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The Ethics of Modernism
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The Ethics of ModernismThe Ethics of Modernism

What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to the modernist moral project, which he defines as the effort to transform human nature through the use of art.



 
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Tags: Modernism, Ethics, pages, edition, 0511268963, modernist, nature, human, moral
Backpacker's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking
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Backpacker's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and BackpackingBackpacker's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking

Aimed specifically at the novice outdoor adventurer, this comprehensive guide explains the essential gear, preparations, precautions, and techniques required for day hiking and short backpacking trips. Through informative, entertaining, and encouraging personal anecdotes, the guide emphasizes the physical, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits of spending time in nature. Essential first aid and map-reading information is also included.
 
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Tags: guide, spending, timenbspin, nature, Essential, Hiking, Guide, guide, StartUp, aesthetic
Sex and Reason
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Sex and ReasonSex and Reason

Explores the complex history of human sexuality from ancient Greece to modern Sweden and contends that, although sexual drives and orientations are biological in nature, much of individual sexuality is determined through self-interested choices.
 
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Tags: sexuality, individual, nature, biological, orientations
A Mathematical Nature Walk
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A Mathematical Nature WalkA Mathematical Nature Walk

Indeed, Adam has deliberately reworked topics treated in Mathematics in Nature to make them accessible to a larger audience. Beyond insights into specific questions about nature, the general reader will find here a remarkably lucid explanation of how mathematicians create a formulaic model that mimics the key features of some natural phenomenon. Adam particularly highlights the importance in this process of solving inverse problems. Ordinary math becomes adventure.

 
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Tags: Nature, natural, phenomenon, particularly, features, Mathematical
Rhinoceros (Animal series)
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Rhinoceros (Animal series)Rhinoceros (Animal series)

The rhinoceros’s horn and massive leathery frame belie its docile and solitary nature, causing the animal to be consistently perceived by humans as a monster to be feared. Kelly Enright now deftly sifts fact from fiction in Rhinoceros.
 
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Tags: rhinoceros, nature, humans, Enright, mythical, Rhinoceros, Animal, Kelly, feared