Download or read book The Incredible Journey of Plants written by Stefano Mancuso and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and Mail In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. They release huge quantities of spores that can be transported thousands of miles. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing: we have seeds dispersed by wind, by rolling on the ground, by animals, by water, or by a simple fall from the plant, which can happen thanks to propulsive mechanisms, the swaying of the mother plant, the drying of the fruit, and much more. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.
Download or read book Optical Illusions written by Gianni Sarcone and published by QEB Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fool your brain with mind-boggling illusions, then get hands-on and make your own to wow your friends! Learn all about the science behind these wacky phenomena, from moving liquid on a page, to shapes that disappear in front of your eyes with this clever guide. The brain is an amazing thing, but it doesn't always get things right when it comes to sight. This book is here to explain why, with astounding images, baffling puzzles, and simple reveals which show the reader how each trick works. Covering a range of optical topics, from shapes and movement, to light and reflection, this cool manual contains templates at the back which reveal answers and help you to create your own astounding illusions.
Download or read book Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe written by Junia Wonders and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever little rat named Zachary lives a quiet life under the floorboards of a bakery -- until a new delivery causes unexpected trouble! A charming rhyming tale of friendship and sharing. With gorgeous illustrations, readers from 3 years and up will delight in this delicious and hilarious tale.
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Download or read book Playthings in Early Modernity written by Allison Levy and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.
Download or read book Incredible Dot to Dot written by and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find amazing dot-to-dot puzzles with everything from 100 to 1,000 dots. The intensity builds as puzzles start easy but get harder as you go along. Puzzles will challenge kids (answers are in the back) and get them racing to join those dots. Color them in too! Each of the books in the Challenging...Books series is jam-packed with puzzles that are entertaining and absorbing. Plus, there are time challenges with every puzzle, so kids can try to beat the rest of the best. The only question is...are they up to the test? Encourage them to say yes, and tell them to get ready for hours of stimulating fun!
Download or read book Melchiorre Caf written by Alessandra Anselmi and published by Midsea Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.
Download or read book The Work of Art written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What art is--its very nature--is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence--its physical presence--and transcendence--the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.
Download or read book Lu Pavone written by Giuseppe Jovine and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questa raccolta di poesie e di racconti popolari anonimi in dialetto molisano tracciano il percorso di due storie che, pur diversificate, si compenetrano e si completano a vicenda: la storia individuale dell' autore e la storia collettiva della società di un paese del Sud. Le immagini di un mondo apparentemente immobile e arcaico si alternano alle vicende di una realtà storica complessa e tormentata, nel cui magma vecchio e nuovo si scontrano e si fondono. This collection of poems and anonymous folktales in the Molisan dialect traces the unfolding of two stories which, although distinct, interweave and complete each other: the author's individual story and the story of a town in the South of Italy. The images of an apparently immobile and archaic world alternate with the events of a complex and tormented historical reality, in whose magma the new and the old clash and fuse.
Download or read book Pop art Italia 1958 1968 Catalogo della mostra Modena 17 aprile 3 luglio 2005 Ediz italiana e inglese written by Walter Guadagnini and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Enrico Corte Spectrospective Ediz italiana e inglese written by Enrico Corte and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrico Corte (1963) vive e lavora a New York e Roma. Adotta fin dal suo esordio un ruolo antinomico rispetto alle modalità abituali del fare arte, scegliendo di mostrare &"ciò che non si vuol vedere&", il lato oscuro della creatività che spesso confina col suo opposto, ossia con l&'autodistruzione. Corte si colloca lontano sia dal gusto tipicamente italiano per la &"leggerezza&" sia dalla ricerca dello scandalo a tutti i costi, trovando invece inedite forme di bellezza plastica, fatali fascinazioni di fronte all&'Ignoto. Capovolgendo le regole stabilite del mercato dell&'arte, che vorrebbero l&'artista specializzato in un singolo &"segno&" riconoscibile nel tempo, Corte è intervenuto direttamente nel sociale tramite una moltiplicazione di stili, tecniche e soluzioni estetiche sufficienti per attrarre l&'attenzione del suo pubblico e condurlo nei territori del turbamento e vertigine. I temi del pieno e del vuoto, e dell&'equilibrio delle forme - tipici dell&'arte scultorea classica - subiscono nuove metamorfosi e divengono metafore tragicomiche di un malessere sociale. In questa monografia su Corte, un saggio critico di Gianluca Marziani analizza una selezione di opere secondo un&'ottica &"spettrospettiva&" che annulla i concetti tradizionali di Evoluzione e Maturità. Attraverso questa interpretazione, il lavoro di Corte si colloca in una dimensione neurale, imitando lo sviluppo labirintico che regola il macrocosmo dei più oscuri ed inquietanti processi cerebrali.
Download or read book The Forests of Norbio written by Giuseppe Dessì and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1975 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy written by Luigi Bonaffini and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
