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Nature Alive

Author : Adam Scarfe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527509680
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Nature Alive written by Adam Scarfe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume pays homage to Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) profound lecture and essay entitled “Nature Alive,” which was one of his most mature expressions of his process-relational metaphysics – a holistic conceptual framework that renders vivid the dynamic character of the natural world and the intrinsic purposiveness, selective agency, and creativity of living organisms. Inspired by, but not beholden to, Whitehead’s process metaphysical “lens,” the contributors to this volume bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm that is still dominant today in the life sciences. Mechanistic neo-Darwinism views nature and living organisms as “machines,” namely, as networks of externally related and linear causal “switches,” “dials,” “levers,” “pulleys,” and “gears,” that are “at the ready” for technological and biotechnological manipulation. Seeking a conceptual framework and a language that are more adequate to the study of the natural world and of living creatures than the mechanistic orientation, the contributors to this volume explore several of the “New Frontiers of Biology,” which are areas of biology whose findings to some extent go beyond the explanatory confines of the Modern Synthesis of natural selection and genetics. Most notably, emergence theory, the theory of organic selection, epigenetics, homeostasis, chronobiology, and autopoiesis research can provide us with key insights that can assist us in explaining how living agents emerged, including the evolutionary origins of mentality, consciousness, and mind. Moreover, attention to the “New Frontiers of Biology” can serve to “re-enchant” our understanding of the natural world and to prevent ecological devastation, through a restoration to objectivity of notions such as “intrinsic purposiveness,” “selective agency,” “creativity,” and “intrinsic value.”

Natural History Museum Alive

Author : Amabel Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957243651
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Natural History Museum Alive written by Amabel Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the incredible array of extinct creatures chosen by David Attenborough in his film 'Natural History Museum Alive 3D'. Each chapter investigates the stories and myths surrounding the discovery of these priceless specimens and reveals the surprising true stories behind their journey to the museum's display cabinets.

Nature Math

Author : Penny Dowdy
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780761432142
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Nature Math written by Penny Dowdy and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most fascinating math theories in the world of nature is the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci was a man who calculated an amazing pattern that is followed by many things in nature. Read about this mind-boggling theory and see for yourself where it occurs in the natural world. Book jacket.

Still Alive

Author : Forrest Galante
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306924269
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Still Alive written by Forrest Galante and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the thrilling adventures in wildlife conservation from "the Indiana Jones of Biology" (Entrepreneur) in this action-packed and educational memoir filled with danger and intrigue. Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Galante is one of them. As a wildlife biologist and conservationist, Galante devotes his life to studying, rediscovering, and protecting our planet’s amazing lifeforms. Part memoir, part biological adventure, Still Alive celebrates the beauty and determined resiliency of our world, as well as the brave conservationists fighting to save it. In his debut book, Galante takes readers on an exhilarating journey to the most remote and dangerous corners of the world. He recounts miraculous rediscoveries of species that were thought to be extinct and invites readers into his wild life: from his upbringing amidst civil unrest in Zimbabwe to his many globetrotting adventures, including suspenseful run-ins with drug cartels, witch doctors, and vengeful government officials. He shares all of the life-threatening bites, fights, falls, and jungle illnesses. He also investigates the connection between wildlife mistreatment and human safety, particularly in relation to COVID-19. Still Alive is much more than just a can’t-put-down adventure story bursting with man-eating crocodiles, long-forgotten species rediscovered, and near-death experiences. It is an impassioned, informative, and undeniably inspiring examination of the importance of wildlife conservation today and how every individual can make a difference.

