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Untamed

Author : Will Harlan
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192629
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Untamed written by Will Harlan and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring biography of the adventuresome naturalist Carol Ruckdeschel and her crusade to save her island home from environmental disaster. In a “moving homage . . . that artfully articulates the ferocities of nature and humanity,” biographer Will Harlan captures the larger-than-life story of biologist, naturalist, and ecological activist Carol Ruckdeschel, known to many as the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia (Kirkus Reviews). Cumberland, the country’s largest and most biologically diverse barrier island, is celebrated for its windswept dunes and feral horses. Steel magnate Thomas Carnegie once owned much of the island, and in recent years, Carnegie heirs and the National Park Service have clashed with Carol over the island’s future. What happens when a dirt-poor naturalist with only a high school diploma becomes an outspoken advocate on a celebrated but divisive island? Untamed is the story of an American original who fights for what she believes in, no matter the cost, “an environmental classic that belongs on the shelf alongside Carson, Leopold, Muir, and Thoreau” (Thomas Rain Crowe, author of Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods). “Vivid. . . . Ms. Ruckdeschel’s biography, and the way this wandering soul came to settle for so many decades on Cumberland Island, is big enough on its own, but Mr. Harlan hints at bigger questions.” —The Wall Street Journal “Wild country produces wild people, who sometimes are just what’s needed to keep that wild cycle going. This is a memorable portrait.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “Deliciously engrossing. . . . Readers are in for a wild ride.” —The Citizen-Times

The Stick Chair Book

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954697034
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Stick Chair Book written by Christopher Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old Arm-Chair

Author : Eliza Cook
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Old Arm-Chair written by Eliza Cook and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beloved poem by Eliza Cook, "The Old Armchair", tells a touching tale of a young woman's attachment to the chair. It was no ordinary chair, but the one where her mother nursed her as a baby, sat in and told her stories, and ultimately, was where she died. It's a gracefully written work which will pull on the heartstrings of anyone with strong family ties.

Wesley for Armchair Theologians

Author : William J. Abraham
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664226213
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Wesley for Armchair Theologians written by William J. Abraham and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible study of John Wesley presents the founder of Methodism in an interesting and engaging way. The intriguing illustrations make this an excellent introduction to the work of this important Christian figure.

The Armchair Economist

Author : Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471112233
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Armchair Economist written by Steven E. Landsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air bags cause accidents, because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The 'obvious' answer is that the owner has a monopoly, but if that were the whole story, there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop and prices skyrocket, journalists point to the 'obvious' exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power, they'd have raised prices before the frost. Why don't concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction and others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why don't firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong, reveals better answers, and illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar, filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it.

The Armchair Birder

Author : John Yow
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888788
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Armchair Birder written by John Yow and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals the fascinating lives of the birds we see nearly every day. Following the seasons, he covers forty-two species, discussing the improbable, unusual, and comical aspects of his subjects' lives. Yow offers his own observations, anecdotes, and stories as well as those of America's classic bird writers, such as John James Audubon, Arthur Bent, and Edward Forbush. This unique addition to bird literature combines the fascination of bird life with the pleasure of good reading.

The SS Officer's Armchair

Author : Daniel Lee
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781784706654
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The SS Officer's Armchair written by Daniel Lee and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer. 'Totally exhilarating' Philippe Sands It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover the life of one Dr Robert Griesinger from Stuttgart. As Lee delves deeper, Griesinger emerges as at once an ordinary man with a family and ambitions, and an active participant in the Nazi machinery of terror whose choices continue to reverberate today. 'Gripping, it unfolds like a detective story as an obscured past emerges into the light' Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass 'An absorbing work of historical detection... Riveting' Evening Standard

My Chair

Author : Betsy James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781415545829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book My Chair written by Betsy James and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of children celebrate their various chairs and their imaginations as they gather to welcome a new neighbor. On a sunny morning in the city, children gather in the park with their chairs. Tall chairs. Small chairs. Wiry chairs. Squashy chairs. Tires and boxes and sofas and swings, chairs with rockers and chairs with wheels. As the kids come together, they each say what they love about their chairs and show the places their dreams can take them. But why is everyone meeting in the park? And what's in the wrapped present that hides in every picture?

Welsh Stick Chairs

Author : John Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780854420834
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Welsh Stick Chairs written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.

Naming and Necessity

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674598461
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Naming and Necessity written by Saul A. Kripke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

Armchair Mystic

Author : Mark E. Thibodeaux
Publisher : Franciscan Media
ISBN 13 : 1632532891
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Armchair Mystic written by Mark E. Thibodeaux and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly book blends theory and practice, gently and concretely taking the reader through the first steps of contemplative prayer. Armchair Mysticbegins with the necessary details of time and place to pray, then presents the maturation of the prayer life in four stages: Talking at God, Talking to God, Listening to God, and Being with God. Step-by-step exercises throughout the book provide concrete examples of how to use the concepts discussed. Armchair Mysticwill prove invaluable to individuals and small groups who are new to contemplative prayer, or who wish to deepen their experience of it. This updated edition includes a new preface and afterword from the author.

Strong Poison

Author : Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Strong Poison written by Dorothy Leigh Sayers and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of an Arm-chair

Author : Memoirs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Arm-chair written by Memoirs and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of an arm-chair, ed. [or rather, written] by the author of 'Margaret Stourton'.

Author : Memoirs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an arm-chair, ed. [or rather, written] by the author of 'Margaret Stourton'. written by Memoirs and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Upholstery Basics

Author : Cowles Creative Publishing
Publisher : Creative Publishing Int'l
ISBN 13 : 9780865733190
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Upholstery Basics written by Cowles Creative Publishing and published by Creative Publishing Int'l. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of the money you can save by recovering your favorite chair instead of replacing it. This book covers all of the basic techniques you'll need to reupholster outdated furniture. From wood footstools to over stuffed chairs, there's a good variety of projects you can accomplish with the help of this bestselling book. The fantastic how-to photos and easy-to-understand text make this a must-have for anyone interested in learning upholstery.

The Adult Chair

Author : Michelle Chalfant
Publisher : Michelle Chalfant
ISBN 13 : 9780999892602
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Adult Chair written by Michelle Chalfant and published by Michelle Chalfant. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adult Chair is more than a book, or a tool, or a process. It is an entirely new way to see your world, your relationships, your career, and your life.

Armchair Detective

Author : Kelli Jae Baeli
Publisher : Kelli Jae Baeli
ISBN 13 : 1434824624
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Armchair Detective written by Kelli Jae Baeli and published by Kelli Jae Baeli. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wannabe Private Investigator has to start somewhere. When Jobeth O'Brien awakens on the floor of her kitchen, her battered face and the memory of an angry visitor tells her that she is close to something important in her investigation. In between surveillance and delivering newspapers, her beloved '62 Falcon is the scene of middle-of-the-night romps with a lonely socialite. Her quest for the truth pits her against errant husbands, a modern-day madam with a taste for blood, a horny landlady, a vicious attack dog, and the lies she tells herself. Amid these challenges, Jobeth stakes out her prey and runs for her life, continuing the investigation that pulls her into close calls, unexpected allies, and more secrets. But Jobeth has secrets of her own, and only love can excavate them. --