Tag: Condition

Free Download Robert Pogue Harrison, "Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition"
English | 2008 | pages: 263 | ISBN: 0226317897, 1459606264 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.

Free Download Peter Drucker, "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition"
English | 2000 | pages: 476 | ISBN: 0765807254 | PDF | 21,0 mb
Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. The twentieth century has witnessed both radical alteration and tenacious durability in social organization, politics, economics, and art. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining equilibrium between change and conservation.