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Trees Are Shape Shifters

Author : Andrew S. Mathews
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030026884X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Trees Are Shape Shifters written by Andrew S. Mathews and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.

Trees Are Shape Shifters

Author : Andrew S. Mathews
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300260377
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Trees Are Shape Shifters written by Andrew S. Mathews and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.

The Shape Shifters

Author : John L. Mariotti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471292548
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Shape Shifters written by John L. Mariotti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shape Shifters" offers a unique set of new tools keeping readers ahead of fast-moving curves. The simple analytical and "teaching tools" in this book can make any business nimbler and more decisive. The author provides hundreds of examples of how companies have redefined the shapes of their businesses, "shape shifting" faster and more often to match the changing shape of customer demands.

Instituting Nature

Author : Andrew S. Mathews
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016524
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Instituting Nature written by Andrew S. Mathews and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.

Zuzu Broadwater and the Tree Fairy Trouble

Author : S. Annetje Evans
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312437251
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Zuzu Broadwater and the Tree Fairy Trouble written by S. Annetje Evans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owinus, the Maple Tree Fairy Leader, has disappeared shortly before the very important Summer Solstice Ritual. Without him, the ritual cannot be performed and everything in the forest will die. Ten-year-old Zuzu Broadwater must work with her best friend, Rosie, to find Owinus before it's too late. Together they face dangerous and magical creatures as they investigate the mystery.

Deerdancer

Author : Michele Jamal
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deerdancer written by Michele Jamal and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, shamanic men and women have engaged in shapeshifting rituals - the powerful process of taking on the physical or psychological aspect of an animal to access its strength and perceptions. The imagery of shifting between human and nonhuman form has strongly pervaded folklore, myth, legend, and superstition - from the selkie (or seal shifter) of Celtic myth to bear-human love matches in Native American folklore. In chapters on the buffalo, cat, bird, bear, dragon, frog, and more, Michele Jamal explores the qualities associated with various shapeshifter forms. In her own lyrical style, she retells myths from around the world, and ends each chapter with a poetic and sensual visualization that takes the reader into the heart of each animal's power. Deerdancer shows how to use shapeshifting ritual to find direction, strength, and insight - it will forever transform the way one views other living creatures and the self.

The Lives of Leaves

Author : Dan Crowley
Publisher : Two Roads
ISBN 13 : 1529375339
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Leaves written by Dan Crowley and published by Two Roads. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaves are one of nature's marvels. We watch them turn red in Autumn, make medicine from them, invent folklore around them, and mark the passing of time by them. But how do they grow? Why are they the shapes they are? What makes an evergreen, evergreen? The Lives of Leaves is a beautifully illustrated compendium of the tales, science and history of leaves from all around the world, from sugar maple and how leaves change colour, to gingko and the history and future of leaves as medicine. It's the story of what they do, what we do with them, and why we can't do without them.

TARA AND THE EARTH GIRL

Author : Lorraine Castro
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book TARA AND THE EARTH GIRL written by Lorraine Castro and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara is happily delivering heart-wish messages from Segwin, the head sorcerer of the Faerie Realm, when she learns about the evil that awaits her and her team of helpers--the faeries, elementals, and elves. The Insorrents, an enchanted group of boars that appear as dogs, swoop in and capture or kill their prey. Segwin has seen their plans through his magic mirror. Now the carefree days have changed into fear and dread. At fifteen, Tara had been sent to the Faerie Realm, just like other girls before her. She would remain there being of service for one hundred years. Luckily, when she returns to Mu, her home, she and everyone else would only be one year older. After doing this rewarding work for five years, Tara is overjoyed when suddenly a girl appears exiled from earth, and their relationship grows just as the danger becomes all too present. Some malevolent energy haunts Tara as she walks in the dark forest, delivering her messages. Finding out that the presence is Monomer, the wicked wizard who is responsible for creating the Insorrents and possibly other evil entities, is too much to bear. Tara is faced with challenges beyond her imagination. Would the Insorrents capture the team, putting an end to the heart-wish service? Does Tara have the strength and creativity it will take to continue this work, or will she succumb to her fears?

The Shapeshifters

Author : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375897674
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Shapeshifters written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five shapeshifter novels—one fascinating read! Hawksong Danica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter, will do anything in her power to stop the war that has raged between her people and the serpiente—even pretend to be in love with Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind’s greatest enemy, and accept him as her pair bond. But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his second form? Snakecharm A surprising union has brought peace to the avians and serpiente. Soon a child will be born to carry on their royal lines. But Syfka, an ancient falcon, is claiming that one of her people is hidden in the avian and serpiente land. Is Syfka’s lost falcon just a ruse to stir up controversy among them? Falcondance Nicias is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Ahnmik, and images of this distant island have always haunted his dreams. When his visions become more like reality, his parents send him back to the homeland—and a royal falcon—they’ve tried their best to forget. Wolfcry Oliza Shardae Cobriana is heir to Wyvern’s Court, home of the avians and serpiente, whose war with each other ended just before Oliza was born. But hatred is slow to die, and Oliza’s serpiente suitor is found beaten in avian land. How can she be expected to lead a unified society if her people still cannot live peacefully together? Wyvernhail Hai, daughter of a falcon mother and a deceased cobra father, is considered a mongrel by most, an ally by some, and a friend by few. When Hai’s cousin abdicates the throne of Wyvern’s Court, Hai has visions of destruction. Now she will do anything to protect her new home—even if it means betraying the very people who need her most.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves And Fairies

Author : Sirona Knight
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440696381
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves And Fairies written by Sirona Knight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete book on these powerful magical beings. Elves and fairies provide a magical mirror into the human psyche and can help people better understand themselves. In The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Elves and Fairies, readers encounter and learn from an array of magical creatures, and discover how they can positively influence their lives. Key topics include fairy magic in the 21st century, how to recognize an elf and what to do when you meet one, how to attract good elves and fairies, and how to protect yourself from bad ones. • The Lord of the Rings trilogy, on film and DVD, have increased people’s interest in elves and their ways. • Brian Froud’s bestselling titles, including The Faeries' Oracle, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, and Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album, have kept fairy lore and fairy images in the public eye for more than 25 years. • This book explores fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, including modern fairy tales like the Harry Potter series.