Nature’s Ways

Author : Philip Sutton Chard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462803652
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Nature’s Ways written by Philip Sutton Chard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many paths to the sacred, whatever you hold that be. And the most ancient and primal of these is communion with the natural world. If you long to loosen the restraints of your ego, experience the spiritual power of the Creation, and embrace its timeless wisdom, Nature’s Ways can be your companion and guide. You will learn to cultivate an intimate bond with nature, providing a sanctuary from life’s tribulations and a spiritual home for sculpting your soul. Whether you are a lifelong “nature mystic” or someone newly drawn to this time-honored spiritual path, this book will help shepherd you to the mysteries of the Creation, including those residing within your own spirit. You will discover how to enter nature’s spiritual doorways, those that transport us to the miraculous power innervating all of existence. Therein we discover a clearer sense of who we are, why we are, and to what we belong. The Creation is a long and mystifying journey, a great story told through the majesty, beauty, and creative power of the natural world. We can soulfully embrace this journey by following nature’s ways.

Plants Are Alive!

Author : Molly Aloian
Publisher : Plants Close-Up
ISBN 13 : 9780778742241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Plants Are Alive! written by Molly Aloian and published by Plants Close-Up. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what plants need to survive, the basic parts of a plant, and the stages in a plant's life cycle.

Staying Alive

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623170516
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Staying Alive written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.

The Journal of Sacred Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Sacred Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three Creation Stories

Author : Michael Gold
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532653751
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Three Creation Stories written by Michael Gold and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is reality? Is reality both mind and matter, body and soul, as taught by Western religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? This is dualism, the approach of philosophers from Plato to Descartes. Or is reality only matter, as taught by many modern scientists and philosophers? This is materialism, the approach of philosophers from Hobbes to Marx. Or is reality only mind, as taught by Eastern religions and Western mystics. This is the approach of philosophers from Berkeley to Whitehead. The beginning of Genesis allows for multiple translations and interpretations. We will read the creation story in Genesis from the point of view of each of these three approaches—dualism, materialism, and idealism. In doing so, we will tell three very different creation stories. These stories will take us on a fascinating journey through science, philosophy, and religion. Join us on this journey as we explore issues such as does God perform miracles, why is there evil in the universe, was Darwin correct, can robots have souls, and if light is a wave, what is waving?

American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner

Author : Robert A. McDermott
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 158420138X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner written by Robert A. McDermott and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few thinkers from outside the United States have touched American culture in as many ways as Rudolf Steiner. Agriculture, education, spirituality, and medicine --or more precisely, alternative practices in these fields --all bear clear marks of his influence, for those with eyes to see. Yet the very breadth of Steiner's impact has perhaps made him harder, not easier, for observers of American culture to notice. American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner aspires to raise Steiner's profile by digging into just one field of inquiry: philosophy. Before he became known to the world as a transmitter of clairvoyant wisdom, Steiner was an academic philosopher, editor of the scientific writings of Goethe and author of a foundational work in philosophy, The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern Worldview, published in 1894. That book expressed in philosophical terms many of the ideas that would later emerge as integral to the spiritual science of Anthroposophy. Though the authors cover a wide range of topics, most share an elegiac tone. They see great potential for dialogue between Rudolf Steiner and the great American philosophers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. American philosophy may have taken a wrong turn in the mid-twentieth century, when pragmatism gave way to a tradition of analytical philosophy that eschewed metaphysics as inherently meaningless and focused on the coherence or incoherence of linguistic structures. Nonetheless, many new sites of potential dialogue exist between Steiner and American philosophy. Five of the articles in this volume were written as part of a seminar on Rudolf Steiner and American Thought as part of a Project for the Renewal of Philosophy, Science, and Education sponsored by Laurance S. Rockefeller. The contributors --David Ray Griffin, Gertrude Reif Hughes, Frank M. Oppenheim, S. J., Douglas Sloan, and Robert McDermott --were originally published in ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation (spring and summer 1991).

