![]() ![]() Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself.-from "Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods"In 1890, James George Frazer began publishing The Golden Bough, his monumental study of myth, ritual, and religion, which would, by 1936, run to 13 volumes and establish him as a pioneer in the study of religion as an aspect of culture. The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which, to later thought, opens out between them. Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format: ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Ecology of Commerce was voted the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Hawken has authored articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and seven books, including: The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993), and Blessed Unrest (Viking 2007). He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hawken was active in the civil rights movement. Hawken was the co-founder and executive director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that describes how global warming can be reversed. Hawken's work includes founding ecological businesses, writing about impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with corporations and governments on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He attended UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Hawken was born in San Mateo, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where his father worked at UC Berkeley in library sciences. Paul Gerard Hawken (born February 8, 1946) is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist. ![]() ![]() ![]() It had it’s good and interesting parts and then there were the moments when I was a bit bored waiting for the next bomb to go off.įirst off, I think Scythe Anastasia’s character was done excellently by the author. I just didn’t really enjoy this one a whole lot. So I’m a little fuzzy on some of the details from the beginning. ![]() So when the unthinkable happens, no one is ready for it… and it may just be the thing to bring the entire scythedom to it’s knees… dragging Citra and Rowan right down with it.Īlright… well… this is going to be a fairly short review for a couple of reasons.ġ: I don’t know if you noticed… but it took me nearly six months to read this one. 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