A Continuous Harmony

Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619020807
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
"This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts and one thing leads to another in the manner that nature intended―or used to. The language ranges from the grave and beautiful to the sharp and specific, depending on the need to express the vast variety of subjects he presents."—The Nation The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. ""It seemed to me,"" Horenbein wrote, ""that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants."" Wendell Berry's second collection of essays, A Continuous Harmony was first published in 1972, and includes the seminal ""Think Little,"" which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe, and the splendid centerpiece, ""Discipline and Hope,"" an insightful and articulate essay making a case for what he calls ""a new middle."

Architectural Regionalism

Author: Vincent B. Canizaro
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616890800
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented. This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by important critics, historians, and architects such as Kenneth Frampton, Lewis Mumford, Sigfried Giedion, and Alan Colquhoun, Architectural Regionalism represents the history of regionalist thinking in architecture from the early twentieth century to today.

Think Little

Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640091742
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
First published in 1972, “Think Little” is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that we will recognize war and oppression and pollution not as separate issues, but aspects of the same. “Think Little” is presented here alongside one of Berry’s most popular and personal essays, “A Native Hill.” This gentle essay of recollection is told alongside a poetic lesson in geography, as Berry explains at length and in detail, that what he stands for is what he stands on. Each palm–size book in the Counterpoints series is meant to stay with you, whether safely in your pocket or long after you turn the last page. From short stories to essays to poems, these little books celebrate our most–beloved writers, whose work encapsulates the spirit of Counterpoint Press: cutting–edge, wide–ranging, and independent.

Wendell Berry

Author: Jason Peters
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813192579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
A portrait of one of America's most profound and honest thinkers, this book combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary to illuminate Berry as he is: a complex man of place and community with a depth of domestic, intellectual, filial, and fraternal attributes.

Recollected Essays, 1965-1980

Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865470255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Recalls past camping trips, reminisces about people from the author's childhood, and considers issues about conservation and the quality of life in the United States

A New Harmony of the Four Gospels in English

Author: George Whitefield Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description

Social Harmony

Author: Narendra Modi
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 9350489805
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Collection of articles and lectures of chief minister of Gujarat, India; some previously published.

The Handbook of Phonological Theory

Author: John A. Goldsmith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444343041
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 979

Book Description
The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains Brings together a renowned and international contributor team Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995 Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print

Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm

Author: Zong Woo Geem
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642001858
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Calculus has been used in solving many scientific and engineering problems. For optimization problems, however, the differential calculus technique sometimes has a drawback when the objective function is step-wise, discontinuous, or multi-modal, or when decision variables are discrete rather than continuous. Thus, researchers have recently turned their interests into metaheuristic algorithms that have been inspired by natural phenomena such as evolution, animal behavior, or metallic annealing. This book especially focuses on a music-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, harmony search. Interestingly, there exists an analogy between music and optimization: each musical instrument corresponds to each decision variable; musical note corresponds to variable value; and harmony corresponds to solution vector. Just like musicians in Jazz improvisation play notes randomly or based on experiences in order to find fantastic harmony, variables in the harmony search algorithm have random values or previously-memorized good values in order to find optimal solution.

Alien Life Imagined

Author: Mark Brake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521491290
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Compelling account of how ideas of alien life have evolved for general readers, amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology.