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Author |
: Ellen Stroud |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2012-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295804453 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295804459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nature Next Door by : Ellen Stroud
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape. In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns.
Author |
: Janice Emily Bowers |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2022-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816546992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816546991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mountains Next Door by : Janice Emily Bowers
A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.
Author |
: Marianne Taylor |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2020-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691210865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691210861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gull Next Door by : Marianne Taylor
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writers From a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness. Up close, however, they can be loud, aggressive and even violent. Yet gulls fascinate birdwatchers, and seafarers regard them with respect and affection. The Gull Next Door explores the natural history of gulls and their complicated relationship with humans. Marianne Taylor grew up in an English seaside town where gulls are ever present. Today, she is a passionate advocate for these underappreciated birds. In this book, Taylor looks at the different gull species and sheds light on all aspects of the lives of gulls—how they find food, raise families, socialize and migrate across sea, coastland and countryside. She discusses the herring gull, Britain's best-known and most persecuted gull species, whose numbers are declining at an alarming rate. She looks at gulls in legend, fiction and popular culture, and explains what we can do to protect gull populations around the world. The Gull Next Door reveals deeper truths about these remarkable birds. They are thinkers and innovators, devoted partners and parents. They lead long lives and often indulge their powerful drive to explore and travel. But for all these natural gifts, many gull species are struggling to survive in the wild places they naturally inhabit, which is why they are now exploiting the opportunities of human habitats. This book shows how we might live more harmoniously with these majestic yet misunderstood birds.
Author |
: Anne Rivers Siddons |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2007-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416553441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416553444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The House Next Door by : Anne Rivers Siddons
The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.
Author |
: Allison Weiser Strout |
Publisher |
: Holiday House |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2022-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780823450862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0823450864 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Next Door to Happy by : Allison Weiser Strout
Twelve-year-old Violet Crane is an only child in a lonely household who longs to be part of the gregarious family that’s just moved in next door. With a mother struggling with anxiety, a father who recently moved out, and no siblings to commiserate with, socially awkward Violet Crane feels like she is starting middle school with less going for herself than that of your average kid. When the rambunctious Walker family moves in next door, Violet can’t help but wish she could become a part of their household—everyone and everything seems so normal compared to her own. After she meets them, Violet falls in love with all five Walker siblings and especially with Mrs. Walker, who is nothing like her own mother. Violet and Reggie, the black sheep of the Walker family, find that they have an easy understanding of each other, and it doesn’t hurt that they are in the same grade at school. But then Violet overhears a conversation between Reggie and his mother in which she tells him that she doesn’t feel like Violet is an appropriate friend. Violet is devastated until she faces a truth--no person, family or friendship is perfect—and realizes just how lucky she is.
Author |
: James W. Sire |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 2011-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781459611146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1459611144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt) by : James W. Sire
For more than thirty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. In this new fifth edition James Sire offers additional student-friendly features to his concise, easily understood introductions to theism, deism, naturalism, Marxism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern monism, New Age philosophy and postmodernism. Included in this expanded format are a new chapter on Islam and informative sidebars throughout.The book continues to build on Sire's refined definition of worldviews from the fourth edition and includes other updates as well, keeping this standard text fresh and useful. In a world of ever-increasing diversity, The Universe Next Door offers a unique resource for understanding the variety of worldviews that compete with Christianity for the allegiance of minds and hearts. The Universe Next Door has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been used as a text at over one hundred colleges and universities in courses ranging from apologetics and world religions to history and English literature. Sire's Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept provides a useful companion volume for those desiring a more in-depth discussion of the nature of a worldview.
Author |
: Robert W. Jepperson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1685240216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781685240219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild World Next Door - Getting to Know Our Wild Neighbors by : Robert W. Jepperson
Poetry, vignettes, narratives and photographs based on the author's decade of visiting a 3000-acre forest preserve and its beaver ponds. His personal writing style takes his readers with him as he follows the lives of his wild neighbors.
Author |
: Lincoln Bramwell |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2014-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295805580 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295805587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilderburbs by : Lincoln Bramwell
Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls “wilderburbs” have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities but still within commuting distance, nestled next to lakes and rivers or in forests and deserts, and often featuring spectacular views of public lands, wilderburbs celebrate the natural beauty of the American West and pose a vital threat to it. Wilderburbs tells the story of how roads and houses and water development have transformed the rural landscape in the West. Bramwell introduces readers to developers, homeowners, and government regulators, all of whom have faced unexpected environmental problems in designing and building wilderburb communities, including unpredictable water supplies, threats from wildfires, and encounters with wildlife. By looking at wilderburbs in the West, especially those in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, Bramwell uncovers the profound environmental consequences of Americans’ desire to live in the wilderness.
Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 1994-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802133681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802133687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Garden Next Door by : José Donoso
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.
Author |
: Luigi Tomba |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2014-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801455193 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801455197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Government Next Door by : Luigi Tomba
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba’s vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place. Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.