Oxford University Press

In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and...

Recent research on auditory profile analysis is the subject of this book - the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra. Discrimination of intensity changes is also discussed, along with the physiological mechanisms responsible for these discrimination processes. The author concludes with two new...

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This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "e;rhetoric"e; as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in...

Science, Religion, and the New Environmental EthosArgues that a new dialogue between truths of science and religion provides a basis for articulating and disseminating an environmental ethos which could result in the fairly rapid emergence of well organized and highly effective worldwide movement in religious environmentalism...

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