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| Author | : Guy Davenport |
| Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781567920802 |
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.
| Author | : Martin Mahony |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2020-03-24 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0822987554 |
As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of “geographical imagination” to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.
| Author | : Susan Schulten |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2001-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780226740553 |
Schulten examines four enduring institutions of learning that produced some of the most influential sources of geographic knowledge in modern history: maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : James A. Tyner |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 1442208996 |
This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China's Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases provides insight into the larger questions of sovereignty and state policies that determine who will live and who will die. Specifically, he explores the government practices that result in genocide and how they are informed by the calculation and valuation of life-and death. A geograp.
| Author | : Chenxi Tang |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0804758395 |
This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.
| Author | : Thomas Merton |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780811200981 |
Thomas Merton's final testament as a poet is his most ambitious long work and a remarkable poetic achievement.
| Author | : Jami Gigot |
| Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 080753613X |
From Paris to Antarctica, a family finds that a little imagination can go a long way! Sam has a very busy family. Mom works late; Dad's projects pile up. Even Sam's younger sister Marla is always doing something. Everyone in Sam’s family has their own idea of what the perfect vacation would look like. But there’s one thing they all agree on: they just can’t get away right now. So Sam comes up with a different kind of getaway. With a little planning, a few supplies, and a touch of creativity, she finds that her family’s dream vacation wasn’t so far away after all.
| Author | : Uri Shulevitz |
| Publisher | : Andersen Press (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Geography |
| ISBN | : 9781842707609 |
When war devastates their country, a boy and his parents are forced to flee to another country far east, where they must live in a small room shared with another couple. Food is scarce. But one day, when father goes to the bazaar to buy bread, he comes home with a map instead. The boy and his mother are furious, they are so hungry! But the map floods their cheerless room with colour. The boy becomes fascinated by it and is transported far away without ever leaving the room. Father was right to buy it, after all.
| Author | : Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2012-12-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 111858984X |
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
