Recreating The Country

Author : Stephen Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : 0975777831

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Recreating the Country by Stephen Murphy Pdf

Challenges landholders and land managers in general to consider new ways of thinking about how we might reverse the inexorable decline and disappearance of Australian plants and animals from rural landscapes. While integrating conservation and production has become the catchcry from foresters to dairy farmers, what can be practically done? Provides the stretch goals and the blueprint for ways of adding habitat and designing more wildlife-friendly properties - the biorich plantation. Integrated with other forms of vegetation, these would aim to enrich habitat potential across rural landscapes, not just for a lifetime, but in perpetuity. Asserts we have to rethink our revegetation strategies to match the sophistication of natural design principles. At its heart are ten design principles, observed from nature, which set out to bridge the gap between farm forestry and environmental plantings and bring back the bush in rural landscapes.

Author : Benjamin Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262034180

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How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters Pdf

How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.

Author : Al Andreoli
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781480910485

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Earth Our Country by Al Andreoli Pdf

Earth Our Country by Al Andreoli Our World's political fragmentation is turning obsolete. The countries anarchy prevents us to countinue to flourish and ultimately succeed to build a truly liberal, sustainable and humanistic society, while the ecologic wall stands in front of us. Our civilization is now in the middle of a bridge, hesitant of which way to go, back to the nations and protectionism, or straight toward the unknown of Universalism? Earth Our Country takes us through the journey of building a truly holistic universal society: The United Democratic States. It calls for Barack Obama to run for first global president and Hillary Clinton to lead his global think tank - their program is included. The realization of the unity of Mankind in the making is a journey and most will start this discovery with a condescending roll of their eyes. Join us with no taboo and switch on your curiosity. We propose a way to pass the great wall of the complete and sustainable globalization, so that we become the first generation of the Homo Sapiens Universalis. Al Andreoli is a veteran international technology executive. He has traveled, worked and lived in a number of countries around the World, leading American, Asian and European organizations. He is a liberal who praises global capitalism as a tool to serve Mankind's progress. However, he is convinced that pure global market economy needs the mirror of a global and democratic political governance to resist protectionism.

Author : Judy Atkinson
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1876756225

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Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines by Judy Atkinson Pdf

In this ground-breaking book, Judy Atkinson skilfully and sensitively takes readers into the depths of sadness and despair and, at the same time, raises us to the heights of celebration and hope. She presents a disturbing account of the trauma suffered by Australia's Indigenous people and the resultant geographic and generational 'trauma trails' spread throughout the Country. Then, through the use of a culturally appropriate research approach called Dadirri: Listening to one another, Judy presents and analyses the stories of a number of Indigenous people. From her analysis of these 'stories of pain, stories of healing', she is able to point both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous readers in the direction of change and healing.

Author : David McPherson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781459734951

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The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern by David McPherson Pdf

Toronto was a very different place when the Horseshoe Tavern opened seventy years ago, and the bar has changed along with the city. From country to rock, punk, alt/country, and back to roots, the Horseshoe has attracted the premier acts from all eras of music, and launched the careers of many of Canada’s best-known artists.

Author : Anne Sarah Rubin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807888957

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A Shattered Nation by Anne Sarah Rubin Pdf

Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. She also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy and was therefore able to persist well after the collapse of the Confederate state. White Southerners redefined symbols and figures of the failed state as emotional touchstones and political rallying points in the struggle to retain local (and racial) control, even as former Confederates took the loyalty oath and applied for pardons in droves. Exploring the creation, maintenance, and transformation of Confederate identity during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rubin sheds new light on the ways in which Confederates felt connected to their national creation and provides a provocative example of what happens when a nation disintegrates and leaves its people behind to forge a new identity.

