Download or read book The Reenchantment of Nature written by Alister McGrath and published by Image. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative assessment of the world's current ecological crisis, the author of the critically acclaimed In the Beginning exposes the false assumptions underlying the conflicts between science and religion, and proposes an innovative approach to saving the planet. Traditionally, science and religion have been thought of as two distinct and irreconcilable ways of looking at the world, and scientists have often chastised the world's religions for keeping their eyes on the heavens and paying scant attention to the destruction of Earth's precious resources and its natural wonders. In The Reenchantment of Nature, Alister McGrath, who holds doctorates in both molecular biology and divinity, challenges this long-held and dangerously misguided dichotomy. Arguing that Christianity and other great religions have always respected and revered the bounty and beauty of the earth, McGrath calls for a radical shift in perspective. He shows that by defining the world in the narrowest of scientific terms and viewing it as a collection of atoms and molecules governed by unchanging laws and forces, we have lost our ability to appreciate nature's enchantments. In order to address the threats to our environment, he maintains, it is essential to reawaken our sense of awe and look at the world as a glorious creation, an irreplaceable gift of God. In setting forth a new framework for the debate between science and religion on ecological theory, The Reenchantment of Nature points the way to integrating two different traditions in a sane and productive effort to rescue the natural world from its present environmental decline.
Download or read book Enchantment of the Faerie Realm written by Ted Andrews and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests, lakes, mountains, caves-even your garden-are alive with nature''s spirits. "Enchantment of the Faerie Realm" can help you commune with elves, devas, nymphs, gnomes, and other faerie folk. With just a little patience and persistence you can learn to recognize the presence of these mysterious, magical creatures. New interior design
Download or read book Mastery of Non Mastery in the Age of Meltdown written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might exert along with such change. Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown is not solely a reflection on our condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with the impulses that have fed our relentless ambition for dominance over nature. Taussig seeks to move us away from the manipulation of nature and reorient us to different metaphors and sources of inspiration to develop a new ethical stance toward the world. His ultimate goal is to undo his readers’ sense of control and engender what he calls “mastery of non-mastery.” This unique book developed out of Taussig’s work with peasant agriculture and his artistic practice, which brings performance art together with aspects of ritual. Through immersive meditations on Walter Benjamin, D. H. Lawrence, Emerson, Bataille, and Proust, Taussig grapples with the possibility of collapse and with the responsibility we bear for it.
Download or read book Enchantment and Exploitation written by William DeBuys and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.
Download or read book The Inspired Word written by Alfred Colo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature and the Human Soul written by Bill Plotkin and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation. If it is true, as Plotkin and others observe, that we live in a culture dominated by adolescent habits and desires, then the enduring societal changes we so desperately need won’t happen until we individually and collectively evolve into an engaged, authentic adulthood. With evocative language and personal stories, including those of elders Thomas Berry and Joanna Macy, this book defines eight stages of human life — Innocent, Explorer, Thespian, Wanderer, Soul Apprentice, Artisan, Master, and Sage — and describes the challenges and benefits of each. Plotkin offers a way of progressing from our current egocentric, aggressively competitive, consumer society to an ecocentric, soul-based one that is sustainable, cooperative, and compassionate. At once a primer on human development and a manifesto for change, Nature and the Human Soul fashions a template for a more mature, fulfilling, and purposeful life — and a better world.
Download or read book The Enchantment of Modern Life written by Jane Bennett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.
Download or read book Feed Your Mind written by Amada G. Banaag and published by Institute of Industry and Academic Research Incorporated. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with chaos and negativity, seeking solace in positivity is not merely an option but a necessity. It is within this void that “Feed Your Mind: A Collection of Positive and Happy Thoughts” manifests – an e-book anthology curated from different literary works by budding writers. This anthology aspires to establish a positive ambiance to its readers through the literary pieces that tackle love, utopia, hope, and happiness.
Download or read book Unfinished Business written by Socialist Review Collective and published by Verso. This book was released on 1991-11-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business brings together many of the liveliest and most significant articles published in the journal over its first twenty years, from the best writers on the left today, including Barbara Ehrenreich, Donna Haraway, Stanley Aronowitz and Jeffrey Escoffier. Their subjects range from the construction of racial and sexual identities to the utopian dimensions of Marxist theory, and the cross-impacts of feminism and neoliberalism, community and subjectivity, in a.
