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Author : Jonathan Trouern-Trend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578051311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Birding Babylon written by Jonathan Trouern-Trend and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Travis V. Mason
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554583713
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Ornithologies of Desire written by Travis V. Mason and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history. The poetry and poetics of Don McKay provide Ornithologies of Desire with its primary subject matter, which is predicated on attention to ornithological knowledge and avian metaphors. This focus on birds enables a consideration of more broadly ecological relations and concerns, since an awareness of birds in their habitats insists on awareness of plants, insects, mammals, rocks, and all else that constitutes place. The book’s chapters are organized according to: apparatus (that is, science as ecocritical tool), flight, and song. Reading McKay’s work alongside ecology and ornithology, through flight and birdsong, both challenges assumptions regarding humans’ place in the earth system and celebrates the sheer virtuosity of lyric poetry rich with associative as well as scientific details. The resulting chapters, interchapter, and concordance of birds that appear in McKay’s poetry encourage amateurs and specialists, birdwatchers and poetry readers, to reconsider birds in English literature on the page and in the field.
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Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Birding written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter (Petra) Gardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197691870
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Wings of the Gods written by Peter (Petra) Gardella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wings of the Gods surveys the many roles that birds have played in the development of religions, from legends, rituals, costumes, wars, and spiritual disciplines to the current ecological crisis. Peter (Petra) Gardella and Laurence Krute, both scholars and birdwatchers, transcend a narrow focus on humanity to explore the agency of birds in world history.
Author : Amy Kohout
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234316
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Taking the Field written by Amy Kohout and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make “progress.” Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the time. By tracking the variety of ways American soldiers interacted with the natural world, Kohout argues that soldiers, through their words and their work, shaped Progressive Era ideas about both American and Philippine environments. Studying soldiers on multiple frontiers allows Kohout to inject a transnational perspective into the environmental history of the Progressive Era, and an environmental perspective into the period’s transnational history. Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.
Author : Norbert Scheuer
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910376663
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Language of Birds written by Norbert Scheuer and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 2003, and Paul Arimond is serving as a paramedic in Afghanistan. The twenty-four-year-old has no illusions of becoming a hero. Rather, he has chosen the army to escape the tragedies of his past and his own feelings of guilt. As a result, he finds himself in the same land, now war-torn, where an ancestor of his, Ambrosius Arimond, a late eighteenth-century traveler and ornithologist, once explored and developed the theory of a universal language of birds. As visceral horrors and everyday banalities of the war threaten to engulf Paul, he, like his great-great-grandfather, finds his very own refuge in Afghanistan’s natural world. In a diary filled with exquisite drawings of birds and ruminations on the life he left behind, Paul describes his experiences living with two comrades who are fighting their own demons and his befriending of an Afghan man, Nassim, as well as his dreams of escaping the restrictive base camp and visiting the shores of a lake visible from the lookout tower. But when he finally reaches the lake one night, he finds himself in the midst of a chain of events that, with his increasingly fragile state of mind, has dramatic—and ultimately heartbreaking—consequences. A meditative novel that shows a new side to the conflict in Afghanistan, The Language of Birds takes a moving look at the all-too-human costs of war and questions what it truly means to fight for freedom.
Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317594568
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Stage Lives of Animals written by Una Chaudhuri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling, and making art offered by animals and animality, bringing insights from theatre practice and theory to animal studies as well as exploring what animal studies can bring to the study of theatre and performance. As our planet lives through what scientists call "the sixth extinction," and we become ever more aware of our relationships to other species, Chaudhuri takes a highly original look at the "animal imagination" of well-known plays, performances and creative projects, including works by: Caryl Churchill Rachel Rosenthal Marina Zurkow Edward Albee Tennesee Williams Eugene Ionesco Covering over a decade of explorations, a wide range of writers, and many urgent topics, this volume demonstrates that an interspecies imagination deeply structures modern western drama.
