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1.
The Japanese Haiku, Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples
Contributors:
Publisher:
Charles E. Tuttle 1973
Subjects:
Haiku--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc
Japanese Poetry--Translations Into English
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...can recognize fully thebasic nature of the seasonal theme in renga...developmentof the seasonal values of nature objects was far from complete...they tend to think about nature rather than to experience it...conceits, as in thefollowing examples:Lovely cherry treesveiled...
2.
Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press 2005
Subjects:
Forests And Forestry--Germany--History
Nature Conservation--Germany--History
Landscape Protection--Germany--History
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...The Social Democratic hik­ing organization “Friends of Nature” was only one of many examples. TheFriends of Nature developed an alternative concept of Heimat that was bothregionalist and socialist. They advocated “social...
3.
DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior
Contributors:
Publisher:
Plenum Press 1996
Subjects:
Nature And Nurture
Individual Differences
Genetic Psychology
Behavior Genetics
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...the Expression ofGenetic Traits?The disease phenylketonuria (PKU) provides one of theclearest examples of how nature and nurture can interact tocontrol the expression of a human trait. PKU may be a familiarterm to many because...
4.
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature: Essays on the Aesthetics of Nature
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 2005
Subjects:
Nature (Aesthetics)
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...aloofness model of nature appreciation 144...aesthetic judgements, no examples of sublime objects of nature that presuppose the...some larger portion of nature). 15 A highly implausible...avoid possible counter examples drawn from the other...
5.
Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science, and Value
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2003
Subjects:
Philosophy Of Nature
Nature--Moral And Ethical Aspects
Science--Moral And Ethical Aspects
Nature--Religious Aspects--Christianity
Christian Ethics
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...on how one selects the examples. The re-evaluation of Nature through the sciences...philosophy were wrong but that Nature (through Laplace's...right!In the above examples it is the redescription of Nature through theoretical science...
6.
The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2003
Subjects:
American Literature--History and Criticism
Natural History Literature--United States--History
Natural History--United States--Historiography
Environmentalism--United States--History
Environmental Protection In Literature
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...shore; and so on.Many of the examples of the domination of nature in One-Dimensional Manamount...Everything is as it should be: Nature at its best.Birds, sun...since have invaded that piece of Nature. I am grateful to thegovernment...
7.
The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth
Contributors:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press 2009
Subjects:
Philosophy Of Nature
Ecology--History
Ecology--Philosophy
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...populated that a virus will spread through their popula­tion, causing it to crash.So are oak forests examples of the balance of nature?Like multiple layers of skin on an onion, ecological interactionsat various temporal and spatial scales...
8.
Living with Nature: Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1999
Subjects:
Sustainable Development
Human Ecology
Environmental Policy--Political Aspects
Nature--Social Aspects
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...have to reject the view of nature as 'pure exter­nality...allow for the possibility that nature does have a constitutive rolein human identity. Indeed, examples abound on the positioning of nature asthe 'other' of modern cultural...
9.
Nature in German History
Contributors:
Publisher:
Berghahn Books 2004
Subjects:
Human Ecology--Germany--History
Philosophy of Nature--Germany--History
Human Beings--Effect of Environment On--Germany--History
Geographical Perception--Germany--Philosophy
Germany--Environmental Conditions
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...and early modern periods, nature was perceived as wild and dangerous...Enlightenment. Once tamed, nature was no longerthreatening...and Marc Cioc pro­vide examples of this shift in thinking about nature. The German Romantics introduced...
10.
Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of California Press 2001
Subjects:
Japan--Politics And Government--1868-1912
Nature--Effect Of Human Beings On--Japan
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...into peaceful compliance with nature. Baba'sprevaricating attitude...in accord with the lawsof nature. In “Heikin ryoku...England be­come familiar examples of the inevitable horrors of thwarting nature'sprogressive law.In these...
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