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Nature's Burdens

Daniel Nelson

Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781607325703

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Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a story of persistent activism, conflict, and frustration but also of striking achievement, it is an account of how new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, animals, and their surroundings have become vital features of modern environmentalism. In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress embraced the largely dormant movement to preserve distinctive landscapes and the growing demand for outdoor recreation, establishing an unprecedented number of parks, monuments, and recreation areas. The election of Ronald Reagan and a shift to a Republican-controlled Senate brought this activity to an abrupt halt and introduced a period of intense partisanship and legislative gridlock that extends to the present. In this political climate, three developments largely defined the role of conservation in contemporary society: environmental organizations have struggled to defend the legal status quo, private land conservation has become increasingly important, and the emergence of potent scientific voices has promoted the protection of animals and plants and injected a new sense of urgency into the larger cause. These developments mark this period as a distinctive and important chapter in the history of American conservation. Scrupulously researched, scientifically and politically well informed, concise, and accessibly written, Nature’s Burdens is the most comprehensive examination of recent efforts to protect and enhance the natural world. It will be of interest to environmental historians, environmental activists, and any general reader interested in conservation.

Rising

Elizabeth Rush

Author : Elizabeth Rush
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781571319708

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A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times). Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. A Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book Of 2018 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018

Burden of Proof: Using Known Concepts to Reveal Eternal Truths

Brandon Russell

Author : Brandon Russell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365487422

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Burden of Proof: Using Known Concepts to Reveal Eternal Truths by Brandon Russell Pdf

Where is the proof? Why believe in something if there is no evidence? Also, why believe in something when there is evidence that runs contrary to a particular belief? This is basic logic and a reason why most deny a deity. Most who deny a deity argue there is no evidence. Also they point to scientific evidence to validate their skepticism.However, what if there is evidence and evidence that is overwhelming? Those who deny a deity have every right to demand evidence. Yet, what will they do when they are provided proof? The Bible advocates a God who is sovereign. If this is true everything points to his existence.God is not hiding, he wants to be known. BURDEN OF PROOF: Using Known Concepts to Reveal Eternal Truths, was written to identify the evidence of God's existence.The author answers forty thought-provoking questions that highlight the eternal truths of Scripture. Thus proving that the burden of proof does not lie with those who believe in God but with those who don't.

Burdens of History

Antoinette Burton

Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860656

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In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.

Beasts of Burden

Ron Broglio

Author : Ron Broglio
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438465678

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Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation. In Beasts of Burden, Ron Broglio examines how liveshuman and animalwere counted in rural England and Scotland during the Romantic period. During this time, Britain experienced unprecedented data collection from censuses, ordinance surveys, and measurements of resources, all used to quantify the life and productivity of the nation. It was the dawn of biopoliticsthe age in which biological life and its abilities became regulated by the state. Borne primarily by workers and livestock, nowhere was this regulation felt more powerfully than in the fields, commons, and enclosures. Using literature, art, and cultural texts of the period, Broglio explores the apparatus of biopolitics during the age of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus. He looks at how data collection turned everyday life into citizenship and nationalism and how labor class poets and artists recorded and resisted the burden of this new biopolitical life. The author reveals how the frictions of material life work over and against designs by the state to form a unified biopolitical Britain. At its most radical, this book changes what constitutes the central concerns of the Romantic period and which texts are valuable for understanding the formation of a nation, its agriculture, and its rural landscapes.

Releasing the Burden

Rikroses Books and E-books

Author : Rikroses Books and E-books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Do you feel exhausted, weighed down by expectations, and constantly striving for control? Are you seeking a path to deeper fulfillment and a lighter way of being? If so, then "Releasing the Burden: A Journey towards Lighter Living and Deeper Fulfillment" is your guide to personal transformation. In this powerful book, you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery, shedding outdated beliefs, releasing limiting attachments, and embracing a more mindful and present-moment way of living. Discover the power of gratitude, forgiveness, and setting healthy boundaries to create a life filled with joy, purpose, and passion. Learn how to simplify your life, declutter your space, and reconnect with the natural world. Build supportive relationships, develop healthy habits, and face challenges with courage and resilience. "Releasing the Burden" is not just a book; it's an invitation to a lighter, fuller life.

