Download or read book The Moment Gatherers written by Sean Blaise Ducker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Blaise Ducker is as experimental in the literary realm as he is in the hallucinogenic world he so vividly recreates. Each story is uniquely structured to transport the reader into the mindset of his characters, and the social milieu they inhabit. Mixing the ethereal beauty of the imagination with a good dose of wry humor, reading MOMENT GATHERERS is a mind-expanding experience.
Download or read book The Art of Gathering written by Priya Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter Gatherers written by Vicki Cummings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 1683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.
Download or read book The Omnivore s Dilemma written by Michael Pollan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Download or read book The Present Past written by Ian Hodder and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodders original and classic work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record. There has long been a need for archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and methods for interpreting the material culture of past civilisations. Archaeological interpretation of the past is inevitably based on the ideas and experiences of the present and the use of such ethnographic analogy has been widely adapted and criticised, not least in Britain. In this challenging study, Ian Hodder questions the assumptions, values and methods which have been too readily accepted. At the same time, he shows how anthropology can be applied to archaeology. He examines the criteria for the proper use of analogy and, in particular, emphasises the need to consider the meaning and interpretation of material cultures within the total social and cultural contexts. He discusses anthropological models of refuse deposits, technology and production, subsistence, settlement, burial, trade exchange, art form and ritual; he then considers their application to comparable archaeological data. Throughout, Professor Hodder emphasises the need for a truly scientific approach and a critical self-awareness by archaeologists, who should be prepared to study their own social and cultural context, not least their own attitudes to the present-day material world.
Download or read book The Flame gatherers written by Margaret Horton Potter and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares Colton's experience in heaven, answers other children's questions about it, and provides a guide for parents to talk to their children about heaven.
Download or read book On the Origin of Being written by Luke Comer and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For greater well-being, we must adapt our modern lifestyle and live more in harmony with our natural and evolutionary selves. While giving many benefits, aspects of modern society can also be harmful to our physical, mental, and cultural health. We can overcome many of these detriments if we better understand and express our primal self, which is largely encoded into our DNA. On the Origin of Being outlines the misalignments between our genetic design and modern lifestyle that reduce our well-being and even cause disease. Jenny Powers, PhD in immunology, and Luke Comer, author and producer, pay homage to Charles Darwin by investigating the evolution of many human behaviors. They identify the origins of these behaviors in the single-cell organisms of billions of years ago and then trace them through primates, hominoids, and up the evolutionary chain to modern humans. They then demonstrate how to realign our behaviors to enjoy more vital, loving, and robust lives here and now. Book one of this three-part series addresses four behaviors that are most significant to our health: sleep, nutrition, work and rest, and our relationship with nature.
Download or read book Hunter Gatherers in History Archaeology and Anthropology written by Alan Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of hunter-gatherers has had a profound impact on thinking about human nature and about the nature of society. The subject has especially influenced ideas on social evolution and on the development of human culture. Anthropologists and archaeologists continue to investigate living hunter-gatherers and the remains of past hunter-gatherer societies in the hope of unearthing the secrets of our ancestors and learning something of the natural existence of humankind. Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? What is the most up-to-date thinking on the subject and how does it reflect current trends within the social sciences? This book provides a much-needed overview of the history of thought on one of science's most intriguing subjects. It will serve as a landmark text for anthropologists, archaeologists and students researching anthropological theory or the history of social anthropology and related disciplines.
Download or read book The Honey Gatherer by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HONEY GATHERER - The story is set in a sparsely populated tract of the heavily forested foothills of the Himalayas: an area that lies roughly between India and Nepal and in places is virtually untouched. The ‘Forest People’ of this area have minimal contact with the outside world and dwell entirely in the forest living off its produce .These are the ‘Wild Honey Gatherers’ – a race almost extinct – they have strange ways and are rumored to possess the ability to communicate with birds and beasts. When encountered they fade into the forest shadows. Village people give them a wide berth fearing the strange occult or shaman powers they possess. ‘The forest Spirits protect them’ is a widely held belief. This story is about one such family...its secrets, its mystical powers, and its accord with nature. Written in a style that suits today’s fast-paced lifestyle where an elegance of words and precise sentences open up forest vistas that draw you into the lives and customs of the Honey Gatherers.
Download or read book Hunter Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience written by Daniel H. Temple and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.
Download or read book Sights from a Steeple And The Toll Gatherer s Day From Twice Told Tales written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Summary of Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein s A Hunter Gatherer s Guide to the 21st Century written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy now to get the main key ideas from Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein offer a scientific perspective based on evolutionary truths in A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century (2021), which can help you live a better, smarter life. They distill more than two decades of study along with tales from the world's most ecologically varied places into straightforward ideas and suggestions for coping with contemporary society. The modern world is out of touch with ancient humans’ physical and mental development. We are being destroyed by the cognitive dissonance caused by trying to live in a community for which we were not intended. Heying and Weinstein provide a historical context for our evolutionary narrative in order to create a life guide for readers, which is translated into practical and easy-to-implement actions.
Download or read book The Dream Gatherer written by Kristen Britain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Britain presents a novella and two short stories set in the universe of her bestselling Green Rider series in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her first novel, Green Rider"--Dust jacket flap.
Download or read book The Gatherer written by Colleen Winter and published by Rebel Base Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT WAS MEANT TO SAVE HUMANITY NOT DESTROY IT Storm Freeman gave the world a miracle. She designed The Gatherer to draw electromagnetic energy from the air and disperse free and infinite electricity to rural and underprivileged communities. Her invention helped people but devalued power industries. Some revered Storm as a deity. Others saw her as an eco-terrorist. Then the miracle became a curse. The Gatherer unleashed a plague that damaged the human electrical system, bringing pain, suffering—and eventual death—to anyone continually exposed to the technology. Stricken herself, Storm goes into exile, desperate to find a cure—and destroy her invention. But there are people in the government and in the corporation that funded The Gatherer who refuse to publicly acknowledge the connection between the device and the spreading plague. And they will stop at nothing to find Storm and use her genius for military applications . . .
Download or read book The brownie of Bodsbeck The wool gatherer The surpassing adventures of Allan Gordon A tale of Pentland Ewan M Gabhar written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales and Sketches The brownie of Bodsbeck The wool gatherer The surpassing adventures of Allan Gordon A tale of Pentland Ewan M Gabhar v 2 The bridal of Polmood Storms A shepherd s wedding Country dreams and apparitions A story of good Queen Bess Sound morality Trials of temper The fords of Callum The Cameronian preacher s tale v 3 The hunt of Eildon The adventures of Basil Lee Adam Bell Duncan Campbell An old soldier s tale Katie Cheyne The long pack A country funeral The sheperd s callendar v 4 The The shepherd s calendar cont Emigration The two highlanders The watchmaker A story of the forty six A tale of the martyrs Adam Scott The baron St Gio The mysterious bride Nature s magic lantern v 5 Private memoirs and confessions of a fanatic Some remarkable passages in the life of an Edinburgh baillie Julia M Kenzie v 6 Mary Montgomery The siege of Roxburgh The adventures of Colonel Peter Aston Gordon the gipsey Wat Pringle o the Yair written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Issues in Hunter Gatherer Research written by Linda J. Ellanna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book offers the most up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research and contains possibly the most comprehensive bibliography on hunter-gatherers ever published. It will be essential reading for all students of hunter-gatherer societies.
