Nature Next Door

Author : Ellen Stroud
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295804453

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Nature Next Door by Ellen Stroud Pdf

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm and forest, agriculture and industry, and nature and culture break down when the focus is on the history of Northeastern woods. Cities, trees, mills, rivers, houses, and farms are all part of a single transformed regional landscape. In an examination of the cities and forests of the northeastern United States-with particular attention to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Vermont-Ellen Stroud shows how urbanization processes there fostered a period of recovery for forests, with cities not merely consumers of nature but creators as well. Interactions between city and hinterland in the twentieth century Northeast created a new wildness of metropolitan nature: a reforested landscape intricately entangled with the region's cities and towns.

Author : Robert Cyril Stebbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Natural history
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035159214

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Author : Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816546992

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The Mountains Next Door by Janice Emily Bowers Pdf

A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.

Author : Marianne Taylor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691210865

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The Gull Next Door by Marianne Taylor Pdf

A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writers From a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness. Up close, however, they can be loud, aggressive and even violent. Yet gulls fascinate birdwatchers, and seafarers regard them with respect and affection. The Gull Next Door explores the natural history of gulls and their complicated relationship with humans. Marianne Taylor grew up in an English seaside town where gulls are ever present. Today, she is a passionate advocate for these underappreciated birds. In this book, Taylor looks at the different gull species and sheds light on all aspects of the lives of gulls—how they find food, raise families, socialize and migrate across sea, coastland and countryside. She discusses the herring gull, Britain's best-known and most persecuted gull species, whose numbers are declining at an alarming rate. She looks at gulls in legend, fiction and popular culture, and explains what we can do to protect gull populations around the world. The Gull Next Door reveals deeper truths about these remarkable birds. They are thinkers and innovators, devoted partners and parents. They lead long lives and often indulge their powerful drive to explore and travel. But for all these natural gifts, many gull species are struggling to survive in the wild places they naturally inhabit, which is why they are now exploiting the opportunities of human habitats. This book shows how we might live more harmoniously with these majestic yet misunderstood birds.

Author : James W. Sire
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781459611146

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The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt) by James W. Sire Pdf

For more than thirty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. In this new fifth edition James Sire offers additional student-friendly features to his concise, easily understood introductions to theism, deism, naturalism, Marxism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern monism, New Age philosophy and postmodernism. Included in this expanded format are a new chapter on Islam and informative sidebars throughout.The book continues to build on Sire's refined definition of worldviews from the fourth edition and includes other updates as well, keeping this standard text fresh and useful. In a world of ever-increasing diversity, The Universe Next Door offers a unique resource for understanding the variety of worldviews that compete with Christianity for the allegiance of minds and hearts. The Universe Next Door has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been used as a text at over one hundred colleges and universities in courses ranging from apologetics and world religions to history and English literature. Sire's Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept provides a useful companion volume for those desiring a more in-depth discussion of the nature of a worldview.

Author : Aliyah Burke
Publisher : Entangled: Brazen
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649371041

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Her Marine Next Door by Aliyah Burke Pdf

My next door neighbor is a serious pain. Parker Jax is covered in tats, rides a motorcycle, and his parties keep me up all night. The fact he’s sexy as sin doesn’t change the fact that he’s definitely not my type. We mix like bike grease and water. I’m a quiet artist. He’s a rowdy marine. My heart’s been broken. His seems to be missing altogether. Thankfully, my bad-boy neighbor is on leave from the Marines for only thirty days. But then the jerk has to go and complicate things. Like show me that he has a soft side beneath all those hard muscles and that he’s capable of helping out another human being—like me. Now I owe Jax a favor. A big one. All I need to do is ride out the rest of the month and hope he never calls it in. But when a woman shows up with a kid at her side, knocking on Parker’s door, I know that this time, payback’s gonna be deliciously complicated.

Author : Thomas J. Stanley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780795314896

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Millionaire Women Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals the spending and saving habits of financially successful women. Millionaire Women Next Door presents a variety of groundbreaking concepts involving the personality, lifestyle, motives, beliefs, and spending habits of economically successful American businesswomen. Most of these women report being raised in nurturing family environments. They were trained not only to succeed financially but also to be generous in giving to noble causes. Stanley asks, “How did these businesswomen become millionaires? They did it by doing more of the key activities and achieving better results than most of their male counterparts.” Praise for Thomas J. Stanley’s The Millionaire Mind “A very good book that deserves to be well read.” —The Wall Street Journal “Worth every cent . . . It’s an inspiration for anyone who has ever been told that he wasn’t smart enough or good enough.” —Associated Press “A high IQ isn’t necessarily an indicator of financial success . . . Stanley tells us that the typical millionaire had an average GPA and frugal spending habits—but good interpersonal skills.” —Entertainment Weekly “Ideas bigger than the next buck.” —Orlando Sentinel

Author : Luigi Tomba
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801455193

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The Government Next Door by Luigi Tomba Pdf

Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba’s vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place. Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.

