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Property from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller
Author: Laurance S. Rockefeller
Author: Robin W. WinksPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610910907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Despite his status as a scion of one of the wealthiest and most famous families in the United States and an enormously successful businessman in his own right, Laurance S. Rockefeller is unknown to all but a small circle of Americans. Yet while he has been neither Vice President nor Governor nor chairman of the world's largest bank, his contribution to society has been at least as great as that of his more famous brothers. In Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation, noted historian Robin W. Winks brings Laurance to the forefront, offering an intimate look at his life and accomplishments. While Rockefeller has played a vital role in the business world as one of the most astute venture capitalists of our time -- providing seed money for, among other endeavors, Eastern Airlines, Intel Corporation, and Apple Computers -- his driving passion throughout his life has been the environment. In addition to the millions of dollars he has donated and the numerous conservation organizations he has helped to found, he served under five consecutive presidents in environmental advisory capacities. Perhaps most significantly, Rockefeller served under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy as chairman of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission (ORRRC), brilliantly orchestrating an assessment of the recreation and conservation needs and wants of the American people and the policies and programs required to meet those needs. The reports issued by the Commission represent a groundbreaking achievement that laid the framework for nearly all significant environmental legislation of the following three decades. Winks uses a combination of historical insight and extensive access to Rockefeller and government archives to present the first in-depth examination of Laurance Rockefeller's life and work. His deftly argued and gracefully written volume explains and explores Rockefeller's role in shaping the transition from traditional land conservation to a more inclusive environmentalism. It should compel broader interpretation of the history of environmental protection, and is essential reading for anyone concerned with the past or future of conservation in America.
Marsh-Billings National Historical Park, General Management Plan
Author: Intrastate Land Exchanges
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Intrastate Land Exchanges: The JY Ranch exchange
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Current National Parks Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National ParksPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Federal Register
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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New England House Museums: A Guide to More than 100 Mansions, Cottages, and Historical Sites
Author: Robert J. RegalbutoPublisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581574983
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A photographic guide to historical homes and dwellings across New England The one hundred sites in this guide are in all six New England States, dating from the early 17th century to the threshold of our time and the architectural styles reflect those popular over a period of four centuries. The sites are varied and were the homes of leaders and literati, merchants and millionaires, poets and Pilgrims, philosophers and farmers, and seafarers and Shakers. Each chapter lists the museum’s location, web address, and telephone number and provide a description of the historical occupants as well as an in-depth look at the house's place in national and architectural history. Sites include: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford CT Sarah Orne Jewett House, Souther Berwick ME Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst MA Robert Frost Farm, Derry NH The Breakers, Newport RI
Eco-Trauma Cinema
Author: Anil NarinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317649427
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film’s complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related, and even symbiotic: the traumas we perpetuate in an ecosystem through pollution and unsustainable resource management inevitably return to harm us. Contributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who are traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represent people or social processes which traumatize the environment or its species, and stories that depict the aftermath of ecological catastrophe. The films they examine represent a central challenge of our age: to overcome our disavowal of environmental crises, to reflect on the unsavoury forces reshaping the planet's ecosystems, and to restructure the mechanisms responsible for the state of the earth.
Corporate Disclosure
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Budgeting, Management, and ExpendituresPublisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
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