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Author : Edward Banks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The green desert written by Edward Banks and published by . This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olzhas Suleĭmenov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609277574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Green Desert written by Olzhas Suleĭmenov and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Desert: The Life and Poetry of Olzhas Suleimenov is the first comprehensive translation of Olzhas Suleimenov's poetry in English. The book provides a concise overview of the poet's rich literary heritage and serves as an introduction to the contemporary literature of Kazakhstan and Eurasia. Suleimenov, whom Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky once aptly called "Asia at the Steering Wheel", has emerged as one of Kazakhstan's and Central Asia's most influential intellectuals, authors, and poets of the last half century. Since 1991, Suleimenov has encouraged Kazakhstanis to embrace globalization, liberal democratic values, a moderate, all-inclusive "civil nationalism," and a balanced approach to building positive relations with both West and East alike. For Western readers, Green Desert serves as an introduction to an unfamiliar universe and to the vibrant mystic poetry of the Kazakh steppe. It is designed as a supplementary text for students of twentieth-century Russian and Central Asian literature, culture, and intellectual history. This work is also useful for general audiences who wish to learn about modern literary trends in Kazakhstan, a nation where Western and Eastern traditions come together in a strikingly unique way. Dr. Rafis Abazov is adjunct associate professor at Hunter College and Columbia University (New York). He has written six books, including The Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics. His research interests and publications focus on cultural globalization, as well as the intellectual history of Central Eurasia and Russia, and public policy and contemporary trends in the region.
Author : Edward Peattie
Publisher : Commonwealth Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781896329857
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Green Desert written by Edward Peattie and published by Commonwealth Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228892
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book When the Sahara Was Green written by Martin Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and attracted prehistoric hunters and herders. What transformed this land of lakes into a sea of sands? When the Sahara Was Green describes the remarkable history of Earth’s greatest desert—including why its climate changed, the impact this had on human populations, and how scientists uncovered the evidence for these extraordinary events. From the Sahara’s origins as savanna woodland and grassland to its current arid incarnation, Martin Williams takes us on a vivid journey through time. He describes how the desert’s ancient rocks were first fashioned, how dinosaurs roamed freely across the land, and how it was later covered in tall trees. Along the way, Williams addresses many questions: Why was the Sahara previously much wetter, and will it be so again? Did humans contribute to its desertification? What was the impact of extreme climatic episodes—such as prolonged droughts—upon the Sahara’s geology, ecology, and inhabitants? Williams also shows how plants, animals, and humans have adapted to the Sahara and what lessons we might learn for living in harmony with the harshest, driest conditions in an ever-changing global environment. A valuable look at how an iconic region has changed over millions of years, When the Sahara Was Green reveals the desert’s surprising past to reflect on its present, as well as its possible future.
Author : Harri Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850884654
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)
Download or read book The Green Desert written by Harri Webb and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard T. Daley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Revitalization of a Green Desert written by Richard T. Daley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515400
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)
Download or read book At the Desert's Green Edge written by Amadeo M. Rea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat that has occurred over the past century. The oldest living Pimas can recall a lush riparian ecosystem and still recite more than two hundred names for plants in their environment, but they are the last generation who grew up subsisting on cultivated native crops or wild-foraged plants. Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea has written the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima and has done so from the perspective of the Pimas themselves. At the Desert's Green Edge weaves the Pima view of the plants found in their environment with memories of their own history and culture, creating a monumental testament to their traditions and way of life. Rea first discusses the Piman people, environment, and language, then proceeds to share their botanical knowledge in entries for 240 plants that systematically cover information on economic botany, folk taxonomy, and linguistics. The entries are organized according to Pima life-form categories such as plants growing in water, eaten greens, and planted fruit trees. All are anecdotal, conveying the author's long personal involvement with the Pimas, whether teaching in their schools or learning from them in conversations and interviews. At the Desert's Green Edge is an archive of otherwise unavailable plant lore that will become a benchmark for botanists and anthropologists. Enhanced by more than one hundred brush paintings of plants, it is written to be equally useful to nonspecialists so that the Pimas themselves can turn to it as a resource regarding their former lifeways. More than an encyclopedia of facts, it is the Pimas' own story, a witness to a changing way of life in the Sonoran Desert.
Author : Rita Winters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Green Desert written by Rita Winters and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles fifteen days of her inner journey during which she retreats from her comfortable life into the Sonoran desert to live among half-dead things and commune with the Creator of the universe in a quiet place.
Author : Rita Winters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879290266
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Green Desert written by Rita Winters and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rita Winters, burnt-out creative director for a national advertising agency in Chicago, reads a book about sabbaticals and retreat centers while flying back from a new business pitch. On impulse, she leaves her job and family behind, books a flight to Tucson and begins her first silent retreat ever at the Desert House of Prayer in the Sonoran Desert. It is here that Winters' transformation from jaded workaholic to spiritual pilgrim begins. The desert's stillness let me finally hear my own voice and occasionally what I thought to be God's. And within it I came to feel connected to all those in the past who had sought the desert's isolation, she writes. By listening instead of talking, Winters regains respect for the power of words. Like the high desert that surrounds her, she is made new and green by the hidden wells she discovers in herself and the ancient, forbidding landscape.
Author : Rafis Abazov
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781609272142
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Green Desert written by Rafis Abazov and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Kirk
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896723375
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Green Sands written by Martha Kirk and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Sands is Kirk's chronicle of her life in the desert, told with exceptional candor and detail. Local Bedouins, foreign farm workers and their families, Saudi royalty, assorted Westerners, and fellow Americans share their desert world with Kirk. Her sincere curiosity, empathy, and warmth toward these new friends make her story entertaining as well as enlightening. There is a freshness to Kirk's perspective that puts the reader squarely in her shoes as she struggles to assimilate a culture so alien to her own and to embrace an adventure that few have the chance to experience. Martha Kirk shows her pioneering Texas spirit in the pages of Green Sands as she gamely kills camel spiders in the house, bravely risks imprisonment while driving the farm's pickup truck, and lovingly shares meals with Bedouin women and their children.
Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.
Author : William Welstead
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526156563
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Writing on sheep written by William Welstead and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of pastoral literature. This book brings an animal studies approach to poetry about sheep that allows for the agency of these sentient beings, that have been associated for humans over ten thousand years. This approach highlights the distinction between wild and domesticated species and the moral dilemma between the goals of animal welfare and those of saving species from extinction. Discussion of mostly contemporary poetry follows a new reading of works from the pastoral and georgic canon. Allowing for the sentience and sociality of this species makes it easier to imagine a natureculture within which to make kin across the species boundary. Reading poetry about sheep has the power to make new meanings as we try to adapt to an increasingly complex and problematic environment.
Author : Harri Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (765 download)
Download or read book The Green Desert written by Harri Webb and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584188
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Sowing Seeds in the Desert written by Masanobu Fukuoka and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Earth's deteriorating condition is man-made and outlines a way for the process to be reversed by rehabilitating the deserts using natural farming.
Author : Abdulla Alshehi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483434486
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Filling the Empty Quarter: Declaring a Green Jihad On the Desert written by Abdulla Alshehi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book offers out of the box ideas and the most innovative techniques in Water Harvesting & Saving technologies to help transform the Empty Quarter Desert into blooming Gardens. Chief Executive Officer to a leading environmental company in the UAE. A strong advocate of Environment issues. Received many awards related to his environmental achievements. Saved over 500 Million Liters of Water wasted in the car wash business. Inventor of "AL-Maa" concept which shall revolutionize the water harvesting science.
Author : Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474443370
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy written by Aidan Tynan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
