Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon ObservationsU of Minnesota Press - 223 pagini |
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Pagina vii
... thought this was it—my capstone or distillation. But even before the page proof came to me, I began to contem- plate another work to complement the autobiography with an approach both more impersonal in the sense that it would be ...
... thought this was it—my capstone or distillation. But even before the page proof came to me, I began to contem- plate another work to complement the autobiography with an approach both more impersonal in the sense that it would be ...
Pagina ix
... thought of using them in social conver- sation. Between sips of Pepsi, I would drop an image (idea or anecdote) in the hope that it would be taken up and developed by people more imaginative than I. Unfortunately, at a research ...
... thought of using them in social conver- sation. Between sips of Pepsi, I would drop an image (idea or anecdote) in the hope that it would be taken up and developed by people more imaginative than I. Unfortunately, at a research ...
Pagina x
... thoughts under topical headings to facilitate access. The topics themselves are arranged to follow a path that leads from nature and human nature, through society and culture, geography and history, morality and religion, to stages of ...
... thoughts under topical headings to facilitate access. The topics themselves are arranged to follow a path that leads from nature and human nature, through society and culture, geography and history, morality and religion, to stages of ...
Pagina 1
... thought. Strange to think that we may know more about the surface of Venus, thanks to the Magellan Survey of 1990, than about the surface of the earth, so much of which is covered by water. What do we know of underwater topography? How ...
... thought. Strange to think that we may know more about the surface of Venus, thanks to the Magellan Survey of 1990, than about the surface of the earth, so much of which is covered by water. What do we know of underwater topography? How ...
Pagina 2
... thought he was about to fall into a pitch-dark abyss. The next instant he remembered gravity—how firmly and reassuringly it attached his spread-eagle self to Mother Earth. Vertigo of space is common enough. Stand at the edge of a cliff ...
... thought he was about to fall into a pitch-dark abyss. The next instant he remembered gravity—how firmly and reassuringly it attached his spread-eagle self to Mother Earth. Vertigo of space is common enough. Stand at the edge of a cliff ...
Cuprins
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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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