“…Human infants and nonhuman animals with consciousness and intentionality have rudimentary first-person perspectives. …”

“…Indeed, the majority of cosmologies, ancient and modern, explore not simply how the world was made but how humans relate to their surrounding environment and the often thin line which separates humans from gods and animals. Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology, and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod's Theogony; the Orphic Derveni theogony; and Protagoras' creation myth in Plato's eponymous dialogue. …”

“…The collection aim is twofold: to better understand these fruitful ideas by placing them in the original setting, and to systematically examine these ideas in the context of the current debates animating philosophical discussions today. Divided into five sections, the book first sets the stage and offers a general introduction to the background influences, as well as delimitations of the initial foundational positions. …”

“…If reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? …”

“…From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, "A Little Book of Language" ranges widely, revealing language's myriad intricacies and quirks. In animated fashion, Crystal sheds light on the development of unique linguistic styles, the origins of obscure accents, and the search for the first written word. …”

“…From about 9000 BC the region began to enjoy a warm, humid period allowing vegetation to flourish and wild animals to move in. Humans soon followed practising pastoral economies but with the onset of harsher conditions once more around 3000 BC the desert reclaimed its own. …”

“…L’apocalypse dernier livre du nouveau Testament est le point de départ d’une immense enquête sur la christianisation de l’Empire romain.Résolument fidèles à leur démarche historique et à leur écriture cinématographique, Jérôme Prieur et Gérard Mordillat interrogent 50 chercheurs,venus des quatre coins du monde, sur la formation d’une nouvelle religion parcourant les étapes qui vont de la fin du Ier siècle de notre ère jusqu’à La Cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin au début du Vème siècle.Comment et pourquoi l’attente imminente de la Fin des temps qui anime une petite secte juive de disciples de Jésus a-t-elle pu, en à peine plus de troiscents ans, aboutir à la religion officielle et unique de l’Empire romain, tournant capital de la civilisation occidentale ?…”

“…Current research explores inter-specific interactions, including co-evolutionary relationships between plant silicon and animals, particularly morphological adaptations, behavioural responses and the potential for plant silicon to regulate mammal populations. …”

“…In the spirit of Uitgeverij's editorial approach, this will allow readers from different parts of the world to discover in their own ways how ((( explores some of the author's recurring themes through highly innovative poetic and narrative processes: the effects of war on children; technology and surveillance systems; immaterial and unknown phenomena; human emotions and non-human manifestations of nature via undefined objects and bodies, animals, and cosmological landscapes. The three parentheses of the title hint at multiple layers that are opened and never closed: ((( seeks to push language out of its verbal and human boundaries, towards unobservable territories. …”

“…Terrestrial plants are sessile organisms that, differently from animals, can not move in searching of the nutrients and water they need. …”

“…Ecological Democracy builds further on deep ecology, ecophenomenology, and animism by articulating an ecocentric view on nature which defends an intrinsic moral value of all existence as well as formulating the democratic principle of all ecologically affected parties. …”

“…Life, unmeasured and unhurried, takes all the time it seems to need for the development of its animate and inanimate tokens of triumph and travail. …”

“…We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. …”

“…En aquest context, aquesta tesi doctoral té com a objectiu avaluar l'efecte d'un tractament de musicoteràpia sobre l'estat anímic i la qualitat de vida de pacients afectats de càncer. …”
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“…This, together with the application of other high throughput omic techniques and the use of gnotobiotic animals has greatly improved our knowledge of the microbiota acting as a whole. …”