Tag: Threshold

Free Download Sirpa Nummela, "Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0520252780 | PDF | pages: 360 | 4.4 mb
From crocodiles and penguins to seals and whales, this comprehensive and authoritative synthesis explores the function and evolution of sensory systems in animals whose ancestors lived on land. Together, the contributors explore the dramatic transformation of smell, taste, sight, hearing, balance, mechanoreception, magnetoreception, and electroreception that occurred as lineages of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals returned to aquatic environments. Each chapter integrates data from fields including sensory physiology, anatomy, paleontology, and neurobiology. A one-stop source for information on the sense organs of secondarily aquatic tetrapods, Sensory Evolution on the Threshold sheds new light on both the evolution of aquatic vertebrates and the sensory biology of their astonishing transition.

Free Download Threshold Phenomena: Derrida and the Question of Hospitality by Michael Naas
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1531507107, 1531507115 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 1.9 MB
Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida’s thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida’s rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Kant’s Perpetual Peace, Levinas’s Totality and Infinity) and his attempt to rethink questions surrounding not only private but also public hospitality in the form of immigration law, the contemporary treatment of migrants or stateless peoples, and the establishment of cities of asylum.

Free Download Galileo Galilei: At the Threshold of the Scientific Age (Springer Biographies) by Wolfgang W. Osterhage
English | June 15, 2018 | ISBN: 3319917781 | 165 pages | MOBI | 3.49 Mb
This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of, Galileo’s exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond.

Free Download Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4858PZ2 | 2024 | 9 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Heather Suzanne Woods
Narrator: April Doty
Smart homes are here-domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security. But these technologies may also extract a cost in attention, money, and privacy. In Threshold, communication and technology expert Heather Suzanne Woods applies rhetorical theory to answer the urgent question of how swiftly proliferating smart homes alter those who inhabit them. Building on research into smart homes in the United States, Woods recounts how smart homes arose and predicts the trajectory of their future form. She pulls back the curtain on the technology, probes who is in control, and questions whether a home can be too smart. Woods suggests a dynamic cultural framework for understanding smart homes that takes into account sociotechnical variables through which smart homes shape human life. Woods’s framework reveals how smart homes both reflect social norms about technology as well as whet consumer appetites. Written for homeowners, policymakers, technology enthusiasts, and scholars, Threshold interweaves critical analysis with matter-of-fact graphics that map relationships between digital tools and social life.

Free Download Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau by Almut-Barbara Renger, translated by David Rice, Duncan Alexander Smart
English | September 3, 2013 | ISBN: 022604808X | True EPUB | 136 pages | 4.9 MB
When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle-he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture’s central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth-in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known-Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account of this mythic encounter and how it deals with the concepts of liminality and otherness.

Free Download Ieva Jusionyte, "Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border"
English | 2018 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 0520297180, 0520297172 | EPUB | 8,2 mb
"Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse."-✅Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review

Free Download Armin Medosch, "New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution"
English | 2016 | pages: 407 | ISBN: 0262034166, 0262546639 | PDF | 6,3 mb
An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics.

Free Download Rachel Tzvia Back, "Now at the Threshold: The Late Poems of Tuvia Ruebner"
English | ISBN: 0878201866 | 2020 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In late 2013, preeminent Hebrew poet Tuvia Ruebner published his fifteenth poetry collection, which he titled Last Ones. But it was not his last; he continued writing and publishing, even into the summer of his death in 2019. The translated poems in Now at the Threshold: The Late Poems of Tuvia Ruebner are from Ruebner’s final three collections, poems all written from 2014 onward, after the poet’s 90th birthday. Translated into English by award-winning translator Rachel Tzvia Back, these late and last poems both celebrate life’s enduring small graces and converse quietly-even negotiate- with death. With love and loss ever intertwined, and a protesting voice still fierce, this collection offers the reader illuminating and beautiful poetry from a great humanist and a great poet.

Free Download Jione Havea, "Theology as Threshold: Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand "
English | ISBN: 1978714793 | 2022 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
What thresholds of theology would we cross if we engage the aches and despairs, wisdoms, and hopes in and of Aotearoa New Zealand and the neighboring sea of islands? What thresholds need to be jarred or moved (threshold as opening), probed and raised (threshold as limit)? This book engages these questions in two parts: "(re)Locating Theological Studies" contains essays that interrogate the purposes of theological studies (locally and globally), identify gaps due to the Western heritage and blind spots of "traditional theology," and provide examples of how those gaps may be bridged when local concerns are engaged; "Nativizing Theological Studies" contains essays that present and engage the heritage and wisdom of tangata whenua (indigenous, native people) of Aotearoa and Pasifika. These essays reaffirm the "native" rhetoric with pride. This collection of essays affirms that theological studies have a future, and that there is a role for theologians in and from Aotearoa New Zealand and Pasifika to play in navigating (into) that future.

Free Download Rachel Randall, "Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency"
English | ISBN: 1498555136 | 2017 | 284 pages | EPUB | 1375 KB
Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between "nature" and "culture," which converts them into a focus of, and a limit to, state or colonial biopower. Rachel Randall provides a comprehensive examination of the key themes and developments in boys’ and girls’ cinematic representations since the adoption of children’s rights discourses in the region. Recommended for scholars interested in Latin American studies, film studies, and cultural studies.