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The Shortest Shadow

Author : Alenka Zupancic
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262261326
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Shortest Shadow written by Alenka Zupancic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context—examining the definitive element that animates his work. What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time" but whose time has finally come—the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can "share." Zupančič argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time. To restore Nietzsche to a context in which the thought "lives on its own credit," Zupančič examines two aspects of his philosophy. First, in "Nietzsche as Metapsychologist," she revisits the principal Nietzschean themes—his declaration of the death of God (which had a twofold meaning, "God is dead" and "Christianity survived the death of God"), the ascetic ideal, and nihilism—as ideas that are very much present in our hedonist postmodern condition. Then, in the second part of the book, she considers Nietzsche's figure of the Noon and its consequences for his notion of the truth. Nietzsche describes the Noon not as the moment when all shadows disappear but as the moment of "the shortest shadow"—not the unity of all things embraced by the sun, but the moment of splitting, when "one turns into two." Zupančič argues that this notion of the Two as the minimal and irreducible difference within the same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension.

The Shortest Shadow

Author : Alenka Zupančič
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262740265
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Shortest Shadow written by Alenka Zupančič and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context--examining the definitive element that animates his work.

Boys' Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft

Author : John Corso-Esquivel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351187813
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft written by John Corso-Esquivel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as a material act of intuition. The book provocatively asserts that fiber art—long disparaged in the wake of the high–low dichotomy of late Modernism—is, in fact, well-positioned to lead art at the vanguard of affect theory and twenty-first-century feminist subjectivities.

Sticks, Stones, and Shadows

Author : Martin Isler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133423
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Sticks, Stones, and Shadows written by Martin Isler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.

The Shortest Day

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763686980
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Shortest Day written by Susan Cooper and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this seasonal treasure, Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper’s beloved poem heralds the winter solstice, illuminated by Caldecott Honoree Carson Ellis’s strikingly resonant illustrations. So the shortest day came, and the year died . . . As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper’s poem "The Shortest Day" captures the magic behind the returning of the light, the yearning for traditions that connect us with generations that have gone before — and the hope for peace that we carry into the future. Richly illustrated by Carson Ellis with a universality that spans the centuries, this beautiful book evokes the joy and community found in the ongoing mystery of life when we celebrate light, thankfulness, and festivity at a time of rebirth. Welcome Yule!

A Kid's Book of Experiments with Time

Author : Robert Gardner
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766072754
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book A Kid's Book of Experiments with Time written by Robert Gardner and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using easy-to-find supplies as well as simple language to explain scientific theories and experimental procedures, young readers with discover the intricacies of time, including how it is measured and how it affects everyday life.

Old and New

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old and New written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Old and New

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old and New written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072820
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Finding Our Way written by John Edward Huth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.

More Super Science with Simple Stuff

Author : Susan Popelka
Publisher : Good Year Books
ISBN 13 : 1596472707
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book More Super Science with Simple Stuff written by Susan Popelka and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using everyday items found at home and in the classroom, students perform eye-opening experiments and demonstrations in order to learn about fundamental physical-science principles. Topics include motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, and chemistry. Each of the 90 activities comprises a reproducible student worksheet and a page of step-by-step instructions with an explanation of the scientific principle. Students learn to state a scientific problem; predict results; gather, record, and graph data; and draw conclusions. Grades 3-6. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 283 pages.

Physiography for Beginners

Author : Arthur Thomas Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Physiography for Beginners written by Arthur Thomas Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753547562
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide written by Tristan Gooley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. With Tristan's help, you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is a glorious exploration of the rediscovered art of natural navigation. The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide is a user-friendly, practical book and the beautiful illustrations are a useful tool to help travellers on their instrument-free journey.

General Science

Author : William Henry Snyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book General Science written by William Henry Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shortest Day

Author : Wendy Pfeffer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525469680
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Shortest Day written by Wendy Pfeffer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how and why daylight grows shorter as winter approaches, the effect of shorter days on animals and people, and how the winter solstice has been celebrated throughout history. Includes activities.

The Solar System, Grades 5 - 8

Author : Don Powers
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580378730
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Solar System, Grades 5 - 8 written by Don Powers and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connect students in grades 5 and up with science using The Solar System. In this 80-page book, students explore the solar system through activities covering sky domes, a time zone finder, measuring the sun's location, eclipses, and scaling. The book includes historical perspectives, solar system concepts and facts, inquiry-based activities, challenge questions, extension activities, assessments, literature connections, curriculum resources, a bibliography, and materials lists. This book supports National Science Education Standards and NCTM standards.

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199879990
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy written by James Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent character of Western astronomy. The author approaches this history through the concrete details of ancient astronomical practice. Carefully organized and generously illustrated, the book can teach readers how to do real astronomy using the methods of ancient astronomers. For example, readers will learn to predict the next retrograde motion of Jupiter using either the arithmetical methods of the Babylonians or the geometric methods of Ptolemy. They will learn how to use an astrolabe and how to design sundials using Greek and Roman techniques. The book also contains supplementary exercises and patterns for making some working astronomical instruments, including an astrolabe and an equatorium. More than a presentation of astronomical methods, the book provides a critical look at the evidence used to reconstruct ancient astronomy. It includes extensive excerpts from ancient texts, meticulous documentation, and lively discussions of the role of astronomy in the various cultures. Accessible to a wide audience, this book will appeal to anyone interested in how our understanding of our place in the universe has changed and developed, from ancient times through the Renaissance.