Natural Encounters

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Bird watching
ISBN : 9780300243482

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Natural Encounters by Bruce M. Beehler Pdf

A twelve-month excursion through nature's seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons," lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation's capital, Beehler describes trips to nature's most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover's bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one's own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.

Author : Jennifer Wharton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521715164

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Academic Encounters: The Natural World Student's Book by Jennifer Wharton Pdf

A content-based reading, study skills, and writing book that introduces students to topics in Earth science and biology relevant to life today -- from cover.

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300244892

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Natural Encounters by Bruce M. Beehler Pdf

A twelve-month excursion through nature’s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this “personal encyclopedia of nature’s seasons,” lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation’s capital, Beehler describes trips to nature’s most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover’s bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one’s own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.

Author : Teresa Strong-Wilson,Ricardo L. Castro,Warren Crichlow,Amarou Yoder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000817188

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Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald by Teresa Strong-Wilson,Ricardo L. Castro,Warren Crichlow,Amarou Yoder Pdf

This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction. Moving beyond overly instrumentalist and reductive approaches, the authors combine disciplines in a scholarly fashion to encourage readers to stretch their understandings of currere. The chapters exemplify important, timely and complicated conversations centred on ethical response and responsibility, in order to imagine a more just and aesthetically experienced world. In the analysis of BILDUNG as human formation, the book illuminates the pertinent lessons to be learned from the works of Sebald and provokes further investigations into the questions of memory, grief, and limits of language. Through its juxtaposition of curriculum and architecture, and using the prose of Sebald as a prism, the book revitalizes questions about education and ethics, probes the unsettling of complacency, and enables conversation around difficult knowledge and ethical responsibility, as well as offering hope and resolve. An important intervention in standard approaches to understanding currere, this book provides essential context for scholars and educators with interests in the history of education, curriculum architectural education and practice studies, memory studies, narrative research, Sebaldian studies, and educational philosophy.

Author : Fr. Anthony C. Mbanefo M.S.P
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477155332

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Grace and Nature by Fr. Anthony C. Mbanefo M.S.P Pdf

Rev. Anthony Chukwudumeme Mbanefo MSP., PhD, is a Nigeria American Catholic priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul. Born in Ogidi near his town Eziowelle of S. East Nigeria in November 25 1965, he had his early education and priestly formation in Nigeria. After his priestly ordination in July 1 1992, he worked for two years in Nigeria before proceeding to The Gambia where he worked successfully for ten years towards the building of the Christian faith in the predominantly Muslim country. Fr Mbanefo started his ministry in United States in January 2005. He has served as associate pastor and pastor of different parishes in United States. He is presently the pastor of Holy Redeemer Parish McRae and Saint Mark’s Parish Eastman GA. He is a gifted preacher and writer. Fr Anthony fluently speaks four languages. They are Igbo, Wolof, English and Spanish. He also speaks small French. Fr Mbanefo is a systematic theologian and holds PhD in theology.

Author : Paul Marshall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191535468

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Mystical Encounters with the Natural World by Paul Marshall Pdf

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R. M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W. R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R. C. Zaehner, W. T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D02974795T

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Extending the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum to Nonfederal Lands in the Northeast by Anonim Pdf

Author : James W. Goll,Michal Ann Goll
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9780768422801

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God Encounters by James W. Goll,Michal Ann Goll Pdf

You will see how God's tangible presence will: Free you from guilt Free you from bitterness and fear Heal you from pain of the past Open your heart to hear and respond to God like never before.

Author : Grigorian
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy of mind
ISBN : 9781449011550

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In Search Of The Mind by Grigorian Pdf

Author : Dirk Vanderwilt
Publisher : Channel Lake, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
ISBN : 9780979204357

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Las Vegas by Dirk Vanderwilt Pdf

Las Vegas is in many ways the ultimate vacation destination, and it is much more than just casinos! From live shows to restaurants and luxury resorts, Las Vegas is on a perpetual quest to become bigger and better than ever before. With this book as a guide, anyone can explore the very best that this unforgettable city has to offer.

