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Reframing Darwin

Author : Jeanette Hoorn
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reframing Darwin written by Jeanette Hoorn and published by Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the the bicentenary year of Charles Darwin's birth and complementing the Darwin's Cornucopia, Evolution, Science and Art exhibit in Australia, this record highlights the impact of Darwinian thought on Australian art, science, and culture. Comprehensive and unique, this collection of insightful essays reflects upon topics ranging from the voyage of the HMS Beagle to bioethics and cloning. This volume shows how pervasive the ideas of Charles Darwin are in the Australian arts and sciences and depicts the great influence his thinking has had in the international community and in cultures the world over.

The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms

Author : Robert F. Shedinger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532658338
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms written by Robert F. Shedinger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Darwinian evolution really the most successful scientific theory ever proposed—or even the best idea anyone has ever had, as Daniel Dennett once put it? The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms provides a comprehensive critical reading of the literature of evolutionary biology from Darwin to Dobzhansky to Dawkins, revealing this popular account of evolution to be a grand narrative of Darwinian triumph that greatly overstates the empirical validity of modern evolutionary theory. The mechanisms driving the evolutionary process truly remain a mystery more than one hundred fifty years after Origin of Species, a fact that can free religion scholars to think in more creative ways about the positive contributions religious reflection might make to our understanding of life’s origin and diversity. The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms calls for an embrace of mystery, understood not as an abdication of the scientific quest for truth but as a courageous and humble acknowledgment of the limits of human reason and an openness to a fundamentally religious orientation toward life.

Reframing Russian Modernism

Author : Irina Shevelenko
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299320405
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Russian Modernism written by Irina Shevelenko and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a multifaceted portrait of modernist culture in Russia, an array of distinguished scholars shows how artists and writers in the early twentieth century engaged with politics, science, and religion. At a time when many Russian social institutions looked to the past, modernist arts powerfully amplified a gamut of new ideas about individual and collective transformation. Expanding upon prior studies that focus more specifically on literary manifestations of the movement, Reframing Russian Modernism features original research that ranges broadly, from political aesthetics to Darwinism to yoga. These unique complementary perspectives counter reductionism of any kind, integrating the study of Russian modernism into the larger body of humanistic scholarship devoted to modernity.

Reframing Business

Author : Richard Normann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471485575
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Business written by Richard Normann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1983 veröffentlichte Dr. Richard Norman das erste Buch, das einen integrativen Ansatz zum Management von Dienstleistungsunternehmen beschrieb. Sein neues Buch "Reframing Business" behandelt einen neuen strategischen Ansatz, der davon ausgeht, dass Unternehmen in der Lage sein müssen, Geschäftsprozesse und Geschäftsabwicklung zu überdenken, um auch in Zukunft wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben. Hierzu ist es notwendig, dass sie Ideen, Konzepte und Modelle in die Praxis umsetzen können. Norman stellt hier neue Geschäftsmodelle vor und zeigt Unternehmen, wie sie ihre Abläufe neu strukturieren und die sich hieraus ergebenden neuen Möglichkeiten nutzen können.

The Garden of Ideas

Author : Richard Aitken
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522857507
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Ideas written by Richard Aitken and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden of Ideas tells an inspiring and engaging story of Australian garden design. From the imaginings of emigrant garden-makers of the late eighteenth century to the concerns of twenty-first-century gardeners, this book charts its way across four centuries through a handsome and satisfying fusion of images and text. The Garden of Ideas is embellished with an unparalleled array of images - paintings, drawings, prints, plans, and photographs - each richly evocative of their time and most never previously published. Unearthed from around Australia, and many from overseas, these images carry the story of Australian garden style down the years, in the process criss-crossing social and cultural history across the wide extremes of our continent. Richard Aitken, whose book Botanical Riches was published in 2006 to popular and critical acclaim, brings a lifetime of experience to The Garden of Ideas. He achieves fresh insights and presents our passion for garden-making with wit and flair. The Garden of Ideas is a valuable source book for the sophisticated gardener and an indispensable companion for the garden lover.

Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog

Author : Christopher E. Cosans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220513
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog written by Christopher E. Cosans and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Richard Owen criticized Darwin's Origin, he was labeled a "creationist" by many, and his work on ape anatomy was derided by Darwin's "bulldog" Thomas Huxley. In this close analysis of Owen's texts, Christopher E. Cosans argues that Owen's thought was much more sophisticated than Huxley portrayed it. In addition to considering Owen and Huxley's anatomical debate, Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog examines their philosophical dispute. Huxley embraced the metaphysics of Descartes, while Owen felt philosophy of science should rest on Kant's claim that sense-perception does not tell us how things-in-themselves "really are." Owen thought the creationist-Darwinist dispute was unproductive, and held that both 19th century special creationists and Darwin's suggestion in the Origin that God created the first life forms unnecessarily brought supernatural causation into science. With the hindsight of how the theory of evolution has progressed over the last three centuries, the Owen-Huxley debate affords the history and philosophy of science a case study. It sheds light on theories of knowledge that have been advanced by Quine, Wittgenstein, Hanson, and Putnam. Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog also examines Malthus, Mill and Marx for the influence of economic thought on early evolutionary theories, and considers broader ideas about how science and society interact.

