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Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238370
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country written by Mark Fiege and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496236173
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country written by Mark Fiege and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection shows that Wallace Stegner's work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West.
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063758
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The American West as Living Space written by Wallace Stegner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872764
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Angle of Repose written by Wallace Stegner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520259577
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stegner and the American West written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Respectful of his subject but never worshipful, Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his protean career..”—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520259572
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stegner and the American West written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Respectful of his subject but never worshipful, Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his protean career..”—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Author : Jason Robison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976231
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Vision and Place written by Jason Robison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American colonization of the “Arid Region” that has indelibly shaped the basin—a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred and fifty years after Powell’s epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition, this volume revisits Powell’s vision, examining its historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado River Basin’s cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In three parts, the volume unpacks Powell’s ideas on water, public lands, and Native Americans—ideas at once innovative, complex, and contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the future, reflecting on how—if at all—Powell’s legacy might inform our collective vision as we navigate a new “Great Unknown.”
Author : Charles E. Rankin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stegner written by Charles E. Rankin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) make him a major figure in American literature. These essays by some of the foremost commentators writing on the West today constitute the first attempt since his death to assess the diversity of Stegner's contributions to American intellectual life. The essayists engage his novels, short stories, memoirs, and biographies; the intersection between Stegner's fiction and history; and his role as an environmental essayist. These interpretive pieces are preceded by more personal accounts by his son Page Stegner, former students James R. Hepworth and Wendell Berry, and writers William Kittredge and Ivan Doig. They identify several themes that pervade Stegner's life and work - a search for continuity between past and present, hope and optimism about the future, and an attempt to foster for the West, as Stegner put it, "a society to match its scenery".
Author : James G. Cassidy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803215078
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Ferdinand V. Hayden written by James G. Cassidy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science could contribute to answering these questions, but at the time there were no bureaus or agencies that could apply scientific expertise to these challenges."
Author : Karen K. Gaul
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315500957
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: From Asia to the Pacific Northwest written by Karen K. Gaul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study of the ways in which communities of people understand and inhabit their environments. They examine and compare human/environmental interactions in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and Asia.
Author : Matthew D Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647690557
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Most Beautiful Place on Earth written by Matthew D Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As author of the "Wilderness Letter" and major award-winning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and guide for countless people attempting to cultivate a sense of place in the American West while tacking their way through uncertain times. This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, during its transition from the Valley of Heart's Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in California--including his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose--readers are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegner's work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it.
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stegner's West written by Wallace Stegner and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad assemblage of the writing of a great figure in literature and the American Westfiction and nonfiction
Author : Charles Bancroft Cushman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765621580
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the U.S. Congress written by Charles Bancroft Cushman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Congress do? How does it do it? Why is it such a complicated institution? This concise primer offers students and general readers a brief and systematic introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. Drawing on his experience as a former Congressional staff member, the author explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government, and looks ahead to the domestic and foreign challenges that are likely to drive the Congressional agenda for decades to come. The book provides revealing insights into the sometimes-contradictory Congressional responsibilities of representation and lawmaking; oversight and appropriation; and managing and organizing the government. It includes a case study (on the formation of the Department of Homeland Security) that sheds light on Congress's often-complicated procedures. The book also includes boxed features on Congressional action - highlighting such topics as file sharing and student loans - that show students how Congress's work affects their lives. Chapter-ending lists of web resources add to the book's usefulness.
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature written by Wallace Stegner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition with an extended new interview illuminating Stegner's reactions to the changes that flooded over the American West in the 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Rachel Sykes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526134675
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Marilynne Robinson written by Rachel Sykes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection intervenes in Robinson’s growing critical reputation, pointing to new and exciting links between the author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fictional, educational, and theoretical work. Introduced by a critical discussion from Professors Bridget Bennett, Sarah Churchwell, and Richard King, Marilynne Robinson features analysis from a range of international academics, and explores debates in race, gender, environment, critical theory, and more, to suggest new and innovative readings of her work.
Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791864
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Law and the Utopian Imagination written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears to have carried the day, and a belief in the very possibility of utopian achievements appears to have flagged in the face of a world marked by political instability, social upheaval, and dreary market realities. Instead of mapping out the contours of a familiar terrain, this book seeks to explore the possibilities of a productive engagement between the utopian and the legal imagination. The book asks: is it possible to re-imagine or revitalize the concept of utopia such that it can survive the terms of the mid-century liberal critique? Alternatively, is it possible to re-imagine the concept of utopia and the theory of liberal legality so as to dissolve the apparent antagonism between the two? In charting possible answers to these questions, the present volume hopes to revive interest in a vital topic of inquiry too long neglected by both social thinkers and legal scholars.
Author : Karen Bradshaw
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226571225
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Wildlife as Property Owners written by Karen Bradshaw and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.
