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The Outlook for Earthlings

Author : Joan Frank
Publisher : Regal House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781646030071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Outlook for Earthlings written by Joan Frank and published by Regal House Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outlook for Earthlings traces an unusual, difficult friendship across a lifetime, between women of stunningly opposite natures. Melanie Taper is timid, compelled to obey and venerate authority. Yet in unguarded moments she demonstrates such deadly insight into human foibles as to suggest a strength that has, for dark reasons, deliberately hidden itself lifelong. Scarlet Rand, by contrast, is rash, willful, and impatient of reverence of any stripe. Scarlet is shocked by Mel's passive reserve; despite her obvious gifts, Mel is--bafflingly--self-erasing. Mel's Billy Budd-like saintliness maddens Scarlet--because finally and most troublingly, Scarlet disbelieves it. Their friendship suggests to each a final frontier, a saving sanctuary. Yet at its core, a pained impasse soon becomes evident: each woman takes a secret, moral offense at the other's inmost nature--and choices. Living out these differences--against awareness of the illness which is slowly destroying one of them--proves an ultimate challenge. In each, a reckoning must occur. The Outlook for Earthlings examines what women want, amid conflicting layers of need. It ponders beginnings, endings, and Virginia Woolf's declaration that good angels must be killed. It considers the limits of friendship--and of the act of witnessing. At its heart, it asks how we may finally measure a life--and who should do the measuring.

The Human Animal Earthling Identity

Author : Carrie P. Freeman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820358215
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Human Animal Earthling Identity written by Carrie P. Freeman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have created between the human and animal conditions, leading to mass exploitation, injustice, and extinction. As a remedy, Freeman believes social movements should collectively foster a cultural shift in human identity away from an egoistic anthropocentrism (human-centered outlook) and toward a universal altruism (species-centered ethic), so people may begin to see themselves more broadly as “human animal earthlings.” To formulate the basis for this identity shift, Freeman examines overlapping values (supporting life, fairness, responsibility, and unity) that are common in global rights declarations and in the current campaign messages of sixteen global social movement organizations that work on human/civil rights, nonhuman animal protection, and/or environmental issues, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CARE, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the World Wildlife Fund, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace. She also interviews the leaders of these advocacy groups to gain their insights on how human and nonhuman protection causes can become allies by engaging common opponents and activating shared values and goals on issues such as the climate crisis, enslavement, extinction, pollution, inequality, destructive farming and fishing, and threats to democracy. Freeman’s analysis of activist discourse considers ethical ideologies on behalf of social justice, animal rights, and environmentalism, using animal rights’ respect for sentient individuals as a bridge connecting human rights to a more holistic valuing of species and ecological systems. Ultimately, Freeman uses her findings to recommend a set of universal values around which all social movements’ campaign messages can collectively cultivate respectful relations between “human animal earthlings,” fellow sentient beings, and the natural world we share.

Try to Get Lost

Author : Joan Frank
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361374
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Try to Get Lost written by Joan Frank and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the quest for place that compels and defines us through the author's travels in Europe and the United States

To Look on Earth With More Than Mortal Eyes

Author : Marjorie Spock
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780916786793
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book To Look on Earth With More Than Mortal Eyes written by Marjorie Spock and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1985 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a concise introduction to the spiritual path of anthroposophy.

1947: the Greys’ Odyssey to Earth

Author : Gus V.
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480884170
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book 1947: the Greys’ Odyssey to Earth written by Gus V. and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 2065, and a year has passed since the people of Earth formally established relations with several extraterrestrial races. Appearances suggest that a new age of peace, economic prosperity, and enlightenment has begun. One group of aliens in particular, the Greys, are an advanced and peaceful race. Human journalist C. A. Wyatt is in the process of writing a book about the Greys’ odyssey from their home world, planet Zeta, to Earth and their crash landing near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Their journey begins with the invasion of Zeta in 1944 by an aggressive alien species called Reptoids, just as the Greys’ spaceship, Zeta’s Hope, is about to be launched on an expedition to the uninhabited planet of Avalonia with fifty colonists—made up of both Greys and their human-like allies from planet Amigo. As crew of the ship voyages to various planets, they face a variety of problems, both internal and external, but eventually they set out to meet the humans of Earth, hoping for form a new alliance. But when those plans go awry, the fates of the Greys and of humanity will change forever. In this science fiction novel, set in 2065, aliens known as Greys recall their journey to Earth in the 1940s through interviews with a human journalist.