Download or read book The Botanic Garden written by Benjamin Maund and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handy Andy written by Samuel Lover and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunrise Gratitude written by Emily Silva and published by Rock Point. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunrise Gratitude offers a collection of 365 thoughtful meditations to encourage you to have joyous mornings.
Download or read book Studies in Reading by J W Searson and George E Martin written by James William Searson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wayne s Trace written by Charles M. Jacobs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne's Trace: Fort Deposit to Fort Industry is the first pictorial history to document the culmination of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's campaign against the Indian Confederacy in 1794. The retrospective draws on a wealth of archival material and popular culture-including unique vintage engravings, photographs, postcards, and philatelic souvenirs-in tracing the U.S. Legion's march down the Maumee River Valley to Maumee Bay. A highlight is Turkey Foot Rock, an "epic of defeat" landmark the author likens to Custer's Last Stand Hill in Montana. More recent images illustrate archaeological initiatives and the evolution of the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and the site of Fort Miamis as National Park Service affiliates. Together, the local history and lore of Waterville, Maumee, and Toledo, Ohio, amplify a great watershed in our national history, the dislocation of Native American peoples, and the first opportunity for colonization by the young United States.
Download or read book The botanic garden representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants cultivated in Great Britain with their names classes c With The floral register and The fruitist written by Benjamin Maund and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Walnut Tree written by S. D. Tolson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers live passionally in a challenging world of incredible changes and surprising experiencies. Standing between the fantasies of their vanishing childhood and the reality of mature everyday life, they adventure dreamily into the future of desire. Some of them react against the social constraints imposed by tradition, and find in the unbound forces of nature the values missing in the imperfect world of grown-ups. In their conflictive growing process the rebellious teen goes through a surprising metamorphosis that leads him to dramatically develop into his true mature identity. S. D. Tolson was born and raised in a land of ample sea horizons and high mountains and presently, after having lived in several diverse U.S. regions, resides in San Antonio, Texas, evoking the absent mountains and the distant sea. Literature has been S. D. Tolson's life avocation.
Download or read book Whispers of the Midnight Garden written by OJ LEIGH and published by OJ LEIGH. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the pages of "Whispers of the Midnight Garden," an enchanting tale that weaves together the magic of nature and the timeless power of love. In this captivating story, you'll accompany Delaney, a young and spirited botanist, on an extraordinary journey that will forever change her life. When Delaney inherits a neglected estate graced with a mysterious, overgrown garden, she never could have imagined the secrets it holds. As she steps onto the estate, she finds herself drawn to the untamed beauty of the garden, where nature's tendrils have woven a tapestry of hidden stories. However, the heart of this enchanting garden is a forgotten journal, one that tells the tale of a passionate gardener from the past, unveiling a love story that transcends the constraints of time. Driven by her determination to restore the garden to its former glory, Delaney begins an exploration that goes beyond the petals and leaves. With each discovery she makes, the past comes alive, intertwining lives and love lost to the ages. Alongside her stands Mathias, a talented and dashing landscape artist, who joins her in this endeavor. Together, their own connection blossoms, echoing the very reawakening they seek to bestow upon the garden. As they unearth the mysteries of love, longing, and the stories hidden within the garden's walls, Delaney and Mathias find their own hearts mirrored in the journal's pages. The tales of the past become a mirror to their present emotions, and as they navigate through desires both old and new, they must confront the weight of history to forge a path toward a future filled with hope and passion. "Whispers of the Midnight Garden" takes readers on a journey of rediscovery, a journey where the language of flowers speaks volumes, and where the echoes of whispered secrets reverberate through time. With the beauty of nature as the backdrop, and the complexities of human emotions as the forefront, this tale invites you to experience a world where love transcends eras. From the very first page to the last, be prepared to be transported to a realm where the intertwining threads of nature and human heartbeats create a symphony that will resonate within you long after the story's end. Welcome to a world where romance, mystery, and the Midnight Garden await.
