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Outdoors in the Southwest

Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145536
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Outdoors in the Southwest written by Andrew Gulliford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, or Adventure Education, but fewer and fewer Americans spend any time in thoughtful, respectful engagement with wilderness. While many young people may think of adrenaline-laced extreme sports as prime outdoor activities, with Outdoors in the Southwest, Andrew Gulliford seeks to promote appreciation for and discussion of the wild landscapes where those sports are played. Advocating an outdoor ethic based on curiosity, cooperation, humility, and ecological literacy, this essay collection features selections by renowned southwestern writers including Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Craig Childs, and Barbara Kingsolver, as well as scholars, experienced guides, and river rats. Essays explain the necessity of nature in the digital age, recount rafting adventures, and reflect on the psychological effects of expeditions. True-life cautionary tales tell of encounters with nearly disastrous flash floods, 900-foot falls, and lightning strikes. The final chapter describes the work of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, and other exemplars of “wilderness tithing”—giving back to public lands through volunteering, stewardship, and eco-advocacy. Addressing the evolution of public land policy, the meaning of wilderness, and the importance of environmental protection, this collection serves as an intellectual guidebook not just for students but for travelers and anyone curious about the changing landscape of the West.

A Nature Guide to the Southwest Tahoe Basin

Author : Charles Quinn
Publisher : Charles Quinn
ISBN 13 : 0970889542
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Nature Guide to the Southwest Tahoe Basin written by Charles Quinn and published by Charles Quinn. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field guide to plants and animals

Outdoors in the Southwest

Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145544
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Outdoors in the Southwest written by Andrew Gulliford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, or Adventure Education, but fewer and fewer Americans spend any time in thoughtful, respectful engagement with wilderness. While many young people may think of adrenaline-laced extreme sports as prime outdoor activities, with Outdoors in the Southwest, Andrew Gulliford seeks to promote appreciation for and discussion of the wild landscapes where those sports are played. Advocating an outdoor ethic based on curiosity, cooperation, humility, and ecological literacy, this essay collection features selections by renowned southwestern writers including Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Craig Childs, and Barbara Kingsolver, as well as scholars, experienced guides, and river rats. Essays explain the necessity of nature in the digital age, recount rafting adventures, and reflect on the psychological effects of expeditions. True-life cautionary tales tell of encounters with nearly disastrous flash floods, 900-foot falls, and lightning strikes. The final chapter describes the work of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, and other exemplars of “wilderness tithing”—giving back to public lands through volunteering, stewardship, and eco-advocacy. Addressing the evolution of public land policy, the meaning of wilderness, and the importance of environmental protection, this collection serves as an intellectual guidebook not just for students but for travelers and anyone curious about the changing landscape of the West.

Southern Michigan All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide

Author : Sportsman's Connection
Publisher : Sportsman's Connection
ISBN 13 : 1885010745
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Southern Michigan All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide written by Sportsman's Connection and published by Sportsman's Connection. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sportsman's Connection's Southern Michigan All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide contains maps created at twice the scale of other road atlases, which means double the detail. And while the maps are sure to be the finest quality you have ever used, the thing that makes this book unique is all the additional information. Your favorite outdoor activities including fishing lakes and streams, hunting, camping, hiking and biking,snowmobiling and off-roading, paddeling, skiing, golfing and wildlife viewing are covered in great depth with helpful editorial and extensive tables, which are all cross-referenced and indexed to the map pages in a way that's fun and easy to use.

Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface

Author : Inger Birkeland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317231562
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface written by Inger Birkeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote sustainability, rather than a barrier, is the key to the development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and practices across rural and urban landscapes, natural and cultural systems, stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledge meet, are negotiated, discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost unities, or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between humans and nature based in the past, it explores cases of interfaces that are context-sensitive and which consciously convey the problems of scale and time. While calling attention to a cultural or ‘culturalised’ view of the sustainability debate, this book questions the radical nature-culture dualism dominating positive modern thinking as well as its underlying view of nature as pre-given and independent from human life.

Southwest

Author : Helen Foster James
Publisher : Cherry Lake
ISBN 13 : 1634729668
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Southwest written by Helen Foster James and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books in the Outdoor Explorers series introduce children to the specific US regional plants, animals, landscape, weather, and geography through a fun nature hike. This book studies the Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). Bright, colorful pictures will keep children engaged as they learn about the great outdoors in the United States. Glossary, index, and bibliography are included.

Airborne Particles in Museums

Author : The Getty Conservation Institute
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892361875
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Airborne Particles in Museums written by The Getty Conservation Institute and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1993-11-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents the latest in a series of research activities aimed at a better understanding of the origin and fate of air pollution within the built environment. Most previous studies of air pollution in cultural institutions have focused on gases. Particles were ignored for many reasons: they seemed to be more easily removed by the building; gaseous air pollutants had been well studied by industry, and their effects on commercial products were heavily documented; and many particle types were considered chemically benign to almost all surfaces. Even carbon black, which is now known to pose enormous degradation risks to the optical and color qualities of paintings and tapestries, is almost totally inert. Recognizing this, and understanding that we needed to know much more about the physics of particle intrusion in museum buildings, in 1987 the Environmental Engineering Lab at the California Institute of Technology, under contract to the Getty Conservation Institute, began a detailed examination of five different museums in Southern California. These structures represent a diverse range of architectural and ventilation types. Through this study a powerful computer model was developed that could predict the soiling effects of changes made to the operation or maintenance of a building. This model can even be used to estimate the soiling rates of new buildings or major rehabilitations before any construction work is begun. This is an important contribution to both the conservation community and the broader field of air quality science.