Late Work

Author : Joan Frank
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826364217
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Late Work written by Joan Frank and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious, ruminative, and wry, this literary autobiography tours what Rachel Kushner called “the strange remove that is the life of the writer.” Frank’s essays cover a vast spectrum—from handling dismissive advice, facing the dilemma of thwarted ambition, and copying the generosity that inspires us, to the miraculous catharsis of letter-writing and some of the books that pull us through. Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist’s thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith. Like a lively conversation with a close, outspoken friend, each piece tells its experience from the trenches.

After Preservation

Author : Ben A. Minteer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626002X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book After Preservation written by Ben A. Minteer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to encircle nature with our protection, to keep it apart, pristine, walled against the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial devastation, metastasizing fire regimes, and other quickening anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the earth is now spinning through the age of humans. After Preservation takes stock of the ways we have tried to both preserve and exploit nature to ask a direct but profound question: what is the role of preservationism in an era of seemingly unstoppable human development, in what some have called the Anthropocene? Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne bring together a stunning consortium of voices comprised of renowned scientists, historians, philosophers, environmental writers, activists, policy makers, and land managers to negotiate the incredible challenges that environmentalism faces. Some call for a new, post-preservationist model, one that is far more pragmatic, interventionist, and human-centered. Others push forcefully back, arguing for a more chastened and restrained vision of human action on the earth. Some try to establish a middle ground, while others ruminate more deeply on the meaning and value of wilderness. Some write on species lost, others on species saved, and yet others discuss the enduring practical challenges of managing our land, water, and air. From spirited optimism to careful prudence to critical skepticism, the resulting range of approaches offers an inspiring contribution to the landscape of modern environmentalism, one driven by serious, sustained engagements with the critical problems we must solve if we—and the wild garden we may now keep—are going to survive the era we have ushered in. Contributors include: Chelsea K. Batavia, F. Stuart (Terry) Chapin III, Norman L. Christensen, Jamie Rappaport Clark, William Wallace Covington, Erle C. Ellis, Mark Fiege, Dave Foreman, Harry W. Greene, Emma Marris, Michelle Marvier, Bill McKibben, J. R. McNeill, Curt Meine, Ben A. Minteer, Michael Paul Nelson, Bryan Norton, Stephen J. Pyne, Andrew C. Revkin, Holmes Rolston III, Amy Seidl, Jack Ward Thomas, Diane J. Vosick, John A. Vucetich, Hazel Wong, and Donald Worster.

Warrior of Mars

Author : John Russell Fearn
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473209749
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Warrior of Mars written by John Russell Fearn and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthman Clayton Drew battles against the Martian Warlords who would destroy the world. In the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warrior of Mars is the second installment in the Clayton Drew quartet.

Readings from the Perspective of Earth

Author : Norman C. Habel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567610438
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Readings from the Perspective of Earth written by Norman C. Habel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the hermeneutical approach and ecojustice principles developed by the Earth Bible project team. Following this approach, biblical scholars illustrate how a reading of the biblical text from the perspective of Earth yields fresh insights. Though the text may seem anthropocentric, these studies are able to retrieve evidence of the living voice and intrinsic value of Earth. It is an approach that can be harmonized with other recognized critical approaches to the Bible, from historical criticism to ecofeminist criticism. The texts chosen are from many parts of the Bible (Psalms, Prophets, Gospels, Romans, Revelation) and the intertestamental literature (Tobit and Wisdom of Solomon).

True North

Author : Gary Eller
Publisher : BHC Press
ISBN 13 : 1643972413
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book True North written by Gary Eller and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has always been difficult and dangerous for those living on and around the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a secret. Everyone thinks they’re only connected to their neighbors by the isolated, peculiar town they share. Orphaned Sioux Ida Florence Little Shay is determined to escape the life before her, but her course of action only draws her into a world of increasing conflict and deepening poverty. Young Fawn Breen appears as if she is from a different century. With her primitive, animalistic father as her only companion, she is forced to look after herself when she is thrust into society. Harold Peavey is an idealistic young man who finds his views of the world in severe conflict with those around him, facing ostracism by his community when he refuses to abandon his beliefs. Enduring mistakes, tragedies, secrets, and long-held grudges spanning the 1930s-1960s that have permanently marked them, these three Great Plains farm families clash together as they struggle to survive and find their way in an ever-changing world.

