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21 produkter
Views of Nature
Av Alexander Von Humboldt, Stephen T. Jackson m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
291 kr
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While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799 1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland not only set the course for the …
The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
Av Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3147 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an eclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.
Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
Av Laura Dassow Walls, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
2467 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.
Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
Av Laura Dassow Walls, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
2467 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.
Henry David Thoreau
A Life
Inbunden, 2017
575 kr
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Walden. Yesterday I came here to live. That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has …
Henry David Thoreau
A Life
Häftad, 2018
217 kr
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“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has …
Daily Henry David Thoreau
A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
Av Henry David Thoreau, Laura Dassow Walls
Häftad, 2020
176 kr
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"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment with the universal globe. Henry David …
Passage to Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Inbunden, 2009
358 kr
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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a …
Passage to Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Häftad, 2011
230 kr
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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a …
Views of Nature
Av Alexander Von Humboldt, Stephen T. Jackson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
975 kr
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The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century and inspired such essayists and artists as …
Material Faith: Thoreau on Science
Av Henry David Thoreau, Laura Dassow Walls m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
172 kr
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Scientists
An Epic of Discovery
Av Naomi Pasachoff, Jay Pasachoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
249 kr
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This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science – from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science …
Emerson's Life in Science
The Culture of Truth
Inbunden, 2003
920 kr
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Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to establish …
Thoreauvian Modernities
Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Av Francois Specq, Laura Dassow Walls
Inbunden, 2013
1451 kr
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Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to …
Thoreauvian Modernities
Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Av François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
629 kr
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Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to …
Thoreauvian Modernities
Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Av Michel Granger, Laura Dassow Walls m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
650 kr
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Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of "e;pure"e; nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work-how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is …
Westward I Go Free
Tracing Thoreau's Last Journey
Av Corinne Hosfeld Smith, Laura Dassow Walls
Häftad, 2012
318 kr
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"A Flaneur/Peripatetic Production"--T.p. verso.
Seeing New Worlds
Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science
Häftad, 1995
282 kr
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Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American …
Thoreauvian Modernities
Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
Av François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
685 kr
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Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to …
More Day to Dawn
Thoreau's ""Walden"" for the Twenty-first Century
Av Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Laura Dassow Walls
Häftad, 2006
444 kr
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Walden is one of the most frequently assigned texts in literature classes across the country, and it might seem that little new could be said about such a popular book. But these essays demonstrate that scholarship on Henry David Thoreau continues to break new ground. Emerging new voices join …
Thoreau Beyond Borders
New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer
Av François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
411 kr
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Henry David Thoreau spent his life as an intellectual vagrant, jumping fences, pushing boundaries, and crossing borders. How, why, and to what end are the questions asked by contributors to this new volume of essays, whose work crosses national and disciplinary borders to think about Thoreau anew. …
