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The Emerald Horizon

Author : Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297477
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Horizon written by Cornelia F. Mutel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present, and future of Iowa. In doing so, she ties all of Iowa's natural features into one comprehensive whole. Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today’s natural environment by understanding yesterday’s changes. After summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa’s modern landscape, she recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. Next she examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed. Finally she presents realistic techniques for restoring native species and ecological processes as well as a broad variety of ways in which Iowans can reconnect with the natural world. Throughout, in addition to the many illustrations commissioned for this book, she offers careful scientific exposition, a strong sense of respect for the land, and encouragement to protect the future by learning from the past. The “emerald prairie” that “gleamed and shone to the horizon’s edge,” as botanist Thomas Macbride described it in 1895, has vanished. Cornelia Mutel’s passionate dedication to restoring this damaged landscape—and by extension the transformed landscape of the entire Corn Belt—invigorates her blend of natural history and human history. Believing that citizens who are knowledgeable about native species, communities, and ecological processes will better care for them, she gives us hope—and sound suggestions—for the future.

Emerald Horizons Book 4

Author : Melody Anne
Publisher : Falling Star Publications LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerald Horizons Book 4 written by Melody Anne and published by Falling Star Publications LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-27 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Diamond’s back in the final book of the series. She’s ready for her next adventure even though she feels more lost than ever before. She’s met some incredible people who have changed her life, and feels she’s getting closer than ever to finding guilt-free happiness. Read the book fans are saying they can’t put down. We begin this next adventure on Catalina Island in the city of Avalon. Charlie decides she’s going to move to the island and become a fisherwoman for the rest of all time. She’s not sure how she’s going to accomplish this, but all she knows for sure is she needs to repair her heart after losing her baby and the man she thought she’d love forever. As soon as Charlie steps onto the island she meets Mona who will change her life . . . next comes Jason and his irresistible niece Makayla. Can she resist this island and all of the people who don’t know the meaning of a personal bubble? Or will she leave? Part two of the book begins with Charlie sitting in Ireland, but her restful peace doesn’t last long before she’s pulled to Seattle where she meets a man larger than life, and another who first saves her, then sets her free. Who's the man Charlie gets to live with forever? Each of the journeys Charlie's been on in the past ten years has been essential to who she is now. She finally gets her happy ending. Will it be the same one you’d choose for her? Or will you close the book in tears? There’s only one way to find out.

Emerald Horizon

Author : Jean Grainger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914958595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Emerald Horizon written by Jean Grainger and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin, 1944 Ariella Bannon is being hunted. Someone is determined to betray her as a Jew, but she has survived against incredible odds, and the end is in sight. She will be reunited with her precious children, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, Liesl and Erich have found a home in Ireland away from the chaos of war-ravaged Europe. As the dark news of what has happened to the Jews filters through, they are torn - love for their mother and their home on one hand, and the profound sense of peace and belonging they have in Ballycreggan on the other. Like all of the other children who escaped Nazi territory on the Kindertransport, they must wait to hear the fate of their loved ones. For their foster parents, Elizabeth and Daniel, their dearest wish, that Ariella would survive the war, is also their deepest fear. Would her return mean the loss of the children they have come to think of as their own? As the Third Reich crumbles under relentless Allied bombs, Ariella is careful, but Berlin is a very dangerous place to be, and somebody knows she survived. Can she take one last enormous risk to be reunited with Liesl and Erich or will her betrayer see her finally captured? The Emerald Horizon is the long awaited sequel to the best-seller, The Star and the Shamrock.

Teague Wars

Author : Brandon Hoy
Publisher : Teague Wars
ISBN 13 : 9781949929379
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Teague Wars written by Brandon Hoy and published by Teague Wars. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix Reinhard lives in Luminar, one of Osiren's five great cities. These cities are rumored to be protecting religious emeralds used to lift a curse their Protectors' had cast upon them. They had been forgotten long ago until Luminar was destroyed in search of this artifact. Twelve years later, Phoenix assumes responsibility of protecting the remaining cities from those planning to collect all five. He quickly learns there is more to his religion than he ever believed.