Do One Green Thing

Author : Mindy Pennybacker
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466868902
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Do One Green Thing written by Mindy Pennybacker and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can only read and reference one green thing, make it this book: an easily comprehensible, clearly presented source for green living and conservation. Everything you need to know is right here at your fingertips. Unlike a lot of other overwhelming environmental guides on the market, this is green decision making in bite sized pieces. With chose it/lose it comparisons throughout, now it's simple to figure out it's worth switching to a green detergent, what kind of plastic your sports bottle is made of, or which fish is safest to eat. Rather than spending time trying to figure out how best to conserve, recycle, and protect the environment, use this book and devote that time to making the difference.

New Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love in the Time of Time's Up

Author : Christine Sneed
Publisher : Tortoise Books
ISBN 13 : 1948954729
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Time's Up written by Christine Sneed and published by Tortoise Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With pathos and insight, each of the sixteen accomplished authors—among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier—featured in Love in the Time of Time’s Up skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman in the era of Me Too and Time’s Up. From the fraught, sexually charged groves of academia and elevators of corporate America, to the imagined diary entries of Brett Kavanaugh and the tragicomic travails of a woman swiping right on Tinder in order to dispense advice to men whose profiles she finds lacking, these stories offer a blend of humor and horror, victory and heartache, righteous anger and rueful recrimination. It’s a collection that’s sure to leave a mark on readers’ minds—and earn a place in their hearts.

A New Outlook

Author : Nicholas P. Snoek
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490712852
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A New Outlook written by Nicholas P. Snoek and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Outlook is a study of revelation that employs a fictional setting to explore Christian religion and its background. The fictional setting serves the purpose of providing a narrative structure to what is otherwise a journey from infinite past, through cosmology, to the current world situation as regard to revelation, in history and in philosophico-theological conceptual development. This book is not an exercise of exegesis, but source material is scriptural and is never treated lightly. Only the fictional setting has a patina of entertainment and some grounding in the world of spoons and loons. To wit, there are no footnotes--scholarship is not obtrusive, but it does build the book.

Posthuman Folklore

Author : Tok Thompson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496825128
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Posthuman Folklore written by Tok Thompson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of science fiction into the realm of everyday life, and scholars and laypeople alike are struggling to find ways to grasp new notions of personhood. Posthuman Folklore is the first work of its kind: both an overview of posthumanism as it applies to folklore studies and an investigation of “vernacular posthumanisms”—the ways in which people are increasingly performing the posthuman. Posthumanism calls for a close investigation of what is meant by the term “human” and a rethinking of this, our most basic ontological category. What, exactly, is human? What, exactly, am I? There are two main threads of posthumanism: the first dealing with the increasingly slippery slope between “human” and “animal,” and the second dealing with artificial intelligences and the growing cyborg quality of human culture. This work deals with both these threads, seeking to understand the cultural roles of this shifting notion of “human” by centering its investigation into the performances of everyday life. From funerals for AIBOs, to furries, to ghost stories told by Alexa, people are increasingly engaging with the posthuman in myriad everyday practices, setting the stage for a wholesale rethinking of our humanity. In Posthuman Folklore, author Tok Thompson traces both the philosophies behind these shifts, and the ways in which people increasingly are enacting such ideas to better understand the posthuman experience of contemporary life.

The Stone World

Author : Joel Agee
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199542
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Stone World written by Joel Agee and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of 2022 From the son of acclaimed author James Agee, a haunting novel depicting an American boy’s childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo. Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo. But the emigrés long for home — including Peter’s step-father, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peter’s parents’s and their tight group of friends. And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down – that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Arón; his father’s friend Sándor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the family’s live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer . . . Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood — yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil — Joel Agee’s The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agee’s A Death in the Family.

The Future of Humanity

Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542771
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Humanity written by Michio Kaku and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. “Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor We are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space.