A River Again

Author : Meera Subramanian
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610395311

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A River Runs Again by Meera Subramanian Pdf

Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present. In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and microenterprises determined to revive India's ravaged natural world: an engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates; villagers resuscitate a river run dry; cook stove designers persist on the quest for a smokeless fire; biologists bring vultures back from the brink of extinction; and in Bihar, one of India's most impoverished states, a bold young woman teaches adolescents the fundamentals of sexual health. While investigating these five environmental challenges, Subramanian discovers the stories that renew hope for a nation with the potential to lead India and the planet into a sustainable and prosperous future.

Author : Chari Towne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Schuylkill River Watershed (Pa.)
ISBN : 0985987200

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A River Again by Chari Towne Pdf

In a short time, the Schuylkill went from being considered waters of "uncommon purity" to being this country's dirtiest river. That distinction resulted in the Schuylkill River becoming the focus of a precedent-setting river cleanup effort from 1947 to 1951.The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hired a team of engineers to free the Schuylkill from the millions of tons of coal sediment that had filled its bed and raised its floodplain.The Schuylkill River Project Engineers dredged the river and trapped sediment in desilting pools, the kind of practices that river restorations are undertaken to undo today. But at the end of the project, the Schuylkill emerged A RIVER AGAIN.

Author : Linda Rui Feng
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982129453

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Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in years.” How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. What Junie doesn’t know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China’s Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie’s future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie’s birthday—even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. “A beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration, and most of all, love,” (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) Swimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawn—a talented violinist from Momo’s past—while depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.

Author : Edwin Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136824814

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Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology by Edwin Williams Pdf

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to what has been called derivational morphology. Second, morphosyntax (corresponding to what is traditionally called "inflectional morphology") is the immediate spellout of the syntactic merge operation, and so there is no separate morphosyntactic component. There is no LF (logical form) derived; that is, there is no structure which 'mirrors' semantic interpretation ("LF"); instead, semantics interprets the derivation itself. And fourth, syntactic islands are derived purely as a consequence of the formal mechanics of syntactic derivation, and so there are no bounding nodes, no phases, no subjacency, and in fact no absolute islands. Lacking a morphosyntactic component and an LF representation are positive benefits as these provide temptations for theoretical mischief. The theory is a descendant of the author's "Representation Theory" and so inherits its other benefits as well, including explanations for properties of reconstruction, remnant movement, improper movement, and scrambling/scope interactions, and the different embedding regimes for clauses and DPs. Syntactic islands are added to this list as special cases of improper movement.

Author : M. F. MAURY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY by M. F. MAURY Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082289814

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Golden Hours by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Chipman Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Personal property
ISBN : UCAL:B4159775

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Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property by John Chipman Gray Pdf

Author : Howard Waldrop
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466884502

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Going Home Again by Howard Waldrop Pdf

The words "inimitable" and "unique" are bandied about too often in artistic circles, so much so that critics seem to have forgotten those words were invented to describe Howard Waldrop's fiction. Waldrop's mastery of arcane knowledge, his transcendent wit, and the way his stories explode like cheerty bombs inside a reader's mind have all made Howard Waldrop one of the most beloved writers of the past two decades. Readers who encounter his work never forget the experience, and this new collection compiles nine such experiences (heretofore uncollected), including: "Flatfeet!", a madcap tour of this century's first decades, courtesy of the Keystone Kops. "Ocean's Ducks," an homage to those brave black actors of the 1930s. Remember those "Little Moron" jokes in the schoolyard, like "Why did the Little Moron throw the clock out the window?" "He wanted to see Time fly." Now ask yourself again "Why Did?" And beware the masked Mexican wrestlers of "El Castillo de la Perserverancia"! Howard Waldrop's unique and inimitable talents are on full display here. Read on, marvel, and rejoice.

Author : Louis Houck
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Harbors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044434590

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A Treatise on the Law of Navigable Rivers by Louis Houck Pdf

Author : Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJUXA

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Annual Report and Supplement by Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Buss Island
ISBN : UOM:39015026881972

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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:73762731

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

Author : Sandy Burk
Publisher : McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0939923955

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Let the River Run Silver Again! by Sandy Burk Pdf

Let the River Run Silver Again is an environmental conservation success story for students ages 10 to 15 and the teachers, parents, and others who mentor them. It is a source of information and insight for those who want to learn about and benefit from the success of others as well as those who are interested in developing environmental restoration programs in their own watershed. The full-color format presents engaging, action-packed photographs along with maps, graphs, and original art that extends the information presented in multiple directions and dimensions. The greater part of the book follows students from one elementary school in Maryland as they take part, over a period of nine years, in a major regional conservation initiative to restore populations of an important fish, the American shad, to the Chesapeake Bay watershed and to allow the shad to breach numerous dams while migrating to many of their former spawning areas. Numerous private organizations and local, state, and federal agencies contributed to the program - which was indeed successful - but the emphasis in this book is upon the students, their teachers, and their community as they collectively committed to the project, followed through with this commitment, and benefited in myriad ways from the success of the project. The narrative of the students' projects is presented in an energetic style, and at a level, that will both engage and inform other readers of the same age. A short section at the end of the book draws upon the insights offered by the students' story while identifying pathways for students and their mentors to the development and implementation of water, wetland, and watershed restoration projects that could be implemented in other locations and circumstances. The students' experience thus serves as a model and inspiration for student or youth-group conservation projects anywhere.

Author : George Walter Thornbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555055529

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Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places, by W. Thornbury (E. Walford). by George Walter Thornbury Pdf

Author : Norman Maclean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888946465

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A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories by Norman Maclean Pdf