Twelve Trees

Author : Daniel Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982164077
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Twelve Trees written by Daniel Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees, offering “extensive insight into the ways in which humans and trees are interconnected” (BookPage), revealing the challenges facing our planet and how scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future. The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history—from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. In Twelve Trees, Daniel Lewis, curator and historian at one of the world’s most renowned research libraries, travels the world to learn about these trees in their habitats. Lewis takes us on a sweeping journey to plant breeding labs, botanical gardens, research facilities, deep inside museum collections, to the tops of tall trees, underwater, and around the Earth, journeying into the deserts of the American west and the deep jungles of Peru, to offer a globe-spanning perspective on the crucial impact trees have on our entire planet. When a once-common tree goes extinct in the wild but survives in a botanical garden, what happens next? How can scientists reconstruct lost genomes and habitats? How does a tree store thousands of gallons of water, or offer up perfectly preserved insects from millions of years ago, or root itself in muddy swamps and remain standing? How does a 5,000-year-old tree manage to live, and what can we learn from it? And how can science account for the survival of one species at the expense of others? Twelve Trees “brims with wonder, appreciation, and even some small hope” (Booklist) and is an awe-inspiring story of our world, its past, and its future. Note—species include: * The Lost Tree of Easter Island (Sophora toromiro) * The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) * Hymenaea protera [a fossil tree] * The Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) * East Indian sandalwood (Santanum album) * The Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) * West African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) * The Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) * Olive tree (Olea europaea) * Baobab (Adansonia digitata) * the kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) * The bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)

Still Life with Shape-Shifter

Author : Sharon Shinn
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473221374
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Still Life with Shape-Shifter written by Sharon Shinn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For her entire life, Melanie Landon has hidden the fact that her half sister, Ann, is a shape-shifter, determined to protect her from a world that simply wouldn't understand. When a mans hows up asking about Ann - who has been missing for months - Melanie fears the worst, and with good reason. Freelance writer Brody Westerbrook knows about the existence of shape-shifters and intends to include Ann in the book he's writing. While Melanie is immediately drawn to the stranger she knows better than to trust him, and she denies his claim. But when Ann finally reappears, looking thin and sick, Melanie realises that exposure is the least of their worries. Protecting her sister has always been an enormous part of Melanie's life, but as Ann's health rapidly deteriorates, Melanie must come to grips with the fact that saving her may mean letting go . . .

Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498530966
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America written by Mark Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human" historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local people, cultures, and environments. Taking an ecocritical approach to Latin American cultural production including literature, film, performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its documentary sense in the representation of environmental destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old ones.

Trees are our Letters

Author : Carol Day
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780993870
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Trees are our Letters written by Carol Day and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten trees invite you into their circle for a creative collaboration that could transform the future. Trees Are Our Letters is an informative, creative, soulful and meditative journey with ten of our planet’s species of trees. You will find yourself writing prose, poetry, the beginnings to a novel, short stories, songs, recipes and all manner of things on the journey! You will emerge with ten new loyal tree friends, sturdy in character and unique in the gifts and the counselling they bring, who I am sure will open the doors to make you want to befriend many more!

The Iron Tree

Author : Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429911166
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Iron Tree written by Cecilia Dart-Thornton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarred is a young boy who has grown up among his mother's peaceful desert people. While Jarred loves his mother, he longs to know the history of his father, a journeyman who left years earlier, promising to return for his wife and infant son. A broken promise but a token left behind--an amulet for Jarred that he has worn always. Some say it brings more than a bit of good luck his way, for no harm has ever befallen the boy. When Jarred comes to manhood, he decides to journey into the world to seek his fortune and perhaps along the way find news of his father. In his travels he will come to a place so unlike his own as to boggle his mind--a place of immense tracts of waterways and marshes, where the very air seems to teem with magic and a people surrounded by creatures fey and not, with enough strange customs and superstitions to make his head swirl. And to the beautiful Lilith, a woman who will haunt his dreams and ultimately steal his heart...who perhaps can provide a key to his heritage. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Awakening to Animal Voices

Author : Dawn Baumann Brunke
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892811366
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Awakening to Animal Voices written by Dawn Baumann Brunke and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2004-04-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information, advice, games, exercises, and experiments to access your natural ability to communicate with the animal kingdom.

The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248771
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination written by Richard Mabey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view." —Constance Casey, New York Times The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey. A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death. Writing in a celebrated style that the Economist calls “delightful and casually learned,” Mabey takes readers from the Himalayas to Madagascar to the Amazon to our own backyards. He ranges through the work of writers, artists, and scientists such as da Vinci, Keats, Darwin, and van Gogh and across nearly 40,000 years of human history: Ice Age images of plant life in ancient cave art and the earliest representations of the Garden of Eden; Newton’s apple and gravity, Priestley’s sprig of mint and photosynthesis, and Wordsworth’s daffodils; the history of cultivated plants such as maize, ginseng, and cotton; and the ways the sturdy oak became the symbol of British nationhood and the giant sequoia came to epitomize the spirit of America. Complemented by dozens of full-color illustrations, The Cabaret of Plants is the magnum opus of a great naturalist and an extraordinary exploration of the deeply interwined history of humans and the natural world.