Frog Pond Philosophy

Author : Strachan Donnelley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813167280
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Frog Pond Philosophy written by Strachan Donnelley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942–2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and promotion of the idea that human beings individually and collectively have moral and civic responsibilities to natural ecosystems. In this wide-ranging volume, Donnelley traces the connections between influential figures such as Aldo Leopold and Charles Darwin, as well as lesser-known but original thinkers that he met during the course of a full life—ministers at his church, friends with whom he fished, and colleagues who shared his passion for research and writing. He grounds his work in classic philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Whitehead and reinterprets their writings about the natural world to develop a conservation-centered philosophy, which he dubs "democratic ecological citizenship." Edited by his daughter, Ceara Donnelley, and Bruce Jennings, Frog Pond Philosophy illuminates the dominant strands of Donnelley's intellectual identity as a philosopher, naturalist, agitator, and spiritualist. Despite his often grim depiction of the current state of the environment, Donnelly never surrenders his faith in humanity's ability to meet its ethical obligations to conserve, respect, and nurture the complexity and diversity of the natural world. His vivid and personal essays, rooted in everyday experiences, offer a distinctive perspective on questions of urgent contemporary importance.

The Virtues of Ignorance

Author : Bill Vitek
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813172861
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Virtues of Ignorance written by Bill Vitek and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors argue that uncritical faith in scientific knowledge has created many of the problems now threatening the planet and that our wholesale reliance on scientific progress is both untenable and myopic. Bill Vitek, Wes Jackson, and a diverse group of thinkers, including Wendell Berry, Anna Peterson, and Robert Root-Bernstein, offer profound arguments for the advantages of an ignorance-based worldview. Their essays explore this philosophy from numerous perspectives, including its origins, its essence, and how its implementation can preserve vital natural resources for posterity. All conclude that we must simply accept the proposition that our ignorance far exceeds our knowledge and always will. Rejecting the belief that science and technology are benignly at the service of society, the authors argue that recognizing ignorance might be the only path to reliable knowledge. They also uncover an interesting paradox: knowledge and insight accumulate fastest in the minds of those who hold an ignorance-based worldview, for by examining the alternatives to a technology-based culture, they expand their imaginations. Demonstrating that knowledge-based worldviews are more dangerous than useful, The Virtues of Ignorance looks closely at the relationship between the land and the future generations who will depend on it. The authors argue that we can never improve upon nature but that we can, by putting this new perspective to work in our professional and personal lives, live sustainably on Earth.

Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child, the Soul of Man

Author : George Barrell Cheever
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child, the Soul of Man written by George Barrell Cheever and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irresistible Dictation

Author : Steven Meyer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804749305
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Irresistible Dictation written by Steven Meyer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century’s preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research at Harvard’s psychological laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. This book shows how her extensive scientific training continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her extraordinary literary practices.

Coconut Oil

Author : Siegfried Gursche
Publisher : Book Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781553120438
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Coconut Oil written by Siegfried Gursche and published by Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfries Gursche presents an east-to-understand account of all major health benefits of virgin coconut oil.

What Christ, Thomas Paine and Allan Kardec Want You to Know and Religion Doesn't

Author : William Moreira
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595277853
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book What Christ, Thomas Paine and Allan Kardec Want You to Know and Religion Doesn't written by William Moreira and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, religion has supposedly tried to help man live a better life. However, religion often does not want people to know the truth about the great spiritual messages. Jesus Christ, in his Parables, left a great message for mankind that is ignored by organized religion. This book answers the questions most people are afraid to ask. You can learn: · Why Christ's Parables have been ignored by religion. · Why the Parables teach us the greatest religious lessons. · What lessons the Parables hold for people in the modern world. · What Thomas Paine really understood about religion and Christ's message and why his works have been ignored. · Why Allan Kardec's message of Spiritualism can help you find happiness in your life. · Why you do not need to fear hell.

Reading Hegel

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509545913
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Reading Hegel written by Slavoj Zizek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even ‘liberal Hegelians’. Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And which has not hurled back the branding reproach of Hegelian metaphysics in its turn? Progressives, liberals and reactionaries alike receive this condemnation. In light of this situation, it is high time that true Hegelians should openly admit their allegiance and, without obfuscation, express the importance and validity of Hegelianism to the contemporary intellectual scene. To this end, a small group of Hegelians of different nationalities have assembled to sketch the following book – a book which addresses a number of pressing issues that a contemporary reading of Hegel allows a new perspective on: our relation to the future, our relation to nature and our relation to the absolute.