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Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sacred Paw written by Paul Shepard and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert E. Bieder
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894821
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Bear written by Robert E. Bieder and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The angry grizzly and the cuddly teddy: few animals possess such a range of personas as the bear. Here, Robert Bieder surveys the wealth of imagery, myths, and stories that surrounds the bear. Beginning with the dawn bear, the small dog-sized ancestor of all bears who hails from 25 million years ago, Bieder embarks on a fascinating exploration of the evolutionary history of the bear family, from extinct species such as the cave bear and giant short-faced bear to the mere eight species that survive today. Bear draws on cultural material from around the world to examine the various legends and myths surrounding the bear, including ceremonies and taboos that govern the hunting, killing, and eating of bears. The book also looks at the role of bears in modern culture as the subjects of stories, songs, and films; as exhibited objects in circuses and zoos; and, perhaps most famously, as toys. Bieder also considers the precarious future of the bear as it is threatened by loss of habitat, poaching, global warming, and disease and discusses the impact of human behavior on bears and their environments. Accompanied by numerous vibrant photographs and illustrations, and written in an engaging fashion, Bear is an appealing and informative volume for anyone who has curled up with Winnie-the-Pooh or marveled at this powerful king of the forest.
Download or read book Field & Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Author : Florence R. Shepard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438419821
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Ecotone written by Florence R. Shepard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins, a personal history of place, is written from the perspective of a teacher, naturalist, and feminist and uses the metaphor of the biological ecotone as the boundary where inner and outer landscapes of the woman/nature continuum meet. In this book, Krall proposes a counter-narrative to the usual reading of marginality. In autobiographical narrative that rings with experience, she describes margins as rich as dynamic abodes, places of crossing over and transition as well as spaces of separation and alienation. In reinterpreting journeys and encounters, she maps the shared terrain of the personal, social, and natural fields of our lives. She draws upon Native American sensibilities about place, relationship, and the sacred, in order to deepen our understanding of human/nature bonds, to more fully develop respect and responsibility to others, and to heal the rifts that sometimes set humans at odds with other humans and non-human creatures and threaten life on earth.
Download or read book Field & Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Author : Derrick Jensen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603581189
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Listening to the Land written by Derrick Jensen and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on Earth. Included here is Dave Foreman on biodiversity, Matthew Fox on Christianity and nature, Jerry Mander on technology, and Terry Tempest Williams on an erotic connection to the land. With intelligence and compassion, Listening to the Land moves from a look at the condition of the environment and the health of our spirit to a beautiful evocation of eros and a life based on love.
Author : David Drew
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520234581
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings written by David Drew and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth discussion of the latest archeological findings about the Mayan civilization explores the sophistication of this long-misunderstood culture and addressing such issues as why the civilization disappeared, why they built cities in jungles, and more.
Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342335
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Nature and Madness written by Paul Shepard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and proposes ways to repair broken bonds with the earth, our past, and nature. Ultimately encouraging, he notes, "There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. We have not lost, and cannot lose, the genuine impulse."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Orientalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Goonetilleke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Orientalist written by William Goonetilleke and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Les Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317712404
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Bear Book written by Les Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bear Book brings together an impressive range of bear--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts--viewpoints to explore this unique social and cultural phenomenon that stretches from America to western Europe to Australia! On the personal level, you learn what beardom means to different people in their daily lives, and on a broader level, its cultural implications for not only the gay community, but also society as a whole. As this book moves across the wide spectrum of bear identities, you learn about the defining forces of identity, the significance of differences among masculinities, and the shapings of the bear movement from different viewpoints. The Bear Book is the first compilation of sociological and cultural analytical investigations of the contemporary gay bear phenomenon. To this end, Editor Les Wright brings together both objective and subjective viewpoints to create a forum where bears can speak for themselves. Through their voices, you’ll learn about: bears and sexual identity gay male iconography socializing on the Internet sexual politics (gender, class, “looks-ism,” and body image) gay mass media, the single most powerful force in the current construction of ”bears” bears, power, and glamor bear-as-image vs. bear-as-attitude Gays, lesbians, lesbigay scholars, bears, and social scientists are sure to find The Bear Book thought-provoking and insightful as it broaches questions such as: Are bears caught up in a utopian-romantic impulse to reinvent themselves? What was radical lesbianism’s impact on the bear movement? To what extent are bears only another group of exploited consumers in a fragmented market system? And, is it possible to establish social liberation through enslavement to your sexual passions? For both your pleasure and your education, The Bear Book examines nearly every corner of beardom, including bear history, identity, social spaces, iconography, and its constituency abroad.
