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Walter, Eugene Victor was born on March 16, 1925 in New York City. Son of Abraham and Jean Sklar Walter.
(Placeways is a philosophical and historical interpretatio...)
Placeways is a philosophical and historical interpretation of the experience and meaning of place. Searching for a way of knowing and living in the world that does not fragment experience or exploit the environment, E. V. Walter explores the way people in other cultures and other times have experienced place. The book develops Walter's theory of topistics -- a holistic way of grasping a place as the location of shapes, powers, feelings, and meanings. Exploring the common ground of such diverse fields as philosophy, history, urban planning, classics, cultural geography, architecture, sociology, and environmental psychology, Walter provides theoretical resources for readers who want to rescue the human environment from the loss of feeling and meaning. Walter discusses a wide variety of places, from prehistoric caves, the Australian desert, and classical Greece to medieval towns, Renaissance cities, and modern slums. He examines the changing realities of expressive space and reveals the nonrational, symbolic, and intuitive features in our experience of places -- elements taken for granted by archaic peoples but discounted by modern civilization. The current crisis of environmental degredation, according to Walter, is also a crisis of places. For the first time in human history, people are systematically building meaningless places. If we are to comprehend and reverse the ruin and dislocation of our cities, we must develop another way of understanding the built environment and the natural landscape. True renewal, Walter says, will require a change in the way we structure experience and a return to an ancient paradigm for understanding both the natural land and the constructed world.
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(An intriguing, talented female detective… A murder myster...)
An intriguing, talented female detective… A murder mystery laced with folklore, mythology, gossip and the lore of international intelligence work… Taking a flying leap from his previous novels of music and magic, Victor Walter swoops into the murder mystery genre with his thriller The Firebird Troika. The novel brings together Walter’s knowledge of magic, history, and mythology in a rich saga of jewel theft on a grand scale with political and mystical implications. The Firebird Troika entangles an unwitting Boston tourist couple with a notorious international thief/magician and his snake-charming Phrygian wife, a Leningrad museum curator, a Soviet-era crime ring, and a KGB agent in the time of glasnost. Emma Moore, the Russian-speaking American spy/investigator, must unravel this web to recover the mythological jewels that make up the Firebird Troika. Walter leads the reader on a suspenseful romp from Leningrad and Moscow to a shady jewelry store in suburban Boston, and back again – taking our hearts with him on the return trip.
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Walter, Eugene Victor was born on March 16, 1925 in New York City. Son of Abraham and Jean Sklar Walter.
Bachelor, University Miami, 1947. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1953.
Associate professor political science Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, 1954-1957. Associate professor sociology Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1958-1965. Lecturer sociology, department psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1969-1973.
Simon Senior research fellow University Manchester, England, 1974-1976. Professor sociology Boston University, 1967-1983. Novelist, from 1983.
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(Placeways is a philosophical and historical interpretatio...)
(A study of political violence, with case studies of some ...)
( "A wild book...readable all the way!"--Gordon Weaver )
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Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946.
Married Ruth Ice, September 20, 1957. Children: Lacey, Claudia, Ian, Natasha, Jenia, Alexandra.