Author : Jeremy Mynott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832837
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Birdscapes written by Jeremy Mynott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? Birdscapes is a unique meditation on the variety of human responses to birds, from antiquity to today, and from casual observers to the globe-trotting "twitchers" who sometimes risk life, limb, and marriages simply to add new species to their "life lists." Drawing extensively on literature, history, philosophy, and science, Jeremy Mynott puts his own experiences as a birdwatcher in a rich cultural context. His sources range from the familiar--Thoreau, Keats, Darwin, and Audubon--to the unexpected--Benjamin Franklin, Giacomo Puccini, Oscar Wilde, and Monty Python. Just as unusual are the extensive illustrations, which explore our perceptions and representations of birds through images such as national emblems, women's hats, professional sports logos, and a Christmas biscuit tin, as well as classics of bird art. Each chapter takes up a new theme--from rarity, beauty, and sound to conservation, naming, and symbolism--and is set in a new place, as Mynott travels from his "home patch" in Suffolk, England, to his "away patch" in New York City's Central Park, as well as to Russia, Australia, and Greece. Conversational, playful, and witty, Birdscapes gently leads us to reflect on large questions about our relation to birds and the natural world. It encourages birders to see their pursuits in a broader human context--and it shows nonbirders what they may be missing.
Author : Jacquelyn M. Howard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440173338
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Tale Feathers written by Jacquelyn M. Howard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of stories celebrates the incredible and indelible ways in which birds touch us, intrinsically as well as extrinsically. I hope it will encourage a greater awareness of and appreciation for these remarkable beings and a deep and abiding respect for and nurturing of their presence amongst us." -Ira Rubinoff, PhD, Director Emeritus and Senior Staff Scientist Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Welcome to the amazing world of birds, birders and bird watching. Birds have what we don't-the enchantment of wings! They lift and break free from the bounds of gravity, soar over lakes, mountains, treetops-a veritable moving feast of fascinating, unpredictable, and breathtaking movement that captures and defies our ability to control it. And we love them, because they represent the untamed wild in ourselves. The writings in this book evoke our deepest connections with birds and allow us to revel in the sense of mystery, magic, and devotion that we all feel for our feathered friends. Open to any page, start reading, and become one of the millions who know that the only piece of equipment you really need to begin birding is a book. Let your journey begin with this one.
Author : George E. Lowe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462820743
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Birding and Mysticism written by George E. Lowe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book W Inging it written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Erasmus
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1591604095
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Last Fall of Babylon written by Daniel Erasmus and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan R. Holman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195383621
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book God Knows There's Need written by Susan R. Holman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God knows : empathic remembering -- Remembering as personal story -- Engaging paradigms : the shape of early Christian need -- On living and telling : crossing the gap -- Poverty and the gendering of empathy -- Maria's choice -- On living crunchy and doing right(s) -- Embodying sacred kingdom.
Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429933194
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Soldier's Heart written by Elizabeth D. Samet and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their teacher, however, these students, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, have decided to turn make-believe into real life. West Point is a world away from Yale, where Samet attended graduate school and where nothing sufficiently prepared her for teaching literature to young men and women who were training to fight a war. Intimate and poignant, Soldier's Heart chronicles the various tensions inherent in that life as well as the ways in which war has transformed Samet's relationship to literature. Fighting in Iraq, Samet's former students share what books and movies mean to them—the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, or the films of James Cagney. Their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Samet arrived at West Point before September 11, 2001, and has seen the academy change dramatically. In Soldier's Heart, she reads this transformation through her own experiences and those of her students. Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate. Ultimately, Samet offers an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.
Author : Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113737313X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Performing Animality written by Jennifer Parker-Starbuck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals and/or representations of animals provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human animals. This book offers a historical and theoretical exploration of animal presence in performance by looking at the concept of animality and how it has developed in theatre and performance practices from the eighteenth century to today. Furthermore, it points to shifts in political, cultural, and ethical animal-human relations emerging within the context of animality and performance.
Author : Rebecca S. Kornegay
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909906
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Magic Search written by Rebecca S. Kornegay and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the 467 best-performing LCSH subdivisions that speak to the kinds of research questions librarians handle every day. The quick-reference format, along with a handy index, makes this a useful tool to keep close at hand.
Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520582
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Memory in the Twenty-First Century written by Sebastian Groes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population on our world.
