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Book Synopsis Measuring Mother Earth by : Heather Robertson
Download or read book Measuring Mother Earth written by Heather Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, entertaining portrait of the great Canadian explorer Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the man who single-handedly invented the notion of the Romance of the North. In the nineteenth century, exploring the Earth was as exciting and awe-inspiring an activity as space exploration was in the twentieth century. And even as late as the 1880s, vast expanses of Canada remained largely untrodden by Europeans. So joining the Geological Survey in 1882 was the realization of a dream for the short-sighted, profoundly deaf, and egotistical young Joseph Burr Tyrrell. A romantic, inspired as much by Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novels and by Wild Bill Hickock's exploits as by the spirited debates about evolution that informed his work, Tyrrell chafed under the strictures of the survey. By the time of the Klondike gold rush in 1898, he was a bitter man, resentful that the survey under George Dawson had repeatedly refused to promote him or give him any plum jobs. He quit and took up prospecting instead, which brought him nothing but misery in the Yukon but handed him a fortune when gold was discovered in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. His own best fan, Tyrrell did finally achieve the celebrity he ached for. Decked out in a sealskin parka and moccasins, while he burnished stories of his achievements, Tyrrell became the prototype of the romantic hero-explorer later personified by Robert Scott (of the Antarctic). He retired a multi-millionaire and died at the age of ninety-eight, just six weeks before the 1957 space launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth.
Book Synopsis Lessons from Mother Earth by : Elaine McLeod
Download or read book Lessons from Mother Earth written by Elaine McLeod and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of her beloved grandmother, Tess learns some valuable lessons about plants and discover the wonders and joys of nature.
Book Synopsis Hablando Con Madre Tierra by : Jorge Argueta
Download or read book Hablando Con Madre Tierra written by Jorge Argueta and published by Libros Tigrillo. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of poems that feature Mother Earth and express an appreciation for nature.
Book Synopsis A Measure of Disorder by : Alan Tucker
Download or read book A Measure of Disorder written by Alan Tucker and published by Mad Design, Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth-grade life becomes a thing of the past when Jenni and her science class go on a field trip and are unknowingly transported to another world. There they encounter amazing creatures, some of which think a kid shish kebab would be a tasty treat.
Book Synopsis We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by : Tsering Yangzom Lama
Download or read book We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies written by Tsering Yangzom Lama and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile. International Bestseller Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo-haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle-tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint-a relic known to vanish and reappear in times of need. Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is living with Lhamo's daughter, Dolma, in Toronto. While Tenkyi works as a cleaner and struggles with traumatic memories, Dolma vies for a place as a scholar of Tibetan Studies. But when Dolma comes across the Nameless Saint in a collector's vault, she must decide what she is willing to do for her community, even if it means risking her dreams. Breathtaking in its scope and powerful in its intimacy, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we'll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years, this novel provides a nuanced, moving portrait of the little-known world of Tibetan exiles.
Download or read book Mother Earth written by Nancy Luenn and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the gifts that the earth gives to us and the gifts that we can give back to her.
Book Synopsis Mission: Mother Earth by : Richard Benishai
Download or read book Mission: Mother Earth written by Richard Benishai and published by Wild Flower Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Benishai travels the world discovering, mapping, and repairing essential elements of the Earth's subtle energy grid that were known in ancient times, but which have been forgotten and fallen into disrepair in recent times. This book relates his successful efforts to reinvigorate the energy grid in Israel. Subsequent volumes will extend the work to other nations"--
Book Synopsis A Measure of the Earth by : Jerry Merritt
Download or read book A Measure of the Earth written by Jerry Merritt and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalling secrets lie beneath the civility of a small town. Two boys joined in an unlikely alliance confront a world of body snatching, terror, and murder.Nathan Pickerel's hilarious difficulties adjusting to a new school lessen after Floyd Singletary, a gifted outcast, befriends him. The two boys hear tales from an old widow that set them on an exploration of Nathan's new home - an ancient two-story house full of secrets. In an attempt to find money hidden in the house they soon turn up a mummified corpse in a retaining wall in the basement and expose themselves to sinister forces that have remained out of sight since the 1930s.In a showdown between the boys and a sadistic family of grave robbers who feel they have a right to the missing money, Nathan is kidnapped and faced with torture. Floyd, unable to enlist the help of the police because of his reputation as living in a fantasy world, saves Nathan through cunning and bravery. But Floyd is later convicted of murder. Only Floyd's brilliance and Nathan's loyalty eventually save him.