Wireless Horizon

Author : Dan Steinbock
Publisher : Amacom Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814407141
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Wireless Horizon written by Dan Steinbock and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinbock (a senior advisor for the Institute for Mobile Market Research) provides a global overview of successful strategies, policies, and innovations in the most developed (i.e. "globalized") wireless technologies markets since the 1980s. After identifying globalization drivers and technology innovators, he analyzes recent industry evolution. He discusses the strategies of the leading equipment manufacturers, as well as enablers and service providers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Twelve Horizons of Charlie - Diamond

Author : Melody Anne
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Horizons of Charlie - Diamond written by Melody Anne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Diamond was raised by incredible parents in Prairie Town, Oregon where everyone knows their neighbors and a kid can't get away with anything. To top that off, her father is the small town's preacher, making her nearly untouchable. But that doesn't stop one boy from crossing the line in the sand her father has drawn. Bentley Lawrence III has also been born and raised in Prairie Town as well. As a matter of fact, he's from four generations back, and his family owns a huge ranch, and logging land that employees most of the town. Bentley's twin sister, Stephanie Lawrence is best friends with Charlie, and somewhere between kindergarten and high school Bentley has fallen madly in love with Charlie. Sometimes, though, love just isn't enough, not when unbearable tragedy hits when that seems an insufferable possibility. When Charlie's world falls out from beneath her, a deathbed promise, and a loving best friend, sends Charlie on a whirlwind to find herself and live the dreams she promised Bentley she'd live.

Landforms of Iowa

Author : Jean Cutler Prior
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587291951
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Landforms of Iowa written by Jean Cutler Prior and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Star and the Shamrock

Author : Jean Grainger
Publisher : Star and the Shamrock
ISBN 13 : 9781914958557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Star and the Shamrock written by Jean Grainger and published by Star and the Shamrock. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the streets of wartime Berlin, to the bombed out city of Liverpool, and finally resting in the lush valleys of the Ards Penisula, The Star and the Shamrock from USA Today best-selling author Jean Grainger is a must read WWII saga.

Emerald Cities

Author : Joan Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199759316
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Emerald Cities written by Joan Fitzgerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence, and social justice. Cities are major sources of pollution but because of their population density, reliance on public transportation, and other factors, Fitzgerald argues that they are uniquely suited to promote and benefit from green economic development. For cities facing worsening budget constraints, investing in high-paying green jobs in renewable energy technology, construction, manufacturing, recycling, and other fields will solve two problems at once, sparking economic growth while at the same time dramatically improving quality of life. Fitzgerald also examines how investing in green research and technology may help to revitalize older industrial cities and offers examples of cities that don't make the top-ten green lists such as Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio and Syracuse, New York. And for cities wishing to emulate those already engaged in developing greener economic practices, Fitzgerald shows which strategies will be most effective according to each city's size, economic history, geography, and other unique circumstances. But cities cannot act alone, and Fitzgerald analyzes the role of state and national government policy in helping cities create the next wave of clean technology growth. Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.

Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport

Author : Veli Himanen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0080447090
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport written by Veli Himanen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management

Tales from an Uncertain World

Author : L. S. Gardiner
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385535
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tales from an Uncertain World written by L. S. Gardiner and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places—a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be. Instead of focusing on the economics and geopolitics of the debate over climate change, this book brings large-scale disaster to a human scale, emphasizing the role of the individual. We humans do have the capacity to deal with disasters. When we face threatening changes, we don’t just stand there pretending it isn’t so, we do something. But because we’re human, our responses aren’t always the right ones the first time—yet we can learn to do better. This book is essential reading for all who want to know how we can draw on our strengths to survive the climate catastrophe and forge a new relationship with nature.

A Watershed Year

Author : Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299275
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book A Watershed Year written by Cornelia F. Mutel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size—flowing in places at a rate nearly double that of the previous record flood—and the rapidity of their rise ruined farmlands and displaced thousands of residents and hundreds of businesses. In Cedar Rapids, the waters inundated more than nine square miles of the downtown area; in Iowa City, where the flood was also the most destructive in history, the University of Iowa’s arts campus was destroyed. By providing a solid base of scientific and technical information presented with unusual clarity and a wealth of supporting illustrations, the contributors to this far-reaching book, many of whom dealt firsthand with the 2008 floods, provide a detailed roadmap of the causes and effects of future devastating floods. The twenty-five essays fall naturally into four sections. “Rising Rivers, Spreading Waters” begins by comparing the 2008 floods with the midwestern floods of 1993, moves on to trace community responses to the 2008 floods, and ends by illuminating techniques for forecasting floods and determining their size and frequency. “Why Here, Why Now?” searches for possible causes of the 2008 floods and of flooding in general: annual crops and urban landscapes, inflows into and releases from reservoirs, and climate change. “Flood Damages, Flood Costs, Flood Benefits” considers the complex mix of flood costs and effects, emphasizing damages to cities and farmlands as well as potential benefits to natural communities and archaeological sites. “Looking Back, Looking Forward” lays out approaches to managing the floods of the future that are sure to come. While the book draws most of its examples from one particular region, it explains flooding throughout a much larger region—the midwestern Corn Belt—and thus its sobering yet energizing lessons apply well beyond eastern Iowa. By examining the relationships among rivers, floodplains, weather, and modern society; by stressing matters of science and fact rather than social or policy issues; and by addressing multiple environmental problems and benefits, A Watershed Year informs and educates all those who experienced the 2008 floods and all those concerned with the larger causes of flooding.

