Disgusting Plants
Title | Disgusting Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Connie Colwell Miller |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780736868020 |
"Describes 10 disgusting plants and what makes them gross"--Title page verso.
Disgusting Plants
Title | Disgusting Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Perish |
Publisher | Bellwether Media |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1612119743 |
Not all plants smell as sweet as a rose. Carrion flowers smell like rotting flesh to attract flies and other pollinators. Others, like the Venus flytrap and Nepenthes truncata, actually eat animals! Young readers will be amazed by all of the weird and disgusting plants in this interesting read.
Disgusting Plants
Title | Disgusting Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Mattern |
Publisher | Bigfoot Books |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2020-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781645192558 |
Plants with an appetite! In this title, readers will get a close-up look at all sorts of disgusting plants through vivid images, infographics, sidebars, and more.
The Meaning of Disgust
Title | The Meaning of Disgust PDF eBook |
Author | Colin McGinn |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2011-11-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199912408 |
Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to analyze the content of disgust, arguing that life and death are implicit in its meaning. Disgust is a kind of philosophical emotion, reflecting the human attitude to the biological world. Yet it is an emotion we strive to repress. It may have initially arisen as a method of curbing voracious human desire, which itself results from our powerful imagination. Because we feel disgust towards ourselves as a species, we are placed in a fraught emotional predicament: we admire ourselves for our achievements, but we also experience revulsion at our necessary organic nature. We are subject to an affective split. Death involves the disgusting, in the shape of the rotting corpse, and our complex attitudes towards death feed into our feelings of disgust. We are beings with a "disgust consciousness", unlike animals and gods-and we cannot shake our self-ambivalence. Existentialism and psychoanalysis sought a general theory of human emotion; this book seeks to replace them with a theory in which our primary mode of feeling centers around disgust. The Meaning of Disgust is an original study of a fascinating but neglected subject, which attempts to tell the disturbing truth about the human condition.
100 Most Disgusting Things on the Planet
Title | 100 Most Disgusting Things on the Planet PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Claybourne |
Publisher | 100 Most |
Total Pages | 57 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1682974189 |
Can you face the most disgusting things the world has to offer? From nauseating foods and revolting habits to jungle crawlers and stomach worms, this is your ultimate guide to maggots, giant cockroaches, and much, much more. Each vile entry includes a yuck rating and all the disgusting details you need to prepare yourself for the real-life scenario.
Killer Plants
Title | Killer Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Louise and Richard Spilsbury |
Publisher | Bellwether Media |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1681033208 |
Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, and sundews are all examples of nature's insect traps. They use their sugary nectar to lure prey to them, before each carries out a unique killer plan of capture. The predatory power of the plants featured in this title will stun young students.
The Anatomy of Disgust
Title | The Anatomy of Disgust PDF eBook |
Author | William Ian MILLER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0674041062 |
William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division.