Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
A Little Corner Of Freedom
Download A Little Corner Of Freedom full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Little Corner Of Freedom ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis A Little Corner of Freedom by : Douglas R. Weiner
Download or read book A Little Corner of Freedom written by Douglas R. Weiner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-02-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led movement through the Stalin years and beyond. It appeared that, within scientific societies, alternative visions of land use, resrouce exploitation, habitat protection, and development were sustained and even publicly advocated. In sharp contrast to known Soviet practices, these scientific societies prided themselves on their traditions of free elections, foreign contacts, and a pre-revolutionary heritage. Weiner portrays nature protection activists not as do-or-die resisters to the system, nor as inoffensive do-gooders. Rather, they took advantage of an unpoliced realm of speech and activity and of the patronage by middle-level Soviet officials to struggle for a softer path to development. In the process, they defended independent social and professional identities in the face of a system that sought to impose official models of behavior, ethics, and identity for all. Written in a lively style, this absorbing story tells for the first time how organized participation in nature protection provided an arena for affirming and perpetuating self-generated social identities in the USSR and preserving a counterculture whose legacy survives today.
Book Synopsis Little Corner of Freedom by : Douglas R. Weiner
Download or read book Little Corner of Freedom written by Douglas R. Weiner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tunguska written by Andy Bruno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908, thunderous blasts and blazing fires from the sky descended upon the desolate Tunguska territory of Siberia. The explosion knocked down an area of forest larger than London and was powerful enough to obliterate Manhattan. The mysterious nature of the event has prompted a wide array of speculation and investigation, including from those who suspected that aliens from outer space had been involved. In this deeply researched account of the Tunguska explosion and its legacy in Russian society, culture, and the environment, Andy Bruno recounts the intriguing history of the disaster and researchers' attempts to understand it. Taking readers inside the numerous expeditions and investigations that have long occupied scientists, he foregrounds the significance of mystery in environmental history. His engaging and accessible account shows how the explosion has shaped the treatment of the landscape, how uncertainty allowed unusual ideas to enter scientific conversations, and how cosmic disasters have influenced the past and might affect the future.
Book Synopsis Models of Nature by : Douglas R. Weiner
Download or read book Models of Nature written by Douglas R. Weiner and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s—Lenin's rule to the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study's impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first published.
Book Synopsis Into Russian Nature by : Alan D. Roe
Download or read book Into Russian Nature written by Alan D. Roe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Into Russian Nature examines the history of the Russian national park movement. Russian biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing national parks before the Great October Revolution, but pushed the Soviet government successfully to establish nature reserves (zapovedniki) during the USSR's first decades. However, as the state pushed scientists to make zapovedniki more "useful" during the 1930s, some of the system's staunchest defenders started supporting tourism in them. In the decades after World War II, the USSR experienced a tourism boom and faced a chronic shortage of tourism facilities. Also during these years, Soviet scientists took active part in Western-dominated international environmental protection organizations where they became more familiar with national parks. In turn, they enthusiastically promoted parks for the USSR as a means to reconcile environmental protection and economic development goals, bring international respect to Soviet nature protection efforts, and help instil a love for the country's nature and a desire to protect it in Russian/Soviet citizens. By the late 1980s, their supporters pushed transformative, in some cases quixotic, park proposals. At the same time, national park opponents presented them as an unaffordable luxury during a time of economic struggle, especially after the USSR's collapse. Despite unprecedented collaboration with international organizations, Russian national parks received little governmental support as they became mired in land-use conflicts with local populations. While the history of Russia's national parks illustrates a bold attempt at reform, the state's failure's to support them has left Russian park supporters deeply disillusioned. "--
Book Synopsis From Ruins to Reconstruction by : Karl D. Qualls
Download or read book From Ruins to Reconstruction written by Karl D. Qualls and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story of the city's rebuilding. Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a unique story in which the periphery "bests" the Stalinist center: the city's experience shows that local officials had considerable room to maneuver even during the peak years of Stalinist control.Qualls first paints a vivid portrait of the ruined city and the sufferings of its surviving inhabitants. He then turns to Moscow's plans to remake the ancient city on the heroic socialist model prized by Stalin and visited upon most other postwar Soviet cities and towns. In Sevastopol, however, the architects and city planners sent out from the center "went native," deviating from Moscow's blueprints to collaborate with local officials and residents, who seized control of the planning process and rebuilt the city in a manner that celebrated its distinctive historical identity. When completed, postwar Sevastopol resembled a nineteenth-century Russian city, with tree-lined boulevards; wide walkways; and buildings, street names, and memorials to its heroism in wars both long past and recent. Though visually Russian (and still containing a majority Russian-speaking population), Sevastopol was in 1954 joined to Ukraine, which in 1991 became an independent state. In his concluding chapter, Qualls explores how the "Russianness" of the city and the presence of the Russian fleet affect relations between Ukraine, Russia, and the West.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Global Environmental History by : J. R. McNeill
