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Book Synopsis Walking on Air in a Field of Greens by : Emilio DeGrazia
Download or read book Walking on Air in a Field of Greens written by Emilio DeGrazia and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving collection of pieces explores the family connections that bind often-distant relatives across generations and continents. It is rich in travelerís tales, humor, romance and loss, as we learn what the word ìfamilyî means to the author.
Download or read book Pandemonium written by Moira Barrie and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After graduating from university, twenty-four-year-old Ava Buchanan has moved to a tiny town in Pennsylvania in order to keep her mother company. Victorher brother and a member of a secretive military organizationcalls her every year around her birthday for an awkward conversation, but otherwise, her life is generally peaceful. Recently, however, Avas dreams have turned odd and foreboding: a handsome protector emerges to save her as the world she knows becomes a postapocalyptic wasteland. Add to that the dark and unexpected presence of Victor in her life for more than the occasional call, and Ava begins to feel like something is amiss. At first, she is able to convince herself her dreams are just that: dreams. But she wont be so lucky. As Ava unravels the mystery of her destiny and connects with people who can help her fulfill it, she discovers there are dark forces intent on destroying her. In this novel, a young woman having strange dreams discovers that she has powers beyond her imaginationand must face equally unimaginable dangers.
Download or read book The Green Dragon written by Jamie Kershaw and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Green Gone Wrong by : Heather Rogers
Download or read book Green Gone Wrong written by Heather Rogers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the world tracking how the conversion from a "petro" to a "green" society affects the most fundamental aspects of life—food, shelter, and transportation. Reporting from some of the most remote places on earth, Rogers uncovers shocking results that include massive clear-cutting, destruction of native ecosystems, and grinding poverty. Relying simply on market forces, people with good intentions wanting to just "do something" to help the planet are left feeling confused and powerless. Green Gone Wrong reveals a fuller story, taking the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of eco-friendly consumption. What do the labels "USDA Certified Organic" and "Fair Trade" really mean on a vast South American export-driven organic farm? A superlow-energy "eco-village" in Germany’s Black Forest demonstrates that green homes dramatically shrink energy use, so why aren’t we using this technology in America? The decisions made in Detroit’s executive suites have kept Americans driving gas-guzzling automobiles for decades, even as U.S. automakers have European models that clock twice the mpg. Why won’t they sell these cars domestically? And what does carbon offsetting really mean when projects can so easily fail? In one case thousands of trees planted in drought-plagued Southern India withered and died, releasing any CO2 they were meant to neutralize. Expertly reported, this gripping exposé pieces together a global picture of what’s happening in the name of today’s environmentalism. Green Gone Wrong speaks to anyone interested in climate change and the future of the natural world, as well as those who want to act but are caught not knowing who, or what, to believe to protect the planet. Rogers casts a sober eye on what’s working and what’s not, fearlessly pushing ahead the debate over how to protect the planet.
Download or read book Our Animal Friends written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elements of Sustainable Architecture by : Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez
Download or read book Elements of Sustainable Architecture written by Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sustainable architecture to become a reality, the way we design buildings needs to change. Many architects are concerned that sustainable technologies may interfere with a building’s aesthetic appearance, and so these are often ‘added on’ once the design process is complete. Elements of Sustainable Architecture solves this dilemma by helping students to develop the design skills they need to create sustainable buildings – ensuring that ecological considerations are applied throughout the design process. Restoring the primacy of aesthetics and creativity to sustainable design, the book focuses on strategies that have the greatest impact on building design. It also shows the influence of sustainability considerations on choices about aspects such as composition, form, space, tectonics, materials, colour, textures, proportion and position. Specifically designed to offer a new way of understanding architecture, the book: introduces students to the basic principles and methods of sustainable design; features current examples and inspiring case studies to support learning step by step; presents information in a visually appealing, intuitive, easy-to-understand way; includes over 500 high-quality colour diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs. A clear, visual introduction to creating aesthetically beautiful and sustainable buildings, this is essential reading for students in sustainable architecture courses.
Book Synopsis Walking Through Social Research by : Charlotte Bates
Download or read book Walking Through Social Research written by Charlotte Bates and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience, and make sense of a broad range of everyday practices. At the same time, the idea of talking and walking with participants has enabled research to be informed by the landscapes in which it takes place. By sharing conversations in place, and at the participants’ pace, sociologists are beginning to develop both a feel for, and a theoretical understanding of, the transient, embodied and multisensual aspects of walking. The result, as this collection demonstrates, is an understanding of the social world evermore congruent with people’s lived experiences of it. This interdisciplinary collection comprises a unique journey through a variety of walking methodologies. The collection highlights a range of possibilities for enfolding sound, smell, emotion, movement and memory into our accounts, illustrating the sensuousness, skill, pitfalls and rewards of walking as a research practice. Each chapter draws on original empirical research to present ways of walking and to discuss the conceptual, practical and technical issues that walking entails. Alongside feet on the ground, the devices and technologies that make up hybrid research mobilities are brought to attention. The collection is bookended by two short pedestrian essays that take the reader on illustrative urban walks, suggesting routes through the city, as well as ways in which the reader might make their own path through walking methods. An innovative title, Walking Through Social Research will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics who are interested in Sociology, Geography, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and Qualitative Research Methods.
Book Synopsis What Was I Scared Of? by : Dr. Seuss
Download or read book What Was I Scared Of? written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of all ages love Dr. Seuss's spooky and silly story about facing your fears! Featuring over 50 special glow-in-the-dark bonus stickers and a luxe, gift-worthy cover that glows in the dark and has a matte "soft-touch" finish! I was deep within the woods When, suddenly, I spied them. I saw a pair of pale green pants With nobody inside them! What's a pair of empty green trousers doing by itself in the woods? Or riding a bike through town? The narrator of What Was I Scared Of? does not want to find out. The spooky pants give him the creeps! This Seussian gem from The Sneetches and Other Stories shines on its own as it delivers a timeless message about fear and tolerance. Perfect for slumber parties and perusal by flashlight--it comes with a sheet of spooky glowing stickers bound inside as an added bonus!
Download or read book The Walking Tour written by Kathryn Davis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two couples -- businessman Bobby Rose and his artist wife, Carole Ridingham; his partner, Coleman Snow, and Snow's wife, Ruth Farr -- have gone on a walking tour in Wales, during which a fatal accident occurs. The question of what happened preoccupies not only an ensuing negligence trial but also the narrator, Bobby and Carole's daughter, Susan, who lives alone in her parents' house near the coast of Maine. Assisted by court transcripts, a notebook computer containing Ruth Farr's journal, and a young vagrant who has taken to camping on her doorstep, Susan lays open the moral predicament at the heart of the book: we are culpable beings, even though we live in a world of imperfect knowledge.
Book Synopsis Air Commerce Bulletin by : United States. Civil Aeronautics Authority
Download or read book Air Commerce Bulletin written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Authority and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Field and Hedgerow - Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by : Richard Jefferies
Download or read book Field and Hedgerow - Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies written by Richard Jefferies and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1889, this is a work by the English writer Richard Jefferies. It is a collection of essays on rural English life and is a wonderful read for any fans of nature writing. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author.
Book Synopsis Pemba and the Little Green Tree by : Shirley J. Starr
Download or read book Pemba and the Little Green Tree written by Shirley J. Starr and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pemba and the Little Green Tree is a touching story of boy who learns the importance of taking care of the environment where he lives. The story takes place in Nepal along the steep mountain slopes. After years of cutting trees for firewood, his home is in great danger when monsoon rains hit the barren hillsides and landslides destroy the villages below. As Pemba travels through the hills above his stone house, he learns from his wise grandfather what happened to cause the deadly landslides. After he meets the man who looks over the forest, Pemba beams with hope and pride, knowing he can make things better. The books vivid illustrations connect you with Pemba and his grandfather and bring you to the rugged Nepal hills. The story teaches a lesson on environmental stewardship and sustainability. It is a lesson a young person can apply to the many environmental challenges facing humankind in todays world.
Download or read book Four Fields written by Tim Dee and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four fields—walkable, mappable, man–made, mowable, knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing—play central roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a setting for great battles or natural disasters, though it is often this as well. A field is the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what a man needs in life, especially when looked at, contemplated, worked in, lived with, and written about. Dee's four fields, which he has known and studied for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his private garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie in Little Bighorn, Montana, and a grass meadow in the Exclusion Zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild.
