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Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Sonoran Desert
ISBN : OCLC:1029046006
Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781611804577
“If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”—High Country News Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch, it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’ cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.
Author : Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher : New York : Silhouette Books ; Markham, Ont. : Paperjacks
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Models (Persons)
ISBN : 067147149X
Author : Pat Malone
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Deserts
ISBN : 0433008601
This independent reader is part of a non-fiction reading scheme that integrates science and social studies content with literacy development.
Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816548613
Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people. In this work, Gary Paul Nabhan brings O’odham voices to the page at every turn. He writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize edible wild foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O’odham children’s impressions of the desert, and observations of the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people. This edition includes a new preface written by the author, in which he reflects on his gratitude for the O’odham people who shared their knowledge with him. He writes about his own heritage and connections to the desert, climate change, and the border. He shares his awe and gratitude for O’odham writers and storytellers who have been generous enough to share stories with those of us from other cultural traditions so that we may also respect and appreciate the smell of the desert after a rain. Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land—a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing O'odham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize wild edible foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, O'odham children's impressions of the desert, and observations on the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Whether visiting a sacred cave in the Baboquivari Mountains or attending a saguaro wine-drinking ceremony, Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people in a book that has become a contemporary classic of environmental literature.
Author : Éléonore Douspis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773064826
In this beautiful picture book, the wondrous merges with the ordinary when it starts to rain ... inside the house! One day, it starts to rain in Pauline and Louis’s house. The whole family looks for the source of the rain, but nothing can be found! Dad tries to mop up the puddles that form on the floor, Mom holds an umbrella over her head to read, and Pauline and Louis wear their raincoats. Everyone tries to pretend that nothing is wrong. Pauline and Louis are embarrassed and try to keep their rainy house a secret from the other kids at school, expecting to be teased. What would happen if someone found out? Outside, the sun is shining. But inside the house, something new is happening. Plants sprout from the carpet, the bathtub and the kitchen sink. A giant tree spreads its branches through the living room. The neighborhood children, curious about the leaves they see through the windows, come inside. Instead of teasing, they want to play. Pauline and Louis aren’t alone with their secret any longer. In fact, having a tree in the house is kind of fun! Soon, the branches grow too big for the house, and sunlight streams in through holes in the roof. There’s something else, new, too — the rain has finally stopped. A story about embracing difference, celebrating the wondrous and expecting the best from our friends. This nuanced and layered story will have both very young and school-aged children requesting repeated readings. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : ERDC:35925002813928
Author : Ken Jennings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781439167182
Traces the history of mapmaking while offering insight into the role of cartography in human civilization and sharing anecdotes about the cultural arenas frequented by map enthusiasts.
Author : Arturo Islas
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062037794
"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." — Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter "Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God." A beloved Southwestern classic—as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself—Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels, here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.
Author : Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061801228
From a New York Times–bestselling author, a classic sexy romance about a woman reunited with the rancher she has always loved from afar. She is a contradiction, one woman with two lives. She is Shannon, one of the world’s great beauties, a model whose face and figure grace the fashion pages of the world’s most elegant magazines. She is also Holly, a fragile innocent, haunted by painful memories of her past—and by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets. She is assured yet vulnerable, irresistible yet untouched. Destiny has brought Holly Shannon North back to Hidden Springs, where she can be one person, where romance once touched her tender young heart. Here Lincoln McKenzie waits—the proud California rancher, long since hardened by his life’s tragedies. Now, in the icy chill of a desert storm, together they must somehow find the way back to love . . . and rekindle a fire whose healing warmth will truly draw them home. “I’ll buy any book with Elizabeth Lowell’s name on it.” —New York Times–bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz
Author : Sepp Holzer
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603584647
Outlines the author's ten points of sustainable self-reliance, details pond and lake construction, and discusses biodiversity.
Author : Gordon Holmes Fraser
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0802471536
Author : Martin Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107016910
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:334196132
Author : Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson,Peter Murphy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1433104261
This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of creative work. It documents how these profound shifts have brought to the forefront forms of knowledge production based on the commons and driven by ideas, not profitability per se; and have given rise to the notion of not just 'knowledge management' but the design of 'creative institutions' embodying new patterns of work.
