Self-care gone wild Slow down like a sloth, stretch like a cat, breathe deep like a whale and have the confidence of a lion. When life gets you down, lift your spirits with these tiny tips and helpful hints from our friends in the animal kingdom....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Mar-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000370416)
This book explores human-animal relations amongst the Bebelibe of West Africa, with a focus on the establishment of totemic relationships with animals, what these relationships entail and the consequences of abusing them. Employing and developing the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Mar-2021, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000370409)
This book explores human-animal relations amongst the Bebelibe of West Africa, with a focus on the establishment of totemic relationships with animals, what these relationships entail and the consequences of abusing them. Employing and developing the...Lasīt vairāk
How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin,...Lasīt vairāk
How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin,...Lasīt vairāk
Ozongombe mOmbazu ya Kaoko/Cattle Culture of the Kaoko Ovaherero honours indigenous Sanga/Nguni cattle and their cultural and agricultural significance to the Ovaherero and increasingly to other cattle-breeders. The book introduces Otjiherero vernacu...Lasīt vairāk
From the household cat to horses that can fly, a surprisingly wide range of animals feature in religions and mythologies all across the world. The same animal can take on different roles: the raven can be a symbol of evil, a harbinger of death, a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487517700)
Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487517717)
Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jun-2018, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812295221)
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and artfrom Augustines renowned "e;wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing,"e; to vivi...Lasīt vairāk
Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, from the Devil to Bram Stokers Dracula. But these amazing animals are ecological superheroes. Nectar-fe...Lasīt vairāk
Animals and Human Society provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance understanding of how animals impact humans. Animals have had profound effects on people from the earliest times, ranging from zoonotic diseases, to the globa...Lasīt vairāk
Animals and Human Society provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance understanding of how animals impact humans. Animals have had profound effects on people from the earliest times, ranging from zoonotic diseases, to the globa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2017, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226459080)
In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet-whether as friends or foes-issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2017, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226459080)
In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet-whether as friends or foes-issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317097846)
Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317097839)
Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, an...Lasīt vairāk
Known as heralds of spring and beautiful, elegant flyers, swallows are among the most beloved of familiar birds. Because they return with the spring, swallows, as Angela Turner explains, have long been associated with the renewal of life, love, fidel...Lasīt vairāk
Ancient and strange, beetles call to mind a lost world of Egyptian magic and belief-a reminder of the fascination theyve long held for human culture. In Beetle, Adam Dodd offers a richly illustrated, engaging account of the natural and cultural hist...Lasīt vairāk
