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Author : Steven M. Nolt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801886058
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Plain Diversity written by Steven M. Nolt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Steven M. Nolt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140284X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Plain Diversity written by Steven M. Nolt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain and simple. American popular culture has embraced a singular image of Amish culture that is immune to the complexities of the modern world: one-room school houses, horses and buggies, sound and simple morals, and unfaltering faith. But these stereotypes dangerously oversimplify a rich and diverse culture. In fact, contemporary Amish settlements represent a mosaic of practice and conviction. In the first book to describe the complexity of Amish cultural identity, Steven M. Nolt and Thomas J. Meyers explore the interaction of migration history, church discipline, and ethnicity in the community life of nineteen Amish settlements in Indiana. Their extensive field research reveals the factors that influence the distinct and differing Amish identities found in each settlement and how those factors relate to the broad spectrum of Amish settlements throughout North America. Nolt and Meyers find Amish children who attend public schools, Amish household heads who work at luxury mobile home factories, and Amish women who prefer a Wal-Mart shopping cart to a quilting frame. Challenging the plain and simple view of Amish identity, this study raises the intriguing question of how such a diverse people successfully share a common identity in the absence of uniformity.
Author : Miguel Montalva Barba
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529235448
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America written by Miguel Montalva Barba and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. The author focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political Report Partisan Voting Index, is the most liberal district in the state and 15th in the United States of America. Using the extended case method, as well as in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis and visual/media analysis, the author reveals how systemic racialized inequality persists even in a politically progressive borough.
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Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Carrizo Plain National Monument (N.M.), Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Texas Chenier Plain National Wildlife Refuge Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.V. Ward
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401701814
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ecology of a Glacial Flood Plain written by J.V. Ward and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a monograph reporting the major findings from a comprehensive study of a glacial flood plain in the Swiss Alps, based on an intensive research program conducted year-round over several years. Until recently, very little was known regarding the ecology of glacial streams. Previous studies typically focused on one or a few aspects and were limited to the summer period. Moreover, this is the first ecological study of a glacial flood plain with a dynamic, multi-thread channel network. Year-round sampling of a system with a complex channel network spawned unanticipated results and new insights into the ecology of glacial streams. The book begins with the landscape features, glacial history, and floodplain evolution of the Val Roseg. This is followed by chapters on channel typology, groundwater-surfacewater interactions, thermal heterogeneity, and nutrient dynamics. Chapters on the biota deal with terrestrial and aquatic flora, hyphomycete fungi, surface zoobenthos, and the interstitial fauna. Functional processes are addressed in chapters on organic matter dynamics, litter decomposition, nutrient limitation, and drift and colonization patterns. The final chapter provides a synthesis of our current understanding of the ecology of Val Roseg. Weare indebted to many individuals and organizations for assistance and support of the research program on the Val Roseg and the production of this book.
Author : Steven M. Nolt
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Plain Diversity written by Steven M. Nolt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harriet Blitzer
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 193877082X
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Plain of Phaistos written by Harriet Blitzer and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plain of Phaistos presents the results on an interdisciplinary regional field project (1984-1987) carried out on the island Of Crete. This volume traces the changing patterns of settlement and cycles of social complexity from the Late Neolithic period to the present day within the heartland of the state of Phaistos. The authors and contributors publish geological, archaeological, environmental, botanical, historical and ethnographic studies that establish the regional identity of the Western Mesara. Using a combination of empirical, processual and post-processual theoretical approaches, the volume investigates a central problem - how and why did the Bronze Age and Classical states arise at Phaistos?
Author : Enid Mayfield
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643098070
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2 written by Enid Mayfield and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually superb and informative field guide is the second volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, and covers more than 480 species of Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and other shrubby and herbaceous Dicotyledons. The illustrated family key is unique and covers 75 families and over 200 genera. Each species is illustrated and labels provide a clear key to identification for botanists and amateurs alike. The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora.
Author : Janneken Smucker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421410532
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Amish Quilts written by Janneken Smucker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By thoroughly examining all of these aspects, Amish Quilts is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of these beautiful works.--Roderick Kiracofe, author of The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950 "Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies"
Author : Helen M. Leitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Fishes in the Forested Flood Plain of the Ochlockonee River, Florida, During Flood and Drought Conditions written by Helen M. Leitman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John T. Tanacredi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030312372
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Redesigned Earth written by John T. Tanacredi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the basic aspects of ecology that impact or are affected by engineering practices. Ecological principals are described and discussed through the lens of the influences that built structures have on the Earth’s biological, geological, and chemical systems. The text goes on to elucidate the engineering influences that have or will influence the face of the Earth. These influences redesign the Earth, either by destroying natural systems and replacing them with highly subsidized systems or by attempting to restore highly disturbed or contaminated systems with the basic natural systems that were originally present.
