Author : Charles H. J. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
[PDF] Grounds For Pleasure eBook
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Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Pleasure Grounds, Kew. By Daniel Oliver ... Twenty-second edition
Author : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1863
Category :
ISBN :
Uncommon Grounds
Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0465024041
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
The Grounds of the Novel
Author : Daniel Wright
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1503637565
What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique. Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphysical "grounds" through figuration, understanding fictional being as self-sufficient, cohesive, and alive, rather than as beholden to the actual world as an existential anchor. Through philosophically attuned close readings of novels and reflections on writerly craft by Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Henry James, and Akwaeke Emezi, Wright shares an impassioned vision of reading as stepping into ontologically terraformed worlds, and of literary criticism as treading and re-treading the novel's grounds.
Observations on modern gardening, and laying out pleasure-grounds ... &c. [by T. Whately]. To which is added, An essay on the different natural situations of gardens
Author : Thomas Whately
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1801
Category :
ISBN :
Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Pleasure Grounds, Kew
Author : Daniel Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1867
Category :
ISBN :
Aristotle's Rhetoric; Or the True Grounds and Principles of Oratory;
Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1686
Category : Rhetoric, Ancient
ISBN :
Annual Report
Author : Great Britain. Local Government Board
Publisher :
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Supplements to the Board's Annual report include the: Report of the medical officer
Grounds for Respect
Author : Kristi Giselsson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739168959
In recent years traditional foundations of respect for others have been challenged on the basis that universal grounds — the assumption that we share a common humanity — have resulted in the exclusion of particular others from full moral consideration or respect. This current questioning of the concept of a common humanity is of enormous significance, in that universalism has been one of the central assumptions of modern western philosophy and a foundational key to its moral and political theory. This book attempts to address the question of just what grounds are needed in order to justify respect for others, and in addressing this question raises issues of fundamental importance; such as, what exactly does it mean to be human? On what basis can we claim that all humans are equal? Are there differences between animals and humans, and are these differences of moral significance — that is, should animals be accorded the same respect as humans? The author not only critically assesses past and current arguments for and against a common humanity, but also provides a distinctively new conceptualization of what it might mean to be human — and why being human is indeed morally significant.
Palaces of Pleasure
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 030022463X
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created 'palaces of pleasure'. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb 'immorality' in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The Victorians' unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.