Life In A Swamp

Author : Karen D. Povey
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737731408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Swamp written by Karen D. Povey and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wiener Stadthalle, Olympiaworld Innsbruck, Stadthalle Graz, Arena Nova, Intersport Arena, Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion, Schwarzl Freizeit Zentrum. Excerpt: Wiener Stadthalle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediabody{behavior:url("/w/skins-1.5/vector/csshover.htc")} Wiener Stadthalle ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4256433

Author : Laura Ogden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816677023
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swamplife written by Laura Ogden and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades.

Author : D K Publishing
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606178143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swamp Life written by D K Publishing and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2010, Britain's new Coalition government embarked on its journey to the Big Society. But how did we reach this point? Politicians and commentators have long bemoaned the supposed decline of civic life, fretting about its health and its future. In fact, the real story of voluntarism over the last hundred years has not been decline, but constant evolution and change. Whether we use the terms charity, philanthropy, civil society, non-governmental organisations, the third sector or theBig Society, voluntary endeavour is one of the most vibrant and dynamic areas of British public life. The senior, established and exciting new scholars featured in this collection show how the voluntary sector's role in society, and its relationship with the state, has constantly adapted to its surroundings. They have raised new agendas, tackled old problems in new ways, acted as alternatives to statutory provision and as catalysts for further government action. Voluntary groups have emerged out of citizens' concerns, independent of government and yet willing to work with politicians of all persuasions. By surveying the sheer extent and diversity of the sector since the start of the First World War, this volume demonstrates that voluntarism not only continues to thrive, but is also far larger than any political agenda that may be imposed upon it.

Author : Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238916
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swamp written by Anthony Wilson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, swamps have been idealized and demonized, purged and protected. Today, they are simultaneously considered metaphorical places of evil, pestilence, and death, and treasured as diverse biological ecosystems teeming with life. Covering not only swamps and bogs but also marshes and wetlands, Swamp ventures into the cultural and ecological histories of these mysterious, mythologized, and misunderstood landscapes. Anthony Wilson takes readers into swamps across the globe, from the freshwater marshes of Botswana’s tremendous Okavango delta, to the notable swamps between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to the peat bogs in Russia, the British Isles, and Scandinavia, which have been used as energy sources for centuries. It explores ideas and representations of wetlands across centuries, cultures, and continents, considering legend and folklore, mythology, literature, film, and natural and cultural history. As it plumbs the murky depths of swamps from the distant past to an uncertain future, Swamps provides an engaging, accessible, informative, and lavishly illustrated journey into these fascinating landscapes.

Author : Nomeda Urbonas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3956794842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swamps and the New Imagination written by Nomeda Urbonas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors consider the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life, beginning a dialogue with possible futures. It is not easy to define a swamp, even in biology. The term is frequently used to characterize marshes, bogs, mires, wetlands, meadows, and other grey zones between land and water. In that sense, “swamp” is a metonym for a variety of transitional ecosystems and functions. This book invokes that concept as a tool to address the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life, placing the swamp at the crossroad of disciplines and practices. It is more than a biological ecosystem; it is a milieu of manifold sympoietic relationships, a locus of imagination, fostering the dialogue for possible futures. It is also a very particular modality—“an interface of Gaia”—offering a “face,” a certain physiognomy to faceless networks of relations, inviting us to engage in regimes of entanglement. The contributors to this volume expand on swampy notions, probing global and speculative art and architecture, intercalating philosophy and queer theory, and filtering these notions through the lens of posthumanist ecology, informed by the histories and theories of cybernetics, sociology, and the commons. Contributors Lorena Bello and Brent D. Ryan, Nikola Bojić, Chiara Bottici, Jonathan Jae-an Crisman and Newton Harrison, Glorianna Davenport and Gershon Dublon, T.J. Demos, Vittoria Di Palma, Jennifer Gabrys, Tinna Grétarsdóttir and Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, Stefan Helmreich, Stefanie Hessler, Yuk Hui, Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Caroline A. Jones, Lars Bang Larsen, Bruno Latour, Gintautas Mažeikis, Astrida Neimanis, Kate Orff and Mariel Villeré, Andrew Pickering, Kristina Lee Podesva, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, María Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos, Cristina Ricupero, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Kristupas Sabolius, Saskia Sassen, Caterina Scaramelli, Marco Scotini, Pelin Tan, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Angela Vettese

Author : Robert Leslie Smith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354948
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gone to the Swamp written by Robert Leslie Smith and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-09-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair tools, navigate a boat, fell a tree, treat a snakebite, make a meal from whatever was handy without asking too many questions about it, and get along with folks. This fascinating and instructive book is the careful and unpretentious account of a man who was artful in all the skills needed to survive and raise a family in an area where most people would be lost or helpless. Smith’s story is an important record of a way of life beginning to disappear, a loss not fully yet realized. We are lucky to have a work that is both instructive and warm-hearted and that preserves so much hard-won knowledge.

Author : Vivian Marais
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435858352
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Swamp: A Wetlands Habitat written by Vivian Marais and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines wetland habitats.

Author : Vivian Marais
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435829727
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Swamp: A Wetlands Habitat written by Vivian Marais and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines wetland habitats.

Author : Gwen Roland
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807161748
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atchafalaya Houseboat written by Gwen Roland and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book called How to Build Your Home in the Woods, they drew up plans to recycle a slave-built structure into a houseboat. Without power tools or building experience they constructed a floating dwelling complete with a brick fireplace. Towed deep into the sleepy waters of Bloody Bayou, it was their home for eight years. This is the tale of the not-so-simple life they made together -- days spent fishing, trading, making wine, growing food, and growing up -- told by Gwen with grace, economy, and eloquence. Not long after they took up swamp living, Gwen and Calvin met a young photographer named C. C. Lockwood, who shared their "back to the earth" values. His photographs of the couple going about their daily routine were published in National Geographic magazine, bringing them unexpected fame. More than a quarter of a century later, after Gwen and Calvin had long since parted, one of Lockwood's photos of them appeared in a National Geographic collector's edition entitled 100 Best Pictures Unpublished -- and kindled the interest of a new generation. With quiet wisdom, Gwen recounts her eight-year voyage of discovery -- about swamp life, wildlife, and herself. A keen observer of both the natural world and the ways of human beings, she transports readers to an unfamiliar and exotic place.

Author : Henry Clay Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "swamp Doctor" written by Henry Clay Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: