Ce livre prend à bras-le-corps une question simple, à laquelle il est difficile de répondre : quel âge avons-nous ? Pour Robert Harrison, les humains n’ont pas seulement un âge biologique, évolutionnaire et géologique : ils ont aussi un âge culturel. Ils s’inscrivent dans une histoire qui préexistait à leur arrivée et continuera après leur départ. Aujourd’hui, dans le sillage de la science et des nouvelles technologies, un écart vertigineux se creuse entre nous et nos anciens, notre présen...

An essential resource for ceramicists, studios or schools looking for inspiration to reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work.Producing work that is not only beautifully designed and produced, but is also environmentally friendly and socially responsible is now more important than ever. In Sustainable Ceramics, pioneer Robert Harrison draws on more than four decades of making, and a wealth of experience shared by other artists to...

Que cherchons-nous dans les jardins, ceux que nous cultivons jour après jour de nos propres mains, ceux où nous nous promenons pour en apprécier les beautés et nous y ressourcer ? Que retirer de l’humilité, la dévotion, la culture du soin du jardinier ? Pour y répondre, Robert Harrison nous fait cheminer dans des jardins anglais, zen ou secrets ; déambuler dans les compositions de Le Nôtre comme dans les jardins transitoires des sans-abris new-yorkais ; et emprunter en imagination bien d’a...

Dans ce livre, Robert Harrison explore la relation que nous, les vivants, entretenons avec les morts au travers de la littérature et de la philosophie. Il s'interroge sur le rôle des morts dans notre société, sur le pouvoir des ancêtres auprès des vivants, quant au langage, aux cérémonies religieuses ou aux traditions. Un magnifique essai sur nos racines les plus profondes au travers des fruits de notre imaginaire.

In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal...

Macbeth is one of the greatest plays ever written, but Shakespeare's depiction of Macbeth bears little resemblance to the truth. The real Macbeth lived in a time of constant battle between those Scots who followed the Celtic system of electing the King, and those who followed the English system of Inheriting the crown in the direct line of succession. Macbeth and Duncan were both grandsons of King Malcolm, but when the King named Duncan as his successor, it caused great resentment, resulti...

A young Wyatt Harrison grows dissatisfied with the drudgery of working on the family farm in northern Alabama and contending with an unpredictable father during the early 1870's. His decision to leave home and find a life more to his liking is soon immersed in trouble. Following a series of conformations with a co-worker, he is attacked one night with deadly intentions. The resulting fight is brutal, leaving two seriously injured and another fatally wounded. This time Wyatt runs from the l...

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works.

Happy in Intensive CareBy: Robert Harrison BlackThe Author was practicing what he taught at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at the University of North Florida when the series of medical events came upon him. The complications included fluid on the lung, pneumonia, hernia surgery to repair the stomach cancer incision and anemia. This all happened in the first three months of 2017.After surviving the problems, he found it interesting how easily he was able to st...

Robert Harrison and Robert Browne were the initiators of the principles of English Separatism and Congregationalism. Unlike the Presbytero-Puritans, these nonconformists sought to establish local churches that were independent of the state. Although they encountered fierce opposition from the clergy, state officials and Anglican bishops, they persisted in their practices. As a result, the ideas of these two men profoundly influenced the Puritan movement both of England and America. In this...

In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth." Forests is one of the...

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.With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examinati...