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The Loom of Life

Author : Menno Schilthuizen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540680586
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Loom of Life written by Menno Schilthuizen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of increasing environmental problems, ecology has had to grow up fast from a discipline dealing with relatively simple interactions between species to one that tries to explain changes in global patterns of diversity and richness. The issues are complex. Every species may seem to have its own unique role, but if that is true, then why are there hundreds of species of plankton in an ecosystem with only a handful of niches? The tropics have a high biodiversity, but does anybody know why? And how can a single introduced tree species wreak havoc in Hawaii’s rainforests, when it is one of thousands of quietly coexisting tree species in its native continent, South America? The strength of this book is that it will help digest some of these more complex issues in the ecology of biodiversity. It will do this by zooming out from the local scale to the global scale in a number of steps, marrying community ecology with macroecology, and introducing unexpected nuggets of natural history along the way. The reader will notice that, the larger the scale, the more the familiar niche-concept appears to be overshadowed by exotic fields from fractal and complexity theory. However, scientists differ in opinion on the scale at which niches become irrelevant. These differences of opinion, but also the search for unified ecological theories, will form another force by which the story will be carried along to its conclusion. A conclusion which, surprisingly, seeks to find a glimpse of the globe's future in the traces from its past.

The Loom of God

Author : Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1402774419
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Loom of God written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A marvelously entertaining, historical romp through the unexpected connections between mathematics and mysticism” (Paul Hoffman, Discover). From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras to the awesome mechanics of Stonehenge to digitally generated “gargoyles” and fractals, mathematics has always been a powerful, even divine force in the world. In a lively, intelligent synthesis of math, mysticism, and science fiction, Clifford Pickover explains the eternal magic of numbers. Taking a uniquely humorous approach, he appoints readers “Chief Historian” of an intergalactic museum and sends them, along with a quirky cast of characters, hurtling through the ages to explore how individuals used numbers for such purposes as predicting the end of the world, finding love, and winning wars.

Circling the Canon, Volume I

Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826360513
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Circling the Canon, Volume I written by Marjorie Perloff and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff’s career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht’s The Hard Hours. The reviews in this volume, culled from a wide range of scholarly journals, literary reviews, and national magazines, trace the evolution of poetry in the mid- to late twentieth century as well as the evolution of Perloff as a critic. Many of the authors whose works are reviewed in this volume are major figures, such as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, and Frank O’Hara. Others, including Mona Van Duyn and Richard Hugo, were widely praised in their day but are now all but forgotten. Still others—David Antin, Edward Dorn, or the Language poets—exemplify an avant-garde that was to come into its own.

The Transvestite Achilles

Author : P. J. Heslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139446738
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Transvestite Achilles written by P. J. Heslin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statius' Achilleid is a playful, witty, and open-ended epic in the manner of Ovid. As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, the poet brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behaviour: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a broad interpretive framework. The exploration ranges from the reception of the Achilleid in Baroque opera to the anthropological parallels that have been adduced to explain Achilles' transvestism. The study's expansive approach, which includes Ovid and Ovidian reception, psychoanalytic perspectives and theorizations of gender in antiquity, makes it essential reading not only for students of Statius, but for students of Latin literature, and of gender in antiquity.

Britain in the Age of the French Revolution

Author : Jennifer Mori
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317891880
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Britain in the Age of the French Revolution written by Jennifer Mori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new survey looks at the impact in Britain of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath, across all levels of British society. Jennifer Mori provides a clear and accessible guide to the ideas and intellectual debates the revolution stimulated, as well as popular political movements including radicalism.

Wages and Hours of Labor [1890-1903].

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wages and Hours of Labor [1890-1903]. written by United States. Bureau of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guiding the Eye

Author : Lode Vermeersch
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830991126
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Guiding the Eye written by Lode Vermeersch and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2019 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the link between visual literacy - people's ability to interpret and skillfully use images - and art museums. Art museums invite you to look at objects in different ways. They stimulate your visual curiosity, give you visual satisfaction, and allow the visual to merge with other sensory experiences. All of this makes art museums potentially the ideal learning environments for acquiring visual literacy skills. But how should an art museum stimulate visual literacy in practice? How can it actually become such an ideal learning place? How can it spark visitors' visual literacy and increase their knowledge about it? In this book a wide range of authors from different parts of the world offer their answers. As researchers, curators and educators they provide crucial theoretical insights and reflect on real-life examples.

Commissioner of Patents Annual Report

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Commissioner of Patents Annual Report written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political Economy of Corruption

Author : Arvind K. Jain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134566344
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Corruption written by Arvind K. Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides theoretical analysis of the economic and political conditions that allow corruption amongst the top political elite to survive. Case-studies and empirical analysis support the theoretical models used.

