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American Curiosity
Author | : Susan Scott Parrish |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838896 |
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Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
Curiosity
Author | : Buckley F.H. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781641771849 |
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Curiosity is the instinct that prompts us to act, and a book about curiosity should tell us how to live. Thisis the first to do so, with its twelve rules for life. While a fatal sin in Eden, curiosity is a necessary virtue in our world. It asks us to search for new experiences, to create, to invent. It tells us to look inward, to be curious about the needs of other people and about our own motives. It tells us not to be a stick in the mud or a bore. In particular, curiosity asks us to examine the most fundamental questions of our existence. When you put all this together, curiosity tells you how to live a life in full. While there's a natural desire to explore, there's also a natural desire to stay home. We have a dark side that wants to hide from the world. We've also been made incurious by the rise of bitter partisanships and narrow ideologies that have sent things and people we should care about to our mental trash folders. That's why this book is needed today.
Curiosity
Author | : Barbara M. Benedict |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226042640 |
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In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.
A Curious Mind
Author | : Brian Grazer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 147673075X |
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Brian Grazer knows the one thing that can instantly connect you with anyone: Curiosity. A Curious mind offers a brilliantly entertaining and inspiring account of how his courage and enthusiasm for talking with complete strangers have been the secret of his success as a leading Hollywood producer.
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things
Author | : Edmund Fillingham King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | : |
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Curious George's Big Book of Curiosity
Author | : H. A. Rey |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2005-10-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 054734757X |
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This oversized paper-over-board concept book takes toddlers all over George’s world and theirs. Each page features a different concept: counting, shapes, opposites, emotions, family, jobs, homes, transportation and lots of new words! From morning to night, city to country, home to town and back again, little readers can follow George as they learn more about their own worlds. Just the right book for toddlers learning to talk to help build their vocabulary.
The Art of Curiosity
Author | : Exploratorium |
Publisher | : WeldonOwn+ORM |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1681885964 |
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Fifty of the world’s most creative people share their stories and inspirations in this volume created by the Exploratorium science museum. What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science writer Mary Roach, Mythbuster Adam Savage, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Thomas Friedman have in common? They are all game-changers: scientists, artists, entertainers, and activists who revolutionized their fields with bold new perspectives and approaches—and they all had transformative, course-setting experiences at the Exploratorium science museum, the San Francisco landmark visited by a million people a year in person and by millions more online. Join them and forty-five more brilliant thinkers and doers in a wonderfully playful, insightful, and sometimes incredibly moving journey to see how you, too, can harness your powers of observation, inquiry, and engagement to be the change you want to see in the world—regardless of who you are or what you do. Interviewees and subjects include: Oscar-Winning Sound Designer Walter Murch on observation Laurie Anderson on art as a way of knowing Memory Expert Elizabeth Loftus on how we learn Oliver Sacks on perception Mary Roach on how she learned to ask the right questions Adam Savage on the fun of finding things out Mickey Hart on the art of playing to learn, and learning to play California Governor Gavin Newsom on the importance of science Community activist Randy Carter on finding joy in the worst of places . . . and dozens more interviews, insights, and activities suggested by artists, scientists, poets, and politicians, in a book that can help you become more creative—and maybe just change the world.
Our Wonderful Progress
Author | : Trumbull White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Dummies (Bookselling) |
ISBN | : |
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The industrial age.--The world's science and invention.--Noteworthy facts of all nations.--Amazing wonders of nature.--Things we all should know.
The Christian Advocate
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1680 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Methodist Church |
ISBN | : |
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