Sharing the Burden

Geoffrey D. Claussen

Author : Geoffrey D. Claussen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438458359

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Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics. Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth-century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral character. Geoffrey D. Claussen focuses on that movement's leading moral theorist, Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), the founder of the first Musar movement yeshiva and the first traditionalist institution in Eastern Europe that included general studies in its curriculum. Simḥah Zissel offered a unique and compelling voice within the Musar movement, joining traditionalism with a program for contemplative practice and an interest in non-Jewish philosophy. His thought was also distinguished by its demanding moral vision, oriented around an ideal of compassionately loving one's fellow as oneself and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of moral change. Drawing on Simḥah Zissel's writings and bringing his approach into dialogue with other models of ethics, Claussen explores Simḥah Zissel's Jewish virtue ethics and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses. The result is a volume that will expose readers to a fascinating and important voice in the history of modern Jewish ethics and spirituality.

Beasts of Burden

Sunaura Taylor

Author : Sunaura Taylor
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620971291

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A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic How much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much does our definition of "human" depend on its difference from "animal"? Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled—and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls "cripping animal ethics." Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice, which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition, are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir, and science—including factory farming, disability oppression, and our assumptions of human superiority over animals—Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that will open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical and personal, by a brilliant debut author.

The Burden of Time

John Lincoln Stewart

Author : John Lincoln Stewart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876266

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Two groups which originated in Nashville: Tennessee, in the early 1920's had a strong influence on American letters. Known as the "Fugitives" and “Agrarian,” they included, among others, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson and Merrill Moore. This study of their contributions is, as R.W.B. Lewis has written, “a searching, supple, and most of the time brilliantly precise account of thee writing, ideas, and attitudes of several of this century’s most interesting men of letters. The book achieves a kind of finality in the handling of its subject.” Mr. Stewart concentrates on the ideas, styles, themes, and widespread influence of the two groups, rather than on historical data. He illuminates the literature produced within this particular historical and geographical context. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens

Gerald James Holton

Author : Gerald James Holton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674005309

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In questioning the scientific enterprise and its effect on the society around it, this analysis of modern science has a particular emphasis on the role of thematic elements - often unconscious presuppositions that guide scientific work.

Administrative Burden

Pamela Herd,Donald P. Moynihan

Author : Pamela Herd,Donald P. Moynihan
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610448789

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Administrative Burden by Pamela Herd,Donald P. Moynihan Pdf

Bureaucracy, confusing paperwork, and complex regulations—or what public policy scholars Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan call administrative burdens—often introduce delay and frustration into our experiences with government agencies. Administrative burdens diminish the effectiveness of public programs and can even block individuals from fundamental rights like voting. In AdministrativeBurden, Herd and Moynihan document that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with the state are not simply unintended byproducts of governance, but the result of deliberate policy choices. Because burdens affect people’s perceptions of government and often perpetuate long-standing inequalities, understanding why administrative burdens exist and how they can be reduced is essential for maintaining a healthy public sector. Through in-depth case studies of federal programs and controversial legislation, the authors show that administrative burdens are the nuts-and-bolts of policy design. Regarding controversial issues such as voter enfranchisement or abortion rights, lawmakers often use administrative burdens to limit access to rights or services they oppose. For instance, legislators have implemented administrative burdens such as complicated registration requirements and strict voter-identification laws to suppress turnout of African American voters. Similarly, the right to an abortion is legally protected, but many states require women seeking abortions to comply with burdens such as mandatory waiting periods, ultrasounds, and scripted counseling. As Herd and Moynihan demonstrate, administrative burdens often disproportionately affect the disadvantaged who lack the resources to deal with the financial and psychological costs of navigating these obstacles. However, policymakers have sometimes reduced administrative burdens or shifted them away from citizens and onto the government. One example is Social Security, which early administrators of the program implemented in the 1930s with the goal of minimizing burdens for beneficiaries. As a result, the take-up rate is about 100 percent because the Social Security Administration keeps track of peoples’ earnings for them, automatically calculates benefits and eligibility, and simply requires an easy online enrollment or visiting one of 1,200 field offices. Making more programs and public services operate this efficiently, the authors argue, requires adoption of a nonpartisan, evidence-based metric for determining when and how to institute administrative burdens, with a bias toward reducing them. By ensuring that the public’s interaction with government is no more onerous than it need be, policymakers and administrators can reduce inequality, boost civic engagement, and build an efficient state that works for all citizens.

