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An Almost English Life
A sparklingly witty memoir, which takes us on a seductive journey from wartime Jerusalem to the heart of Fleet Street, providing a riveting outsider's view of English cultural life.
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The Life of Miriam
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Animals and Nature
Western conceptions of objectivity and individuality have resulted in a readier appreciation of the worth of the animals and nature than has been recognized. This provocative book takes issue with the popular view that the Western cultural tradition, in contrast to Eastern and Aboriginal traditions, has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation towards nature, particularly animals. Preece argues that the Western tradition has much to commend it, and that descriptions of Aboriginal and Oriental orientations have often been misleadingly rosy, simplified and codified according to current fashionable concepts. Animals and Nature is the result of six years' intensive study into comparative religion, literature, philosophy, anthropology, mythology and animal welfare science.
The Bird Illustrated, 1550-1900
"Man's fascination with birds, the only other two-legged creature on earth, goes back to drawings scratched into the walls of prehistoric caves in France and Spain, carved on Paleolithic bones, or painted in Egyptian tombs. As Roger Tory Peterson writes in his introduction, whatever this attraction is, the desire to observe, record, and study birds has occupied men for millennia. As early as 1551 that study had found its way into the printed book with the publication of an eight-hundred page volume on birds in Conrad Gesner's encyclopedia Historiae animalium. From that moment, books on ornithology cam in increasing numbers, written and illustrated by a breed of watchers whose patience, skill...
Seeing is Believing
"A selection of nearly forty scientific and medical illustrations drawn primarily from the collections in The New York Public Library's four research centers, augmented by materials from The New York Academy of Medicine and from a private collector."--Cover.
Farewell to the God of Plague
Farewell to the God of Plague reassesses the celebrated Maoist health care model through the lens of MaoÕs famous campaign against snail fever. Using newly available archives, Miriam Gross documents how economic, political, and cultural realities led to grassroots resistance. Nonetheless, the campaign triumphed, but not because of its touted mass-prevention campaign. Instead, success came from its unacknowledged treatment arm, carried out jointly by banished urban doctors and rural educated youth. More broadly, the author reconsiders the relationship between science and political control during the ostensibly antiscientific Maoist era, discovering the important role of Ògrassroots scienceÓ in regime legitimation and Party control in rural areas.
Special Libraries
Most vols. include Proceedings of the Special Libraries Association.