Author : Robert W. Jepperson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1685240216

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Wild World Next Door - Getting to Know Our Wild Neighbors by Robert W. Jepperson Pdf

Poetry, vignettes, narratives and photographs based on the author's decade of visiting a 3000-acre forest preserve and its beaver ponds. His personal writing style takes his readers with him as he follows the lives of his wild neighbors.

Author : Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525646334

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The Hero Next Door by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich Pdf

From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short-story collection--this one focused on exploring acts of bravery--featuring some of the best own-voices children's authors, including R. J. Palacio (Wonder), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Linda Sue Park (A Long Walk to Water), and many more. Not all heroes wear capes. Some heroes teach martial arts. Others talk to ghosts. A few are inventors or soccer players. They're also sisters, neighbors, and friends. Because heroes come in many shapes and sizes. But they all have one thing in common: they make the world a better place. Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this vibrant anthology features thirteen acclaimed authors whose powerful and diverse voices show how small acts of kindness can save the day. So pay attention, because a hero could be right beside you. Or maybe the hero is you. AUTHORS INCLUDE: William Alexander, Joseph Bruchac, Lamar Giles, Mike Jung, Hena Khan, Juana Medina, Ellen Oh, R. J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park and Anna Dobbin, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ronald L. Smith, Rita Williams-Garcia, and short-story contest winner Suma Subramaniam “As with the two previous anthologies from We Need Diverse Books, this collection admirably succeeds in making available to all readers a wider and more representative range of American voices and protagonists.” —The Washington Post

Author : Yewande Omotoso
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473522589

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The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Read this funny, sharp, delicately woven story of two women’s complicated relationship set in post-apartheid South Africa. Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Could long-held mutual loathing transform into friendship? Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done. 'At once historical and contemporary, The Woman Next Door is charged with beauty, precision, nuance, and hope. Yewande Omotoso is a stunning, essential voice - NoViolet Bulawayo, author of We Need New Names ‘Wit, charm and playful energy... An insightful and fascinating diptych of two women, with the history of colonialism and slavery lurking in the background’ Herald

Author : Alex Marwood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698177826

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The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood Pdf

“The Killer Next Door is even better [than The Wicked Girls]. Scary as hell. Great characters.” —Stephen King Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be renting rooms in a sketchy South London building for cash—no credit check, no lease. It’s the kind of place you end up when you you’ve run out of other options. The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance. What they don’t know is that one of them is a killer. He’s already chosen his next victim, and he’ll do anything to protect his secret. Alex Marwood’s debut novel The Wicked Girls earned her lavish praise from the likes of Elizabeth Haynes, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly and received the Edgar Award. Now, Marwood’s back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how well do you know your neighbors? “Taut, assured and reminiscent of Ruth Rendell's psychological novels, Marwood's second book more than lives up to the promise shown in her splendid debut, The Wicked Girls.” —The Guardian

Author : Judith Rich Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9780684857077

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The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris Pdf

Harris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.

Author : Liz Swan,Richard Gordon,Joseph Seckbach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400741560

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Origin(s) of Design in Nature by Liz Swan,Richard Gordon,Joseph Seckbach Pdf

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world. The volume offers a large variety of perspectives on the design debate including progressive accounts from artificial life, embryology, complexity, cosmology, theology and the philosophy of biology. This book is volume 23 of the series, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. www.springer.com/series/5775

Author : Alexa S. Dietrich
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814724736

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The Drug Company Next Door by Alexa S. Dietrich Pdf

Drug companies produce chemical substances that can save, extend, or substantially improve the quality of human life.However, even as the companies present themselves publicly as health and environmental stewards, their factories are a significant source of air and water pollution--toxic to people and the environment. In Puerto Rico, the pharmaceutical industry is the backbone of the island's economy: in one small town alone, there are over a dozen drug factories representing five multinationals, the highest concentration per capita of such factories in the world. It is a place where the enforcement of environmental regulations and the public trust they ensure are often violated in the name of economic development.