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Download or read book Natural Visions written by Finis Dunaway and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walden Pond. The Grand Canyon.Yosemite National Park. Throughout the twentieth century, photographers and filmmakers created unforgettable images of these and other American natural treasures. Many of these images, including the work of Ansel Adams, continue to occupy a prominent place in the American imagination. Making these representations, though, was more than a purely aesthetic project. In fact, portraying majestic scenes and threatened places galvanized concern for the environment and its protection. Natural Visions documents through images the history of environmental reform from the Progressive era to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, showing the crucial role the camera played in the development of the conservation movement. In Natural Visions, Finis Dunaway tells the story of how visual imagery—such as wilderness photographs, New Deal documentary films, and Sierra Club coffee-table books—shaped modern perceptions of the natural world. By examining the relationship between the camera and environmental politics through detailed studies of key artists and activists, Dunaway captures the emotional and spiritual meaning that became associated with the American landscape. Throughout the book, he reveals how photographers and filmmakers adapted longstanding traditions in American culture—the Puritan jeremiad, the romantic sublime, and the frontier myth—to literally picture nature as a place of grace for the individual and the nation. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and a host of other artists, Natural Visions will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in American cultural history, the visual arts, and environmentalism.
Download or read book Twilight Zone written by John Woodward and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers on a color-illustrated journey into the world's oceans, describing such fish and animals as vampire squid, hatchet fish, and elephant seals as well as deep-sea exploration equipment and the effects of water pressure.
Download or read book Midnight Zone written by John Woodward and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigate some of the most vibrant realms on Earth. Track sea turtles on their annual migrations, explore the Titanic, or scuba dive through underwater caverns. Each book sends the reader on a mission to explore a particular ocean zone and examine its wildlife and geography. The explorer is equipped with a route map, equipment, and a firm base of scientific facts and theories explaining everything from how satellite navigation works to marine snow.
Download or read book Visions of Nature written by Jarrod Hore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : dispossession in focus : between ancestral ties and settler territoriality -- Six geobiographies : senses of site in the white settler world -- Space and the settler geographical imagination : the survey, the camera, and the problematic of waste -- A clock for seeing : revelation and rupture in settler colonial landscapes -- Tanga Whaka-ahua or, the man who makes the likenesses : managing indigenous presence in colonial landscapes -- Colonial encounter, epochal time, and settler romanticism in the nineteenth century -- Noble cities from primeval rorest : settler territoriality on the world stage -- Settler nativity : nations and natures into the twentieth century -- Conclusion : settler colonialism, reconciliation, and the problems of place.
Download or read book Natural Visions written by Heather Angel and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with practical advice on how to improve nature photography, this book is aimed at camera novices who have mastered the basics and want to develop a fresher, more creative approach.
Book Synopsis A Scientific Inquiry Into the Nature of God, the Spiritual, and Near Death Experiences by : Stephen Blaha
Download or read book A Scientific Inquiry Into the Nature of God, the Spiritual, and Near Death Experiences written by Stephen Blaha and published by Pingree-Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is God? What is His nature? Is there a scientific approach to understanding God? Can we apply modern scientific thinking to God in the same way that theologians apply classical reasoning to God? Are there spiritual phenomena? Can we rationally analyze them? How do we interpret the apparently spiritual nature of Near Death Experiences? Can we explain how a blind person undergoing a Near Death Experience "sees" the operating table with his/her mind and can describe the people there afterwards? All of these questions are addressed in a clear straightforward way in this well-written book. A profound book that will appeal to thoughtful readers.
Download or read book Visions and Ecstasies written by H.D. and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.D’s writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.’s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help color H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.
Book Synopsis The Nature of Cities by : Jennifer S. Light
Download or read book The Nature of Cities written by Jennifer S. Light and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2009 Lewis Mumford Prize, Society for City and Regional Planning History In the early twentieth century, America was transformed from a predominantly agricultural nation to one whose population resided mostly in cities. Yet rural areas continued to hold favored status in the country’s political life. For prominent figures in the social sciences, city planning, and real estate who were anxious about the future of cities, this obsession with the agrarian past inspired a new campaign for urban reform. They called for ongoing programs of natural resource management to be extended to maintain and improve cities. Jennifer S. Light finds a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement. The professionals Light examines came to view America’s urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.