Author : Niki Buchan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472938381

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A Practical Guide to Nature-Based Practice by Niki Buchan Pdf

There is a growing realisation that children benefit from being involved in wild spaces. They need dynamic and complex outdoor environments and opportunities for risk and challenge, to play with abandon, have first-hand experiences – places where there is adventure, delight, daring and joy! This book: o Provides a background to forest school and its relevance to Early Years settings o Outlines the challenges and benefits of outdoor learning o Explores the concept of nature-based practice o Emphasises the importance of free play o Includes case studies in which educators share their journeys into 'wild nature' This book will help adults and children alike to reconnect with their local environment - a must-have for any early years setting!

Author : Allison Alexy,Emma E. Cook
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824882440

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Intimate Japan by Allison Alexy,Emma E. Cook Pdf

How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationships. As the Japanese population ages, the low birth rate shrinks the population, and decades of recession radically restructure labor markets, Japanese intimate relationships, norms, and ideals are concurrently shifting. This volume explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. From young people making decisions about birth control to spouses struggling to connect with each other, parents worrying about stigma faced by their adopted children, and queer people creating new terms to express their identifications, Japanese intimacies are commanding a surprising amount of attention, both within and beyond Japan. With ethnographic analysis focused on how intimacy is imagined, enacted, and discussed, the volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms. Intimate Japan will appeal to scholars and students in anthropology and Japanese or Asian studies, particularly those focusing on gender, kinship, sexuality, and labor policy. The book will also be of interest to researchers across social science subject areas, including sociology, political science, and psychology.

Author : Rob Cowen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226424262

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Common Ground by Rob Cowen Pdf

"Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban environs, nature is all around us, it is in us. It is us. This is what Rob Cowen discovered after moving to a new home in northern England. After ten years in London, he was suddenly adrift, searching for a sense of connection. He found himself drawn to a square-mile patch of waste ground at the edge of town. Scrappy, weed-filled, this heart-shaped tangle of land was the very definition of overlooked - a thoroughly in-between place that capitalism had no further use for, leaving nature to take its course. Wandering in meadows, woods, hedges, and fields, Cowen found it was also a magical, mysterious place, haunted and haunting, abandoned but wildly alive - and he fell in fascinated love."--Book jacket.

Author : Hugh Durrant-Whyte,Nicholas Roy,Pieter Abbeel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262305044

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Robotics by Hugh Durrant-Whyte,Nicholas Roy,Pieter Abbeel Pdf

Papers from a flagship conference reflect the latest developments in the field, including work in such rapidly advancing areas as human-robot interaction and formal methods. Robotics: Science and Systems VII spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the algorithmic or mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, held in 2011 at the University of Southern California. The papers presented cover a wide range of topics in robotics, spanning mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics and control, human-robot interaction and human-centered systems, distributed systems, mobile systems and mobility, manipulation, field robotics, medical robotics, biological robotics, robot perception, and estimation and learning in robotic systems. The conference and its proceedings reflect not only the tremendous growth of robotics as a discipline but also the desire in the robotics community for a flagship event at which the best of the research in the field can be presented.

Author : Talk To Me In Korean
Publisher : Talk To Me In Korean
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Korean Slang Expressions Vol. 2 by Talk To Me In Korean Pdf

Learn the most trendy and fun Korean expressions that native speakers love using, with "Korean Slang Expressions Vol. 2"! Whether you're a beginner eager to explore the Korean language or an intermediate learner ready to spice up your conversations, this e-book is your perfect guide. Key Features: - Introduces approximately 50 Korean slang expressions, bringing you closer to the everyday language used by Koreans. - Each chapter is organized into sections covering the expression, its explanation, grammatical details (such as part of speech and commonly used form), example sentences, and dialogues. - All explanations are provided in English, making the content accessible to beginners. - Gain interesting cultural insights and learn about the origins of these fun expressions, with a focus on when and how to use them in real-life situations. What Sets This E-book Apart? - Captures the essence of current trends in Korean media and social media, ensuring you learn the slang expressions most frequently encountered online. - The example sentences and sample dialogues are written in vivid, colloquial language, offering a glimpse into authentic spoken Korean. - Learning slang is a gateway to understanding culture. This e-book offers insights into what Koreans currently love or value. "Korean Slang Expressions Vol. 2" is more than just a language learning tool; it's a cultural expedition. Discover what's trending in Korea, from popular hobbies to societal influences, all through the lens of slang. Ideal for language enthusiasts and cultural explorers alike, this e-book promises to enrich your understanding of Korean beyond the conventional classroom setting.