Some Enchanted Autumn [electronic Resource]
Author: Linda Andrews
Publisher: Burnaby, B.C. : Zumaya Publications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781554102884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Linda Andrews
Publisher: Burnaby, B.C. : Zumaya Publications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781554102884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marcia Bonta
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780822971603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like her popular Appalachian Spring, Marcia Bonta's new book offers a day-by-day account of the changing world of nature in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. This time she chronicles the beauties of the autumn months as she walks the familiar roads and trails of her 500-acre mountain-top farm, noting the minute transformations of the season as well as the more dramatic ones. But her quiet sojourn in the natural world is shattered by the intrusion of a lumberman who insists upon clear-cutting a neighboring property. The massive bulldozers and skidders crush every tree and shrub, weed, and wildflower, leaving only rubble in their wake. The Bontas become involved in a lawsuit challenging this violation of the land they love and seeking to protect their own property from the effects of the logging. "Autumn is a bittersweet time," Bonta writes, "a season of good-byes, when, after the flaming leaves fall and start the inevitable process of decay, we are left with only the bare bones of nature." Fleeing from the whine of chain saws and the crash of falling trees, she roams the mountain-top, watching wild turkeys forage in the field, flocks of migrating birds feast on wild grapes, does and bucks eye each other in their mating ritual. But she can never completely evade the insistent question: What is the relationship between humans and nature? Does ownership give one the right to do as one pleases with the land and all the flora and fauna living on it? Does the natural world exists solely to satisfy mankind’s desire for profit? The answer is not simple; it cannot be drawn in winter’s black and white. But the issues must be of concern to every thoughtful person. Marcia Bonta’s Appalachian Autumn offers a new voice in the ongoing debate.
Author: L. O. Aranye Fradenburg
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781452904962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment--that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today and beyond.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 418
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Sobel
Publisher: Beard Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781893122475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Zucchetto
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1461251249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although this book is about a specific area of the world (i.e., Gotland, Sweden), the interdisciplinary nature of the study, with regard to resources, environment, and society, makes it of interest to a number of fields. We have tried to make this book readable for a wide variety of interested parties including systems ecologists, environmental scientists, resource economists, geographers, regional planners, and regional scientists, as well as those interested in Nordic conditions. Since this project was part of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) pro gram, this book should be of general interest to the international community. This book is certainly not a textbook, but we see it as being useful for courses in regional analysis with plenty of examples for illustrating analysis and models related to energy, environment, and economics, or to the general field of systems ecology. An instructor could, of course, supplement the material on systems and models with other sources. We hope this small book will serve as a helpful example of the analysis of the complex interdisciplinary problems associated with resources and society. In Chapter 1, we present a brief introduction to the Gotland study as well as to some of the concepts and theories that have guided our investigations.
Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 3140
ISBN-13: 0195335791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.