Nature-Oriented River Works in Ohmi's Streams

Gender, Nature, and the Fairytale Structure in Robin McKinley's Works

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Streams as Entanglement of Nature and Culture: European Upper Paleolithic River Systems and Their Role as Features of Spatial Organization

Large river valleys have long been seen as important factors to shape the mobility, communication, and exchange of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. However, rivers have been debated as either natural entities people adapt and react to or as cultural and meaningful entities people experience and interpret in different ways. Here, we attempt to integrate both perspectives. Building on theoretical wo...

Modelling Nature in Ecologically Oriented Urban Context

Western Works and Views On Hadith : Beginnings , Nature , and Impact

This is a brief history of the beginning of the Orientalist studies of hadith, which will shed light on the most prominent works and views Western scholars on hadith, the nature as well as the impact of their outcomes on Muslims and Western worlds. The beginning era of such studies was between 1890 to 1950. In this period, two influential and founding works of Ignatz Goldziher and Josef Schacht...

Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellous works of nature and man

The title of this beautifully-produced book gives the key to its content. Giambattista Venturi in 1797 was the first to emphasize the scientific importance of Leonardo's studies of the works of nature. During the following century, there was a vague, exaggerated admiration of Leonardo's achievements in science. However, the artistic side of Leonardo's activity, though so small in quantity, was ...