Thinking Like A River

Author : Franz Krause
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839467374

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Thinking Like a River by Franz Krause Pdf

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River.

Author : David Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Environmentalism
ISBN : 157805138X

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Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by David Brower Pdf

As executive director of the Sierra Club through the 1950s and '60s, David Brower spearheaded its landmark campaigns, launched its publishing program, and, in Jerry Mander's words, "essentially vaulted the ecology movement into ... a major international force." Brower was the movement's charismatic pied piper, inspiring countless young people to follow his lead. This incendiary and vastly entertaining volume is vintage Brower, recounting events from his life and times as preludes to his siren songs on behalf of the Earth. His voice is erudite, beautifully cadenced, infuriatingly opinionated, and spiced with dry humor. And his insights are uncannily prescient; back in the early 1990s he called for the adoption of hybrid cars, urban core infilling, wildlife corridors, and more. We also see Brower's other sides: as a leading mountaineer and officer in the famed 10th Mountain Division during WWII and as an innovative and discerning editor. Brower's tale begins at a Grateful Dead concert, where he is mentally composing a speech that will move the young audience to as much passion for conservation as they express for their music. With this delightful book available again, still more young (and not-so-young) people can be moved by his words.

Author : Richard Black,Martyn Hook
Publisher : RMIT Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1921166363

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Mobile Landscapes by Richard Black,Martyn Hook Pdf

Author : Jack Loeffler,Celestia Loeffler
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826352330

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Thinking Like a Watershed by Jack Loeffler,Celestia Loeffler Pdf

Thinking Like a Watershed points our understanding of our relationship to the land in new directions. It is shaped by the bioregional visions of the great explorer John Wesley Powell, who articulated the notion that the arid American West should be seen as a mosaic of watersheds, and the pioneering ecologist Aldo Leopold, who put forward the concept of bringing conscience to bear within the realm of "the land ethic." Produced in conjunction with the documentary radio series entitled Watersheds as Commons, this book comprises essays and interviews from a diverse group of southwesterners including members of Tewa, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. Their varied cultural perspectives are shaped by consciousness and resilience through having successfully endured the aridity and harshness of southwestern environments over time.

Author : Christopher Armstrong,Matthew Dominic Evenden,H. V. Nelles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773576797

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The River Returns by Christopher Armstrong,Matthew Dominic Evenden,H. V. Nelles Pdf

Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the story of the Bow River's transformation full circle through an exploration of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulation that has led to new limits on what might be done with and to the river.

Author : Leif Enger
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 087113795X

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Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Pdf

Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.

Author : Akshansh Sudha
Publisher : Akshansh Sudha
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Critical Thinking Book For Kids: Think Like A Detective - STEM learning by Akshansh Sudha Pdf

Critical Thinking Book For Kids:Think Like A Detective has been crafted as an enjoyable and captivating children's book, intended to inspire youthful intellects towards thoughtful problem-solving and imaginative critical thinking through STEM learning. What is STEM Learning? STEM (S - Science, T -Technology, E - Engineering, M - Mathematics) learning means that a young child symbolized as a delicate plant stem, should be provided with hands-on, practical learning experiences that foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. This approach nurtures the child's growth, enabling the development of multiple fruitful branches stemming from diverse perspectives for future careers. Embark on an Interactive STEM LEARNING Journey: Discover, Learn, and Grow! This book emphasizes the following key aspects: 1. STEM Learning : Quality learning meets STEM learning adventures in this captivating children's book that sparks curiosity and interactive thinking. 2. Moral Lessons : With moral lessons woven into the storyline, young readers will engage in a journey of exploration and learn valuable values. 3. Teamwork And Collaboration : Promoting teamwork and collaboration, the book empowers young minds to think creatively and embrace challenges. 4. Parent and educator-approved: Parent and educator-approved, this beautifully illustrated book invites children to actively participate in their learning journey. A must-have addition to any child's library, it inspires curiosity, fosters a growth mindset, and celebrates the joy of learning.