Author : Xavier Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : IND:30000106413663

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Recreating and Extending Buyer-supplier Links in Foreign Locations by Xavier Martin Pdf

Author : Sayan Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000507218

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Being English by Sayan Chattopadhyay Pdf

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India. It looks at the history of anglicised self-fashioning as one of the major responses of the Indian middle class to British colonialism. The book explores the rich variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings that document the attempts by the Indian middle class to innovatively interpret their personal histories, their putative racial histories, and the history of India to appropriate the English language and lay claim to an “English” identity. It discusses this unique quest for “Englishness” by reading the works of authors like Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Cornelia Sorabji, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Dom Moraes, and Salman Rushdie. An important intervention, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, Indian English literature, South Asian studies, cultural studies, and English literature in general.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1408 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (Idaho)
ISBN : UCAL:B5127429

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River of No Return wilderness proposals by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources Pdf

Author : XAVIER MARTIN, WILL MITCHELL AND ANAND SWAMINATHAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:b1732109:0001.001

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RECREATING AND EXTENDING BUYER-SUPPLIER LINKS IN FOREIGN LOCATIONS: JAPANESE AUTOMOBILE ASSEMBLERS AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURERS IN NORTH AMERICA by XAVIER MARTIN, WILL MITCHELL AND ANAND SWAMINATHAN Pdf

Author : James Jay Carafano
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1585442135

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Waltzing Into the Cold War by James Jay Carafano Pdf

These halting efforts, complicated by the difficulties of managing the occupation along with Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, exacerbated an already monumental undertaking and fueled the looming Cold War confrontation between East and West.".

Author : Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr.,Daniel Robert McClure
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137570727

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Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music, 1970–2000 by Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr.,Daniel Robert McClure Pdf

This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry. Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a notion of alternativity—an explicit positioning of one’s expression outside and counter to the mainstream. Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.

Author : Prakash Shah
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047422013

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Law and Ethnic Plurality by Prakash Shah Pdf

The large-scale establishment of ethnic minorities and diasporic communities in Europe has gained the attention of social science scholars for a number of decades now. However, legal interest in this field has remained relatively underdeveloped, and few scholars have addressed emerging legal issues to any significant degree. This collection of contributions by leading writers in the field of ethnic migration and diaspora studies therefore provides some important interdisciplinary perspectives of how ethnic/diasporic minorities in British and European contexts interact with the official legal system. This volume makes a significant contribution in assessing the role of law in current debates on the integration of ethnic and religious minorities of migrant origin in the EU. The chapters derive from papers first delivered at a lecture series on ‘Cultural Diversity and Law’ at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The contributors’ disciplinary interests range across law, anthropology, sociology, geography and political theory, and each one addresses the issues within his or her field of study by adopting approaches that place law within its wider social and political context. The topics covered range from a number of ‘public’ and ‘private’ law issues as well as the more conceptual realms of jurisprudence. They include marriage laws, approaches to dispute resolution, the role of courts and juries in the criminal justice system, drugs policies and the criminalisation of minorities, free speech and blasphemy, planning laws and the construction of religious buildings, composition of the judiciary, the normative foundations of cultural diversity in law, and integration and law. The compilation should therefore attract an interest beyond its core readership in law, making legal issues accessible to a whole range of students and policy makers within the social sciences.

Author : Elizabeth A. Marsland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136498381

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The Nation's Cause by Elizabeth A. Marsland Pdf

As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this timely reissue, first published in 1991, evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe, arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary phenomenon. As well as locating the work of well-known French, English and German war poets in a European context, Elizabeth Marsland discusses lesser-known poetry of the war years, including poems by women and the neglected tradition of civilian protest through poetry. Identifying shared characteristics as well as the unique features of each nation’s poetry, The Nation’s Cause affords new insight into the relationship between nationalism and the social attitudes that determined the conduct of war.

Author : Stewart O'Nan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429977203

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The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan Pdf

A ghost story that begins in everyday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King) At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living. A strange and unsettling ghost story, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts. Macabre and moving, The Night Country elevates every small town's bad high school crash into myth, finding the deeper human truth beneath a shared and very American tragedy. As in his highly-prized Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, once again Stewart O'Nan gives us an intimate look at people trying to hold on to hope, and the consequences when they fail.