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Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.
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 Bateson's natural history of the
relationship between ideas. The book incorporates writing by both
father and daughter, including essays written by Bateson in the
last years before his death. The book is a unique demonstration of
thinking in progress.
In "With a Daughter's Eye," writer and cultural anthropologist Mary
Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with
two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and
Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds
new light on her parents' prodigious achievements and stands alone
as an important contribution for scholars of Mead and Bateson. But
for readers everywhere, this engaging, poignant, and powerful book
is first and foremost a singularly candid memoir of a unique family
by the only person who could have written it.
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: Georgetown Classics in
Arabic Language and Linguistics. Sparked by the new demand, this
reprint of a genuinely "gold-standard" language volume provides a
streamlined reference on the structure of the Arabic language and
issues in Arabic linguistics, from dialectics to literature.
Originally published in 1967, the essential information on the
structure of the language remains accurate, and it continues to be
the most concise reference summary for researchers, linguists,
students, area specialists, and others interested in Arabic.
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