Author : Richard Adams
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468302027
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Shardik written by Richard Adams and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bitterly divided world, a giant bear becomes an object of worship in “the extraordinary fantasy novel by the author of Watership Down” (The Guardian, UK). In a burning forest, Kelderek the hunter encounters a gigantic bear unlike any he’s seen before. Surely this is the reincarnation of Lord Shardik, the messenger of god whose return has been anticipated by the primitive Ortelgan people. In service to Shardik, Kelderek becomes a prophet, then a soldier, and finally an emperor-priest. Swept up by fate and his impassioned faith, Klederek will come to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in the bear’s divinity. Written after his bestselling debut novel Watership Down, Richard Adams’s Shardik is an epic fantasy of tragic character. A fascinating depiction of the power of belief, it explores themes of faith, slavery, and war.
Author : Brian Griffith
Publisher : Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1773431803
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (734 download)
Download or read book War and Peace with the Beasts written by Brian Griffith and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The animals that one culture likes are often hated in the next, and it seems that the animals themselves know it well. Basically, one culture’s animal partner is often another culture’s nightmare from hell. “Naturally, I wonder how relations between people and animals got to be so different around the world. How did it happen that some cultures treat bats, snakes, wolves, or ravens as embodiments of evil, while other people treat the same animals with affection or even reverence?” Our wars with the animals go way back. Beyond the light cast by our prehistoric campfires, the eyes glowing in the night seemed to represent a great hostile force. As we began to cultivate crops and husband a few favoured animals, we generally regarded other creatures as threats to our chosen few. Using the logic of war, we sought to maximize the populations of certain creatures, and the destruction of others. In the past, that war effort was our great crusade for the advancement of civilization as we knew it. The war had a frontier, a front line, and an ongoing battle on the home front. Expanding outward from our various cradles of civilization, we progressively “tamed” the forests and grasslands, converting them to monocrop plantations or pastures. Then we had to defend our monocrops from encroaching weeds, insects, and wild animals. In this immediately engaging, story- and fact-filled page-turner of a book, Brian Griffith looks at the range of ways we relate to animals and the stories we tell about them. He asks how we choose whether buddyhood, fearful respect, businesslike predation, or genocidal war is the most appropriate response to each species we meet. He watches how our treatment of “inferior beings” affects our treatment of “inferior people,” and traces some of the chain reactions we unleash when we try to weed out species we don’t like. “Without much hope of making animals fit my personal preferences,” he writes, “I wonder how good our relations can get.”
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Colonial Reports - Annual written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick McNamara Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Visions written by Patrick McNamara Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standout resource on the emerging field of applying neuropsychology and the latest findings in sleep and dream research to religious experience, this book investigates the proven biological links between REM dreams and religious ideas, covering past and current schools of thought in both the science of dreams and the science of religion. Across time and around the world, billions of people with highly dissimilar backgrounds and cultures have felt spiritual or religious inspiration that shaped their lives and supplemented their mental strength—and in many cases, this inspiration came via a dream. The "how" and "why" of this common phenomenon is one that science has largely failed to explain. In this book, nationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist Patrick McNamara taps the latest science in sleep and dreams as well as neuropsychology to investigate one facet of the answer from the "inside out"—the human brain's role. The first study of its kind in an emerging field, Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams provides a comprehensive summary of past theory and examines the latest science on dreams, REM sleep, cognitive approaches to religion, and neuroscience approaches to religion. Readers will come away with an in-depth understanding of how and why god beliefs and spiritual convictions so often emerge in our dreams. Dedicated sections address special dream types like visitation dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams, "big" dreams, lucid dreams, paralysis dreams, twin dreams, and more.
Author : Dennis O'Neill
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490789944
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Passionate Holiness written by Dennis O'Neill and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town once said with regard to South Africa’s apartheid policy, “One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them that they don’t have a history, that they have no roots.” More recently, he described homophobic discrimination as “totally unacceptable and unjust as apartheid ever was.” Unfortunately, it has been particularly difficult for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Christians to remain connected to identify with their own faith traditions because some of these traditions not only treat them as people of secondary status but also teach Christian history as though no people of same-gender attraction or opposite-gender identity had any noteworthy place in it and made no significant contributions at all to Christian tradition. Passionate Holiness tries to remedy this situation by explaining why acquaintance with the stories of certain saints with whom gender minorities can identify can help them to connect with their own history and spiritual legacy and empower them to face a brighter future with a sense of optimism and inclusion.
