Out of Eden

Out of Eden
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0374530432
ISBN-13 : 9780374530433
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of Eden by : Alan Burdick

In this stunning work of narrative nonfiction, the author tours the front lines of ecological invasion--in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco, in lush rain forests, through underground lava tubes, on the deck of an Alaska-bound oil tanker.

Outside the Gates of Eden

Outside the Gates of Eden
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Publisher : Head of Zeus
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781789541151
ISBN-13 : 1789541158
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Outside the Gates of Eden by : Lewis Shiner

What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. 'Outside the Gates of Eden' follows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole, constantly uprooted in his childhood, finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965. From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to the Woodstock festival in upstate New York, from campus protests to the Soho art scene, from a communal farm in Virginia to the mariachis of Guanajuato, Mexico, the novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture - and what came after.

Outside the Gates of Eden

Outside the Gates of Eden
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 9780226128610
ISBN-13 : 022612861X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Outside the Gates of Eden by : Peter Bacon Hales

The cultural historian and author of Atomic Spaces offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter Bacon Hales explores those decades through a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life. Finding unexpected connections, he traces the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril. From newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests to the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the teen pop music of the Brill Building and the Beach Boys to Bob Dylan’s canny transformations; from the painful failures of communes to the breathtaking utopian potential of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation in transition as a new generation began to make its mark on the world it was inheriting. Outside the Gates of Eden is the most comprehensive account yet of the baby boomers, their parents, and their children, as seen through the places they built, the music and movies and shows they loved, and the battles they fought to define their nation, their culture, and their place in what remains a fragile and dangerous world.

Out of Eden

Out of Eden
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780691148120
ISBN-13 : 0691148120
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of Eden by : Paul W. Kahn

Offering a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil, this book uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for an articulation of the human condition, and shows us that evil expresses the rage of a subject who knows both that he is an image of an infinite God and that he must die.

Out of Eden

Out of Eden
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0520070658
ISBN-13 : 9780520070653
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of Eden by : W. S. Di Piero

"The writing is superb, the insights come with astonishing and rich rapidity, and the moral and intellectual intelligence behind them strikes me as unflinchingly honest and scrupulous."--Reginald Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly

Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World

Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
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Publisher : Robinson
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781780337531
ISBN-13 : 1780337531
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by : Stephen Oppenheimer

In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/

River Out of Eden

River Out of Eden
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9780786724260
ISBN-13 : 0786724269
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis River Out of Eden by : Richard Dawkins

How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as ”the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius”), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.

Discovering the Word of Wisdom

Discovering the Word of Wisdom
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Publisher : Fresh Awakenings
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781493684960
ISBN-13 : 1493684965
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Discovering the Word of Wisdom by : Jane Birch

This book is a lively exploration of the amazing revelation known to Mormons as the “Word of Wisdom.” It counsels us how and what we should eat to reach our highest potential, both physically and spiritually. New and surprising insights are presented through the perspective of what has been proven to be the healthiest human diet, a way of eating supported both by history and by science: a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet. WFPB vegetarian diets have been scientifically proven to both prevent and cure chronic disease, help you achieve your maximum physical potential, and make it easy to reach and maintain your ideal weight. In this book, you’ll find the stories of dozens of people who are enjoying the blessings of following a Word of Wisdom diet, and you’ll get concrete advice on how to get started! You will discover: What we should and should not eat to enjoy maximum physical health. How food is intimately connected to our spiritual well being. Why Latter-day Saints are succumbing to the same chronic diseases as the rest of the population, despite not smoking, drinking, or doing drugs. How the Word of Wisdom was designed specifically for our day. How you can receive the “hidden treasures” and other blessings promised in the Word of Wisdom. Why eating the foods God has ordained for our use is better not just for our bodies, but for the animals and for the earth. You may think you know what the Word of Wisdom says, but you’ll be amazed at what you have missed. Learn why Mormons all over the world are “waking up” to the Word of Wisdom!

Engineering Eden

Engineering Eden
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9780307454263
ISBN-13 : 0307454266
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Engineering Eden by : Jordan Fisher Smith

The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness management, including the eminent zoologist A. Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone. Their testimony would help decide whether the government owed the Walker family restitution for Harry's death, but it would also illuminate decades of patchwork efforts to preserve an idea of nature that had never existed in the first place. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. Tracing a course from the founding of the national parks through the tangled twentieth-century growth of the conservationist movement, Smith gives the lie to the portrayal of national parks as Edenic wonderlands unspoiled until the arrival of Europeans, and shows how virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management. Moving across time and between Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it. In the tradition of John McPhee's The Control of Nature and Alan Burdick's Out of Eden, Jordan Fisher Smith has produced a powerful work of popular science and environmental history, grappling with critical issues that we have even now yet to resolve.

Out of Eden

Out of Eden
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 241
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780190275501
ISBN-13 : 0190275502
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of Eden by : David P. Barash

Out of Eden explores the intersection of human polygamous tendencies and the monogamous expectations of Western society through evolutionary biology.