Literature of Nature

Author : Patrick D. Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579580100
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Nature written by Patrick D. Murphy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Nature of Magmatism in the Appalachian Orogen

Author : A. Krishna Sinha
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780813711911
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Magmatism in the Appalachian Orogen written by A. Krishna Sinha and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thermal evolution of mountain belts is recorded inthe distribution, origin and ages of magnatism. In this volume, petrologic, isotopic and geochemical evidence is presented to highlight the contribution of igneous rocks to the evolution of the Appalachian Orogen in both Canada and the United States. These papers emphasize the use of modern geochemical and petrologic data to discriminate the sources yielding magmas, and thus the nature of the crust and mantle.

Women and Nature

Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289758
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Women and Nature written by Glenda Riley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Rachel Carson?s fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, Glenda Riley calls for a reappraisal of the roots of the American conservation movement. This thoroughly researched study of women conservationists provides a needed corrective to the male-dominated historiography of environmental studies. The early conservation movement gained much from women?s widespread involvement. Florence Merriam Bailey classified the birds of New Mexico and encouraged appreciation of nature and concern for environmental problems. Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice published widely on Oklahoma birds. In 1902 Mary Knight Britton established the Wild Flower Preservation Society of America. Women also stimulated economic endeavors related to environmental concerns, including nature writing and photography, health spas and resorts, and outdoor clothing and equipment. From botanists, birders, and nature writers to club-women and travelers, untold numbers of women have contributed to the groundswell of support for environmentalism.

Redefining Nature

Author : Roy Ellen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323862
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Nature written by Roy Ellen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of culture in confrontation with nature was being challenged by science, philosophy and the environmental movement. Anthropology is increasingly concerned with such issues as they become more urgent for humankind as a whole. This important book reviews the current state of the concepts of 'nature' we use, both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organised around three themes:- nature as a cultural construction;- the cultural management of the environment; and- relations between plants, animals and humans.

Eastern Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide

Author : Sportsman's Connection
Publisher : Sportsman's Connection
ISBN 13 : 1885010761
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide written by Sportsman's Connection and published by Sportsman's Connection. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sportsman's Connection's Eastern Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide contains maps created at twice the scale of other road atlases, which means double the detail. And while the maps are sure to be the finest quality you have ever used, the thing that makes this book unique is all the additional information. Your favorite outdoor activities including fishing lakes and streams, hunting, camping, hiking and biking,snowmobiling and off-roading, paddeling, skiing, golfing and wildlife viewing are covered in great depth with helpful editorial and extensive tables, which are all cross-referenced and indexed to the map pages in a way that's fun and easy to use.

Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature

Author : Sarah Daw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474430058
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature written by Sarah Daw and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the neglected subject of Gothic B-movies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa

Nature, Origin, and Significance of the Tully Limestone

Author : Philip H. Heckel
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813721385
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Nature, Origin, and Significance of the Tully Limestone written by Philip H. Heckel and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Out of Nature

Author : Kara Rogers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816529698
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Out of Nature written by Kara Rogers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of all species under threat of extinction in the world today are plants. The loss of plant biodiversity is disturbing for many reasons, but especially because it is a reflection of the growing disconnect between humans and nature. Plants have been used for millennia in traditional systems of healing and have held a significant place in drug development for Western medicine as well. Despite the recent dominance of synthetic drug production, natural product discovery remains the backbone of drug development. As the diversity of life on Earth is depleted and increasing numbers of species become lost to extinction, we continue to lose opportunities to achieve advances in medicine. Through stories of drug revelation in nature and forays into botany, human behavior, and conservation, Kara Rogers sheds light on the multiple ways in which humans, medicine, and plants are interconnected. Rogers also highlights the role that plant-based products can play in encouraging conservation and protecting the heritage and knowledge of indigenous peoples. The book delves into the complexity of biophilia--the innate human attraction to life in the natural world--and suggests that the reawakening of this drive is fundamental to expanding conservation efforts and improving medicine.--Publisher information

Animal Life and Nature in Singapore

Author : Shou-Hwa Chuang
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Life and Nature in Singapore written by Shou-Hwa Chuang and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wired into Nature

Author : James Schwoch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050452
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Wired into Nature written by James Schwoch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold reinterpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact. The westward spread of telegraphy entailed encounters with environments that challenged Americans to acquire knowledge of natural history, climate, and a host of other fields. Telegraph codes and ciphers, meanwhile, became important political, military, and economic secrets. Schwoch shows how the government's use of commercial networks drove a relationship between the two sectors that served increasingly expansionist aims. He also reveals the telegraph's role in securing high ground and encouraging surveillance. Both became vital aspects of the American effort to contain, and conquer, the West's indigenous peoples--and part of a historical arc of concerns about privacy, data gathering, and surveillance that remains pertinent today. Entertaining and enlightening, Wired into Nature explores an unknown history of the West.