Book Synopsis Earth is My Mother, Sky is My Father by : Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Download or read book Earth is My Mother, Sky is My Father written by Trudy Griffin-Pierce and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.
Book Synopsis Mother Earth, Father Sky by : Sue Harrison
Download or read book Mother Earth, Father Sky written by Sue Harrison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman comes of age in this epic saga. “Harrison expertly frames dramatic events with depictions of prehistoric life in the Aleutian Islands” (The New York Times Book Review). It’s 7056 BC, a time before history. On the first day that Chagak’s womanhood is acknowledged within her Aleut tribe, she unexpectedly finds herself betrothed to Seal Stalker, the most promising young hunter in the village. A bright future lies ahead of Chagak—but in one violent moment, she loses her entire way of life. Left with her infant brother, Pup, and only a birdskin parka for warmth, Chagak sets out across the icy waters on a quest for survival and revenge. Mother Earth, Father Sky is the first book of the Ivory Carver Trilogy, which also includes My Sister the Moon and Brother Wind.
Book Synopsis Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You by : Dan Riskin
Download or read book Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You written by Dan Riskin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun exploration of the darker side of the natural world reveals the fascinating, weird, often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating flora and fauna into vivid focus. Through his adventures— which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root on his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.
Book Synopsis How Are You, Mother Earth? by : Gordon Hunter
Download or read book How Are You, Mother Earth? written by Gordon Hunter and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting in the waiting room of my family doctor, I started wondering about who doctors the Earth? Her health is of the utmost importance to us as she provides us with the basic requirements for life.
Download or read book Measuring Up written by James Mannon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of the problems caused by the relentless pressure many Americans feel to measure up successfully in respect of school grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified aptitudes. The book focuses on various aspects, both major and minor, of social and cultural life, discussing topics such as culture, socialization, peer groups, reference groups, presentations of self, gender roles, class inequality, deindustrialization, corporate downsizing, status systems, and human agency. Having taken his critical look at modern cultural values that support the performance ethic, the author concludes with hope for a reorientation of values that could promote a more productive sense of identity in America.
Book Synopsis The Measure of All Things by : Shlomo Giora Shoham
Download or read book The Measure of All Things written by Shlomo Giora Shoham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Measure of All Things is the final volume in a trilogy about man as related to the genesis of the world, to metaphysics, and to the ontological vicissitudes of the human species. This book reviews the condition of man and his relationship with the forces of evolution, in both a biological and a spiritual sense. It is, therefore, an innovative excursion into the present day arguments between the evolutionist and creationist regarding the fate of man.
Download or read book Nature as Measure written by Wes Jackson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America. Wes Jackson, “a well–known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his convictions into captivating prose . . . Jackson’s thoughts are still as significant and profound as they were nearly 20 years ago” (Publishers Weekly) and can teach us many things about the land, soil, and conservation, but what most resonates is this: The ecosphere is self–regulating, and as often as we attempt to understand it, we are not its builders, and our manuals will often be faulty. The only responsible way to learn the nuances of the land is to study the soil and vegetation in their natural state and pass this knowledge on to future generations. “[A] small book rich in ideas” (The New York Times Book Review), Nature as Measure collects Jackson’s essays from Altars of Unhewn Stone and Becoming Native to This Place, presenting ideas of land conservation and education that are written from the point of view of a man who has practiced what he’s preached and proven that it is possible to partially restore much of the land that we’ve ravaged. Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy, grounded in nature’s principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His longtime friend Wendell Berry provides an informative, contextual Introduction. “For those concerned about what will be left and how many billion will be starving in twenty years, this is a must read.” —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society “A good introduction to a thinker whose ideas on agriculture are radical both in their technical approach to food production as well as in terms of the economic, social, and cultural context within which it is practiced.” —Review of Radical Political Economics
Book Synopsis Does Measurement Measure Up? by : John M. Henshaw
Download or read book Does Measurement Measure Up? written by John M. Henshaw and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-05-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henshaw examines the ways in which measurement makes sense or creates nonsense.
Download or read book Mother Nature written by Jamie Lee Curtis and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the incredible debut graphic novel from Academy Award-winning Hollywood horror legend Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Russell Goldman and illustrated by award-winning artist Karl Stevens. After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation’s experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the “Mother Nature” project, its clean water. Haunted by her father’s death, the rebellious Nora wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant’s facilities and equipment, until one night she makes a terrifying discovery about the true nature of the “Mother Nature” project and the malevolent, long-dormant horror it has awakened, which threatens to destroy them all…
