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Wild Suburbia

Author : Barbara Eisenstein
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1597143634

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Wild Suburbia guides us through the process of transforming a traditional, high water-use yard into a peaceful habitat garden abounding with native plants. Author Barbara Eisenstein emphasizes that gardening is a rewarding activity rather than a finished product, from removing lawns and getting in touch with a yard's climate to choosing plants and helping them thrive. Supplementing her advice with personal stories from her decades of experience working with native plants, Eisenstein illuminates the joys of tending a native garden--and assures us that any challenges, from managing pests to disapproving neighbors, should never sap the enjoyment out of a pleasurable and fulfilling hobby. For plant lovers curious about their own ecosystems, Wild Suburbia offers a style of gardening that nurtures biodiversity, deepens connection to place, and encourages new and seasoned gardeners alike to experiment and have fun.

Domestic Wild: Memory, Nature and Gardening in Suburbia

Author : Franklin Ginn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317148418

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Domestic Wild: Memory, Nature and Gardening in Suburbia by Franklin Ginn Pdf

In Domestic Wild, Franklin Ginn sets out to find a new sense of the wild at the heart of modernity. Inspired by experienced, skilful gardeners, Ginn analyses what happens when plants, animals and people meet in the suburbs of London. Weaving major theories of landscape, memory and nonhuman subjectivity with the practical wisdom of gardeners, this book offers a radical new account of everyday gardening. Amid spectacular horizons of planetary loss, Domestic Wild argues that gardening offers a means to cultivate a renewed sense of intimacy with nature and ourselves.

Infinite Suburbia

Author : MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616896706

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Infinite Suburbia by MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism Pdf

Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The Suburbs

Author : Marie Bouchet,Nathalie Cochoy,Isabelle Keller-Privat,Mathilde Rogez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683933038

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The Suburbs by Marie Bouchet,Nathalie Cochoy,Isabelle Keller-Privat,Mathilde Rogez Pdf

The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those “places that thrive on disregard.” By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.

Coyote at the Kitchen Door

Author : Stephen DeStefano
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674035569

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Coyote at the Kitchen Door by Stephen DeStefano Pdf

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. He asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.

The Humane Gardener

Author : Nancy Lawson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781616896171

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The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson Pdf

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Expanding Suburbia

Author : Roger Webster
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1571817905

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Expanding Suburbia by Roger Webster Pdf

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.

A Portrait of the Artist as Australian

Author : Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773526447

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A Portrait of the Artist as Australian by Paul Matthew St. Pierre Pdf

This book is the first critical assessment of Humphries' entire oeuvre, especially his career as an author. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, the author reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in the British music hall tradition, Dadaism and grotesquerie. Being Australian has also fundamentally shaped the performer and writer, and the author's defence of Humphries against charges of expatriatism is pertinent to the debate on Australian national identity.

Tour of Insanity: Manifesto for Better Home Design

Author : Kelly Mitchell,Matt Zakutny
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781665545242

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Tour of Insanity: Manifesto for Better Home Design by Kelly Mitchell,Matt Zakutny Pdf

Kelly’s superpowers: Wicked creative writer with a flair for satire. Matt’s superpowers: Combines creativity with the ability to see what the world needs. Kelly and Matthew have strong and opposite views of the world and spend a great deal of time and energy trying to convince each other who’s right. It is in the spirit of these heated debates that we have arrived at the first book in our Tour of Insanity series. We hope you find this book entertaining and debate-worthy. www.tourofinsanity.com

Wild Abandon

Author : Joe Dunthorne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735234222

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Kate and Albert have always lived on the secluded communal farm run by their father. But now, after twenty years, the community is disintegrating, taking their parents' marriage with it. To escape, Kate, at seventeen, flees to a suburbia she knows only through fiction; and Albert, at eleven, dives into preparations for the end of the world that he is sure is coming. Don- the father of the family, leader, and maker of elaborate speeches- is faced with the prospect of saving his community, his marriage, his son from apocalyptic visions, ad his daughter from impending men. He convinces himself that the only way to save his world is... to throw the biggest party of his life. But will anyone show up?

Medicinal Herbs of California

Author : Lanny Kaufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493058037

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Medicinal Herbs of California by Lanny Kaufer Pdf

Medicinal Herbs of California is the first statewide field guide to more than 70 common medicinal plants of California. This vital addition to the California naturalist’s shelf will introduce readers to the principles of herbal remedies, history and roots in native cultures, scientific information, and how to find and incorporate medicinal plants into daily life. Inside you’ll find: Photos and descriptions to help with positive identification Common and scientific names and the plant families Conservation status Modern and traditional uses The science behind natural phytochemicals that have earned these plants a place in Native American medicine for thousands of years.

Black Suburbia

Author : John Rosalina
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480884021

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Tay and Rena are two middle school kids from the ghetto of the Eastside projects. They are both proud and more mature than their ages might suggest, and although very different, they both win the eighth-grade writing contest. On this night, the stage is theirs to share, and unknown to anyone—including Tay and Rena—this award links them together forever. One beautiful spring day, Tay drives home after dropping Rena off at her parents’ place and notices a house on her street that seems vacant. No lights are ever on. It’s always dark, dead to the world outside, and the yard is a complete mess. The house is out of place, mysterious. Tay dreams that this house possesses secret hidden treasures. He has a vision of riches beyond belief and crisp, green dollar bills. He devises a plan, accounting for every possible scenario, and decides to pull it off alone. However, Tay doesn’t account for one thing. His plan ends in horror that will haunt both he and Rena for the rest of their lives, turning their childhood potential into eventual tragedy.

The New Suburbia

Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780197578308

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The New Suburbia by Becky M. Nicolaides Pdf

"The New Suburbia explores how the suburbs transitioned from bastions of segregation into spaces of multiracial living. They are the second generation of suburbs after 1945, moving from starkly segregated whiteness into a more varied, uneven social landscape. The suburbs came to hold a broad cross-section of people - rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, and the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. In the new suburbia, white advantage persisted, but it existed alongside rising inequality, ethnic and racial diversity, and new family configurations. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained - low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and yards and families seeking the good life. On this familiar landscape, the American dream endured even as the dreamers changed"--

Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture

Author : Rupa Huq
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780932248

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Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture by Rupa Huq Pdf

This book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination, examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK.

Tales from Outer Suburbia

Author : Shaun Tan
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781551996967

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Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan Pdf

Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban existence filtered through a wickedly Monty Pythonesque lens. Whether it’s discovering that the world really does stop at the end of the city’s map book, or a family’s lesson in tolerance through an alien cultural exchange student, Tan’s deft, sweet social satire brings us face-to-face with the humor and absurdity of modern life.