Living With Nature Cherishing Language

Author : Justyna Olko
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031387392
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Nature, Cherishing Language written by Justyna Olko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions. This volume fills a unique space by bringing together the issues of environment, language and cultural integrity in Latin American historical and cultural spheres. It explores the reciprocal and necessary relations between language/culture and environment; how they can lead to sustainable practices; how environmental knowledge and sustainable practices toward the environment are reflected in local languages, local sources and local socio-cultural practices. The book combines interdisciplinary methods and initiates a dialogue among scientifically trained scholars and local communities to compare their perspectives on well-being in remote and recent historical periods and it will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including sociolinguistics, (ethno)history, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies and cultural anthropology, environmental studies and Indigenous/minority studies.

Author : Ruth Cigman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474278841
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning written by Ruth Cigman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a good human life? A life of duty? Virtue? Happiness? This book weaves a path through traditional answers. We live well, suggests the author, not primarily by pursuing goods for ourselves, but by cherishing other people and guiding them towards lives of cherishing. We cherish objects too – the planet, my grandfather's watch – and practices like music-making to which we are personally drawn. In this work of 'populated philosophy' (copiously illustrated by literary and 'real life' examples), a cherishing life is presented as hard and irreducibly individual. The idea of cherishing, says the author, points towards intimate, unreasonable layers of the ethical life, as well as the deepening of wisdom and connection. It also points towards incomparable satisfactions, reminding us who we are and who we want to be.

Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370417
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moth Snowstorm written by Michael McCarthy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir of the author’s first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature’s abundance in the intervening decades, and he proposes a radical solution to our current problem: that we each recognize in ourselves the capacity to love the natural world. Arguing that neither sustainable development nor ecosystem services have provided adequate defense against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate change, McCarthy asks us to consider nature as an intrinsic good and an emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and even love. An award-winning environmental journalist, McCarthy presents a clear, well-documented picture of what he calls “the great thinning” around the world, while interweaving the story of his own early discovery of the wilderness and a childhood saved by nature. Drawing on the truths of poets, the studies of scientists, and the author’s long experience in the field, The Moth Snowstorm is part elegy, part ode, and part argument, resulting in a passionate call to action.

Author : Peter Midmore
Publisher : Institute of Welsh Affairs
ISBN 13 : 9781904773061
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cherished Heartland written by Peter Midmore and published by Institute of Welsh Affairs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Low
Publisher : Wild Goose Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781901557718
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cherish the Earth written by Mary Low and published by Wild Goose Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From space it is all too easy to see our increasingly negative impact upon the carefully balanced living system that is our planet. This collection of readings, poems, theology and liturgy is intended to help us start loving nature for what it is and not what we can get out of it.

Author : Brooke Smith
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452183805
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Keeper of Wild Words written by Brooke Smith and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter exploring and cherishing the natural world. Words, the woods, and the world illuminate this quest to save the most important pieces of our language—by saving the very things they stand for. When Mimi finds out her favorite words—simple words, like apricot, blackberry, buttercup—are disappearing from the English language, she elects her granddaughter Brook as their Keeper. And did you know? The only way to save words is to know them. • With its focus on the power of language and social change, The Keeper of Wild Words is ideal for educators and librarians as well as young readers. • For any child who longs to get outside and learn more about nature and the environment • A loving portrait of the special relationship that grandparents have with their grandchildren For children who love such books as Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature, And Then It's Spring, and Finding Wild. Brooke Smith is a poet and children's book author. She lives in Bend, Oregon, at the end of a long cinder lane. Brooke writes daily from her studio, looking at the meadow and many of the wild words she cherishes. Madeline Kloepper is a Canadian artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Major in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work is influenced by childhood, nostalgia, and the relationships we forge with nature. She lives in Prince George, British Columbia.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Horticultural Visitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cherished Spring: an Address to the Rev. D. J. Evans on His Entrance to the Pulpit of the Old Meeting, Stroud, Gloucestershire written by Charles Wills and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yuval Lurie
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904203517X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit written by Yuval Lurie and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein's discourse as an edifyng philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. Investigates the conceptual underpinnings of culture, revealing them as shared expressive spiritual forms of life.

Author : Maria Giulia Marini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319947273
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine written by Maria Giulia Marini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how narrative medicine can improve evidence based medicine (EBM), making it more effective and efficient, giving patients better quality of life and offering more satisfaction to all health care providers. It discusses not only the disease experienced by the person who is ill, but also focuses on the context and the culture, and investigates how narrative medicine can make other disciplines around the globe more applicable, less manipulative, and more “scientific”. Only by integrating the narrative aspects, can EBM become more effective and efficient, with fewer uncured patients, more satisfied patients with a better quality of life, and satisfaction for all health care providers. Every chapter is divided into two main sections: the first presents the latest research in the field, with comments and interviews with experts, while the second section provides a list of practical exercises and tasks. The book is intended for anyone with an interest in caring for and curing patients: all care providers of care, physicians, general practitioners, specialists nurses, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, providers of aid, healthcare managers, scientific societies, academics and researchers.