The Emerald Scepter

Author : Paul Kemprecos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615804552
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Scepter written by Paul Kemprecos and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something bad happened to Matinicus "Matt" Hawkins in Afghanistan. The ex-SEAL was grievously wounded in an ambush that killed men under his command and almost ended his life. When he pushed for an investigation, he was kicked out of the Navy with a psychiatric discharge. The doctors put his shattered leg back together, but the bitterness destroyed his marriage. Five years later, Hawkins is jerked out of his tranquil life as a designer of undersea robots. A super-secret government group wants him to go back to Afghanistan on a strange and dangerous mission. A Georgetown University historian has unearthed evidence that could lead to the fabulous treasure of Prester John, a legendary Christian ruler of an eastern empire. The historian has disappeared, and the government wants Hawkins to track down the treasure as a matter of national security. The centerpiece of the trove, an emerald-encrusted gold scepter, is the linchpin in the Prophet's Necklace, code-name for a plot that is intended to kill more people than the attack on the Twin Towers and rally others to the terrorist cause. Hawkins sees his mission to foil the plot as an opportunity to search for answers. He pulls together an eclectic team that includes his ex-wife, a former comrade-in-arms and a mentally unstable computer whiz. Backed by his unlikely team, Hawkins will travel thousands of miles and hundreds of years on an amazing time-space odyssey. He'll face off against a cold-blooded killer. Probe the underwater secrets of an ancient tomb. Navigate the treacherous stands of an unimaginable conspiracy. And in the process, will discover that there are treasures even more valuable than gold.

The Emerald Light in the Air

Author : Donald Antrim
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712409
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Light in the Air written by Donald Antrim and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for communion in a city, both beautiful and menacing, which can promise so much and yield so little. But they are hungry for life. They want to love and be loved. These stories, all published in The New Yorker over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described The Verificationist as "one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years." And here is Antrim's best book yet: the story collection that reveals him as a master of the form.

Translingual Narration

Author : Bert Mittchell Scruggs
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208837
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Translingual Narration written by Bert Mittchell Scruggs and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translingual Narration is a study of colonial Taiwanese fiction, its translation from Japanese to Chinese, and films produced during and about the colonial era. It is a postcolonial intervention into a field largely dominated by studies of colonial Taiwanese writing as either a branch of Chinese fiction or part of a larger empire of Japanese language texts. Rather than read Taiwanese fiction as simply belonging to one of two discourses, Bert Scruggs argues for disengaging the nation from the former colony to better understand colonial Taiwan and its postcolonial critics. Following early chapters on the identity politics behind Chinese translations of Japanese texts, attempts to establish a vernacular Taiwanese literature, and critical space, Scruggs provides close readings of short fiction through the critical prisms of locative and cultural or ethnic identity to suggest that cultural identity is evidence of free will. Stories and novellas are also viewed through the critical prism of class-consciousness, including the writings of Yang Kui (1906–1985), who unlike most of his contemporaries wrote politically engaged literature. Scruggs completes his core examination of identity by reading short fiction through the prism of gender identity and posits a resemblance between gender politics in colonial Taiwan and pre-independence India. The work goes on to test the limits of nostalgia and solastalgia in fiction and film by looking at how both the colonial future and past are remembered before concluding with political uses of cinematic murder. Films considered in this chapter include colonial-era government propaganda documentaries and postcolonial representations of colonial cosmopolitanism and oppression. Finally, ideas borrowed from translation and memory studies as well as indigenization are suggested as possible avenues of discovery for continued interventions into the study of postcolonial and colonial Taiwanese fiction and culture. With its insightful and informed analysis of the diverse nature of Taiwanese identity, Translingual Narration will engage a broad audience with interests in East Asian and postcolonial literature, film, history, and culture.

Over the Horizon

Author : David Thoreson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996525718
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Over the Horizon written by David Thoreson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Country So Full of Game

Author : James J. Dinsmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Country So Full of Game written by James J. Dinsmore and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iowa has been changed more than, perhaps, any other state. We can mourn the disappearance of the bison and mountain lion while we marvel at the recent success of the wild turkey and white-tailed deer. Listening to James Dinsmore tell the story of wildlife in Iowa can open a window onto the future as other areas of our planet are increasingly altered by humans.