Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon ObservationsU of Minnesota Press - 223 Seiten |
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Seite vii
... —and a geographer is what I am in academic pigeonholing. More important, I have read broadly to be a better and wiser human being. To my mind, the two—wiser human being and better geographer—go together, for I have vii Introduction.
... —and a geographer is what I am in academic pigeonholing. More important, I have read broadly to be a better and wiser human being. To my mind, the two—wiser human being and better geographer—go together, for I have vii Introduction.
Seite viii
... mind and prepared me to walk with other professionals on the high road of learning. As for the lighter works—and, for me, these include fiction and journalistic report- ing—I am somewhat surprised to discover, in retrospect, that they ...
... mind and prepared me to walk with other professionals on the high road of learning. As for the lighter works—and, for me, these include fiction and journalistic report- ing—I am somewhat surprised to discover, in retrospect, that they ...
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... mind to plunge: failing this, they hastily pass a conscription act and push him over.” Sometime in the evolution of the past 3 million years, the semicarnivorous panda switched to an exclusive diet of bamboo. Poorly equipped to digest ...
... mind to plunge: failing this, they hastily pass a conscription act and push him over.” Sometime in the evolution of the past 3 million years, the semicarnivorous panda switched to an exclusive diet of bamboo. Poorly equipped to digest ...
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... mind weather, the seasons, water, plants, and animals—things that change, things whose beauty is typically frail or transient. We human beings know change and frailty as we do not know permanence. We bond naturally with the daffodil ...
... mind weather, the seasons, water, plants, and animals—things that change, things whose beauty is typically frail or transient. We human beings know change and frailty as we do not know permanence. We bond naturally with the daffodil ...
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... mind has not successfully penetrated—and may never successfully penetrate—because it is not equipped to do so? The philosopher Colin McGinn's answer is yes, and it is “consciousness.” In his 1999 book The Mysterious Flame, he begins ...
... mind has not successfully penetrated—and may never successfully penetrate—because it is not equipped to do so? The philosopher Colin McGinn's answer is yes, and it is “consciousness.” In his 1999 book The Mysterious Flame, he begins ...
Inhalt
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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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