Download or read book Psychology written by Oliver Munsell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Psychology, Or, The Science of Mind by : Oliver S. Munsell
Download or read book Psychology, Or, The Science of Mind written by Oliver S. Munsell and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Disguise written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 202-04-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If John O'Loughlin is 'In Disguise' here it's because, these days, he does not see himself primarily as a poet but, rather, as a philosopher, if a self-taught one, who once wrote poems, many of which were of a philosophical order and thus an alternative or formative approach to his philosophy-proper. The 180 or so poems collected together here are all readerly, or capable of being read, as opposed, like the bulk of Mr O'Loughlin's abstract poetry, to being contemplated (because non-readerly), and have accordingly been described as verse (whether 'rhymed' or 'free') to distinguish them from anything abstract, or non-readerly. 'Lyric' might suffice as a more conventional description, but, frankly, that would hardly apply to the majority of the poems in this collection which, as stated, are distinctly philosophical and the product, in consequence, of a disguised philosopher, a philosopher in disguise.
Book Synopsis Heinemann Science Scheme Pupil Book 1 by : Ian Bradley
Download or read book Heinemann Science Scheme Pupil Book 1 written by Ian Bradley and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Heinemann Science Scheme" offers an approach to the QCA's Scheme of Work. Teacher's resource packs provide support with lesson planning, with each chapter matching the Scheme of Work, and in-built assessment.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Native Music by : Brian Wright-McLeod
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Native Music written by Brian Wright-McLeod and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want the word on Buffy Sainte-Marie? Looking for the best powwow recordings? Wondering what else Jim Pepper cut besides “Witchi Tai To”? This book will answer those questions and more as it opens up the world of Native American music. In addition to the widely heard sounds of Carlos Nakai’s flute, Native music embraces a wide range of forms: country and folk, jazz and swing, reggae and rap. Brian Wright-McLeod, producer/host of Canada’s longest-running Native radio program, has gathered the musicians and their music into this comprehensive reference, an authoritative source for biographies and discographies of hundreds of Native artists. The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value. With almost 1,800 entries spanning more than 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers of traditional songs like William Horncloud to artists of the new millennium such as Zotigh. Along the way, it includes entries for jazz and blues artists never widely acknowledged for their Native roots—Oscar Pettiford, Mildred Bailey, and Keely Smith—and traces the recording histories of contemporary performers like Rita Coolidge and Jimmy Carl Black, “the Indian of the group” in the original Mothers of Invention. It also includes film soundtracks and compilation albums that have been instrumental in bringing many artists to popular attention. In addition to music, it lists spoken-word recordings, including audio books, comedy, interviews, poetry, and more. With this unprecedented breadth of coverage and extensively cross-referenced, The Encyclopedia of Native Music is an essential guide for enthusiasts and collectors. More than that, it is a gateway to the authentic music of North America—music of the people who have known this land from time immemorial and continue to celebrate it in sound.
Book Synopsis The World of Man by : Francis Borgia
Download or read book The World of Man written by Francis Borgia and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted
Book Synopsis Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World by : Michael J. Benton
Download or read book Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World written by Michael J. Benton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were—or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. Here, world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have changed the way we see these extinct beasts forever. Stunning, brand-new illustrations by paleoartist Bob Nicholls display the latest and most exciting scientific discoveries in vibrant color. From Sinosauropteryx, the first dinosaur to have its color patterns identified—a ginger-and-white striped tail and a “bandit mask”—by Benton’s team at the University of Bristol to recent research on the surprising mixed feathers and scales of Kulindadromeus, this is one of the first books to include cutting-edge scientific research in paleontology. Each chapter focuses on a particular extinct species, featuring a specially commissioned illustration by Bob Nicholls that brings to life the latest scientific breakthroughs, with accompanying text exploring how paleontologists have determined new details, such as the patterns on skin and the colors of feathers of animals that lived millions of years ago. This visual compendium surprises and challenges everything you thought you knew about what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
Download or read book Trees written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the seeming simplicity of its title, TREES is anything but simple, since arguably the deepest and most politically radical of all John O'Loughlin's volumes of poetry, extending beyond as well as summing up earlier themes with an ideological conviction that points towards a whole new approach to culture and, hence, civilization.
Book Synopsis The Power of Images by : David Freedberg
Download or read book The Power of Images written by David Freedberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."—Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book."—T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