Author : Gary Wockner,Laura Pritchett
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555663923

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Pulse of the River by Gary Wockner,Laura Pritchett Pdf

Dam and reservoir projects threaten the Poudre. Authors tell stories of why it is worth fighting for. Gary Wockner and Laura Pritchett

Author : Leif Enger
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555848491

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So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger Pdf

“An almost perfect novel” of yearning, adventure, and redemption in the dying days of the Old West from the bestselling author of Peace Like a River (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Minnesota, 1915. With success long behind him, writer, husband, and father Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose . . . until he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale. Plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife two decades ago, Hale is heading back West in search of absolution. And he could use some company on the journey. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Becket agrees to travel into Hale’s past, leaving behind his own family for an adventure that will test the depth of his loyalties and morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee the relentless former Pinkerton Detective who’s been hunting Hale for years, Becket falls ever further into the life of an outlaw—perhaps to the point of no return. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, So Brave, Young, and Handsome examines one ordinary man’s determination to risk everything in order to understand what it’s all worth, in “an old-fashioned, swashbuckling, heroic Western . . . [An] adventure of the heart and mind (The Washington Post Book World).

Author : Hannah Knox
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012405

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Thinking Like a Climate by Hannah Knox Pdf

In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226472232

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman MacLean Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

Author : Olivier Remaud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509551484

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Thinking Like an Iceberg by Olivier Remaud Pdf

When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This book takes us into the fascinating world of icebergs and glaciers to discover what they are really like. Through a series of historical vignettes recalling some of the most tragic and most exhilarating encounters between human beings and these gigantic pieces of matter, and through vivid descriptions of their cycles of birth and death, Olivier Remaud shows that these entities are teeming with many forms of life and that there is a deep continuity between iceberg life and human life, a complex web of reciprocal interconnections that can lead from the deadliest to the most vital. And precisely because there is this continuity, icebergs and glaciers tell us something important about life itself – namely, that it thrives in the most unexpected of places, even where there seems to be no life at all. At a time when we are increasingly aware that the melting of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice is one of the many disastrous consequences of global warming, this beautiful meditation is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness of all life and the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystems.

Author : Diane Setterfield
Publisher : Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743298087

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Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Pdf

From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed. Those who dwell on the river bank apply all their ingenuity to solving the puzzle of the girl who died and lived again, yet as the days pass the mystery only deepens. The child herself is mute and unable to answer the essential questions: Who is she? Where did she come from? And to whom does she belong? But answers proliferate nonetheless. Three families are keen to claim her. A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter, missing for two years. A farming family reeling from the discovery of their son’s secret liaison stand ready to welcome their granddaughter. The parson’s housekeeper, humble and isolated, sees in the child the image of her younger sister. But the return of a lost child is not without complications and no matter how heartbreaking the past losses, no matter how precious the child herself, this girl cannot be everyone’s. Each family has mysteries of its own, and many secrets must be revealed before the girl’s identity can be known. Once Upon a River is a glorious tapestry of a book that combines folklore and science, magic and myth. Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, this is “a beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like the river at its heart, and just as rich and intriguing” (M.L. Stedman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).

Author : J. Baird Callicott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199324880

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Thinking Like a Planet by J. Baird Callicott Pdf

Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach. Whereas other environmental ethicists limit themselves to what Callicott calls Rational Individualism in discussing the problem of climate change only to conclude that, essentially, there is little hope that anything will be done in the face of its "perfect moral storm" (in Stephen Gardiner's words), Callicott refuses to accept this view. Instead, he encourages us to look to the Earth itself, and consider the crisis on grander spatial and temporal scales, as we have failed to in the past. Callicott supports this theory by exploring and enhancing Aldo Leopold's faint sketch of an Earth ethic in "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest," a seldom-studied text from the early days of environmental ethics that was written in 1923 but not published until 1979 after the environmental movement gathered strength.

Author : Mark Harris,Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317069607

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Reflections on Imagination by Mark Harris,Nigel Rapport Pdf

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, their identities, their environments and their relations: the imagination. How do anthropologists use imagination in coming to know their research subjects? How might they, and how should they, use their imagination? And how do research subjects themselves understand, describe, justify and limit their use of the imagination? Presenting a range of case studies from a variety of locations including the UK, US, Africa, East Asia and South America, this collection offers a comparative exploration of how imagination has been conceptualized and understood in a range of analytical traditions, with regard to issues of both methodology and ethnomethodology. With emphasis not on abstraction but on imagination as activity, technique and subject situated in the middle of lives, Reflections on Imagination sheds new light on imagination as a universal capacity and practice - something to which human beings attend whenever they make sense of their environments and situate their life-projects in these environments - the means by which worlds come to be.