Robert Dunn

Priroda, kak govorjat, priglashaet nas k stolu s pomoschju appetita i voznagrazhdaet vkusom. No chto imenno predstavljajut soboj vkusy? Pochemu odni iz nikh nam prijatny, a drugie net? "Proiskhozhdenie vkusov"-v vysshej stepeni uvlekatelnoe pogruzhenie v navaristuju guschu etikh voprosov. Schedro sdobriv povestvovanie stolovymi lozhkami iskrennosti i ostroumija, Rob Dann i Monika Sanches predlagajut novatorskij vzgljad na to, pochemu pischa dostavljaet ljudjam udovolstvie i kak poisk prijatnykh vkusov okazalsja sekretnym ingredientom vsej chelovecheskoj istorii. Oni rasskazyvajut o toj roli shef-povara, kotoruju nashi vkusovye predpochtenija sygrali v sozdanii pervykh orudij truda, vymiranii gigantskikh mlekopitajuschikh, evoljutsii samykh vkusnykh i pitatelnykh v mire plodov, izobretenii piva i formirovanii nashej sobstvennoj sotsialnosti. V kachestve garnira vy uznaete o suschestvovanii sovershenno nevoobrazimykh vkusovykh retseptorov, o luchshem sposobe kvasit mastodonta, o svjazi mezhdu syrom i paleoliticheskim iskusstvom-i o mnogom drugom. Paniruja masterstvo izlozhenija novejshimi dannymi nauki, avtory "Proiskhozhdenija vkusov" servirujut pered chitatelem glubokuju istoriju nashikh chuvstvennykh otnoshenij s edoj. Perevodchik Elifjorova Marija

Predstavljaja buduschee, my obychno voobrazhaem sebja vstroennymi v mekhanizirovannuju ekosistemu, naselennuju robotami, apparatami i virtualnymi realnostjami. Buduschee raduzhno i tekhnologichno, i my, ljudi, - edinstvennye dejstvujuschie litsa v etom prekrasnom mire. Odnako takoe predstavlenie - bolshaja oshibka, zajavljaet biolog i ekolog Rob Dann. Kak by my ni pytalis podchinit sebe prirodu, my ostaemsja ee chastju i zavisim ot nee. Pri etom nasha zavisimost vovse ne oznachaet, chto priroda zavisit ot nas: ona spravitsja s ljubymi popytkami cheloveka ignorirovat ee, srazhatsja s nej ili vlastvovat nad nej, a zakony zhizni prodolzhat dejstvovat i posle vymiranija nashego vida. V knige "S nami ili bez nas" Dann rasskazyvaet o biologicheskikh zakonakh, neprelozhnykh, kak zakony fiziki, o tom, kak menjaetsja okruzhajuschij nas mir, kakaja uchast ozhidaet izvestnye nam vidy i gde i kak budut formirovatsja novye. Pri etom za dolguju istoriju svoej zhizni na planete chelovechestvo nevolno istrebilo dikie vidy, ot kotorykh zaviselo ili moglo zaviset, i odnovremenno sposobstvovalo vozniknoveniju vidov, sozdajuschikh nam neprijatnosti. Teper, esli my sami khotim vyzhit, nam nado nauchitsja ponimat biologicheskie zakony i podchinjatsja im. Togda nashi shansy prozhit esche 100, 1000 ili dazhe million let znachitelno povysjatsja. Nu, a esli net - chto zh, u ekologov i evoljutsionnykh biologov est dovolno ubeditelnoe viidenie togo, kak budet razvivatsja zhizn na Zemle bez nas...

The Mysteries of Light is an original literary meditation on the significance and meaning of photobooks. Written by a photographer and novelist, the book brings a strong new light to the photobook phenomenon. It's a mix of personal stories and examinations of such great artists as Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Saul Leiter, Alec Soth, Masahisa Fukase, and Christer Str mholm, as well as newcomers Daisuke Yokota, Laura El-Tantawy, and Jason Eskenazi. The Mysteries of Light is personal and passionate, fun, lively, informative, inspiring, and will help you understand photobooks-and get you jazzed about them-in a whole new way.

In 2011, prize-winning fiction writer Robert Dunn read a review of a new Fuji single-lens-reflex camera, and something clicked. Later that day, although the then-new Fuji X100 was as hard to get as the latest iPhone, he'd tracked one down. The next day he went out shooting photos for the first time since a brief dalliance with a cheap Nikon decades earlier. Little did Dunn know his life had changed. He'd always loved photography, and now he took his new camera with him everywhere he went. Photographs accumulated, and he began to put them into books. Soon he was making photobooks in a spirit similar to the novels he'd written, and those photobooks are now in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and the New York Public Library. In Mirrors and Smoke, Dunn tells the full story of his discovery of photography, and the way it changed his life. It's a memoir of finding a new passion later in life. It's about the bountiful world of photobooks. Most of all, it's about the way Dunn has learned to see the essence of the world around him in ever greater and more meaningful detail, then take that empathic vision and turn it into art. As he writes: "I found out that being a photographer was vastly more interesting than not being one. That walking about trying to see, and feel, as much as possible, then render all that into images was a much richer life than not doing it." Mirrors and Smoke is a book for everyone who has already traced the magical path of becoming a photographer, as well as the simply photography-curious. Read it, then pick up your camera and go hit the streets. There's a bounty of beauty and revelation waiting for you out there.

