Writing The Urban Jungle
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Author |
: Joseph McLaughlin |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081391972X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813919720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing the Urban Jungle by : Joseph McLaughlin
Much has been written about the effects of British culture on colonized people, but this study suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between literature and metropolitan culture, it discusses the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home.
Author |
: Igor Josifovic |
Publisher |
: Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 698 |
Release |
: 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781683358763 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1683358767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plant Tribe by : Igor Josifovic
The bestselling authors of Urban Jungle delve into the many ways that nurturing plants helps nurture the soul This new book by the authors of the bestselling Urban Jungle addresses the life-changing magic of living with and caring for plants. Aimed at a wider audience than typical houseplant books, each chapter combines easily digestible plant knowledge, style guidance via real home interiors, and inspiring advice for using plants to increase energy, creativity, and well-being and to attract love and prosperity. Also included: real-world @urbanjungleblog followers’ FAQs; a section on plants and pets; and plant care for the different stages of a houseplant’s life. The focus is on using plants to raise the positive energy of every room in the house and to live happily ever after with plants.
Author |
: Nicholas Read |
Publisher |
: Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2012-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781554693955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1554693950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis City Critters by : Nicholas Read
Discusses the lives of wild animals that live in a North American urban environment--
Author |
: Menno Schilthuizen |
Publisher |
: Picador |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2018-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250127839 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250127831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwin Comes to Town by : Menno Schilthuizen
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete. *Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic. How is this happening? Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we’re having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live side-by-side with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the city’s hotter climate (the “urban heat island”); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocket-like oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and free-rangingdogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly human-derived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving. Darwin Comes toTown draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.
Author |
: Tristan Donovan |
Publisher |
: Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2015-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569761038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569761035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feral Cities by : Tristan Donovan
We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating people who try to manage them. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails that are invading Miami, the boars that roam Berlin, and the monkey gangs of Cape Town. From feral chickens and carpet-roaming bugs to coyotes hanging out in sandwich shops and birds crashing into skyscrapers, Feral Cities takes readers on a journey through streets and neighborhoods that are far more alive than we often realize, shows how animals are adjusting to urban living, and asks what messages the wildlife in our metropolises have for us.
Author |
: Joseph McLaughlin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:27709004 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing the Urban Jungle by : Joseph McLaughlin
Author |
: Tanya Agathocleous |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521762649 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521762642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century by : Tanya Agathocleous
Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.
Author |
: Hilton Carter |
Publisher |
: Ryland Peters & Small |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782497592 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782497595 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild at Home by : Hilton Carter
"Hilton Carter's love for plants is infectious... His lush and exuberant displays are inspiring reminders that plants can be so much more than neat little containers on a window sill."Grace Bonney, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Design*Sponge Take a tour through Hilton's own apartment and other lush spaces, filled with a huge array of thriving plants, and learn all you need to know to create your own urban jungle. As the owner of over 200 plants, Hilton feels strongly about the role of plants in one's home – not just for the beauty they add, but for health benefits as well: 'having plants in your home not only adds life, but changes the airflow throughout. It's also a key design element when styling your place. For me, it wasn't about just having greenery, but having the right variety of greenery. I like to see the different textures of foliage all grouped together. You take a fiddle leaf fig and sandwich it between a birds of paradise and a monstera and.... yes!' You will be armed with the know-how you need to care for your plants, where to place them, how to propagate, how to find the right pot, and much more, and most importantly, how to arrange them so that they look their best. Combine sizes and leaf shapes to stunning effect, grow your own succulents from leaf cuttings, create your own air plant display, and more.
Author |
: James Barilla |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2013-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300184013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300184018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Backyard Jungle by : James Barilla
DIVThe captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat/div
Author |
: Mark Dion |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015040047717 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Concrete Jungle by : Mark Dion
A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems. An exploration into the results of what happens when urban and human environments intersect with each other.