Author : Carol Carrick
Publisher : Dial
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0803712480
A Clearing in the Forest
Carol Carrick
A Clearing In The Forest
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A Clearing in the Forest
Steven L. Winter
Author : Steven L. Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226902227
A Clearing in the Forest by Steven L. Winter Pdf
Cognitive science is transforming our understanding of the mind. New discoveries are changing how we comprehend not just language, but thought itself. Yet, surprisingly little of the new learning has penetrated discussions and analysis of the most important social institution affecting our lives-the law. Drawing on work in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and literary theory, Steven L. Winter has created nothing less than a tour de force of interdisciplinary analysis. A Clearing in the Forest rests on the simple notion that the better we understand the workings of the mind, the better we will understand all its products-especially law. Legal studies today focus on analytic skills and grand normative theories. But, to understand how real-world, legal actors reason and decide, we need a different set of tools. Cognitive science provides those tools, opening a window on the imaginative, yet orderly mental processes that animate thinking and decisionmaking among lawyers, judges, and lay persons alike. Recent findings about how humans actually categorize and reason make it possible to explain legal reasoning in new, more cogent, more productive ways. A Clearing in the Forest is a compelling meditation on both how the law works and what it all means. In uncovering the irrepressibly imaginative, creative quality of human reason, Winter shows how what we are learning about the mind changes not only our understanding of law, but ultimately of ourselves. He charts a unique course to understanding the world we inhabit, showing us the way to the clearing in the forest.
A Clearing in the Forest
Steven L. Winter
Author : Steven L. Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226902218
A Clearing in the Forest by Steven L. Winter Pdf
Cognitive science is transforming our understanding of the mind. New discoveries are changing how we comprehend not just language, but thought itself. Yet, surprisingly little of the new learning has penetrated discussions and analysis of the most important social institution affecting our lives-the law. Drawing on work in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and literary theory, Steven L. Winter has created nothing less than a tour de force of interdisciplinary analysis. A Clearing in the Forest rests on the simple notion that the better we understand the workings of the mind, the better we will understand all its products-especially law. Legal studies today focus on analytic skills and grand normative theories. But, to understand how real-world, legal actors reason and decide, we need a different set of tools. Cognitive science provides those tools, opening a window on the imaginative, yet orderly mental processes that animate thinking and decisionmaking among lawyers, judges, and lay persons alike. Recent findings about how humans actually categorize and reason make it possible to explain legal reasoning in new, more cogent, more productive ways. A Clearing in the Forest is a compelling meditation on both how the law works and what it all means. In uncovering the irrepressibly imaginative, creative quality of human reason, Winter shows how what we are learning about the mind changes not only our understanding of law, but ultimately of ourselves. He charts a unique course to understanding the world we inhabit, showing us the way to the clearing in the forest.
Microclimatology of a Subarctic Spruce Forest and a Clearing at Big Delta, Alaska
Fernand De Percin
Author : Fernand De Percin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Microclimatology
ISBN : MINN:31951D037909496
Microclimatology of a Subarctic Spruce Forest and a Clearing at Big Delta, Alaska by Fernand De Percin Pdf
This analysis deals with the microclimatology of two greatly contrasting sites at Fort Greely, Big Delta, Alaska; one in a coniferous forest (Taiga) and the other in an adjacent clearing. Continuous measurements of the vertical distribution of temperature and wind, and the measurements of solar radiation, precipitation, and globe thermometer temperatures, supplemented by the usual visual and manual observations and measurements, such as sky cover, clouds, snow depth, etc., were conducted from June 1956 through September 1957. An analysis of the data for two months, June 1956 (summer) and December 1956 (winter) is presented. (Author).
