The Abstract Wild

The Abstract Wild
Author: Jack Turner
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0816547394

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If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.

Gone Wild

Gone Wild
Author: David McLimans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1619639548

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This truly special alphabet book is filled with a stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra--and they're all so rare, they're endangered. David McLimans's bold and playful illustrations transform each letter into a work of art, boldly rendered with animal characteristics, including scales, horns, and even insect wings. Once you take this eye-opening safari, you'll never look at letters or animals the same way again. This zoological adventure--and winner of a Caldecott Honor medal--has been reformatted as a gifty board edition. The stunning black-and-white visuals are perfect for babies and younger children. Awards for Gone Wild A Caldecott Honor Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Book An ALA Notable Children's Book

Wild Hundreds

Wild Hundreds
Author: Nate A. Marshall
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2015-09-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0822981084

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Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.

Wild Creations

Wild Creations
Author: Hilton Carter
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1800650507

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Namechecked as the "LeBron James of plant styling..." by "Good Morning America", Hilton Carter now shows how you can make, style, decorate and care for your own stunning plant-inspired interior with his 25 step-by-step DIY projects and plant hacks. Carter, the Instagram star of the plant world and creator of green interiors has given us glimpses into many stunning plant-filled homes where ivy and creeping figs hang miraculously from ceilings, moss and ferns grow effortlessly to create living walls, fiddle leaf ferns and cheese plants thrive, whilst air plants beautify artworks and succulents flourish whether in pots on windowsills or planted in terrariums... Now in his third book, Wild Creations, Hilton actually shows you how you can create these amazing fixtures that enable plants to become such an integral part of an interior. Divided into four sections, Wild Ideas, Wild Hacks, Wild Rants and Wild Plants, Wild Creations shows you step by step how you can create air plant wreaths, moss walls, leather hanging plant stands, terrariums and many more stunning projects that will give you the green interior you crave. And just so your plants feel at home in your interior there is even a painting by numbers jungle mural, plus plant-scented candles to make sure your interior not only stays wild but that you and all its inhabitants thrive from the health giving benefits of greenery.

Hunger for the Wild

Hunger for the Wild
Author: Michael L. Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.

Lawyers' Reports Annotated

Lawyers' Reports Annotated
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1334
Release: 1913
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

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The Lawyers Reports Annotated

The Lawyers Reports Annotated
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1258
Release: 1913
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

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The Northeastern Reporter

The Northeastern Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1154
Release: 1913
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.

Public Utilities Reports

Public Utilities Reports
Author: Henry Clifford Spurr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1242
Release: 1918
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

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