Language: en
Pages: 122
Pages: 122
With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: of nature, of writing, of herself and those around her. She praises Whitman ("the brother I did not have") and denounces cuteness ("we are, none of use, cute"). She notes where the extraordinary is to be found ("it is
Language: en
Pages: 253
Pages: 253
An expanded, updated version of Pam Rice's widely read pamphlet. "Without sentimentality or preaching, [Rice] provides a clear and thoughtful understanding of one of the most important choices a person can make."--John Robbins, author of "Diet for a New America" and "The Food Revolution."
Language: en
Pages: 532
Pages: 532
Examines how critical thinking can be taught in a variety of settings and disciplines.
Language: en
Pages: 14
Pages: 14
Strip cropping as commonly applied in erosion control or soil conservation practices consists of seeding the regular farm crops, adapted to the locality, in long bands or strips lade out as nearly on the contour as ill admit of uniform width, and so arranged that adjacent strips will not be
Language: en
Pages:
Pages:
In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete