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Author : Sara Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)
Download or read book West Lake Reflections written by Sara Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)
Download or read book West Lake Reflections written by Sara Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Leonbruno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Lake George Reflections written by Frank Leonbruno and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xiaolin Duan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747110
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Rise of West Lake written by Xiaolin Duan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism. In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors’ conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.
Author : The Committee of the Clear Lake Back to
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Clear Lake Reflections written by The Committee of the Clear Lake Back to and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981649924
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Come to the Lake written by Anne Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir reflecting on summer living in a 1920's cottage on Pleasant Lake in southeastern Wisconsin.
Author : Qiliang He
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896912
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The People's West Lake written by Qiliang He and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou's urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city's culture in post-1949 China. It pieces together five initiatives between the 1950s and the 1970s: the dredging of the lake, the construction of the public park of Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor (Huagang guanyu), the afforestation movement, the development of collectivized pig farming around West Lake, and the two campaigns to remove lakeside tombs. These projects were intended to generate visible and tangible results--a lake with a good depth, a scenic public garden, greener hills surrounding the lake, a growing swine population and rising productivity of fertilizer, and a tourist site cleansed of burial grounds--while also being readily subject to the Party's propaganda. These initiatives were designed both to achieve economic, cultural, and ecological utilities and to forge and popularize a sense of socialist nationhood. The CCP's endeavor to fundamentally transform the West Lake area also opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from, get along with, and undermine the political authorities' planning. This book thus emphatically foregrounds and unifies the agency of both humans and nonhuman entities that are not necessarily tied to intentionality, bringing into question the legitimacy of the human/nonhuman binary. Author Qiliang He explores the agency of both humans and nonhumans (including water, microbes, aquatic plants, the park, pigs, trees, pests, and tombs) to affect, deflect, and undercut the CCP's sociopolitical programs, thereby diminishing the efficacy of state propaganda. Highlighting the nonpurposive agency of both actors problematizes the long-held resistance-accommodation paradigm, which presumes the resisters' a priori subjectivities independent of the socialist system, in studying the state-society relationship in the People's Republic of China. Using a project-based approach, The People's West Lake gives the nature-human relationship in Mao's China (best known as Mao's "war against nature") historical and cultural specificities to reexamine the PRC regime's central planning and the issues related to it.
Author : Peter Caldwell
Publisher : Taote Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780962612428
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Echo Lake Reflections written by Peter Caldwell and published by Taote Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786468882
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Old West in Fact and Film written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its portrayal in movies, taking an historical approach to its consideration of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen and others who populated the Old West in real life and on the silver screen. Starting with the Westerns of the early 1900s, it follows the evolution in look, style, and content as the films matured from short vignettes of good-versus-bad into modern plots.
Author : Arthur Westlake Andrews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Selected Poems on West Penwith and Reflections written by Arthur Westlake Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rick Fields
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611804736
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)
Download or read book How the Swans Came to the Lake written by Rick Fields and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic unparalleled in scope, this sweeping history unfolds the story of Buddhism’s spread to the West. How the Swans Came to the Lake opens with the story of Asian Buddhism, including the life of the Buddha and the spread of his teachings from India to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and elsewhere. Coming to the modern era, the book tracks how Western colonialism in Asia served as the catalyst for the first large-scale interactions between Buddhists and Westerners. Author Rick Fields discusses the development of Buddhism in the West through key moments such as Transcendentalist fascination with Eastern religions; immigration of Chinese and Japanese people to the United States; the writings of D. T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, and members of the Beat movement; the publication of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki; the arrival of Tibetan lamas in America and Europe; and the influence of Western feminist and social justice movements on Buddhist practice. This fortieth anniversary edition features both new and enhanced photographs as well as a new introduction by Fields’s nephew, Buddhist Studies scholar Benjamin Bogin, who reflects on the impact of this book since its initial publication and addresses the significant changes in Western Buddhist practice in recent decades.