A Field Guide to a New Meta-field

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226770559
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to a New Meta-field written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction

Author : Patrick B Sharp
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832305
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction written by Patrick B Sharp and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of women’s SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of women’s SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley drew critical attention to the colonial mindset of scientific masculinity, which was attached to scientific institutions that excluded women. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection provided an impetus for a number of first-wave feminists to imagine Amazonian worlds where women control their own bodies, relationships and destinies. Patrick B. Sharp traces how these feminist visions of scientific femininity, Amazonian power and evolutionary progress proved influential on many women publishing in the SF magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and presents a compelling picture of the emergence to prominence of feminist SF in the early twentieth century before vanishing until the 1960s.

Lyell and Darwin, Geologists

Author : Martin J.S. Rudwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939146
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Lyell and Darwin, Geologists written by Martin J.S. Rudwick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance in the second quarter of the 19th century because he challenged other geologists throughout Europe by probing their methods and conclusions to the limit. While adopting their goal of reconstructing the contingent history of the earth, he claimed that the physical processes observable in action in the present could explain far more about the past than was commonly believed, and that it was unnecessary to postulate occasional catastrophic events of still greater intensity. Far more controversial was Lyell's further claim that the earth and its life had always been in a stable steady state, rather than developing in a broadly linear or directional fashion. His younger friend Charles Darwin first made his name as a Lyellian geologist; Darwin's early work in geology, studied here, provided important foundations for his later and more famous research on speciation and other biological problems.

Stalking the Subject

Author : Carrie Rohman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231145077
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Stalking the Subject written by Carrie Rohman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. The Island of Dr. Moreau embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; The Croquet Player thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and Women in Love, St. Mawr, and Nightwood all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues.

A 150 years’ celebration of darwin’s book on human evolution and sexual selection: Its legacy and future prospects

Author : Marco Antonio Correa Varella
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 283252754X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book A 150 years’ celebration of darwin’s book on human evolution and sexual selection: Its legacy and future prospects written by Marco Antonio Correa Varella and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Darwin's Nemesis

Author : William A. Dembski
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830828362
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Nemesis written by William A. Dembski and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen essays review and celebrate the life and thought of Phillip Johnson, the Cal Berkeley legal scholar who became a leading figure in the intelligentdesign movement.

Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

Author : Diego Quiroga
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319340522
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands written by Diego Quiroga and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores how Darwin ́s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and the Galapagos has had real, enduring and paradoxical effects in the Archipelago. This Twenty Century construct of the Galapagos as the cradle of Darwin’s theory and insights triggered not only the definition of the Galapagos as a living natural laboratory but also the production of a series of conservation practices and the reshaping of the Galapagos as a tourism destination with an increasingly important flow of tourists that potentially threaten its fragile ecosystems. The book argues that the idea of a Darwinian living laboratory has been limited by the success of the very same constructs that promote its conservation. It suggests critical interpretations of this paradox by questioning many of the dichotomies that have been created to understand nature and its conservation. We also explore some possible ways in which Darwin's ideas can be used to better understand the social and natural threats facing the Islands and to develop sustainable and successful management practices.

Abolitionist Places

Author : Martha Schoolman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317976940
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Abolitionist Places written by Martha Schoolman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as their material basis. This unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays provides diverse new approaches to examining the abolitionist Atlantic. With contributions from an international roster of historians, literary scholars, and specialists in the history of art, this book provides case studies in the connections between abolitionism and material spatial practice in literature, theory, history and memory. This volume covers a wide range of topics and themes, including the circum-Atlantic itineraries of abolitionist artists and activists; precise locations such as Paris and Chatham, Ontario where abolitionists congregated to speculate over the future of, and hatch emigration plans to, sites in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean; and the reimagining of abolitionist places in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and public art. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Restoring the Balance

Author : John A. Vucetich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441551
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Restoring the Balance written by John A. Vucetich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A renowned scientist studies wolves on a wilderness island, searching for what it means to better relate to the natural world"--

The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature

Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003834124
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature written by Thomas Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian idyll’s emergence in the 1830s, its flourishing in the 1860s, and its evolution up to the century’s close, drawing attention to the radicalism of idyllic experiments with pictorial, photographic, dramatic, literary, and poetic form in the work of canonical and lesser-known figures. Approaching the idyll through three intersecting categories—subject, ecology, and form—this book remaps Victorian culture, reshaping thinking about artistic form in the nineteenth century, and recalibrating accepted chronologies. In the representations by a host of Victorian artists and writers engaging with other-than-human forms, and in the natures of the subjectivities animated by these encounters, we find versions of Victorian ecology providing provocative imaginative material for ecocritics, scholars, writers, and artists today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, English literature, Victorian studies, British history, queer and trans* theory, musicology, and ecocriticism, and will enliven debates pertaining to the environmental across periods.

Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

Author : Evelleen Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643706X
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection written by Evelleen Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin’s concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as opposed to divine, account of beauty and its perception. Only now, with Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection, do we have a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of Darwin’s path to its formulation—one that shows the man, rather than the myth, and examines both the social and intellectual roots of Darwin’s theory. Drawing on the minutiae of his unpublished notes, annotations in his personal library, and his extensive correspondence, Evelleen Richards offers a richly detailed, multilayered history. Her fine-grained analysis comprehends the extraordinarily wide range of Darwin’s sources and disentangles the complexity of theory, practice, and analogy that went into the making of sexual selection. Richards deftly explores the narrative strands of this history and vividly brings to life the chief characters involved. A true milestone in the history of science, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection illuminates the social and cultural contingencies of the shaping of an important—if controversial—biological concept that is back in play in current evolutionary theory.