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Author : Allan Vaughan Elston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780709133155
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Paradise Prairie written by Allan Vaughan Elston and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecil Brown Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Paradise Prairie written by Cecil Brown Williams and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max V. Good
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Paradise and Prairie Tales written by Max V. Good and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With emphasis on photographic art, "Paradise and Prairie Tales" is a pictorial story about both successes and failures experienced over decades during restoration work on old farm land located in southeast Kansas that was once part of the Historic Tall Grass Prairie. Much of the work on this forty-acre property owned by Max and Eweleen Good was done in cooperation with and assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and Kansas USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The Good's main wetland, designated "Kansas Wetland Number One" thirty years ago as part of an NRCS program, was a catalyst for their major habitat restoration project. Written to both inform and entertain, this book tells the Goods' story of commitment during their work to reintroduce native plants and recreate wildlife habitat on their land. It relates their love of nature and deep conviction in the importance of conservation, which was partly inspired by Aldo Leopold's book, "Sand County Almanac." To help spark conversations about conservation among readers and viewers of any age, the format chosen is the informal one of a coffee table art book, 10 inches by 10 inches in size, with over 300 pages featuring more than 600 pictures of wildflowers and other blooming plants. Almost all photos were taken on "The Good Woods" property by Max, a retired professional photographer. The story is presented as a one-year "virtual" tour showing a life cycle of the prairie depicted in color photographs and chronicled by Max in brief lyrical prose. He uses the same conversational style of storytelling punctuated with philosophy and humor as he does when taking people on one of the Goods' "real-time" prairie tours. Although not written to be a field guide the artful, closely detailed photography combined with vivid descriptions which include the common names, scientific name, sizes, and flower bloom times that appear with each plant's photos, should help people see and understand prairies in ways they never before envisioned. It's a book with an important story shown through the art of photographs, designed to appeal to all ages.
Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299164607
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Recovering the Prairie written by Robert F. Sayre and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans in ever increasing numbers are rediscovering the prairie. This vast inland sea of grasses, buried for a hundred years beneath farms, cities, and suburbs, has endured not only in physical remnants but also in the memories of its settlers and their descendants, the books of prairie authors, and the work of prairie artists. As restoration ecologists and amateur prairie preservationists recover the land, this book recovers the prairie of the American imagination--past, present, and future. Beautifully illustrated with the work of sixteen contemporary prairie artists, Recovering the Prairie celebrates and examines the perspectives of artists, writers, native peoples, ecologists, and landscape architects--Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Jens Jensen, Alexander Gardner, and many others--who recognized the unique beauty of the prairie. And, this volume brings together people from many fields to consider the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization. Contributors and artists include: Robert Adams Lee Allen Roger Brown James D. Butler Pauline Drobney Fred Easker Terry Evans Ed Folsom Lance M. Foster Harold L. Gregor Robert E. Grese Walter Hatke Harold D. Holoun Stan Hurd Gary Irving Wes Jackson Keith Jacobshagen Joni L. Kinsey Stuart Klipper Aldo Leopold Tom Lutz Curt Meine Genie H. Patrick David Plowden Rebecca Roberts Robert F. Sayre Jane E. Simonson Shelton Stromquist James R. Winn
Author : Barry Golson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416547835
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Gringos in Paradise written by Barry Golson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year in Provence meets Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House in this lively and entertaining account of a couple's year building their dream house in Mexico. In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for AARP magazine about Mexican hot spots for retirees longing for a lifestyle they couldn't afford in the United States. A year later, he and his wife Thia were taking part in the growing trend of retiring abroad. They sold their Manhattan apartment, packed up their SUV, and moved to one of those idyllic hot spots, the surfing and fishing village of Sayulita on Mexico's Pacific coast. With humor and charm, Golson details the year he and his wife spent settling into their new life and planning and building their dream home. Sayulita -- population 1,500, not including stray dogs or pelicans -- is a never-dull mixture of traditional Mexican customs and new, gringo-influenced change. Before long, the Golsons had been absorbed into the rhythms and routines of village life: they adopted a pair of iguanas named Iggy Pop and Iggy Mom, got sick and got cured by a doctor who charged them sixteen dollars a visit, made lasting friends with Mexicans and fellow expatriates, and discovered the skill and artistry of local craftsmen. But their daily lives were mostly dedicated to the difficult yet satisfying process of building their house. It took them almost six months to begin building -- nothing is simple (or speedy) in Mexico -- and incredibly, they completed construction in another six. They engaged a Mexican architect, builder, and landscape designer who not only built their home but also changed their lives; encountered uproariously odd bureaucracy; and ultimately experienced a lifetime's worth of education about the challenges and advantages of living in Mexico. The Golsons lived (and are still living) the dream of many -- not only of going off to a tropical paradise but also of building something beautiful, becoming a part of a new world, making lasting friends, and transforming their lives. As much about family and friendship as about house-building, Gringos in Paradise is an immensely readable and illuminating book about finding a personal paradise and making it a home.
Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807831972
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Making a Living written by Chad Montrie and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of
Author : Baldwin F. Kruse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961682118
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Paradise on the Prairie written by Baldwin F. Kruse and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Pardun
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Prairie Radical written by Robert Pardun and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prairie Radical is the memoir of a young man whose life was radically changed when he joined the civil rights movement and spoke out against the war in Vietnam. It is an inside history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the largest student organization of the 1960s as seen by one of its national officers who spent 1967-68 in the SDS national office at the height of the antiwar movement. It is also the history of the vibrant and innovative SDS chapter at the University of Texas in Austin, one of the Prairie Power strongholds, where the cultural rebellion and the political movement were united. Robert Pardun's story is set within the context of what was happening in Vietnam and interwoven with what we now know was happening inside the government and the FBI."--Jacket.
Author : Lu Vickers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813061528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Remembering Paradise Park written by Lu Vickers and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paradise Park was the "colored only'" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Together the two parks formed one of the biggest recreational facilities in the country before Disney World. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River--blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they seldom crossed the invisible line in the water"--Jacket.
Author : Lizzie Johnson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593136403
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Paradise written by Lizzie Johnson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. “A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year) On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. In Paradise, Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric’s decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.
Author : Larry Allain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Paradise Lost? written by Larry Allain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064435040
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Prairie Day written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-03-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Laura and her family on their journey across the flat Kansas prairie. There are gophers and rabbits to play with in the daytime, and a cozy camp awaits at night. Renée Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams' classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this ninth title in the My First Little House Books series, picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.
Author : Molly Levite Grifis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571689634
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Paradise on the Prairie written by Molly Levite Grifis and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459702158
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Rails Across the Prairies written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's rail lines were pivotal in establishing the icons that mark today's landscape: massive bridges, sentinel-like grain elevators, pattern-book wayside stations. Odd and unusual place names dot the lines, while countless ghost towns and stories abound like the "ghost train" of St. Louis and the tunnels of Moose Jaw.
Author : Sandy Allen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501134051
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise written by Sandy Allen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Compelling…A bracing work of art and a loving tribute” (Los Angeles Times), this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy,” that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty, single-spaced pages, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic,” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. “Searing” (O, The Oprah Magazine), “enthralling” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis), and “a marvel” (Esquire), A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise shows how Sandy translated Bob’s autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable. “Thrilling…Gorgeous…a watershed in empathetic adaptation of ‘outsider’ autobiography” (The New Republic), A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is a dazzlingly, daringly written book that’s poised to change conversations about schizophrenia and mental illness overall.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Walton
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785352369
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The First Day in Paradise written by Stuart Walton and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Day in Paradise tells the story of a young orphaned family who have been passed on from one set of relations to another, and whose eldest sibling, Adam, becomes enthralled by the impending opening nearby of a gigantic and beautiful shopping-mall by a flamboyant entrepreneur. To the consternation of his aunt and uncle, who run a small business, he joins the staff of one of its stores, and begins a dizzying ascent through the ranks, until circumstances induce him to question whether his entire value-system has become corrupted. Functioning both as social-economic critique, and as a personal moral fable about the conjuration of ambition from present-day consumer culture, The First Day in Paradise is an engrossing and layered tale loosely modelled on Dante's Paradiso, but most of all it's simply a great read.