Download or read book The Green City written by Jürgen Breuste and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook on the Green City examines urban nature as an ideal, provider of services and conceptual urban design approach. It answers important contemporary questions that arise about the ecological and cultural interactions, development and structure, and ecological performance of urban nature worldwide. The book explains what urban nature is, how it came to be, and how it evolved in the context of the natural and cultural conditions of its sites. It also describes what constitutes urban biodiversity and the role of differentiated urban nature in the Green City concept. Theories of urban development and ecology are linked to practical applications of urban planning and illustrated with many case studies and examples. The great potentials of urban nature are shown in detail. In order to cope with or mitigate problems in the city, a targeted urban nature management adapted to the specific conditions of the different types of urban nature is needed, which includes nature conservation as well as nature design, always keeping in mind the relation to the urban dwellers. The textbook is especially addressed to students and teachers of urban planning, ecology, geography, social sciences as well as practitioners of urban design and nature conservation. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Die Grüne Stadt by Jürgen Breuste, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done by the author primarily in terms of content and scientific terms, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation but without loss of messages. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Parenting by : Kate Blincoe
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Parenting written by Kate Blincoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2015. 'Full of realistic tips and brilliant ideas' PATRICK BARKHAM 'Dive in this rich resource and have fun going green!' THE GREEN PARENT MAGAZINE 'Inspiring and practical' SIR CHRISTOPHER WOODHEAD 'A brilliant idea' RSPB NATURE'S HOME MAGAZINE 'I wish I had written this book!' MIRANDA KRESTOVNIKOFF 'The ultimate handbook for a fun, green and healthy family' DAVID BOND - Maintain your green values while raising your children to engage with nature and go outdoors with this practical guide. Nature needs children and children need nature. This guide is packed with fun ideas to help your family to open the doors to the outside and become truly free-range. You'll live a greener lifestyle and your children will learn to enjoy, appreciate and care for the world around them. Written by environmentalist Kate Blincoe and with a foreword by Nikki Duffy, this beautiful book will inspire you to explore nature whether that's foraging for dinner, learning party tricks with plants or making eco-decisions around the home. The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Parenting is all about having fun together, however exhausted, time-pressured or stressed you are! For parents of zero to ten-year-olds, this is a humorous and light-hearted look at all things green and nature-inspired. It's not about being perfect; it's about giving it a try and feeling the benefits for your family.
Book Synopsis My Visions from Almighty God by : Shahnoza Yuldasheva
Download or read book My Visions from Almighty God written by Shahnoza Yuldasheva and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events described in the book My Visions from Almighty God are not taken from the authors imagination but are taken from her real-life experiences. This book describes how God spoke with the author in her visions and directed her. The author wants to share Gods Words with every reader of her book in order to serve and please God and to help every reader to succeed in his or her life. The aim of this book is to show every reader the glory and power of Almighty God and to show how God changed the authors life using her dreams, the obstacles of her life, even the cancers that she had. It is a true story about God, his love to people, and how God saved a young Muslim woman and changed her entire life.
Book Synopsis The Green Age of Asher Witherow by : M Allen Cunningham
Download or read book The Green Age of Asher Witherow written by M Allen Cunningham and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplying a quarter of San Francisco’s coal, Nortonville of the 1860s-70s is a flourishing empire in small, seeming to promise unending prosperity and a better future. But beneath the vibrant work ethic of its Welch citizens lies an insidious network of superstitions. A missing boy first brings these dark undercurrents to light. Then young Asher Witherow falls under the spell of an unorthodox apprentice minister, stirring a whirlpool of suspicion and outrage. Soon Asher finds himself trapped in a nightmarish crucible, all the more excruciating because he himself could end it if he could only find the strength of will. This is a lesson the missing boy has taught him, and what he understands instinctively from the alluring Anna Flood, new to Nortonville, who with her raw sensuality and independence seems to offer some hope of redemption or even escape. In this powerful debut from a young writer of stunning talent, M. Allen Cunningham takes us into a time and place at once gritty and magical, when the future seems filled with promise but where the day’s labor is bone breaking, numbing and always dangerous. Gorgeously written, historically authentic, The Green Age of Asher Witherow is a novel of tested loyalties, of condemnation and redemption. The characters’ deep emotional lives are complex and vivid, fluctuating from the doomed to the transcendent. As he unpacks his heart, Asher comes to realize that all his early traumas have somehow bonded him to the land surrounding Mount Diablo and infused his life with an inward wealth—a treasure at which we can only wonder.
