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ISBN 13 : 9783945151075
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Birds as Ornithologists Scholarship Between Faith and Reason written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Niek Veldhuis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405773
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds written by Niek Veldhuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. It contains editions of all the relevant Sumerian texts.
Author : Paul M. Roddick
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1449073344
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Faith, Reason and Common Sense: written by Paul M. Roddick and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered where religion is concerned, what you really believe? In FAITH, REASON & COMMON SENSE the interdependence of religion and culture is examined with care and insight. Readers with strong religious convictions may be surprised to discover that the history of religion - every religion - is both a chronicle of heresy and a reconfiguration of belief. In his examination of the relationship between Faith and Reason, the author rejects the familiar premise that a life guided by one must exclude the other. Although he stresses the importance of examining `the faith of our fathers' he is respectful of those who, in a world dominated by science, find guidance and reassurance in their religion. Far ranging and insightful, drawing on a wealth of sources and opinions, there is something for everyone in this challenging and though-provoking study.
Author : Edward A. Armstrong
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007406347
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Folklore of Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 39) written by Edward A. Armstrong and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the magico-religious beliefs surrounding birds as far back in time as is possible, to the cultures in which these beliefs arose. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com
Author : James L. Hayward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725257696
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Dinosaurs, Volcanoes, and Holy Writ written by James L. Hayward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earnest young boy who loves nature grows up the son of a fundamentalist pastor. He goes to college, trains as a biologist, and becomes a successful university professor. In the process he finds some of the religious beliefs that carried him through childhood and adolescence indefensible in the face of evidence from biology and geology—and even from Scripture itself. What’s he to do? This is the journey of a boy-turned-scientist who finds a path away from “the idols of fundamentalism” and toward a universe rich with process, intrigue, and mystery. Along the way, he discovers a faith consistent with physical reality, one open to beauty, kindness, and hope.
Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002794
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story written by Jack Miles and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner. How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity—a religion inextricably bound to Western thought—Jack Miles reveals how the West’s “common sense” understanding of religion emerged and then changed as insular Europe discovered the rest of the world. In a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523516
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Author : Jacques Gauthier
Publisher : Yale Univ Peabody Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780912532578
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (325 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds written by Jacques Gauthier and published by Yale Univ Peabody Museum. This book was released on 2001 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Mynott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191022713
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Birds in the Ancient World written by Jeremy Mynott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds pervaded the ancient world, impressing their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people and figuring prominently in literature and art. They provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in myths and folklore and were central to the ancient rituals of augury and divination. Jeremy Mynott's Birds in the Ancient World illustrates the many different roles birds played in culture: as indicators of time, weather and the seasons; as a resource for hunting, eating, medicine and farming; as domestic pets and entertainments; and as omens and intermediaries between the gods and humankind. We learn how birds were perceived - through quotations from well over a hundred classical Greek and Roman authors, all of them translated freshly into English, through nearly 100 illustrations from ancient wall-paintings, pottery and mosaics, and through selections from early scientific writings, and many anecdotes and descriptions from works of history, geography and travel. Jeremy Mynott acts as a stimulating guide to this rich and fascinating material, using birds as a prism through which to explore both the similarities and the often surprising differences between ancient conceptions of the natural world and our own. His book is an original contribution to the flourishing interest in the cultural history of birds and to our understanding of the ancient cultures in which birds played such a prominent part.
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Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Our Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Head of Biodiversity and Macroecology and Senior Research Fellow Peter M Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198510888
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Ecology of Birds written by Head of Biodiversity and Macroecology and Senior Research Fellow Peter M Bennett and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds show bewildering diversity in their life histories, mating systems and risk of extinction. Why do albatrosses delay reproduction for the first 12 years of their life while zebra finches breed in their first year ? Why are fairy-wrens so sexually promiscuous while swans show lifelongmonogamy? Why are over a quarter of parrot species threatened with global extinction while woodpeckers and cuckoos remain secure? Some of these topics, such as delayed onset of breeding in seabirds, are classic problems in evolutionary ecology, while others have arisen in the last decade, such as genetic mating systems and extinction. Birds offer a unique opportunity for investigating these questions because they areexceptionally well-studied in the wild. By employing phylogenetic comparative methods and a database of up to 3,000 species, the authors identify the ecological and evolutionary basis of many of these intriguing questions. They also highlight remaining puzzles and identify a series of challenges forfuture investigation. This is the most comprehensive reappraisal of avian diversity since David Lack's classic "Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds". It is also the most extensive application of modern comparative methods yet undertaken. This novel approach demonstrates how an evolutionary perspective canreveal the general ecological processes that underpin contemporary avian diversity on a global scale.
Author : Evan T. Pritchard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159143825X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Bird Medicine written by Evan T. Pritchard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the living spiritual tradition surrounding birds in Native American culture • Pairs scholarly research with more than 200 firsthand accounts of bird signs from traditional Native Americans and their descendants • Examines the legends, wisdom, and powers of the birds known as the gatekeepers of the four directions—Eagle, Hawk, Crow, and Owl • Provides many examples of bird sign interpretations and human-bird communication that can be applied in your own encounters with birds Birds are our strongest allies in the natural world. Revered in Native American spirituality and shamanic traditions around the world, birds are known as teachers, guardians, role models, counselors, healers, clowns, peacemakers, and meteorologists. They carry messages and warnings from loved ones and the spirit world, report deaths and injuries, and channel divine intelligence to answer our questions. Some of their “signs” are so subtle that one could discount them as subjective, but others are dramatic enough to strain even a skeptic’s definition of coincidence. Pairing scholarly research with more than 200 firsthand accounts of bird encounters from traditional Native Americans and their descendants, Evan Pritchard explores the living spiritual tradition surrounding birds in Native American culture. He examines in depth the birds known as the gatekeepers of the four directions--Eagle in the North, Hawk in the East, Crow in the South, and Owl in the West--including their roles in legends and the use of their feathers in shamanic rituals. He reveals how the eagle can be a direct messenger of the Creator, why crows gather in “Crow Councils,” and how shamans have the ability to travel inside of birds, even after death. Expanding his study to the wisdom and gifts of birds beyond the four gatekeepers, such as hummingbirds, seagulls, and the mythical thunderbird, he provides numerous examples of everyday bird sign interpretations that can be applied in your own encounters with birds as well as ways we can help protect birds and encourage them to communicate with us.
Author : Sonia C. Tidemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113654383X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Ethno-ornithology written by Sonia C. Tidemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can assist in framing research methods of western scientists working in related areas. As well as its knowledge base, this book provides practical advice for professionals in conservation and anthropology by demonstrating the relationship between mutual respect, local participation and the building of partnerships for the resolution of joint problems. It identifies techniques that can be transferred to different regions, environments and collections, as well as practices suitable for investigation, adaptation and improvement of knowledge exchange and collection in ornithology. The authors take anthropologists and biologists who have been trained in, and largely continue to practise from, a western reductionist approach, along another path - one that presents ornithological knowledge from alternative perspectives, which can enrich the more common approaches to ecological and other studies as well as plans of management for conservation.
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Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 952 pages
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Download or read book Daedalus written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Debbie Blue
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426775903
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Consider the Birds written by Debbie Blue and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—even as readers gain a better understanding that God’s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.