The Mysteries of Light is an original literary meditation on the significance and meaning of photobooks. Written by a photographer and novelist, the book brings a strong new light to the photobook phenomenon. It's a mix of personal stories and examinations of such great artists as Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Saul Leiter, Alec Soth, Masahisa Fukase, and Christer Str mholm, as well as newcomers Daisuke Yokota, Laura El-Tantawy, and Jason Eskenazi. The Mysteries of Light is personal and passionate, fun, lively, informative, inspiring, and will help you understand photobooks-and get you jazzed about them-in a whole new way.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

Uchityvaja, skolko vremeni sovremennyj chelovek provodit v chetyrekh stenakh ili v transporte, amerikanskij biolog Rob Dann utverzhdaet, chto my neprostitelno malo znaem o nashikh blizhajshikh sosedjakh i ikh vlijanii na nashe blagopoluchie. Chtoby ispravit eto upuschenie, Rob Dann vozglavil rabotu nauchnogo kollektiva po "inventarizatsii" form zhizni v nashikh domakh i poblizosti ot nikh. Kak okazalos, eto mnogie sotni tysjach vidov. Eto i pozvonochnye, i rastenija, i chlenistonogie, i griby, i bakterii. Kakie vidy dlja nas opasny, a kakie neobkhodimy? Avtor knigi ratuet za bioraznoobrazie i dokazyvaet ego neobkhodimost ne tolko v dikoj prirode, no i v nashem zhilische. Kak ischeznovenie odnogo vida babochki v kakoj-to mestnosti mozhet stat prichinoj rosta allergicheskikh zabolevanij? Pochemu finskie karely, v otlichie ot rossijskikh, chasche stradajut allergicheskimi zabolevanijami? Kak izbavitsja ot chernoj pleseni? Pochemu borba s tarakanami neredko lish zakaljaet ikh i delaet esche bolee zhiznestojkimi? Kak bakterii na rukakh pekarja vlijajut na vkus khleba i v chem polza fermentirovannykh produktov? Kto zhivet v dushevoj nasadke i nado li srochno menjat ee? Otkrytija, sdelannye Dannom, stali dlja nego otkroveniem. U chitatelja oni vperedi. Perevodchik: Vinarskij M.

The story is set in England, The Caribbean and the USA. It follows the adventurous life of an ex-SAS soldier whose being is not whole without the adrenaline rush he experienced in his former military career. It leads him to become involved with the supply of cocaine via the Leeward Islands to the USA using the ex-military vehicles that his company restores. As a consequence he has brushed with the law keepers of all three areas.

Acceptable ways of living do not always cross cultures. To have been raised in a society that is dependent on the growth of the opium poppy will not educate you to live in the West unless of course, you bring that with you. The consequent clash between your new life and that of old will lead to desperate measures to stay away from the law. The story unfolds with the emigration of one family from the fields of Helmand province to the urban fields of cities in Britain.

Values are inescapable. They pervade and shape our psychology, our agency, and our lives as reflective and self-knowing subjects. This book explores the crucial ways in which values figure within reflection and thereby shape our theoretical and practical lives, against the backdrop of an expressivist moral psychology that is sensitive to the vicissitudes of valuing. Combining a discussion of the role that values play within reflection with a critique of a range of influential contemporary views in moral psychology and the theory of agency, Dunn shows how such views obscure or distort the nature of that role and that there is a ’natural fit’ between an expressivist account of values and the best account of the role of values in the lives of reflective agents. Writers discussed include Simon Blackburn, Michael E. Bratman, Donald Davidson, Harry Frankfurt, Christine Korsgaard, Thomas Nagel and J. David Velleman. The book is also an important addition to the literature on self-knowledge. Dunn argues that, by reasoning about truth and values, we possess a unique, non-observational way of coming to know our own minds and hearts, together with what we are going to make happen in the world. The discussion criticizes recent contributions to the theory of self-knowledge by Richard Moran and J. David Velleman.

I Stora boken med sagor om djur hittar du åtta nya, roliga berättelser som är perfekta för alla barn som älskar djur! Den här förtjusande sagosamlingen är full av charmiga karaktärer och fina illustrationer. Möt en modig liten mullvad, en väldigt hjälpsam elefant, en närsynt giraff, en äventyrlig rävunge, och många fler. Var och en av sagorna passar perfekt för högläsning och är alldeles lagom långa för godnattstunden. Med åtta olika berättelser att välja bland kommer du alldeles säkert att hitta en ny favorit i den här boken! I samma serie finns sedan tidigare på Känguru Stora boken med godnattsagor. "Här förmedlas olika budskap, till exempel att man duger som man är och att alla passa in någonstans. Boken lämpar sig som högläsningsbok hemma och i förskolan och kan leda till bra samtal utifrån bilder, händelser och budskap." Birgitta Mark, BTJ