Treading Softly

Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262290579

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How to imagine and then realize an ecological order based on living within our biophysical means. We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen helps us imagine an alternative. We need, he says, a new normal, an ecological order that is actually economical with resources, that embraces limits, that sees sustainable living not as a “lifestyle” but as a long-term connection to fresh, free-flowing water, fertile soil, and healthy food. The goal would be to live well by living well within the capacities of our resources. Princen doesn't offer a quick fix—there's no list of easy ways to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abundance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then realizing, how to live within our biophysical means.

Author : George B. Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313073823

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From the mid-19th century to the early Cold War, the United States has a long history with China, and that interaction has not always been positive or productive. This brief history of foreign intervention in China, viewed through the experiences of the United States Marines, examines how the occupying powers dealt with a fellow sovereign nation. In many cases this involved the partition or outright absorption of Chinese territory through naked aggression. Clark contends that, considering the past two centuries, the Chinese have good reason to distrust all foreigners, and he urges the pursuit of a badly needed rapprochement. This is, however, also the story of the evolution of the Marine Corps as a separate service. Although an occupying force, the Marines did make considerable efforts to earn the friendship of the Chinese people. Always on the brink of extinction due to budgetary cuts and the enmity of the army and navy, the Marines managed to perform an onerous and difficult duty in a foreign land. With a resurgent China constantly testing the United States, a fellow Pacific Rim nation, every policymaker should be well aware of the often difficult history that we share and the mistakes that have been made in the past.

Author : Tina K. Schweickert
Publisher : Oak Savanna Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0974866814

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Author : Joanna Durczak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American poetry
ISBN : IND:30000050847684

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Treading softly, speaking low by Joanna Durczak Pdf

Author : Kate Pennington
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444909593

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Tread Softly by Kate Pennington Pdf

Mary Devereux and her father, John, have been appointed to embroider a precious cloak for Walter Raleigh, ready for an invitation to Queen Elizabeth I's court. Each stitch carries Mary's dreams and longings as she gets to know the world of high society. Silently she observes gossip, ambition, dark secrets and high vanity and - on one fateful day - murder. Now Mary is being watched - a dangerous traitor suspects she knows more than she should...

Author : Jessica Blair
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349407333

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Tread Softly, Alice by Jessica Blair Pdf

At the age of eighteen, Alice Ware is pretty, charming and impetuous. Back home in Yorkshire at the start of a new century, she is determined to seize any fresh opportunities and experiences that come her way. The arrival of a new neighbour, the elegant and scandalous Mrs Emma Cheevey, leads to visits from her two highly eligible soldier sons. Alice is instantly drawn to Matthew, the younger brother - and then Captain Steven Cheevey arrives home from South Africa, where he was part of the British expeditionary force at the Relief of Mafeking. Alice's choice is made, her future secure . . . until a reckless decision throws the lives of three people into turmoil. Reluctant to return home, she seeks refuge in the one place where she knows she will find peace, perhaps for ever. It will take a visit from the man who loves her to persuade Alice to reconsider and dare to live again.

Author : Gretta Curran Browne
Publisher : Eighty-Eight Publications
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780955820847

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Tread Softly On My Dreams by Gretta Curran Browne Pdf

We were taught nothing about Ireland or its history in school, and when I did learn of the part we played in that struggle, I felt shame. The world should know about young men like Tone and Robert Emmet.”-------Oscar-winning actor COLIN FIRTH (Sunday Times Magazine 2012) AN EPIC NOVEL FROM IRELAND’S PAST (BOOK #1 in THE LIBERTY TRILOGY) The book some critics are calling "THE IRISH 'LES MISERABLES'. And others (Ireland On Sunday) ) "On as grand a scale as Flanagan's THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH" `Beautifully written, meticulously researched, immensely enjoyable and, by turns, heartbreaking and uplifting. Sunday Independent. Set against the background of a country in turmoil, Tread Softly On My Dreams is the passionate and powerful true story of Robert Emmet, a young Protestant who became one of Ireland’s most famous rebels. Robert’s devotion to his dream will change the lives of all those who love him. Sacrifice and tragedy await the courageous Anne Devlin, while romance blossoms between Robert and Sarah Curran. But can love survive amid the turbulent fight for freedom? `Although I started off thinking this would be a love story, an incredible tale of political corruption began to unfold.’ The Irish Times.