Romances of the White Man's Burden

Jeremy Wells

Author : Jeremy Wells
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826517586

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Burden of Truth

Charles W. Colson

Author : Charles W. Colson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0842301909

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This book consists of a brilliant collection of transcripts from Charles Colson's radio program, BreakPoint, delivered on a wide variety of subjects but pointing to the truth that the most fundamental dimension to human life is religious in nature.

Philosophy and the Burden of Theological Honesty

Donald MacKinnon

Author : Donald MacKinnon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567604286

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Philosophy and the Burden of Theological Honesty by Donald MacKinnon Pdf

Donald M. MacKinnon has been one of the most important and influential of post-war British theologians and religious philosophers. Generally eclectic, frequently allusive, usually intellectually generous, persistently richly challenging and always astonishingly erudite, he had a significant impact on the development and subsequent theological work of the likes of Rowan Williams, Nicholas Lash, David Ford and John Milbank. A younger generation largely emerging from Cambridge, but with influence elsewhere, has more recently brought MacKinnon's normally occasionalist writing to a larger audience worldwide where it is beginning to receive noteworthy attention. In this collection several of MacKinnon's most outstanding papers not yet published in book format is collected together with an Editorial Introduction by a former student of one of MacKinnon's own students.They range from his reflections on theology as educational, the nature of moral reasoning, considerations of ecclesial practice, dogmatics and hope.Here is another reminder of MacKinnon's intellectual brilliance.

Honored Burden

Howard Calhoun

Author : Howard Calhoun
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781098078904

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Honored Burden by Howard Calhoun Pdf

The objective of the Honored Burden is to express the complexities, contradictions, tragedies, and triumphs of the American experience by telling it within the framework of poverty, race, class, religion, and politics. This honored American's experience springs from one of America's most rural and backwoods outposts imagined. It includes experiences from an era of sharecropping and the late fringes of Jim Crow. It blends the best of America's intent with the worst of American impulses. My story and experience are one of many that are often untold and unknown but are no less American. My race has endured a unique burden, yet I am proud and honored to be an American. The government of the people and by the people is a humanity challenge. I am a participant and witness full of hope and confidence that America will meet its challenge. Honored Burden uses thought-provoking stories in an attempt to disclose any of those complexities, contradictions, tragedies, and triumphs that amount to that challenge. 2

Nature S Burdens

Nature's Burdens by Daniel Nelson Pdf

Rising by Elizabeth Rush Pdf

Burden of Proof: Using Known Concepts to Reveal Eternal Truths by Brandon Russell Pdf

Burdens of History by Antoinette Burton Pdf

Beasts of Burden by Ron Broglio Pdf

Releasing the Burden by Rikroses Books and E-books Pdf

Sharing the Burden by Geoffrey D. Claussen Pdf

Beasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor Pdf

The Burden of Time by John Lincoln Stewart Pdf

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens by Gerald James Holton Pdf

Administrative Burden by Pamela Herd,Donald P. Moynihan Pdf

Romances of the White Man's Burden by Jeremy Wells Pdf

Burden of Truth by Charles W. Colson Pdf

Philosophy and the Burden of Theological Honesty by Donald MacKinnon Pdf

Honored Burden by Howard Calhoun Pdf

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