Author: Mrs. Charles MeredithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Romance of Nature ... Second Edition
Author: Mrs. Charles MeredithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Reel Nature
Author: Gregg MitmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674715714
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and unarmed. Yet the camera's penetration of this world has inevitably brought human artifice and technology into the picture as well. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the twentieth century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife. Like the museum and the zoo, the nature film sought to recreate the experience of unspoiled nature while appealing to a popular audience, through a blend of scientific research and commercial promotion, education and entertainment, authenticity and artifice. Travelogue-expedition films, like Teddy Roosevelt's African safari, catered to upper- and middle-class patrons who were intrigued by the exotic and entertained by the thrill of big-game hunting and collecting. The proliferation of nature movies and television shows in the 1950s, such as Disney's True-Life Adventures and Marlin Perkins's Wild Kingdom, made nature familiar and accessible to America's baby-boom generation, fostering the environmental activism of the latter part of the twentieth century. Reel Nature reveals the shifting conventions of nature films and their enormous impact on our perceptions of, and politics about, the environment. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now reveal much about the yearnings of Americans to be both close to nature and yet distinctly apart.
Second Nature
Author: Nora RobertsPublisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250834600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts, a tenacious journalist and a secretive author pen a new narrative between them when they discover their passion for one another is Second Nature... Legendary horror author Hunter Brown thrills fans with his tales of terror. But the master of macabre is also a marvel of mystery, maintaining a low—and reclusive—profile. It’s Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe’s job to lift the veil on popular personalities and she’ll stop at nothing to secure an exclusive one-on-one with Hunter. Intrigued by her relentless drive, Hunter agrees to an interview—but only if Lee joins him on a camping trip. Although out of her element in the wilderness, Lee is more than up to Hunter’s challenge. And together, they’ll discover that nature brings out their basic instincts and desires in unexpected ways.
Second Nature
Author: JaePublisher:
ISBN: 9783963243592
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A shape-shifting soldier falls in love with the human woman she's supposed to kill in this compelling lesbian paranormal romance, part one in the award-winning Shape-Shifter series. For solitary novelist Jorie Price, true love seems as fictional as the shape-shifting creatures she writes about in her paranormal romances. Griffin Westmore doesn't believe in love either, but she's one of those not-so-fictional shape-shifters who secretly live among humans. When Jorie's writing gets uncomfortably close to the truth, Griffin is sent to investigate and, if necessary, kill the author to protect the secrets of her kind. But when Griffin unexpectedly finds herself drawn to Jorie, her world is turned upside-down. Hell, she's supposed to kill the human, not fall in love with her! How can she complete her mission now?
Second Nature
Author: Michael PollanPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802198619
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
“One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (USA Today). Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau’s example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history, Second Nature, from the renowned author of The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, and other bestsellers, is “as delicious a meditation on one man’s relationship with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon” (The New York Times Book Review). “Usually when Americans have wanted to explore their relationship to nature they’ve gone to the wilderness, or the woods. Michael Pollan went to the garden instead . . . and he’s returned with a quirky and pleasing book.” —Annie Dillard “A joy to read.” —Los Angeles Times
The Journal of Education
Author: Dual Arithmetic
Author: Oliver ByrnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"First edition of Byrne's invention of a new method of solving problems of importance without the aid of tables, formulae, or methods of approximation. He sets forth his rules which, according to the preface, 'unfolds the capabilities of numbers in an original manner, extending the boundaries of mathematical science.' He applies the numerical operations of his dual arithmetic to a variety of developments, so that in each investigation the best method to connect actual calculation with algebraic language and symbolical expression may be applied. Byrne (1810-1880), well-known for his Euclid and the use of colors instead of numbers, establishes modern analysis on a purely mathematical basis, rejecting the reasoning of the differential and other methods. this invention was followed by his 'Dual logarithms' in 1867 and other works." -- Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2018.
Author: Henry Cotton
Author: William Lawrie
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