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Creating Waldens

Author : Ronald A. Bosco,Joel Myerson,Daisaku Ikeda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133020276

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Creating Waldens by Ronald A. Bosco,Joel Myerson,Daisaku Ikeda Pdf

In the provocative discussions comprising this collection, scholars Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson and Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda explore the multifaceted, enduring legacy of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. In the process they challenge and inspire the reader to do as these great figures once did—to look deep inside oneself to discover potential for growth, to encounter the natural world with reverence and delight, and to express themselves with poetry and imagination. With great appreciation for the timeless and universal relevance of the American Renaissance, Bosco, Myerson, and Ikeda encourage each person to lead lives of greatness and to do nothing less than create Waldens of their own.

Walden's Shore

Author : Robert M. Thorson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674728400

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Walden's Shore by Robert M. Thorson Pdf

Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.

The Guide to Walden Pond

Author : Robert M. Thorson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328489173

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The Guide to Walden Pond by Robert M. Thorson Pdf

The first guidebook to the landscape and history of the literary shrine to Thoreau, Walden Pond.

Walden Pond

Author : W. Barksdale Maynard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0198037686

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Walden Pond by W. Barksdale Maynard Pdf

Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today. Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made famous 150 years ago. W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth century to the present. From Thoreau's first visit at age 4 in 1821--"That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams"--to today's efforts both to conserve the pond and allow public access, Maynard captures Walden Pond's history and the role it has played in social, cultural, literary, and environmental movements in America. Along the way Maynard details the geography of the pond; Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over their lifetimes; the development of the cult of Thoreau and the growth of the pond as a site of literary and spiritual pilgrimages; rock star Don Henley's Walden Woods Project and the much publicized battle to protect the pond from developers in the 1980s; and the vitally important ecological symbol Walden Pond has become today. Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and illustrated with historical photographs and the most detailed maps of Thoreau country yet created, Walden Pond: A History reveals how an ordinary pond has come to be such an extraordinarily inspiring symbol.

New Essays on Walden

Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521424828

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New Essays on Walden by Robert F. Sayre Pdf

This review of Thoreau's classic contains a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Author : Stefan Gradmann,Francesca Borri,Carlo Meghini,Heiko Schuldt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642244681

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries by Stefan Gradmann,Francesca Borri,Carlo Meghini,Heiko Schuldt Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011 - formerly known as ECDL (European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries) - held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2011. The 27 full papers, 13 short papers, 9 posters and 9 demos presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 initial submissions. In addition the book contains the abstract of 2 keynote speeches and an appendix stating information on the doctoral consortium, as well as the panel, which were held at the conference. The papers are grouped in topical sections on networked information, semantics and interoperability, systems and architectures, text and multimedia retrieval, collaborative information spaces, DL applications and legal aspects, user interaction and information visualization, user studies, archives and repositories, europeana, and preservation.

Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace

Author : Olivier Urbain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857730589

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Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace by Olivier Urbain Pdf

Who is Daisaku Ikeda? At one level, he is the leader of a religious movement - Soka Gakkai - which began in Japan, where it still has its headquarters, but which now claims 12 million adherents around the world. At another level, he is a globetrotting figure whose formal conversations with diverse writers, thinkers and diplomats - including Arnold Toynbee, Joseph Rotblat and Mikhail Gorbachev - have garnered him an international profile, as well as academic recognition. Perhaps above all else, Daisaku Ikeda is viewed as a campaigner for peace. And it is Ikeda's specific contribution to peacebuilding, notably through the central emphasis he has placed on the significance of dialogue, that this book explores: the first to do so in a concerted way. Olivier Urbain shows that while Soka Gakkai (the 'value society') may stem from the medieval principles of Nichiren Buddhism, under Ikeda's leadership it has taken these classic wisdoms and transformed them. Now essentially classless and secularised, as well as adaptable and sensitive to modern challenges like resource shortages and climate change, this - argues the author - is a pragmatic approach to peace which has proved both popular and eminently transportable.

Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art

Author : Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000527131

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Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe Pdf

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent collector of modern and indigenous art and critically contextualises her own art production in relation to expressionist concepts of art and to gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration. Visual analyses highlight how she collaborated with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era and how the circulation of these photographs served as a means to intervene in the public sphere of culture in interwar Germany. Finally, the book provides an analysis of Walden’s continuing work for Der Sturm after her voluntary exile from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 and highlights the importance of women’s supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of modern art in museums and archives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and gender studies.

Harvey Walden's No Excuses! Fitness Workout

Author : Harvey Walden, IV
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1594867461

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Harvey Walden's No Excuses! Fitness Workout by Harvey Walden, IV Pdf

Introduces a fitness program that combines cardio and strength-training routines, along with inspirational anecdotes, motivational tips, nutritional guidelines, relaxation techniques, and suggestions on how to make the best use of limited time.