Author : Richard Laymon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812521080

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When a group of young campers meet and are forced to kill a dangerous psychopath, his mother, a witch, puts a deadly curse on them

Author : Corinne Gerson
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0590319043

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Tread Softly by Corinne Gerson Pdf

A young girl tries to cope with the loss of her parents by inventing an imaginary family.

Author : A. V. Suraweera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sinhalese fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029871186

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Tread Softly by A. V. Suraweera Pdf

Author : Wendy Perriam
Publisher : Bello
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447223381

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Tread Softly by Wendy Perriam Pdf

Lorna, thirty-nine, is married to misanthropic Ralph, who in turn is wedded to his twenty-seven pipes and his artificial-grass business. In fact, it's a ménage à trios, the third party being Lorna's Monster, a gleefully sadistic personification of her panic attacks. The Monster has a field day when, after a botched foot operation, Lorna is sent to convalesce among the deaf and demented inmates of a nursing home from hell, where to staff have more problems than the patients. But, despite her surroundings, she begins to blossom, making new friends, discovering untapped talents and even a reawakened interest in sex, thanks to the attentions of an ardent young care-worker. She even gets offered a challenging new job. Meanwhile Ralph is being sued by a vindictive business client and fears he will lose his house and his livelihood. In another of her wickedly black comedies Wendy Perriam chronicles an unconventional marriage, showing the bond that can develop between two people who have experienced a 'lost childhood'. She also takes a swipe at the medical profession and, by graphically illustrating the plight of residents in low-grade care homes, offers a devastating critique of the way society treats the old and infirm. Yet, throughout, the novel is leavened by the author's exuberant wit. 'One of the finest and funniest writers to emerge in England since Kingsley Amis. She is gifted with devastating powers of observation . . .' Herald Tribune

Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262661904

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The Logic of Sufficiency by Thomas Princen Pdf

What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption? Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges—at once global, technological, and commercial—require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles. In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is not about denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion and overconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and good governance; it is about goods that are good only to a point. With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible and yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues that seeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational—personally, organizationally and ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the long term, an economy—indeed a society—cannot operate as if there's never enough and never too much.

Author : Ann Cristy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Love stories
ISBN : 0515069302

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Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Alexander Pushkin,Anton Chekhov,Ivan Turgenev,Maxim Gorky,M.Y. Saltykov,V.G. Korolenko,V.N. Garshin,F.K. Sologub,I.N. Potapenko,S.T. Semyonov,Leonid Andreyev,M.P. Artzybashev,A.I. Kuprin,Ivan Goncharov,Saki,H. H. Munro,Herman Bernstein
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 9065 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:4057664560575

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The Giants of Russian Literature: The Greatest Russian Novels, Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends by Fyodor Dostoevsky,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Alexander Pushkin,Anton Chekhov,Ivan Turgenev,Maxim Gorky,M.Y. Saltykov,V.G. Korolenko,V.N. Garshin,F.K. Sologub,I.N. Potapenko,S.T. Semyonov,Leonid Andreyev,M.P. Artzybashev,A.I. Kuprin,Ivan Goncharov,Saki,H. H. Munro,Herman Bernstein Pdf

This unique collection of the greatest novesl, short stories & plays in Russian literature has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard… Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch… Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe… Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 7438 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547802464

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The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories, Memoirs and Letters (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works contain a strong emphasis on Christianity, and its message of absolute love, forgiveness and charity, explored within the realm of the individual, confronted with all of life's hardships and beauty. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. NOVELS: Netochka Nezvanova The Village of Stepanchikovo The House of the Dead Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Possessed (Demons) The Insulted and the Injured The Raw Youth (The Adolescent) The Brothers Karamazov NOVELLAS: Poor Folk The Double The Landlady Uncle's Dream Notes from Underground The Gambler The Permanent Husband SHORT STORIES: The Grand Inquisitor (Chapter from The Brothers Karamazov) Mr. Prohartchin A Novel in Nine Letters Another Man's Wife or, The Husband under the Bed A Faint Heart Polzunkov The Honest Thief The Christmas Tree and The Wedding White Nights A Little Hero An Unpleasant Predicament (A Nasty Story) The Crocodile Bobok The Heavenly Christmas Tree A Gentle Spirit The Peasant Marey The Dream of a Ridiculous Man LETTERS: Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to his Family and Friends BIOGRAPHY: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky