Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Untamed Garden And Other Personal Essays full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Untamed Garden And Other Personal Essays ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814204238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays written by David Rains Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814204238
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays written by David Rains Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Larner Lowry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520249569
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Landscaping Ideas of Jays written by Judith Larner Lowry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume "celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home". Organized by season, the author offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs, paths and trails, ponds, and other features; and how to cultivate, maintain, and harvest seeds and food from a diverse array of native annuals and perennials. She demonstrates to gardeners in California how to boost native plant diversity while attracting wildlife and conserving water.
Author : Don Scheese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980914
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Nature Writing written by Don Scheese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American writers. He documents the emergence of the modern form of nature writing as a reaction to industrialization. Scheese's personal observations of natural settings sharpen the reader's understanding of the dynamics between author and locale. His study is further informed by ample use of illustrations and close readings core writers such as Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Austin showing how each writer's work exemplifies the pastoral tradition and celebrate a spirit of place in the United States.
Author : Michael Kowalewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521565592
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Reading the West written by Michael Kowalewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.
Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626020
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book A Time to Every Purpose written by Michael Kammen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture. In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century. Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.
Author : Diane M. Fortner
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810828353
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Environmental Studies written by Diane M. Fortner and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for young people who are just beginning to develop an awareness about one planet, one people, and one home. Includes nature writings, legal history, current news, and a prediction for the future.
Author : John A. Murray
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826330857
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Writing About Nature written by John A. Murray and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook covers genres, techniques, and publication issues for aspiring writers, scholars, and students who want to share their experiences in nature and the outdoors.
Author : John A. Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195076052
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A Republic of Rivers written by John A. Murray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992-05-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an advance reading sampler for "A republic of rivers: three centuries of nature writing from Alaska and the Yukon."
Author : Steven Gilbar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520212091
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Natural State written by Steven Gilbar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and excerpts from larger works, including fiction. As a prelude to the collection, editor Steven Gilbar presents two California Indian creation myths, one a Cahto narrative and the other an A-juma-wi story as told by Darryl Babe Wilson. Familiar names appear in these pages—John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John McPhee, M.F.K. Fisher, Gretel Ehrlich—but less familiar writers such as Daniel Duane, Margaret Millar, and John McKinney are also included. Among the gems in this treasure trove are Jack Kerouac on climbing Mt. Matterhorn, Barry Lopez on snow geese migration at Tule Lake, Edward Abbey on Death Valley, Henry Miller on Big Sur, and Joan Didion on the Santa Ana winds. Gary Snyder's inspiring Afterword reflects the spirit of environmentalism that runs throughout the book. Natural State also reveals the many changes to California's landscape that have occurred in geological time and in human terms. More than a book of "nature writing," this book is superb writing about nature.
Author : Marc Los Huertos
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128142677
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Management of Inland Waters written by Marc Los Huertos and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology and Management of Inland Waters: A Californian Perspective with Global Applications presents the geologic history and physical characteristics of aquatic ecology. The author draws on his research from the inland waters of California and applies this to other areas, including Mediterranean climate systems, the tropics, and even South Africa. The endorheic basins covered in this text can be found in 30% of the US, including the Aral Sea, which is a fascinating case study that provides an important warning for other locations. The author also covers Zebra Mussels, which are set to soon be a permanent population in California. The book is authored by an expert in the field who covers a very wide and interdisciplinary subject area which brings a holistic view to this complex discipline. Focuses on examples from California, which is not currently covered in most limnology books, but with an outlook to other locations Examines complex patterns of human and natural development, allowing the reader to appreciate how aquatic systems in the Anthropocene experience a new "regime" that does not rely on vague and outdated versions of ecological theory Presents a geological history, including fossil records, of California which allows the reader to appreciate how inland waters formed
Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618082407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Bonehunters' Revenge written by David Rains Wallace and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace explores in exciting detail the rivalry between the paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Onthniel Charles Marsh--19th-century America's major scientific feud. Cope and Marsh independently discovered hundreds of dinosaur fossils on the high plains when the Indian wars were in full swing.
Author : Corinne Gaffner Garcia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493038303
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Trail Mix written by Corinne Gaffner Garcia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the Outdoors is a collection of quotes, poetry, and passages from classic books that provide outdoor inspiration to those in the woods, on the mountain, beside the water, or at home. Featured throughout the book is a pantheon of outdoor lovers, nature writers, and environmental conservationists, including John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley Powell, George Perkins Marsh, and many more whose love and respect for the outdoors remains a model for today.
Author : Seleshi Getahun Yalew
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429951957
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Integrated Modeling of Land and Water Resources in Two African Catchments written by Seleshi Getahun Yalew and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demand for land and water for agriculture, urbanization, irrigation, hydropower, and industrialization is increasing to meet the demands of growing populations and of growing economies. However, changes in land and water resources are often studied separately. A better representation of the interaction between land-use change and its drivers on the one hand and water resources on the other is imperative for sustainable environmental management. This research investigates and develops spatial analysis methods and tools for the quantification of dynamic feedbacks between land-use change and water resources, by focusing on case study catchments in Ethiopia and South Africa. Furthermore, the research investigates methods for analysing land-use suitability and modelling land-use change. Results show that major changes in land-use have been observed in the past two to three decades in the study catchments. Model representation of the interaction between land-use change and water resources shows that changes in land-use influence hydrologic responses. These influences are especially pronounced during high- and low-flow seasons. Likewise, hydrologic processes and water resources availability influence land-use suitability and hence land-use change responses. Accounting for the dynamic feedback between land-use and hydrology thus produces improved knowledge that can better inform integrated natural resources management.
Author : Ohio State University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book List of Publications written by Ohio State University and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas P. Hanna
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560725473
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Microscopic and Chemical Parts of Plants written by Thomas P. Hanna and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plant's cells and their several specialized working subunits are examined in addition to chemical traits like color, scent, and the hormonal effects that turn leaves toward the light and allow other adaptations to the surroundings. And the major processes driven by chemical changes over time that together are the life cycle of the plant are considered."--BOOK JACKET.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