Walden and Maybrook

Author : Marc Newman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439628287

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Walden and Maybrook by Marc Newman Pdf

The villages of Walden and Maybrook are located within the town of Montgomery, halfway between New York City and Albany. During part of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Walden was considered the Knife Capital of the United States; three companies specialized in producing pocketknives, penknives, and switchblades. At the same time, Maybrook was known as the Gateway to the East; it had the largest railroad-switching terminal connecting rail service from the interior of the country to the New England states. The two villages depended upon each other: Walden manufactured the goods, and Maybrook shipped them to market. With carefully selected photographs and detailed text, Walden and Maybrook traces the history of the two villages from the Colonial era to the mid-nineteenth century. The book contains some two hundred images, many of which have never before been published. Highlighted are the hardworking individuals who helped the villages prosper-the knife makers, polishers, grinders, and hefters, the prominent businesspeople of Chesnin & Leis Clothing and Brook May coats, and the railroad personnel who worked at the roundhouse, the engine house, and the coaling trestle.

Emerson's Protégés

Author : David Dowling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300197440

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Emerson's Protégés by David Dowling Pdf

"Effects of Emerson's professional guidance as mentor, marketer, editor, and promoter for 8 young writers: Margaret Fuller, Henry Thoreau, Christopher Cranch, Samuel Gray Ward, Jones Very, Ellery Channing, Charles Newcomb, and Ellen Sturgis Hooper"--

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1008221216

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.

A Baptist Preacher's Buddhist Teacher

Author : Lawrence Edward Carter Sr.
Publisher : Middleway Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781946635068

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A Baptist Preacher's Buddhist Teacher by Lawrence Edward Carter Sr. Pdf

In this inspiring, soul-stirring memoir, Lawrence E. Carter Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, shares his remarkable quest to experience King's "beloved community" and his surprising discovery in mid-life that King's dream was being realized by the Japanese Buddhist philosopher and tireless peace worker Daisaku Ikeda. Coming of age on the cusp of the American Civil Rights Movement, Carter was personally mentored by Martin Luther King Jr. and followed in his footsteps, first to get an advanced degree in theology at Boston University and then to teach and train a new generation of activists and ministers at King's alma mater, Morehouse College. Over the years, however, Carter was disheartened to watch the radical cosmic vision at the heart of King's message gradually diluted and marginalized. He found himself in near despair—until his remarkable encounter with the lay Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International and a life-changing meeting with Ikeda, its president. Carter knew that King had been inspired by Gandhi, a Hindu, and now Ikeda, a Buddhist, was showing him how King's message of justice, equality, and the fundamental dignity of life could be carried to millions of people around the world. What ensued was not a conversion but a conversation—about the essential role of interfaith dialogue, the primacy of education, and the value of a living faith to create a human revolution and realize at last Martin Luther King's truest dream of a global world house. In these dark and frustrating times, the powerful dialogue between Carter and Ikeda gives hope and guidance to a new generation of reformers, activists, and visionaries.

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300104669

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

In this authoritative text with generous annotations, a distinguished literary scholar has corrected errors and omissions from previous editions, with notes taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts and quotes from sources Thoreau read.

Beyond Walden

Author : Robert Thorson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780802719836

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Beyond Walden by Robert Thorson Pdf

Acclaimed geologist Robert Thorson has been fascinated by kettle lakes ever since his youth in the upper Midwest. As with historic stone walls, each kettle lake has a story to tell, and each is emblematic of the interplay between geology and history. Beyond Walden covers the natural history of kettle lakes, a band of small lakes that extends from the prairie potholes of Montana to the cranberry bogs of Cape Cod. Kettle lakes were formed by glaciers and are recognizable by their round shape and deep waters. Kettles are the most common and widely distributed "species" of natural lake in the United States. They have no inlet or outlet streams so they are essentially natural wells tapping the groundwater. Isolated from one another, each lake has its own personality, and is vulnerable to pollution and climate warming. The most famous kettle lake is Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts; but northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota are most closely associated with them. These lakes have had a tremendous impact on the livelihood and lifestyles of peoples of the area--Native Americans, early explorers and settlers, and the locals and tourists who now use the lakes for recreation. Thorson explores lake science: how kettle lakes are different from other lakes, what it takes to keep all lakes healthy, how global warming and other factors affect lakes. Beyond Walden has a strong environmental message, and will do for the kettle lakes of America's Heartland--and beyond--what Stone by Stone did for the historic stone walls of New England.