communities of support, a conversion occurs: this religion professor benefits in embodied ways from virtual sources and wants to convert others to the reality that the body of Christ can and does exist virtually and makes embodied difference in the lives of those who are hurting. The book neither uncritically embraces nor rejects the constant digital connectivity present in our lives. Rather it calls on the church to a) recognize ways in which digital social networks already enact the virtual body of Christ; b) tap into and expand how Christ is being experienced virtually; c) embrace thoughtfully the material effects of our new augmented reality, and c) influence utilization of technology that minimizes distraction and maximizes attentiveness toward God and the world God loves.
The Changing Body
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Author : Roderick Floud
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-31
The Changing Body written by Roderick Floud and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.
Body Migration Re Constructive Surgeries
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Author : Gabriele Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-03
Body Migration Re Constructive Surgeries written by Gabriele Griffin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-03 with Social Science categories.
Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, trans and intersex bodily interventions; and cosmetic surgery. Drawing critical attention to how decisions around such surgeries are affected by social, economic and regulatory contexts that change over time and across spaces, it raises questions such as: How are bodies genderized through surgical interventions? How do such interventions express cultural context? How do women who have experienced female genital cutting respond to opportunities for clitoral reconstruction? How do female-to-male (FtM) trans people decide on how and where to undertake body modifications? What roles do cultural expectations and official regulations play in how people decide to have their bodies modified? Suggesting that conventional gender binaries are no longer adequate to understanding the quest for bodily interventions, this insightful volume seeks to give a greater voice to those engaged in gender body modification. It will appeal to students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Social Studies, Sexuality Studies and Cultural Studies.