The Loom of Change

Author : Paul Patterson
Publisher : Cape Breton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780920336854
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Loom of Change written by Paul Patterson and published by Cape Breton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive exploration of the nature of development. Patterson and Biagi expose weaknesses in the threadbare mechanisms of centralized development policy then, carefully and deftly, Patterson explains the complexities of the nature of development and how it may be woven by communities rather than buying it off-the-rack.

The Excavations at Ancient Halieis, Vol. 2

Author : Marian Holland McAllister
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253347091
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Excavations at Ancient Halieis, Vol. 2 written by Marian Holland McAllister and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the organization and contents of five houses at Halieis. It is based on the structure of each house and its contents and includes detailed room-by-room analyses of the excavated finds. From this it expands into a general consideration of the Greek household and domestic economy, topics of growing interest among archaeologists. In particular, it considers division of labor within the household and the allocation of domestic space for men and women.

Primary Trouble

Author : Leonard Schwartz
Publisher : Talisman House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Primary Trouble written by Leonard Schwartz and published by Talisman House Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying contemporary American poetry outside academic and conservative traditions, Primary Trouble brings together work by more than sixty poets central to the current radical reformulation of the nature and function of poetry.

Essentials of Teaching and Integrating Visual and Media Literacy

Author : Danilo M. Baylen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319058371
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Teaching and Integrating Visual and Media Literacy written by Danilo M. Baylen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how to effectively integrate the teaching and learning of visual and media literacies in K-12 and higher education. Not only does it address and review the elements and principles of visual design but also identifies, discusses and describes the value of media in learning diverse and challenging content across disciplines. Finally, this book provides a balanced treatment of how visual and media literacies support deep content learning, student engagement, critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, and production.

Handbook of Visual Communication

Author : Kenneth L. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135636532
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Visual Communication written by Kenneth L. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas in visual communication, and presents the research methods utilized in exploring how people see and how visual communication occurs. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the visual communication discipline. The theory chapters included here define the twelve major theories in visual communication scholarship: aesthetics, perception, representation, visual rhetoric, cognition, semiotics, reception theory, narrative, media aesthetics, ethics, visual literacy, and cultural studies. Each of these theory chapters is followed by exemplar studies in the area, demonstrating the various methods used in visual communication research as well as the research approaches applicable for specific media types. The Handbook serves as an invaluable reference for visual communication theory as well as a useful resource book of research methods in the discipline. It defines the current state of theory and research in visual communication, and serves as a foundation for future scholarship and study. As such, it is required reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in visual communication, and it will be influential in other disciplines in which the visual component is key, including advertising, persuasion, and media studies. The volume will also be useful to practitioners seeking to understand the visual aspects of their media and the visual processes used by their audiences.

Corruption and Government

Author : Susan Rose-Ackerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521659123
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Corruption and Government written by Susan Rose-Ackerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government.

Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress

Author : Mary Harlow
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782977201
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress written by Mary Harlow and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; the importance of cuneiform clay tablets as a documentary source for both drawing a detailed picture of the administration of a textile industry and for addressing gender issues, such as the construction of masculinity in the Sumerian kingdoms of the 3rd millennium BC; and discussions of royal and priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and in Mycenaean culture. Textile terms testify to intensive exchanges between Semitic and Indo-European languages, especially within the terminology of trade goods. The production and consumption of textiles and garments are demonstrated in 2nd millennium Hittite Anatolia; from 1st millennium BC Assyria, a cross-disciplinary approach combines texts, realia and iconography to produce a systematic study of golden dress decorations; and finally, the important discussion of fibres, flax and wool, in written and archaeological sources is evidence for delineating the economy of linen and the strong symbolic value of fibre types in 1st millennium Babylonia and the Southern Levant. The volume is part of a pair together with Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology edited by Mary Harlow and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Labor and Laborers of the Loom

Author : Gail Fowler Mohanty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135080933
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Labor and Laborers of the Loom written by Gail Fowler Mohanty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study. The volume centers on the rapid growth of handloom weaving in response to the introduction of water powered spinning. This change is viewed from the perspectives of mechanics, technological limitations, characteristics of weaving, skills, income and cost. In the works of Duncan Bythell and Norman Murray the displacement of British and Scottish hand weavers loomed large and the silence of American handloom weavers in similar circumstances was deafening. This study reflects the differences between the three culture by centering not on displacement but on survival. Persistence is closely tied to the gradual nature of technological change. The contrasts between independent commercial artisans and outwork weavers are striking. Displacement occurs but only among artisans devoting their time to independent workshop weaving. Alternatively outwork weavers adapted to changing markets and survived. The design and development of spinning and weaving device is stressed, as are the roles of economic conditions, management organization, size of firms, political implications and social factors contribute to the impact of technological change on outwork and craft weavers.