Empty Pastures

Author : Terence J. Centner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090802
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Pastures written by Terence J. Centner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century American agriculture has shifted dramatically with small, commercial farms finding it increasingly difficult to compete with large-scale (mostly indoor) animal feeding operations (AFOs). In this book, Terence J. Centner investigates the environmental, social, economic, and political impact of the rise of the so-called factory farm, exposing the ramifications of the contemporary trend toward industrial-scale food production. Just as Rachel Carson's landmark Silent Spring used the disappearance of songbirds as a jumping-off point for a work that raised public awareness of pesticides' devastating environmental impact, Empty Pastures sees the dwindling numbers of livestock in the American countryside as a symptom of a broader transformation, one with serious consequences for the rural landscape and its inhabitants--animal as well as human. After outlining the rise of the AFO, Centner examines the troubling consequences of consolidation in animal farming and suggests a number of remedies. The issues he tackles include groundwater contamination, the loss of biodiversity, animal welfare, concentrated odors and other nuisances, soil erosion, and the economic effects of the disappearance of the small family farm. Inspired by largely abandoned traditional practices rather than a radical and unrealistic vision of a return to an idealized past, Centner proposes a series of pragmatic reforms for regulating factory farms to halt ecological degradation and revitalize rural communities.

Author : George Getschow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477327894
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastures of the Empty Page written by George Getschow and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life. When he died in 2021, Larry McMurtry was one of America’s most revered writers. The author of treasured novels such as Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, and coauthor of the screenplays for Brokeback Mountain and Streets of Laredo, McMurtry created unforgettable characters and landscapes largely drawn from his life growing up on the family’s hardscrabble ranch outside his hometown of Archer City, Texas. Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor the man and his impact on American letters. Paulette Jiles, Stephen Harrigan, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Lawrence Wright take up McMurtry’s piercing and poetic vision—an elegiac literature of place that demolished old myths of cowboy culture and created new ones. Screenwriting partner Diana Ossana reflects on their thirty-year book and screenwriting partnership; other contributors explore McMurtry’s reading habits and his passion for bookselling. And brother Charlie McMurtry shares memories of their childhood on the ranch. In contrast to his curmudgeonly persona, Larry McMurtry emerges as a trustworthy friend and supportive mentor. McMurtry was famously self-deprecating, but as his admirers attest, this self-described “minor regional writer” was an artist for the ages.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. 60th Congress. 2d session., 1908-1909. House. [from old catalog]
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. 60th Congress. 2d session., 1908-1909. House. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tariff Hearing...2d Session. 54th Congress. 1896-97 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.VS/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tariff Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carsten Rasch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734778743
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China - Go - West Strategy - Development or Subjugation? - The Economic Impact of Modernization on Tibetan Culture and Society - written by Carsten Rasch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book China - Go - West Strategy. Development or Subjugation? The Economic Impact of Modernization on Tibetan Culture and Society is based on field research to investigate the economic impact of the China - GO - West - Strategy on Tibetan culture and society. There is a scientific consideration of three modernization projects in the context of the China - GO - West Strategy: Modernization of the Old Lhasa / Qinghai - Tibet - Railway / Dams - Yarlung Tsangpo River. These three modernization projects are described and analyzed under the scientific perspective of Development Studies and Economic. This is complemented by qualified interviews with Chinese and Tibetan people. For the first time, this field research allows a comprehensive scientific perspective on the economic, cultural and social effects of the China - GO - West - Strategy in Tibet.

Author : Peter Dale
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146437
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Versed in Living Nature written by Peter Dale and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdant with illustrations, a meditation upon the rootedness of trees in Wordsworth’s writing and beyond. This is the first book to address William Wordsworth’s profound identification of the spirit of nature in trees. It looks at what trees meant to him, and how he represented them in his poetry and prose: the symbolic charm of blasted trees, a hawthorn at the heart of Irish folk belief, great oaks that embodied naval strength, yews that tell us about both longevity and the brevity of human life. Linking poetry and literary history with ecology, Versed in Living Nature explores intricate patterns of personal and local connections that enabled trees—as living things, cultural topics, horticultural objects, and even commodities—to be imagined, theorized, discussed, and exchanged. In this book, the literary past becomes the urgent present.

Author : Li Juan
Publisher : Thinkingdom
ISBN 13 : 1662600348
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter Pasture written by Li Juan and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021. "Winter Pasture is Li Juan's crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir." —Smithsonian Magazine "Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her." —Laura Miller, Slate "Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a vanishing lifestyle." —The New York Times Book Review Winner of the People's Literature Award, WINTER PASTURE has been a bestselling book in China for several years. Li Juan has been widely lauded in the international literary community for her unique contribution to the narrative non-fiction genre. WINTER PASTURE is her crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir. Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys across the vast, seemingly endless sand dunes, she helps herd sheep, rides horses, chases after camels, builds an underground home using manure, gathers snow for water, and more. With a keen eye for the understated elegance of the natural world, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Li vividly captures both the extraordinary hardships and the ordinary preoccupations of the day-to-day of the men and women struggling to get by in this desolate landscape. Her companions include Cuma, the often drunk but mostly responsible father; his teenage daughter, Kama, who feels the burden of the world on her shoulders and dreams of going to college; his reticent wife, a paragon of decorum against all odds, who is simply known as "sister-in-law." In bringing this faraway world to English language readers here for the first time, Li creates an intimate bond with the rugged people, the remote places and the nomadic lifestyle. In the signature style that made her an international sensation, Li Juan transcends the travel memoir genre to deliver an indelible and immersive reading experience on every page.