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REPRESENTATION OF THE HEART OF
REPRESENTATION OF THE HEART OF
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The Exile Heart
The Exile Heart
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The Light and the Glory
The Light and the Glory
Popularly priced edition of the classic that recovers the United States' true national heritage.
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Sassoon
Sassoon
Using the lives of the Sassoon siblings as a lens through which to view English life, particularly in its highest reaches, Stansky offers new insights into British attitudes toward power, politics, old versus new money, homosexuality, war, Jews, taste and style."--BOOK JACKET.
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Metazoa
Metazoa
Così come in «Altre menti», Peter Godfrey-Smith – «palombaro immerso nella scienza della vita» (Carl Safina) – ci invita a seguirlo negli oceani: ed estende questa volta lo sguardo al sottoregno dei metazoi, gli organismi pluricellulari il cui percorso evolutivo, cominciato oltre mezzo miliardo di anni fa, ha incanalato per svolte morfologiche ed emotivo-cognitive l’intera storia della vita animale fino ai primati e a «Homo sapiens». I protagonisti sono quindi, di nuovo, organismi delle profondità marine, a partire dalle stupefacenti «spugne di vetro», diafane torri cilindriche prive di sistema nervoso ma elettricamente non inerti, teatro di esemplari mutualismi e vitale fonte di luce per altri organismi. Risalito alla superficie (attraverso l’evocazione delle cubomeduse, con i loro archeo-corredi oculari, o dei «coralli molli», brulicanti aggregati tentacolari simili a «foreste di minuscole mani»), Godfrey-Smith schiude poi con il suo racconto scenari a noi sempre più prossimi, come le decisive transizioni cinetiche (il passaggio dal «nuotare» allo «strisciare» in certi vermi), biologiche (l’endotermia, sviluppata in modo autonomo dai mammiferi e dagli uccelli) e sociali (l’«intelligenza» degli insetti). Emerge così come il percorso filogenetico (l’intreccio, più che la progressione, di «pinne-arti-ali») sia caratterizzato da un rapporto di continuità/discontinuità nel succedersi delle varie forme di percezione del sé e del mondo elaborate in tante specie diverse – forme che finiscono con lo sfumare, fino quasi a dissolverlo, il gap tra materia e mente, e a rendere via via più esteso, stratificato ed elusivo il processo dell’«esperienza cosciente».
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Richardson Dilworth
Richardson Dilworth
This is the first complete biography of Philadelphia¿s great political reformer, Richardson Dilworth (1898¿1974). He was district attorney, school board president, and the 91st mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962. The book gives his family history, his youth in Pittsburgh and New York City, his service in both world wars, his education at Yale, and his involvement with Philadelphia figures including Joseph Clark, Moses and Walter Annenberg, Albert M. Greenfield, Thacher Longstreth, and Bill Green, as well as Joseph McCarthy and John F. Kennedy.
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