Author : Andrea M. Jones
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382129
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Between Urban and Wild written by Andrea M. Jones and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her calm, carefully reasoned perspective on place, Andrea Jones focuses on the familiar details of country life balanced by the larger responsibilities that come with living outside an urban boundary. Neither an environmental manifesto nor a prodevelopment defense, Between Urban and Wild operates partly on a practical level, partly on a naturalist’s level. Jones reflects on life in two homes in the Colorado Rockies, first in Fourmile Canyon in the foothills west of Boulder, then near Cap Rock Ridge in central Colorado. Whether negotiating territory with a mountain lion, balancing her observations of the predatory nature of pygmy owls against her desire to protect a nest of nuthatches, working to reduce her property’s vulnerability to wildfire while staying alert to its inherent risks during fire season, or decoding the distinct personalities of her horses, she advances the tradition of nature writing by acknowledging the effects of sprawl on a beloved landscape. Although not intended as a manual for landowners, Between Urban and Wild nonetheless offers useful and engaging perspectives on the realities of settling and living in a partially wild environment. Throughout her ongoing journey of being home, Jones’s close observations of the land and its native inhabitants are paired with the suggestion that even small landholders can act to protect the health of their properties. Her brief meditations capture and honor the subtleties of the natural world while illuminating the importance of working to safeguard it. Probing the contradictions of a lifestyle that burdens the health of the land that she loves, Jones’s writing is permeated by her gentle, earnest conviction that living at the urban-wild interface requires us to set aside self-interest, consider compromise, and adjust our expectations and habits—to accommodate our surroundings rather than force them to accommodate us.
Author : Beatrice O'Brien
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Lake Reflections written by Beatrice O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems.
Author : Boleslaus J. Michalewicz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Lake Reflections written by Boleslaus J. Michalewicz and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tenzin Palmo
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741151287
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Reflections on a Mountain Lake written by Tenzin Palmo and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenzin Palmo draws on her years of solitary meditation in a Himalayan cave to bring us this down-to-earth and inspiring approach to the spiritual path. Her advice is characteristically direct: 'the essential thing is to learn how to develop a practice which you can live with moment to moment in your everyday life.' Tenzin Palmo explains how to develop a regular meditation practice and shows how meditation can help us deal with painful emotions like anger, fear and jealousy. With great clarity and insight, she introduces core principles of Buddhist philosophy and explains karma, reincarnation and the tantric tradition. She also explores the traditions of great female practitioners and how they are being maintained today. 'Tenzin Palmo is one of the most genuine and accomplished of Western practitioners.' Jack Kornfield, author of Path with a Heart 'Her example empowers each of us to wake up, calling forth a modern practical approach to a precious ancient tradition. Tenzin Palmo's is a voice we need to hear, a woman who has fully experienced what she speaks about with an absolute honesty, delightful humor, and real insight.' Tsultrim Allione, author of Women of Wisdom 'A marvellous read. Out of the depth of Tenzin Palmo's own lengthy meditation experience comes a clear explanation and heartfelt advice about the Buddhist path.' Vicki Mackenzie, author of Cave in the Snow
Author : Sheila V. White
Publisher : Galt, Ont. : S.V. White
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Reflections in the Lake written by Sheila V. White and published by Galt, Ont. : S.V. White. This book was released on 1975 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myung W. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book True-amplitude Processing Techniques for Marine, Crustal-reflection Seismic Data written by Myung W. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving the relative true-amplitude of seismic traces provides significant advantages for deep crustal investigations, particularly for the identification and analysis of deep reflections originating near the crust-mantle boundary. Preserving lateraI variations along deep reflections is also important for resolving amplitude changes due to geologic causes rather than to artifacts from recording or source conditions. Three relative true-amplitude processing methods (automatic edit, single-trace equalization, and a common-depth-point gather equalization) were applied to the 20-second seismic data of the Great lakes Multidisciplinary Program on Crustal Evolution in order to evaluate the performance of the different techniques. Particular attention was paid to the improvement of signal-to-noise ratio and to the preservation of latera I continuity of the deep reflections. This study indicates that the automatic editing procedure based on the median amplitude of a common-depth-point gather provided substantial signal-to-noise ratio improvement of the seismic profiles. Post-stack amplitude balancing was commonly necessary to maintain the lateral continuity of the deep reflections and to reduce migration noise. The results from these processing strategies confirm the existence of large differences in crustal reflectivities and in the shape and geometry of crust-mantle transition beneath central and western lake Superior.
