Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon ObservationsU of Minnesota Press - 223 pagini |
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Pagina viii
... what were once mere trails became respectable roads themselves. Outside of written works, I pause now and then to ... What's noteworthy about that? Yet the image sticks in my mind and insists that I make something of it. The same goes ...
... what were once mere trails became respectable roads themselves. Outside of written works, I pause now and then to ... What's noteworthy about that? Yet the image sticks in my mind and insists that I make something of it. The same goes ...
Pagina 1
... what I would see if I were in a sub- mersible at the bottom of the lake's cold murky depth, where sunlight never penetrates. And I am a geographer! How extra- ordinarily limited—and conventional—one's perception is. We are very much ...
... what I would see if I were in a sub- mersible at the bottom of the lake's cold murky depth, where sunlight never penetrates. And I am a geographer! How extra- ordinarily limited—and conventional—one's perception is. We are very much ...
Pagina 3
... what am I to conclude ? That the diorama is impos- sible that it is pure fiction ? sible — that Saint Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) isn't going to be a very help- ful or sympathetic weather forecaster , for , in her opinion , “ There is ...
... what am I to conclude ? That the diorama is impos- sible that it is pure fiction ? sible — that Saint Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) isn't going to be a very help- ful or sympathetic weather forecaster , for , in her opinion , “ There is ...
Pagina 6
... What other animal can match the feat ? Can even the strongest elephant lift twice its own weight ? Can a donkey carry another donkey on its back ? K'ang - hsi , emperor of China from 1661 to 1722 , was an avid hunter . He is quoted by ...
... What other animal can match the feat ? Can even the strongest elephant lift twice its own weight ? Can a donkey carry another donkey on its back ? K'ang - hsi , emperor of China from 1661 to 1722 , was an avid hunter . He is quoted by ...
Pagina 7
... Nicola Webb of the University of East Anglia describes ' balls of fluff at six weeks old beating hell out of one another ' ” ( Science , December 15 , 1989 ) . What about dolphins? Perhaps because of the upward turn of 7 Nature.
... Nicola Webb of the University of East Anglia describes ' balls of fluff at six weeks old beating hell out of one another ' ” ( Science , December 15 , 1989 ) . What about dolphins? Perhaps because of the upward turn of 7 Nature.
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Civilization and City | 20 |
Politics and Ideology | 33 |
Culture Society Work | 48 |
Home Rootedness Place | 58 |
Human Ties and Isolation | 67 |
Ancestors | 81 |
Sex | 84 |
Geography | 118 |
History | 131 |
Aesthetics | 134 |
Intellect | 147 |
Language | 161 |
Morality | 170 |
Religion | 191 |
Stages of Life | 203 |
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