Out of a Forest Clearing
Randall Beth Platt
Author : Randall Beth Platt
Publisher : Daniel & Daniel Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015061468925
Out of a Forest Clearing by Randall Beth Platt Pdf
A Clearing in the Woods
Arthur Laurents
Author : Arthur Laurents
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822202158
A Clearing in the Woods by Arthur Laurents Pdf
THE STORY: A CLEARING IN THE WOODS is in a sense a fantasy--in which a multitude of times and experiences are telescoped into a single moment. The entire life of a young woman is shown during the course of the play. Atkinson, in the New York Time
A Clearing in the Forest
Kim Love Stump
Author : Kim Love Stump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0997591404
A Clearing in the Forest by Kim Love Stump Pdf
Princess Adriana is about to leave the Kingdom of Ayrden on the Journey of her sixteenth year. If she is ever to ascend to the throne, Adriana must go--alone and unarmed--into the unknown. She's been trained and gifted for the Journey, just like all the royals who preceded her--even the ones who never returned. Adriana leaves Ayrden on Sultan, the black stallion gifted to her by her brother just the day before at her birthday celebration. With bravery in her heart and hopes for a quick return, she soon encounters three paths: one of grass, one of gold, and one of gemstones. She chooses the pragmatic path of grass. Although it seems safe, and the landscape familiar, she quickly finds that she will have to overcome nearly impossible challenges. Ultimately, an unexpected friendship changes not only Adriana, but the very kingdom she someday hopes to rule. The question is, will the friendship turn into everlasting love?
A Clearing in the Forest
Sally Morgan
Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Chrysalis Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 1929298846
A Clearing in the Forest by Sally Morgan Pdf
DESCRIBES THE VARIETY OF PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE SUPPORTED BY THE FOREST HABITAT, EXPLAING HOW THESE HABITATS ARE THREATENED AND HOW THEY CAN BE PRESERVED FOR THE FUTURE.
Is there responsible gendered governance of forest tenure? Getting a clear picture. Training Handbook
Jhaveri, N.J.
Author : Jhaveri, N.J.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Is there responsible gendered governance of forest tenure? Getting a clear picture. Training Handbook by Jhaveri, N.J. Pdf
Clearing in the Forest
Jason D'ebre
Author : Jason D'ebre
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543046819
Clearing in the Forest by Jason D'ebre Pdf
Three young children their mother a Kept Saxon woman and their father a Norman Baron, not wanted in life but when their mother dies they are cast out of the village. No home no love no food beaten away from each village until they find a woman of the forest with whom they strike a bargain for all of them to survive. Set in the reign of King John and the Barons war they become strong.
Song of the Forest
Stephen Brain
Author : Stephen Brain
Publisher : Russian and East European Stud
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0822961652
Song of the Forest by Stephen Brain Pdf
After their rise to power, the Bolsheviks turned their backs on this tradition and adopted German methods, then considered the most advanced in the world, for clear-cutting and replanting of marketable tree types in "artificial forests." Later, when Stalin's Five Year Plan required vast amounts of timber for industrialization, forest radicals proposed "flying management," an exaggerated version of German forestry where large tracts of virgin forest would be clear-cut. Opponents who still upheld Morozov's vision favored a conservative regenerating approach, and ultimately triumphed by establishing the world's largest forest preserve. Another radical turn came with the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, implemented in 1948. Narrow "belts" of new forest planted on the vast Russian steppe would block drying winds, provide cool temperatures, trap moisture, and increase crop production.
Clearing in the Forest
Sally Morgan
Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Pavilion Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest animals
ISBN : 1841389374
Clearing in the Forest by Sally Morgan Pdf
Zoom in on a habitat and see what lives there By examining life in very specific habitats, children can learn how animals and plants rely on each other in the interconnecting web of nature.
Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
Author : Suzanne Simard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780735237766
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard Pdf
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Mountain Environment and Natural History* *WINNER of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature* *SHORTLISTED for the 2022 BC and Yukon Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize* *SHORTLISTED for the 2022 BC and Yukon Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award* *SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award* A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls in James Cameron’s Avatar), and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard describes up close—in revealing and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved; how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about their future; how they elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication: characteristics previously ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies. And, at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them.Simard, born and raised in the rain forests of British Columbia, spent her days as a child cataloging the trees from the forest; she came to love and respect them and embarked on a journey of discovery and struggle. Her powerful story is one of love and loss, of observation and change, of risk and reward. And it is a testament to how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology: it’s about understanding who we are and our place in the world. In her book, as in her groundbreaking research, Simard proves the true connectedness of the Mother Tree to the forest, nurturing it in the profound ways that families and humansocieties nurture one another, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival.
The Secret River
Kate Grenville
Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459620032
The Secret River by Kate Grenville Pdf
'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...
Life in - a Clearing in the Forest
Sally Morgan
Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Pavilion Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest animals
ISBN : 1841381691
Life in - a Clearing in the Forest by Sally Morgan Pdf
By examining life in very specific habitats, children can learn how animals and plants rely on each other in the interconnecting web of nature.
