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Author: William Paul Jones
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781557252708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using concrete examples and vivid imagery, Jones portrays Christian spirituality as the call to shape public and private spaces into beauty.
Author: Sara Combs
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780762492862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Infuse your life with desert vibes, from home designs and entertaining plans to wellness rituals, with this beautifully illustrated lifestyle guide from the creators of The Joshua Tree House. At Home in Joshua Tree offers a peak inside the captivating world of southern California's high-desert, with The Joshua Tree House founders Sara and Rich Combs bringing readers into their laid back, inviting world through mindful practices that enhance the everyday. Guided by nature and the cycles of the sun, this beautiful book offers an intentional, mindful way of living that combines the very best of the wellness movement and modern design to celebrate the singular beauty of the desert. Dive into the design principles that guide The Joshua Tree House, then experience a day in the desert, from sunrise to nightfall. Each chapter in this beautiful lifestyle guide incorporates designs, recipes, wellness practices, and entertaining rituals that elevate and honor the ordinary moments associated with that time. Interviews with other designers, artists, and makers who are inspired by the desert, including those whose designs are featured throughout the Joshua Tree House, are sprinkled throughout, alongside gorgeous full-bleed photographs and a complete sourcing guide.
Author: Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0816532621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.
Author: James F. Hogan
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Published: 2004-01-09
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Science and Application Series, Volume 9. Groundwater recharge, the flux of water across the water table, is arguably the most difficult component of the hydrologic cycle to measure. In arid and semiarid regions the problem is exacerbated by extremely small recharge fluxes that are highly variable in space and time. --from the Preface Groundwater Recharge in a Desert Environment: The Southwestern United States speaks to these issues by presenting new interpretations and research after more than two decades of discipline-wide study. Discussions ondeveloping environmental tracers to fingerprint sources and amounts of groundwater at the basin scalethe critical role of vegetation in hydroecological processesnew geophysical methods in quantifying channel rechargeapplying Geographical Information System (GIS) models to land surface processescoupling process-based vadose zone to groundwater modeling, and more make this book a significant resource for hydmlogists, biogeoscientists, and geochemists concerned with water and water-related issues in arid and semiarid regions.
Author: Aidan Tynan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1474443370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Author: William Atkins
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2018-07-24
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0385539894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK) "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."—Joy Williams In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.
Author: George Steinmetz
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781419705595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Hyper Arid is the first comprehensive photographic book on all of the world's extreme deserts (defined for the purposes of this book as those that receive no more than 4 inches of precipitation per year), the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. It is also a visual adventure story by one of the world's top expedition photographers who has spent the last 15 years on this epic body of work. The stunning and surreally beautiful photographs are enriched with stories from his adventures in the world's most difficult places: smuggling his aircraft into Libya, getting arrested for spying in Iran, crashing into a tree in Western China, and into the ocean off the coast of Mexico. The book is a comprehensive exploration of virtually every dune field and patch of barren ground that add up to the last great class of wilderness left on our planet. To visualize these remote places in a unique way, Steinmetz learned how to fly the world's lightest and slowest aircraft, a motorized paraglider. This experimental foot-launched aircraft consists of a backpack motor and a parachute-style wing that lets him fly low, and slow, to take pictures of places that have never been seen before. Together, these extraordinary places are like a disparate family of co-evolved landscapes, each similar, but uniquely beautiful"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Steven J. Phillips
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780520219809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pueblos beneath a turquoise sky, kindred tribes in a daunting land, in the realm of the Apache and Navajo.
Author: Alice Jablonsky
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1877856320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of one hundred and one questions about life in the desert.
