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5000 Years of Popular Culture
This collection of insightful essays by outstanding artists, anthropologists, historians, classicists and humanists was developed to broaden the study of popular culture and to provide instances of original and innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Its first purpose is to broaden the study of popular culture which is too often regarded in the academic world as the entertainment and leisure time activities of the 20th century. Second, the collection gives recognition to the fact that a number of disciplines have been investigating popular phenomena on different fronts, and it is designed to bring examples of these disciplines together under the common rubric of "popular culture." Related to this is a third purpose of providing instances of original and innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Last, the collection should be a worthwhile contribution to the component disciplines as well as to the study of popular culture.
David Orr: Radiance + Reflection
Art catalog for exhibition at Tibet House US.
Hope Is an Imperative
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity’s current unsustainable trajectory. Hope Is an Imperative brings together in a single volume Professor Orr’s most important works. These include classics such as “What Is Education For?,” one of the most widely reprinted essays in the environmental literature, “The Campus and the Biosphere,” which helped launch the green campus movement,and “Loving Chil...
The Denmill Diary
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Perfect Vessels
Perfect Vessels is the official illustrated catalog published on the occasion of David Orr's exhibition, Perfect Vessels, at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. David Orr is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. The images in the catalog are of skulls from the Mütter collection, photographed facing the camera, and made perfectly symmetrical by repeating one half of the visage. The catalog contains an introduction by David Orr, and an essay by Anna Dhody MFS (curator of the Mütter Museum and director of the Mütter Institute) and Robert D. Hicks, PhD (Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library, and the William Maul Measey Chair for the History of Medicine at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia).The publication includes 22 plates and 8 iluustrative plates (fine art references to memento mori, a poem by Lord Byron, a plate by Jan Stefan van Kalkar from Andreas Vesalius' 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem,' and illustrated notes on symmetry, perceptual imagery, and the use of skulls as symbols throughout history.
Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington’s Army
This volume presents recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research on the encampments, trails, and support structures of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. These sites illuminate the daily lives of soldiers, officers, and camp followers away from the more well-known military campaigns and battles. The research featured here includes previously unpublished findings from the winter encampments at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, as well as work from sites in Redding, Connecticut, and Morristown, New Jersey. Topics range from excavations of a special dining cabin constructed for General George Washington to ballistic analysis of a target range established by General von...
Dangerous Years
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet—more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability. Yet we are not fated to destroy the Earth, Orr insists. He imagines sustainability as a quest and a transition built upon robust and durable democratic and economic institutions, as well as changes in heart and mindset. The transition, he writes, is beginning from the bottom up in communities and neighborhoods. He lays out specific principles and priorities to guide us toward enduring harmony between human and natural systems.
