The Circumference Of Home

Author : Kurt Hoelting
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780786745913

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This much is clear to me. If I can’t change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won’t make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I’ve decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must respond. The question is whether I can turn my response into an adventure. After realizing the gaping hole between his convictions about climate change and his own carbon footprint, Kurt Hoelting embarked on a yearlong experiment to rediscover the heart of his own home: He traded his car and jet travel for a kayak, a bicycle, and his own two feet, traveling a radius of 100 kilometers from his home in Puget Sound. This “circumference of home” proved more than enough. Part quest and part guidebook for change, Hoelting’s journey is an inspiring reminder that what we need really is close at hand, and that the possibility for adventure lies around every bend.

Author : Kurt Hoelting
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781458758880

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The Circumference of Home by Kurt Hoelting Pdf

This much is clear to me. If I can't change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won't make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I've decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must respond. The question is whether I can turn my response into an adventure. After realizing the gaping hole between his convictions about climate change and his own carbon footprint, Kurt Hoelting embarked on a yearlong experiment to rediscover the heart of his own home: He traded his car and jet travel for a kayak, a bicycle, and his own two feet, traveling a radius of 100 kilometers from his home in Puget Sound. This ''circumference of home'' proved more than enough. Part quest and part guidebook for change, Hoelting's journey is an inspiring reminder that what we need really is close at hand, and that the possibility for adventure lies around every bend.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Education
ISBN : CHI:096959116

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School and Home Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Sutherland Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Russia
ISBN : UIUC:30112073667286

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The Russians at Home by Henry Sutherland Edwards Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183021636345

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Home Circle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremiah Dodsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590307268

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The Eden family; shewing the loss of our Paradise home, and our obligations for our rescue by Jeremiah Dodsworth Pdf

Author : Emma Griffith Lumm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Elocution
ISBN : OSU:32435079790747

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The Home School Speaker and Elocutionist by Emma Griffith Lumm Pdf

Author : Anne Allison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377245

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Precarious Japan by Anne Allison Pdf

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.

Author : Nicholas Nicastro
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429958196

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Circumference by Nicholas Nicastro Pdf

How do you measure the size of the planet you're standing on? "Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question. Nicholas Nicastro brings to life one of history's greatest experiments when an ancient Greek named Eratosthenes first accurately determined the distance around the spherical earth. In this fascinating narrative history, Nicastro takes a look at a deceptively simple but stunning achievement made by one man, millennia ago, with only the simplest of materials at his disposal. How was he able to measure the land at a time when distance was more a matter of a shrug and a guess at the time spent on a donkey's back? How could he be so confident in the assumptions that underlay his calculations: that the earth was round and the sun so far away that its rays struck the ground in parallel lines? Was it luck or pure scientific genius? Nicastro brings readers on a trip into a long-vanished world that prefigured modernity in many ways, where neither Eratosthenes' reputation, nor the validity of his method, nor his leadership of the Great Library of Alexandria were enough to convince all his contemporaries about the dimensions of the earth. Eratosthenes' results were debated for centuries until he was ultimately vindicated almost 2000 years later, during the great voyages of exploration. "Circumference" is a compelling scientific detective story that transports readers back to a time when humans had no idea how big their world was--and the fate of a man who dared to measure the incomprehensible.

Author : American Home Missionary Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : UCAL:$B483184

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Report of the American Home Missionary Society by American Home Missionary Society Pdf

Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780609801093

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The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook by Rebecca Rupp Pdf

Lists all the resources needed to create a balanced curriculum for homeschooling--from preschool to high school level.

Author : William King Tweedie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Christian life
ISBN : OXFORD:590997802

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Home; a Book for the Family by William King Tweedie Pdf

Author : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023791172

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Elements of criticism ... The fifth edition. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.] by Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) Pdf

Author : Judy Ostrow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1592576656

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Home Repair by Judy Ostrow Pdf

Detailed instructions, accompanied by hundreds of step-by-step illustrations, take readers through common repairs and maintenance tasks around the house, including repairing holes in drywall, unclogging drains, replacing light fixtures, repairing cracked tiles, screening gutters, and more. Original. 12,000 first printing.

Author : Emma Alderson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684481965

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Writing Home by Emma Alderson Pdf

Writing Home is the critically annotated correspondence of Emma Alderson, an 1840s immigrant from England to Ohio, mingling details of daily life with observations on slavery, American customs, religious communities, the impending war with Mexico, and more. Ending with Alderson's death in 1847, the letters formed the basis for Mary Howitt's popular children's book Our Cousins in Ohio (1849).