Download or read book A Companion to Global Environmental History written by J. R. McNeill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Book Synopsis A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom by : James Kendall Hosmer
Download or read book A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom written by James Kendall Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Environmental History of Russia by : Paul Josephson
Download or read book An Environmental History of Russia written by Paul Josephson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
Book Synopsis Tyranny to Freedom by : Ludwik Kowalski
Download or read book Tyranny to Freedom written by Ludwik Kowalski and published by Ludwik Kowalski. This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's own father was a victim of Stalinism. But this did not prevent the young Ludwik from becoming a dedicated Stalinist and a communist party member in Poland. Tyranny to Freedom: Diary of a Former Stalinist is based on decades of diaries, written in Poland, France and the United States. How did a committed communist react to important political events, such as Stalin's death, revelations of the 20th Congress in the USSR, and the Hungarian uprising? Why did Kowalski return to Poland in 1963, instead of "choosing freedom" in the west? And why did he go public with his anti-communist feelings, after retiring in 2004? Through diary entries, spanning from 1946 and 2008, Tyranny to Freedom is a fascinating story of one man's struggle with finding a political identity and the resulting consequences of a euphoric dream turning into a nightmarish reality of murder and terror. Born in 1931 in Poland, Ludwik Kowalski spent his childhood, up to age 15, in the Soviet Union. His education was completed in Poland and in France. After returning to Poland in 1963 with a French doctorate in Nuclear Physics, he was invited to a scientific conference in the United States, and became a research associate at Columbia University. After retiring in 2004, Kowalski wrote Hell On Earth: Brutality And Violence Under The Stalinist Regime, a short and easy-to-read book for those Americans who know very little about crimes committed under red banners of proletarian dictatorship. Royalties will be donated to a Montclair State University scholarship fund.
Download or read book Russian Conservation News written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom of One’s Feet by : Christine Obbo
Download or read book Freedom of One’s Feet written by Christine Obbo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan Southall’s cultivated the enjoyment of life’s simple luxuries. He loved travelling. Difficulties encountered on journeys were extraneous to the destinations’ experiences. As a researcher, tourist or and pilgrim, he believed in travelling with “an open mind, leaving back light footprints, and returning with treasuries of memories”. Born in Birmingham, moved as a baby to “Fenlands” where the love for simple life developed while cycling, swimming in rivers, camping and hitch hiking. During family holidays, besides rowing, and standing on his head (his life long mode of exercise), he already demonstrated an anthropological predilection: quizzing and recording fishermen about their boats and fish. Two years after arriving in Uganda, he established anthropology syllabus in 1947; departed Makerere in 1964 having chaired the department of anthropology and sociology; and directed the Social Research Institute. In 1991 he retired from the University of Wisconsin Madison, his base since 1969, to Southwest France.
Download or read book He Is My Freedom written by and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Is My Freedom is a ten-week Bible study designed to help women experience God's grace in their daily lives.
Book Synopsis Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by : John W. Reid
Download or read book Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet written by John W. Reid and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green is an inspiring call to action to conserve Earth’s irreplaceable wild woods, counteract climate change, and save the planet. Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California. These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere—the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels—and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis. Reid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face, from vastly expanding protected areas, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey.
Book Synopsis The Search for Freedom by : Joan S. Lockwood
Download or read book The Search for Freedom written by Joan S. Lockwood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Search for Freedom is about a young man living in London's East End around the 1800's. It tells of a young man's travels, when he was sent to Australia for stealing. He escapes from a work farm and during his travels meets up many people and a horse called Dante. Linus Edwards endures many problems and tribulations to become a very rich and powerful man. There is love, hate and many adventures.
Book Synopsis The Awakening of Intelligence by : J. Krishnamurti
Download or read book The Awakening of Intelligence written by J. Krishnamurti and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom and Loneliness by : Avraham Aviel
Download or read book Freedom and Loneliness written by Avraham Aviel and published by Kotarim International Publi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semi-fictionalized account of the author's experiences after World War II.
