Anthropology
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From  NEW! Early Empires and Popular ResistanceFrom: Humans |
This chapter discusses the resistance of ordinary people to the ruling of elites as societies became increasingly stratified. It explores slave revolts, popular rebellion and religious movements … | Alvin Finkel | 43 | 2024 | $4.30 Add |
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From  EnlivenmentEcological Morals as Mutuality in Beauty From: The Biology of Wonder |
In the concluding chapter, Weber proposes a series of biocentric values. | Andreas Weber | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
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From EthicsThe Values of the Flesh From: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter describes the author’s experiences experimenting on living animals, which he terms "crushing the irresistable magic of life." | Andreas Weber | 26 | 2016 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Everything Is ConnectedFrom: The Web of Meaning |
This chapter contrasts the European tradition of a self-contained individual and consciousness with the Buddhist (and other) traditions of the boundaries separating the self from others as all … | Jeremy Lent | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Flourishing as an Integrated OrganismFrom: The Web of Meaning |
Examining the way we develop as profoundly affected by the conditions in which we grow, the author describes health in harmony and the harmful effects of advertising such as income inequality, … | Jeremy Lent | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! Foraging SocietiesFrom: Humans |
In this chapter, the author examines early hunter-gatherer societies, first looking at Sapiens, Neanderthals and then various peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. He finds … | Alvin Finkel | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
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From  ForewordFrom: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add | |
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From  Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements |
James G. Wigmore | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add | |
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From NEW! From Fixed Self to Infinite LThe Fractal Nature of Identity From: The Web of Meaning |
This chapter asserts that once the reality of a connected universe is embraced, new forms of identity naturally emerge. Rejecting dualism and reductionism, paradigm shifts, pantheism, Buddhism, … | Jeremy Lent | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  From the HeartThe Golden Rule with Karen Armstrong and Joan Halifax |
Compassion is a virtuous cycle, and practicing the Golden Rule yields an expanded sense of self, which yields ever more compassionate behavior.philosophers and religious leaders such as … | James Hoggan | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From From the HeartSpeak the Truth, but not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh |
Thich Nhat Hanh used the example of a pine tree and suggested, what if that tree asked us what it could do to help the world? Our answer would be very clear: “You should be a beautiful, … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Going ForthFrom: Coming Back to Life |
The culmination of the workshop serves as a bridge between the experiences of our work together (described in the last four chapters) and the daily lives we are about to resume. We have come to … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 27 | 2014 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Great AgainOn Political Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Great White HopeThe Myth of North From: National Dreams |
There have been writers, politicians, intellectuals who believed that it was its northernness which made Canada distinct. The "cult of the North" gained coherent expression for the … | Daniel Frances | 46 | 1997 | $1.84 Add |
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From NEW! Human/NatureFrom: The Web of Meaning |
The chapter begins with the absurdity of anthropocentrism, continuing with the European thirst for domination overseas and over nature. The Great Acceleration is described as the commodification … | Jeremy Lent | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From I’m Just So Tired of All These Star WarsOn Art and Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … | David Berry | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
