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Composing a Life

Composing a Life more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities.

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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way

Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson shares her new vision of learning through participation. She argues that individuals who shed their familiar habits of learning and actively seek new and unfamiliar experiences with an open mind will lead more enriched lives. She proposes that much of life's meaning lies at the edge of our awareness, much as ...

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Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred more books like this

by Gregory Bateson

This is a re-issue of Gregory Bateson's and Mary Catherine Bateson's work, which has been out of print for the past 20 years, 2004 is the G. Bateson centennial and much interest is anticipated for his publications. This work is the final sustained thinking of Bateson. In collaboration with his daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this volume sets out ...

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Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition

Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

In this discussion of difference and sameness, Bateson, a cultural anthropologist, explores not only how progressing through lifes stages affects the fabric of lives--as she did in her earlier book COMPOSING A LIFE--but also how the constant and varied interactions of people produce a familiarity among them without destroying the differences that ...

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With a Daughter's Eye

With a Daughter's Eye more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

Though many books have been written about the famous anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, none match the depth and intimacy of this classic memoir by their daughter. An illuminating portrait that throws new light on the couple's extraordinary scientific achievements. Photos.

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Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery

Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

WRITER AND EDUCATOR Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected. This collection can be read as a memoir of unfolding curiosity, for it brings together essays and occasional pieces, many of them previously ...

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Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation more books like this

by Smithsonian, Mary Catherine Bateson

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With Daughtr Eye more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bareson, Mary Catherine Bateson

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Arabic language handbook.

Arabic language handbook. more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

The demand for information on learning Arabic has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know about other parts of the world. It is fitting that this Arabic Language Handbook, complementing Georgetown University Press's exceptional Arabic language textbooks, is the first in a new series: ...

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Thinking AIDS more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson, Richard Goldsby

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Thinking AIDS: The Social Response to the Biological Threat more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson, Richard A Goldsby, Catherine Bateson

Presenting a sophisticated, clear picture of AIDS and its effect on the immune system, the authors then go beyond biology to the very heart of modern civilization where they see the real threat as the potential damage it may wreak on our society. Thinking AIDS may well be the human document of the decade, taking its place alongside Illness as ...

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Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation

Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

Our Own Metaphor, now being re-issued by Hampton Press, provide an approach to the basic question of whether humans, with their increasingly powerful technologies, will ultimately destroy the environment on which they depend or prove capable of a new level of adaptation. The book suggests that any solution to the world's myriad problems must be ...

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Angels fear more books like this

by Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson

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Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace

Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace more books like this

by Mary Lee Morrison, Mary Catherine Bateson (Foreword by)

Elise Boulding has been among the most influential of social reformers to advocate the integration of peace studies and women's studies. Her ideas inspired a number of works addressing the role of the family in producing social change and discussing women's unique capacity for promoting peace through nurturing and networking. Boulding's additional ...

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Structural continuity in poetry; a linguistic study of five pre-Islamic Arabic odes. more books like this

by Mary Catherine Bateson

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Regard Sur Mes Parents

by Bateson Mary Catherine

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La Peur Des Anges

by Gregory; Bateson Bateson, Mary Catherine; Cler, Christian; Giribone, Jean-Luc

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