Author: Patricia Emison
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031667018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art
Author: Patricia Emison
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031667018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031667018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Relicts of a Beautiful Sea
Author: Christopher Norment
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618672
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence--for as much as ten million years--amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care?
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618672
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence--for as much as ten million years--amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care?
The Etude
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Includes music.
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Includes music.
Etude Music Magazine
Author: Theodore Presser
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Includes music.
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Includes music.
MotorBoating
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Forum
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Current
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Philadelphia Stenographer
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Nativism Overseas
Author: Hsin-sheng C. Kao
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791414392
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book examines five of the most influential Chinese-born women writers of the post-war era: Nie Hualing, Yu Lihua, Chen Ruoxi, Li Li, and Zhong Xiaoyang. They have become a dominating force in Chinese literature today, although they presently reside outside their homeland. This book raises a clear and consistent voice in line with the literature of exile and self discovery. As these writers talk of the 'root'--the self, and their social, cultural, and historical identities-- their varied voices share the unique characteristics of the literature of exile. These women, who continue to write in their native language, envision themselves as the literary mediators between their lost past and their newly adopted homeland. They compare each of these worlds in terms of the demons with which they have wrestled for identity, recognition, and freedom. The book is of interest not only to those with a particular interest in the phenomenon of these Chinese exiled intellectual émigrés and their role in the influence on the development of Chinese literature, but to those who seek to understand the development of women's studies and world literature as a whole, and the influence of East-West literary relations in particular.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791414392
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book examines five of the most influential Chinese-born women writers of the post-war era: Nie Hualing, Yu Lihua, Chen Ruoxi, Li Li, and Zhong Xiaoyang. They have become a dominating force in Chinese literature today, although they presently reside outside their homeland. This book raises a clear and consistent voice in line with the literature of exile and self discovery. As these writers talk of the 'root'--the self, and their social, cultural, and historical identities-- their varied voices share the unique characteristics of the literature of exile. These women, who continue to write in their native language, envision themselves as the literary mediators between their lost past and their newly adopted homeland. They compare each of these worlds in terms of the demons with which they have wrestled for identity, recognition, and freedom. The book is of interest not only to those with a particular interest in the phenomenon of these Chinese exiled intellectual émigrés and their role in the influence on the development of Chinese literature, but to those who seek to understand the development of women's studies and world literature as a whole, and the influence of East-West literary relations in particular.
Journal of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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