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Author : Chicago Public Library
Release : 1916
Genre : Classified catalogs
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Book Synopsis Books Added by : Chicago Public Library
Download or read book Books Added written by Chicago Public Library. This book was released on 1916. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fatma Gamze Erkan
Release : 2024-01-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels by : Fatma Gamze Erkan
Download or read book Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels written by Fatma Gamze Erkan. This book was released on 2024-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between humanity and nature while challenging the notion that anthropocentric behaviour causes the environmental catastrophes depicted in the four selected British eco-science fiction novels. These novels are John Christopher’s The Death of Grass (1956), J. G. Ballard’s The Drought (1965), Brian Aldiss’s Earthworks (1965), and John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up (1972), all of which fictionalise the fact that the consequences of environmental problems can be diverse but equally serious. This book examines how even the smallest damage caused by human beings to the environment negatively affects them, other living beings, and the ecosystem they need to live and flourish. In conjunction with these, the factors and conditions that push characters in the novels to ignore and harm the environment are also scrutinised. While examining how and why the environmental problems in the novels have arisen, it is evaluated whether the authors propose solutions to these problems and, if so, what they are.
Author : Cristina Farronato
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 863/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eco's Chaosmos by : Cristina Farronato
Download or read book Eco's Chaosmos written by Cristina Farronato. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his spectacular concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what constitutes the peculiarity of his critical and fiction writing is the tension between a typically medieval search for a code and the hermeneutic representative of deconstructive tendencies. This tension between cosmos and chaos, order and disorder, is reflected in the word chaosmos. In this brilliant assessment of the philosophical basis of Eco's critical and fictional writing, Cristina Farronato explores the other distinctive aspect of Eco's thought - the struggle for a composition of opposites, the outcome deriving from his ability to elicit similar contrasts from the past and re-play them in modern terms. Focusing principally on how Eco's scholarly background influenced his study of semiotics, Farronato analyzes The Name of the Rose in relation to William of Ockham's epistemology, C.S. Peirce's work on abduction, and Wittgenstein's theory of language. She discusses Foucault's Pendulum as an explicit comment on the modern debate on interpretation through a direct reference to Early Modern hermetic thought, correlates The Island of the Day Before as a postmodern mixture of science and superstition, and reviews Baudolino as an historical/fantastic novel that once again situates the Middle Ages in a postmodern context. Eco's Chaosmos demonstrates how Eco's use of semiotic theory is important for an understanding of the postmodern aspects of today's literature and culture.
Author : Doctor Jenny Pickerill
Release : 2016-01-15
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 339/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eco-Homes by : Doctor Jenny Pickerill
Download or read book Eco-Homes written by Doctor Jenny Pickerill. This book was released on 2016-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. Despite this, relatively few eco-houses are being built. Featuring over thirty case studies of eco-housing in Britain, Spain, Thailand, Argentina and the United States, Eco-Homes examines the ways in which radical changes to our houses – such as making them more temporary, using natural materials, or relying on manual heating and ventilation systems – require changes in how we live. As such, it argues, it is not lack of technology or political will that is holding us back from responding to climate change, but deep-rooted cultural and social understandings of our way of life and what we expect our houses to do for us.
Author : Helen Coronato
Release : 2008
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eco-Friendly Families by : Helen Coronato
Download or read book Eco-Friendly Families written by Helen Coronato. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-friendly is a buzz word we're all familiar with these days. We're all about going green, and it's often the birth of a child that encourages us to think more seriously about Mother Earth and how we treat it (we don't call it Mother Earth for nothing!). Concern for the environment and the health and well-being of our children leads to a better lifestyle for the whole family; eco-friendliness has moved from something only a few people worried about to a way-of-life across the country. Eco-Friendly Familiesis the parent's perfect guide to raising a family with 'green' values, whether they're celebrating their first Earth Day or are old hands at recycling, eating organic, and carrying a cloth bag to the market. With concrete advice, tips on motivating family members to embrace change, and shared activities, this book helps the whole family get on board, so that parents and kids can all live by eco-example.
