How Things Grow: A Book about Nature

by Nancy Buss

Book Overview

What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home: when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From Freud to Lacan to Kristeva to Heidegger, the feeling of strangeness - das Unheimlichkeit - has marked our encounter with the other, even the other within our self. Most philosophical attempts to understand the role of the Stranger, human or transcendent,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307020800
• ISBN13: 9780307020802
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Golden Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Growing Up in Nature

This book describes (in very easy to understand ways) how certain plants and animals grow. Pumpkins, frogs, chickens, strawberries, butterflies, and oak trees all go through seasons of growth. It gently parallels these seasons of growth with the growth of babies into children, with each stage of growth being a special time.