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Book Comparative Physiognomy

Download or read book Comparative Physiognomy written by James W. Redfield and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Physiognomy  Or  Resemblances Between Men and Animals  by James W  Redfield  Illustrated by 330 Engravings

Download or read book Comparative Physiognomy Or Resemblances Between Men and Animals by James W Redfield Illustrated by 330 Engravings written by James W. Redfield and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY

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  • Author : JAMES W. REDFIELD
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033092309
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY written by JAMES W. REDFIELD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Physiognomy

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  • Author : James W. Redfield
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  • Release : 2014-03
  • ISBN : 9781497882331
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Comparative Physiognomy written by James W. Redfield and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1852 Edition.

Book Comparative Physiognomy

Download or read book Comparative Physiognomy written by James W. Redfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Comparative Physiognomy: Or Resemblances Between Men and Animals The word preface is an indication that a book, like its author, must have a face; and unless it be a misnomer, there is no reason why it should not be illustrated with faces. That it comes first and foremost it would be useless to observe, had not certain persons been inclined to put it in the background. We will slate frankly, at the outset, that this particular preface is intended to "face down" - not by "barefaced assertions," but by a presentation of faces and arguments - the unjust treatment to which the face has been subjected. Why should a periodical, that professes to be a "Journal" of Phrenology and of kindred sciences, look out at the back of its head whenever it takes a peep at Physiognomy? We know not, but humanity claims that the eyes in such a case should be set right. Wo address ourselves, therefore, to answering the objections contained in two articles on this subject in the "Phrenological Journal," both of them new-year's presents, for which we have reason to be thankful. The first formidable obstacle we meet with is this: "The naked skull of poor Yorick, notwithstanding its yawning eye-sockets and ghastly grin, presents the evidences of his former warmth of affection and his racy wit, although the signs of these emotions in the face are obliterated for ever." Is there, then, nothing left of the skull but the cranial portion? and does not Physiognomy claim that the character is indicated in the features of the face, as well as in the expressions? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Redfield s Comparative Physiognomy  Or  Resemblances Between Men and Animals

Download or read book Redfield s Comparative Physiognomy Or Resemblances Between Men and Animals written by James W. Redfield and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What It Means to be Human

Download or read book What It Means to be Human written by Joanna Bourke and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman's heartfelt cry was for women to "become–animal" in order to gain the status that they were denied on the grounds that they were not part of "mankind." In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be "human" rather than "animal." How are people excluded from political personhood? How does one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. If the Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking 100 years into the future, she might have wondered about the human status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research. Political disclosures and scientific advances have been re–locating the human–animal border at an alarming speed. In this meticulously researched, illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for humans, women, and animals.

Book Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth century British Culture

Download or read book Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth century British Culture written by Frank Palmeri and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between humans and nonhuman animals in Britain. As the contributors pose questions related to modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts. The volume will interest scholars, students, and general readers concerned with the representation of animals and ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals.

Book Framing the Victorians

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  • Author : Jennifer Green-Lewis
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780801432767
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Framing the Victorians written by Jennifer Green-Lewis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the complex and often conflicting discourse on photography in the nineteenth century, Framing the Victorians traces various descriptions of photography as art, science, magic, testimony, proof, document, record, illusion, and diagnosis. Victorian photography, argues Jennifer Green-Lewis, inspired such universal fascination that even two so self-consciously opposed schools as positivist realism and metaphysical romance claimed it as their own. Photography thus became at once the symbol of the inadequacy of nineteenth-century empiricism and the proof of its totalizing vision. Green-Lewis juxtaposes textual descriptions with pictorial representations of a diverse array of cultural activities from war and law enforcement to novel writing and psychiatry. She compares, for example, the exhibition of Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs (1855) with W. H. Russell's written accounts of the war published in the Times of London (1884 and 1886). Nineteenth-century photography, she maintains, must be reread in the context of Victorian written texts from and against which it developed. Green-Lewis also draws on works by Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James, as well as published writing by Victorian photographers, in support of her view that photography provides an invaluable model for understanding the act of writing itself. We cannot talk about realism in the nineteenth century without talking about visuality, claims Green-Lewis, and Framing the Victorians explores the connections.

Book Pre Raphaelite Masculinities

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  • Author : Dr Amelia Yeates
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2014-06-28
  • ISBN : 1409455580
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Pre Raphaelite Masculinities written by Dr Amelia Yeates and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors to Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities examine the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, William Bell Scott, William Holman Hunt, among others, to show how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Book Face Value

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  • Author : Alexander Todorov
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 0691167494
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Face Value written by Alexander Todorov and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific story of first impressions—and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who simply look more competent are more likely to win elections. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. So why do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world's leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions. Drawing on psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and other fields, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes cutting-edge research and puts it in the context of the history of efforts to read personality from faces. Todorov describes how we have evolved the ability to read basic social signals and momentary emotional states from faces, using a network of brain regions dedicated to the processing of faces. Yet contrary to the nineteenth-century pseudoscience of physiognomy and even some of today's psychologists, faces don't provide us a map to the personalities of others. Rather, the impressions we draw from faces reveal a map of our own biases and stereotypes. A fascinating scientific account of first impressions, Face Value explains why we pay so much attention to faces, why they lead us astray, and what our judgments actually tell us.

Book The Invention of the Jewish People

Download or read book The Invention of the Jewish People written by Shlomo Sand and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.

Book The Home Library of Useful Knowledge

Download or read book The Home Library of Useful Knowledge written by Richard S. Peale and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peale s Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge  Embracing Science  History  Biography and Industrial Statistics Arranged in the Most Attractive and Instructive Form

Download or read book Peale s Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge Embracing Science History Biography and Industrial Statistics Arranged in the Most Attractive and Instructive Form written by Richard S. Peale and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anthropological Review

Download or read book The Anthropological Review written by Anthropological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Physiognomy in Ming China  Fortune and the Body

Download or read book Physiognomy in Ming China Fortune and the Body written by Xing Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique ‘xiangshu’ (physiognomy), and investigates its unique ‘somatic cosmology’ in Ming religious and intellectual context.

Book The Werner Universal Educator

Download or read book The Werner Universal Educator written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: