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Download or read book Flora Unveiled written by Lincoln Taiz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the late 17th century, long after the domestication of crop plants. Even after its discovery, the "sexual theory" continued to be hotly debated and lampooned for another 150 years, pitting the "sexualists" against the "asexualists". Why was the notion of sex in plants so contentious for so long? "Flora Unveiled" is a deep history of perceptions about plant gender and sexuality, beginning in the Ice Age and ending in the middle of the nineteenth century, with the elucidation of the complete plant life cycle. Linc and Lee Taiz show that a gender bias that plants are unisexual and female (a "one-sex model") prevented the discovery of plant sex and delayed its acceptance long after the theory was definitively proven. The book explores the various sources of this gender bias, beginning with women's role as gatherers, crop domesticators, and the first farmers. In the myths and religions of the Bronze and Iron Ages, female deities were strongly identified with flowers, trees, and agricultural abundance, and during Middle Ages and Renaissance, this tradition was assimilated into Christianity in the person of Mary. The one-sex model of plants continued into the Early Modern Period, and experienced a resurgence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment and again in the nineteenth century Romantic movement. Not until Wilhelm Hofmeister demonstrated the universality of sex in the plant kingdom was the controversy over plant sex finally laid to rest. Although "Flora Unveiled" focuses on the discovery of sex in plants, the history serves as a cautionary tale of how strongly and persistently cultural biases can impede the discovery and delay the acceptance of scientific advances.
Download or read book Dispersion written by Branka Arsic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us. But is there something that plants are telling us? Is there something about how they live and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics? Grounded in Thoreau's ecology and in contemporary plant studies, Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena, patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
Book Synopsis One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet by : Felicia McCarren
Download or read book One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet written by Felicia McCarren and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866, when the ballet La Source debuted, the public at the Paris Opera may have been content to dream about its setting in the verdant Caucasus, its exotic Circassians, veiled Georgians, and powerful Khan. Yet the ballet's botany also played to a public thinking about ethnic and exotic others at the same time-and in the same ways-as they were thinking about plants. Along with these stereotypes, with a flower promising hybridity in a green ecology, and the death of the embodied Source recuperated as a force for regeneration, the ballet can be read as a fable of science and the performance as its demonstration. Programmed for the opening gala of the new Opera, the Palais Garnier, in 1875 the ballet reflected not so much a timeless Orient as timely colonial policy and engineering in North Africa, the management of water and women. One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet takes readers to four historic performances, over 150 years, showing how-- through the sacrifice of a feminized Nature-- La Source represented the biopolitics of sex and race, and the cosmopolitics of human and natural resources. Its 2011 reinvention at the Paris Opera, following the adoption of new legislation banning the veil in public spaces, might have staged gender and climate justice in sync with the Arab Spring, but opted instead for luxury and dream. Its 2014 reprise might have focused on decolonizing the stage or raising eco-consciousness, but exemplified the greater urgency attached to Islamist threat rather than imminent climate catastrophe, missing the ballet's historic potential to make its audience think.
Download or read book Vegetal Sex written by Stella Sandford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do 'male' and 'female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the – uniquely 'dibiontic' – life cycle of plants? Vegetal Sex addresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the history of plant sex, from Aristotle to the modern day. Tracing the transformations in the analogy between animals and plants that characterize this history, it shows how the analogy still functions in contemporary botany and asks: what would a non-zoocentric, plant-centred philosophy of vegetal sex be like? By showing how philosophy and botany have been and still are inextricably entwined, Vegetal Sex allows us to think vegetal being and, perhaps, to recognize the vegetal in us all.
Book Synopsis Sir David Wilkie by : John William Mollett
Download or read book Sir David Wilkie written by John William Mollett and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters by : Allan Cunningham
Download or read book The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters written by Allan Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Rome and the Roman People by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book History of Rome and the Roman People written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Rome, and of the Roman People, from Its Origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book History of Rome, and of the Roman People, from Its Origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Rome, and of the Roman People by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book History of Rome, and of the Roman People written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Academy of Arts by : Algernon Graves
Download or read book The Royal Academy of Arts written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain by : Victoria Institute (Great Britain)
Download or read book Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain written by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flora's Interpreter : Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments by : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Download or read book Flora's Interpreter : Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Flora of Middle-Earth by : Walter S. Judd
Download or read book Flora of Middle-Earth written by Walter S. Judd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography of this fictional universe as integral to understanding and enjoying Tolkien's works. And in laying out this continent, Tolkien paid special attention to its plant life; in total, over 160 plants are explicitly mentioned and described as a part of Middle-Earth. Nearly all of these plants are real species, and many of the fictional plants are based on scientifically grounded botanic principles. In Flora of Middle Earth: Plants of Tolkien's Legendarium, botanist Walter Judd gives a detailed species account of every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology of the plant's name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien's work, a description of the plant's distribution and ecology, and an original hand-drawn illustration by artist Graham Judd in the style of a woodcut print. Among the over three-thousand vascular plants Tolkien would have seen in the British Isles, the authors show why Tolkien may have selected certain plants for inclusion in his universe over others, in terms of their botanic properties and traditional uses. The clear, comprehensive alphabetical listing of each species, along with the visual identification key of the plant drawings, adds to the reader's understanding and appreciation of the Tolkien canon.
Book Synopsis World Painting Index: Titles of works and their painters by : Patricia Pate Havlice
Download or read book World Painting Index: Titles of works and their painters written by Patricia Pate Havlice and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
