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Author : Arnold Gehlen
Release : 1988
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 184/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Man, His Nature and Place in the World by : Arnold Gehlen
Download or read book Man, His Nature and Place in the World written by Arnold Gehlen. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Drew Lanham
Release : 2016-08-22
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 755/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Home Place by : J. Drew Lanham
Download or read book The Home Place written by J. Drew Lanham. This book was released on 2016-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Release : 1863
Genre : Apes
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature by : Thomas Henry Huxley
Download or read book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature written by Thomas Henry Huxley. This book was released on 1863. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Release : 1951
Genre : Biology
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Book Synopsis Man on His Nature by : Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Download or read book Man on His Nature written by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington. This book was released on 1951. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Cook
Release : 2014-10-07
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 127/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Man V. Nature by : Diane Cook
Download or read book Man V. Nature written by Diane Cook. This book was released on 2014-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories that illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, and the veneer of civilization over our darkest urges. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In "Girl on Girl," a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can't have in "Meteorologist Dave Santana." And in the title story, a long-fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. Below the quotidian surface of Diane Cook's worlds lurks an unexpected surreality that reveals our most curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior. Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of "not-needed" boys takes refuge in a murky forest where they compete against one another for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched from their suburban yards by a man who stalks them. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.
