Countries That Don`t Exist: Selected Nonfiction, Alexander Spektor, Jacob Emery
Автор: Miller Lulu Название: Why Fish Don`t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life ISBN: 1501160346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501160349 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (2 шт.) Описание: A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * SmithsonianA "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and--possibly--even murder."At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish...comes up for air, and realizes she's in love. That's how I felt: Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten."--TheNew York Times Book Review David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--which sent more than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life's work was shattered. Many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool--a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet. Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don't Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.
Автор: Gurney, James Название: Imaginative realism ISBN: 0740785508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780740785504 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Aguide to realistically representing the world of imagination, for beginners and professionals and everyone in between.
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"By examining economic trends, innovations in education and hiring, and the lived experiences of working learners, Weise reveals the shortcomings of our fragmented education and workforce systems and challenges us to reimagine the future of learning. Weise demonstrates how and why we must all become working learners, and presents a clear, optimistic vision for a new learning ecosystem in which we can all take part." --Maria Flynn, President and CEO, Jobs for the Future
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Автор: Emery Jacob, Spektor Alexander Название: Countries That Don`t Exist: Selected Nonfiction ISBN: 0231202377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231202374 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. Countries That Don`t Exist showcases a selection of Krzhizhanovsky`s exceptional nonfiction, which spans a dizzying range of genres and voices.
Автор: Emery Jacob, Spektor Alexander Название: Countries That Don`t Exist: Selected Nonfiction ISBN: 0231202369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231202367 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. Countries That Don`t Exist showcases a selection of Krzhizhanovsky`s exceptional nonfiction, which spans a dizzying range of genres and voices.
Автор: Tony C. Brown Название: Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing ISBN: 1517912423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517912420 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in the form of twentieth-century diaspora and statelessness. Statelessness sets forth a new genealogy, suggesting that Europe first encountered mass statelessness neither inside its own borders nor during the twentieth century, as Hannah Arendt so influentially claimed, but outside of itself-in the New World, several hundred years earlier.Through close readings of political philosophers from Hobbes to Rousseau to Kant, Tony C. Brown argues that statelessness became a central problem for political thought early on, with far-reaching implications for thinking both on the state and on being human. What Europeans thought they saw among the “savages” of the Americas was life without political order, life less than human. Lacking almost everything those deemed clearly human had achieved, the stateless existed in a radically precarious, almost inhuman privation.And yet this existence also raised the unsettling possibility that state-based existence may not be inevitable, necessary, or even ideal. This possibility, as Brown shows, prompts the response-as defensive as it was aggressive-that we call Enlightenment political philosophy, which arguably still orders much thinking on being stateless today, including our discourses concerning migrants and Indigenous peoples.
Автор: Tony C. Brown Название: Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing ISBN: 1517912415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517912413 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13543.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in the form of twentieth-century diaspora and statelessness. Statelessness sets forth a new genealogy, suggesting that Europe first encountered mass statelessness neither inside its own borders nor during the twentieth century, as Hannah Arendt so influentially claimed, but outside of itself-in the New World, several hundred years earlier.Through close readings of political philosophers from Hobbes to Rousseau to Kant, Tony C. Brown argues that statelessness became a central problem for political thought early on, with far-reaching implications for thinking both on the state and on being human. What Europeans thought they saw among the “savages” of the Americas was life without political order, life less than human. Lacking almost everything those deemed clearly human had achieved, the stateless existed in a radically precarious, almost inhuman privation.And yet this existence also raised the unsettling possibility that state-based existence may not be inevitable, necessary, or even ideal. This possibility, as Brown shows, prompts the response-as defensive as it was aggressive-that we call Enlightenment political philosophy, which arguably still orders much thinking on being stateless today, including our discourses concerning migrants and Indigenous peoples.
Описание: Written for a wide audience of biologists and philosophers, this text gives an excellent overview of the species problem without delving into the many feuds between the different schools of taxonomy. A perfect companion for field taxonomists and students dealing with the problem.
Описание: The Angels that stand beside me is based on the true story of the Author's life, she's sharing the experience she witnessed and the love she felt while being on the other side. The Author will be sharing her experiences with Angels that she has interacted with here on earth. The story is a Revised Edition to The Reincarnation of Bobby Johnson which was given to the Author by a Higher Power; The Reincarnation of Bobby Johnson is based on Rape, Murder and Justice. The Angels that stands beside me was seat on the Author's heart to share with the readers in 2005 after losing her only son to murder. The story is designed to assure everyone that there is life after death as we call it and that Angels do exist here on Earth. The Author wants all readers to keep an open mind on the things that they will be reading because there are things that one will call fiction when it can really exist here on earth.
Автор: Leir Roger Название: UFOs Do Not Exist: The Greatest Lie That Enveloped the World ISBN: 1585095346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781585095346 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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