Author: Léonie CaldecottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reclaim the Earth
Author: Léonie CaldecottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reclaim the Earth
Author: Léonie CaldecottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The World Without Us
Author: Alan WeismanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427900
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
Reclaiming the Commons
Author: Vandana ShivaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907791782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Authored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.
While the Earth Sleeps We Travel
Author: Ahmed M. BadrPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524865850
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller. Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr—an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee—traveled to Greece, Trinidad & Tobago, and Syracuse, New York, holding storytelling workshops with hundreds of displaced youth: those living in and outside of camps, as well as those adjusting to life after resettlement. Combining Badr’s own poetry with the personal narratives and creative contributions of dozens of young refugees, While the Earth Sleeps We Travel seeks to center and amplify the often unheard perspectives of those navigating through and beyond the complexities of displacement. The result is a diverse and moving collection—a meditation on the concept of "home" and a testament to the power of storytelling.
Rooted in the Earth
Author: Dianne D. GlavePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 156976753X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out of the Great Migration and has contributed to international trends in fashion, music, and the arts ever since. However, because of this urban focus, many African Americans are not at peace with their rich but tangled agrarian legacy. On one hand, the book shows, nature and violence are connected in black memory, especially in disturbing images such as slave ships on the ocean, exhaustion in the fields, dogs in the woods, and dead bodies hanging from trees. In contrast, though, there is also a competing tradition of African American stewardship of the land that should be better known. Emphasizing the tradition of black environmentalism and using storytelling techniques to dramatize the work of black naturalists, this account corrects the record and urges interested urban dwellers to get back to the land.
Battlefield Earth
Author: L. Ron HubbardPublisher: Galaxy Press LLC
ISBN: 1592123422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
Sadistic Aliens... ...Man is an endangered species. Is it the end of the world or the rebirth of a new one? In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland. The great cities stand crumbling as a brutal reminder of what we once were. When the Psychlos invaded, all the world’s armies mustered little resistance against the advanced alien weapons. Now, the man animals serve one purpose. Do the Psychlos’ bidding or face extinction. One man, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, has a plan. They must learn about the Psychlos and their weapons. He needs the other humans to follow him. And that may not be enough. Can he outwit his Psychlo captor, Terl? The fate of the Galaxy lies on the Battlefield of Earth. Get it now. “Pulse-pounding mile-a-minute sci-fi action-adventure that does not stop. It is a masterpiece of popular adventure science fiction.” —Brandon Sanderson “Battlefield Earth is like a 12-hour ‘Indiana Jones’ marathon. Non-stop and fast-paced. Every chapter has a big bang-up adventure.” —Kevin J. Anderson (co-author of the Dune Sagas) “Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable.” —Neil Gaiman
A Contract with the Earth
Author: Newt GingrichPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891655
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The foundation of the book—a ten-point Contract with the Earth—promotes ingenuity over rhetoric as the way forward.
Holding Up the Earth
Author: Dianne GrayPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547996160
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
It has been eight years since Hope’s mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope’s newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets’ chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time — the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own.
Author: Anil Agarwal