Erik: 1534 books

This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George...

Erik H. Erikson's remarkable insights into the relationship of life history and history began with observations on a central stage of life: identity development in adolescence. This book collects three early papers that—along with Childhood and Society—many consider the best introduction...

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik Wallrup explores this extremely vague and elusive phenomenon, which...

A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities, Georgians represented less than 2% of the Soviet population,...

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be...

A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality—intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience—are best understood as embodied yet contentless. Most of what humans do and experience is best understood in terms of dynamically unfolding interactions with the environment....

The human species is in a rather precarious situation. Poverty, the energy and financial crises, and above all the challenge of climate change mean that our civilization has come to a dangerous edge. Our safety nets-on both collective and individual levels-have been removed. Can we create a future that...

This is not just a book, but a 4 - in - 1 course and motivating package: Textbook, photo book, workbook and also a personality profile analysis! Have you ever wanted to change the course of your life and live your dreams, but you just didnt know where to begin? Did you ever wish that you had...

"This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert Coles For decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with...

This book is the first to establish the nature and causes of violence as key features in the political economy of Australia as an advanced capitalist society.  Australia’s neoliberal corporate security state in seen to represent the emergence of a post-democratic order, whereby minds and bodies...

Un état des lieux géopolitique, économique et écologique sur cette région en plein bouleversement. Après leur voyage dans le Grand Sud, en 2006, Isabelle Autissier et Erik Orsenna ont exploré le Grand Nord, cette région du monde où, dans un contexte de réchauffement climatique, les richesses...

Décembre 2015 - Conférence à Paris sur le climat " Les changements possibles du climat sont de natures très diverses et dépendent des régions et des pays ; mais nos ressources naturelles et nos modes de vie en seront forcément affectées ", insiste Laurence Tubiana dans sa préface....

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The September 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon was part of the most audacious and successful ever mounted. This book looks specifically at the attack on the Headquarters of the Department of Defense, examining Osama bin Laden, the origin of al Qaeda, and how the hijackers were selected. It also...