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Author : Tim Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857865936
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (659 download)
Download or read book Nature's Pleasures written by Tim Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614738X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Packaged Pleasures written by Gary S. Cross and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill—and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience. In the space of only a few decades, junk foods, cigarettes, movies, recorded sound, and thrill rides brought about a revolution in what it means to taste, smell, see, hear, and touch. New techniques of boxing, labeling, and tubing gave consumers virtually unlimited access to pleasures they could simply unwrap and enjoy. Manufacturers generated a seemingly endless stream of sugar-filled, high-fat foods that were delicious but detrimental to health. Mechanically rolled cigarettes entered the market and quickly addicted millions. And many other packaged pleasures dulled or displaced natural and social delights. Yet many of these same new technologies also offered convenient and effective medicines, unprecedented opportunities to enjoy music and the visual arts, and more hygienic, varied, and nutritious food and drink. For better or for worse, sensation became mechanized, commercialized, and, to a large extent, democratized by being made cheap and accessible. Cross and Proctor have delivered an ingeniously constructed history of consumerism and consumer technology that will make us all rethink some of our favorite things.
Author : Jonathan Balcombe
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230552277
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Pleasurable Kingdom written by Jonathan Balcombe and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
Author : Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400862574
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Tragic Pleasures written by Elizabeth S. Belfiore and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological, logical, physical, and biological works, Belfiore finds extremely important but largely neglected sources for understanding the elliptical statements in the Poetics. The author argues that these Aristotelian texts, and those of other ancient writers, call into question the traditional view that katharsis in the Poetics is a homeopathic process--one in which pity and fear affect emotions like themselves. She maintains, instead, that Aristotle considered katharsis to be an allopathic process in which pity and fear purge the soul of shameless, antisocial, and aggressive emotions. While exploring katharsis, Tragic Pleasures analyzes the closely related question of how the Poetics treats the issue of plot structure. In fact, Belfiore's wide-ranging work eventually discusses every central concept in the Poetics, including imitation, pity and fear, necessity and probability, character, and kinship relations. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Aristotle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book WORKS written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493023713
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Ill Nature written by Joy Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Razor-sharp, controversial, scathingly opinionated, and refreshingly unafraid of conflict, Williams refuses to compromise as she lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something...now.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christina Hardyment
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ISBN 13 : 9780712357685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Pleasures of Nature written by Christina Hardyment and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Leonardo da Vinci on the shifting colours of the sky to Charlotte Bronte on the wild moors of Yorkshire, and from DH Lawrence inhabiting the mind of the indomitable tortoise to the intrepid Isabella Bird climbing a Hawaiian volcano, this unusual anthology showcases many voices - lyrical, awestruck, often deeply reflective. The texts gathered here, many accompanied by rarely seen artwork from early editions, are all grounded in close observation and real love for landscape, and reveal the tradition of nature writing to be deep-rooted and infinitely varied.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David CAREY (Journalist and Poet.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Nature: Or, the Charms of Rural Life. With Other Poems written by David CAREY (Journalist and Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The pleasures of nature; or, The charms of rural life. With other poems written by David Carey and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Seth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Study of Ethical Principles written by James Seth and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Nature-study Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Clap
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation written by Thomas Clap and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113591236X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by John Brewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (325 download)
Download or read book The London Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