Author : Carl E. Bock
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536422
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Sonoita Plain written by Carl E. Bock and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far to the south of Arizona’s sprawling metropolises, a rolling savanna of grass, oak, and mesquite rises above the surrounding deserts. The Sonoita Plain is a basin of a thousand square miles bracketed by mountains, a land once the domain of cowboys that is now more and more the focus of exurban development. These southwestern grasslands are both typical of and distinct from those of the Great Plains—similarly shaped by drought, grazing, and fire, but with a different flora and fauna, and the product of a different human history. The Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch is a tract of 8,000 acres on the Sonoita Plain that was established in 1968 by the Appleton family and that is now part of the sanctuary system of the National Audubon Society. To all appearances, it is an ordinary piece of land, but for the last 35 years it has been treated in an extraordinary way—by leaving it alone. No grazing to influence grass production. No dam building to hold back flash floods. No pest control. No fire-fighting. By employing such non-action, might we gain a glimpse of what this land was like hundreds, even thousands, of years ago? Through essays and photographs focusing on the Sanctuary and surrounding area, this book reveals the complex ecology and unique aesthetics of its grasslands and savannas. Carl and Jane Bock and Stephen Strom share a passion for the remarkable beauty found here, and in their book they describe its environment, biodiversity, and human history. People have dominated the world’s grasslands and savannas for so long that today we have no clear idea what these lands might be like without us. By understanding the lessons of the Sonoita Plain, we might gain such insight—and, more important, discover approaches to protecting the very things that attract us to such lands in the first place.
Author : Walter Ebeling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520037519
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Fruited Plain written by Walter Ebeling and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the history of agriculture in America's seven geographical regions, analyzing the environmental problems that began when the Indians' "shifting" agriculture was replaced by the white man's "permanent" agriculture
Author : Olga Soffer
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483289184
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain written by Olga Soffer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain examines the hunter-gatherer adaptations on the Upper Paleolithic central Russian Plain. The book offers both a culture history for the area and an explanation for the changes in human adaptation. It presents what has been found at 29 major Upper Paleolithic sites occupied over a period of some 14,000 years. The book presents details of the archaeological inventories and assemblages found at the 29 sites, together with the geography and geology of the study area. It then uses environmental data to model environmental conditions and resource distribution during the various periods of human occupation, as well as to predict optimal strategies for exploiting available resources. Subsequent chapters present the relative and chronometric dating schemes. The book also elucidates the man-land relationships, ensuing subsistence strategies, settlement types present in the archaeological record, settlement systems, and sociopolitical behavior. The text will be significant to archaeologists, paleoecologists, and anthropologists interested in hunter-gatherers and late Pleistocene adaptations.
Author : Baidu-Forson, J.J.[Author]; Phiri, N.[Author]; Ngu’ni, D.[Author]; Mulele, S.[Author]; Simainga, S.[Author]; Situmo, J.[Author]; Ndiyoi, M.[Author]; Wahl, C.[Author]; Gambone, F.[Author]; Mulanda, A.[Author]; Syatwinda, G.[Author]
Publisher : WorldFish
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Assessment of agrobiodiversity resources in the Borotse flood plain, Zambia written by Baidu-Forson, J.J.[Author]; Phiri, N.[Author]; Ngu’ni, D.[Author]; Mulele, S.[Author]; Simainga, S.[Author]; Situmo, J.[Author]; Ndiyoi, M.[Author]; Wahl, C.[Author]; Gambone, F.[Author]; Mulanda, A.[Author]; Syatwinda, G.[Author] and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns about perceived loss of indigenous materials emerged from multiple stakeholders during consultations to plan and design the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems for the Borotse hub in Zambia’s Western Province. To come to grips with and address the concerns, the AAS Borotse hub program of work included an assessment of agrobiodiversity to inform community-level and program initiatives and actions. The agrobiodiversity assessment comprised three components: key informant and expert surveys complemented by review of grey and published literature, focus group discussions in the communities, and individual household surveys. This working paper reports the findings from assessments of agrobiodiversity resources in the Borotse hub by key informants and local experts working in government ministries, departments and agencies, and non-governmental organizations operating in the communities. This working paper covers the following topics: agriculture in the Borotse flood plain; major agricultural land types in the Borotse flood plain; soils and their uses; production systems; crops, including the seed sector and ex-situ resources; indigenous materials collected from the wild, including non-perennial and perennial plants, aquatic plants, and forest biodiversity; fish resources, including both capture fisheries and aquaculture; livestock resources; dietary diversity; and indigenous and local knowledge on management systems.
Author : Richard T. Schaefer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429232242
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Extraordinary Groups written by Richard T. Schaefer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its predecessors, the new Ninth Edition of Extraordinary Groups introduces students to some of the most fascinating subcultures in U.S. history, vividly portraying the lifestyles of their members and emphasizing the sociological principles they illustrate. By exploring different cultures, this unique, insightful work continues to broaden students’ sociological perspective, and allows them to see their own culture in a new light.
