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Author : Florence Holbrook
Publisher : HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
ISBN 13 : 6256646681
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)
Download or read book THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS written by Florence Holbrook and published by HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Levinovitz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080701088X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Natural written by Alan Levinovitz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means “good,” from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies. People love what’s natural: it’s the best way to eat, the best way to parent, even the best way to act—naturally, just as nature intended. Appeals to the wisdom of nature are among the most powerful arguments in the history of human thought. Yet Nature (with a capital N) and natural goodness are not objective or scientific. In this groundbreaking book, scholar of religion Alan Levinovitz demonstrates that these beliefs are actually religious and highlights the many dangers of substituting simple myths for complicated realities. It may not seem like a problem when it comes to paying a premium for organic food. But what about condemnations of “unnatural” sexual activity? The guilt that attends not having a “natural” birth? Economic deregulation justified by the inherent goodness of “natural” markets? In Natural, readers embark on an epic journey, from Peruvian rainforests to the backcountry in Yellowstone Park, from a “natural” bodybuilding competition to a “natural” cancer-curing clinic. The result is an essential new perspective that shatters faith in Nature’s goodness and points to a better alternative. We can love nature without worshipping it, and we can work toward a better world with humility and dialogue rather than taboos and zealotry.
Author : Tamra Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195136772
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Nature Myths written by Tamra Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this informative volume is a rich introduction to the world of nature as experienced by ancient peoples around the globe. 51 halftones.
Author : Edward Heron-Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Barnacles in Nature and in Myth written by Edward Heron-Allen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Caspari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Animal Life in Nature, Myth and Dreams written by Elizabeth Caspari and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is intended for anyone interested in the actual behavior and nature of animals and the world we live in, and presents a good deal of ethological and mythological material. It is meant to be more than a mere compilation of facts. Caspari's is a holistic approach to the world. By contemplating the significance of our fellow creatures, and how everything in our universe is linked, it is the author's hope that we can have a more whole, and more healing view of the world."--Jacket.
Author : Peter J. Schmitt
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Back to Nature written by Peter J. Schmitt and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Flora Juliette Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children written by Flora Juliette Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agustín Fuentes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285999
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You written by Agustín Fuentes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative, Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution, requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields—including anthropology, biology, and psychology—Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior.
Author : Richard T. Hughes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050800
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Myths America Lives By written by Richard T. Hughes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author : Rod Preece
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842202
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Animals and Nature written by Rod Preece and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western conceptions of objectivity and individuality have resulted in a readier appreciation of the worth of the animals and nature than has been recognized. This provocative book takes issue with the popular view that the Western cultural tradition, in contrast to Eastern and Aboriginal traditions, has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation towards nature, particularly animals. Preece argues that the Western tradition has much to commend it, and that descriptions of Aboriginal and Oriental orientations have often been misleadingly rosy, simplified and codified according to current fashionable concepts. Animals and Nature is the result of six years' intensive study into comparative religion, literature, philosophy, anthropology, mythology and animal welfare science.
Author : John C. Kricher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830265
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Balance of Nature written by John C. Kricher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. In this lively and thought-provoking book, John Kricher demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history. He explains how and why this notion of a natural world in balance has endured for so long, and he shows why, in these times of extraordinary human influence on the planet's ecosystems, it is critical that we accept and understand that evolution is a fact of life, and that ecology is far more dynamic than we ever imagined. The Balance of Nature traces the fascinating history of the science of ecology and evolutionary biology, from the discipline's early innovators to the advent of Darwin and evolution, to the brilliant and inquisitive scientific minds of today. Blending insights and entertaining stories from his own remarkable life in science, Kricher reveals how evolution is a powerful engine that drives ecological change, how nature is constantly in flux and, in effect, quite naturally out of balance--and how notions to the contrary are misguided and ultimately hazardous to us all. The Balance of Nature forcefully argues that an understanding of the dynamic nature of ecology and evolution is essential to formulating policies of environmental ethics to guide humanity toward a more responsible stewardship of our planet's ecosystems.
Author : Tito Vignoli
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780405105654
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Myth and Science written by Tito Vignoli and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1882 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel B. Botkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442244933
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book 25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment written by Daniel B. Botkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment explores the many myths circulating in ecological and political discussions. These myths often drive policy, and Botkin is here to set the record straight. What may seem like an environmentally conscious action may very well be bringing about the unnatural destruction of habitats and ecosystems.
Author : Shepard Krech
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321005
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kevin T. Dann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813527901
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Across the Great Border Fault written by Kevin T. Dann and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He argues that these were expressions of the early, "back-to-nature" movement whose underlying biological materialism, or "Naturalism," was integral to American popular culture of the time.".
Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645020967
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Smoke Hole written by Martin Shaw and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With potent, lyrical language and a profound knowledge of storytelling, Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard." – Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives—identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic—celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an all-time high. Smoke Hole is a passionate call to arms and an invitation to use these stories to face the complexities of contemporary life, from fake news, parenthood, climate crises, addictive technology and more. Shaw urges us to reclaim our imagination and untangle ourselves from modern menace, letting these tales be our guide. More Praise: "I can still remember the first time I heard Martin Shaw tell a story. The tale that emerged was like a living thing, bounding around, throwing itself at us there listening. I had never heard anything like it before." – Paul Kingsnorth, Booker shortlisted author of The Wake "Martin Shaw’s work is so very beautiful. A new animal. His love of images is deep and contagious." – Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi "Through feral tales and poetic exegesis, Martin Shaw makes you re-see the world, as a place of adventure, and of initiation, as perfect home, and as perfectly other. What a gift." – David Keenan, author of Xstabeth "Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emanates from his pores." – John Densmore, The Doors
Author : Frances Jenkins Olcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Red Indian Fairy Book for the Children's Own Reading and for Story-tellers written by Frances Jenkins Olcott and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
