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Book Cactus Thorn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Austin
  • Publisher : Western Literature and Fiction
  • Release : 1994-09
  • ISBN : 9780874172539
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cactus Thorn written by Mary Austin and published by Western Literature and Fiction. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss, flees from his complicated and pressure-ridden life in New York City to the serenity of the desert's open spaces, finding a love and a landscape that will change his life.

Book Dew on the Thorn

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  • Author : Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles
  • Publisher : Arte Publico Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781611921175
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Dew on the Thorn written by Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dew on the Thorn seeks to recreate the life of Texas Mexicans as Anglo culture was gradually encroaching upon them. Gonzalez provides us with a richly detailed portrait of South Texas, focusing on the cultural traditions of Texas Mexicans at a time when the divisions of class and race were pressing on the established way of life.

Book Cactus Thorn

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  • Author : Mary Hunter Austin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780874171358
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Cactus Thorn written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Arliss, a young politician overwhelmed by the pressures of his New York City life, retreats to the serenity of the American Southwestern desert, where he meets the independent and intriguing Dulcie Adclaid.

Book Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine

Download or read book Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine written by Ran Knishinsky and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the health benefits of the prickly pear cactus, summarizing the literature and research on its use in treating diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and other ailments, and including information about application and dosage.

Book Undomesticated Ground

Download or read book Undomesticated Ground written by Stacy Alaimo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings—as well as of popular journalism, visual arts, television, and film—powerfully demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be an essential concept for feminist theory and practice.Alaimo urges feminist theorists to rethink the concept of nature by probing the vastly different meanings that it carries. She discusses its significance for Americans engaged in social and political struggles from, for example, the "Indian Wars" of the early nineteenth century, to the birth control movement in the 1920s, to contemporary battles against racism and heterosexism. Reading works by Catherine Sedgwick, Mary Austin, Emma Goldman, Nella Larson, Donna Haraway, Toni Morrison, and others, Alaimo finds that some of these writers strategically invoke nature for feminist purposes while others cast nature as a postmodern agent of resistance in the service of both environmentalism and the women's movement.By examining the importance of nature within literary and political texts, this book greatly expands the parameters of the nature writing genre and establishes nature as a crucial site for the cultural work of feminism.

Book The Cactus Journal

Download or read book The Cactus Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Computational Science     ICCS 2009

Download or read book Computational Science ICCS 2009 written by Gabrielle Allen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a tri?ing investment of fact. ” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi The challenges in succeeding with computational science are numerous and deeply a?ect all disciplines. NSF’s 2006 Blue Ribbon Panel of Simulation-Based 1 Engineering Science (SBES) states ‘researchers and educators [agree]: com- tational and simulation engineering sciences are fundamental to the security and welfare of the United States. . . We must overcome di?culties inherent in multiscale modeling, the development of next-generation algorithms, and the design. . . of dynamic data-driven application systems. . . We must determine better ways to integrate data-intensive computing, visualization, and simulation. - portantly,wemustoverhauloureducationalsystemtofostertheinterdisciplinary study. . . The payo?sformeeting these challengesareprofound. ’The International Conference on Computational Science 2009 (ICCS 2009) explored how com- tational sciences are not only advancing the traditional hard science disciplines, but also stretching beyond, with applications in the arts, humanities, media and all aspects of research. This interdisciplinary conference drew academic and industry leaders from a variety of ?elds, including physics, astronomy, mat- matics,music,digitalmedia,biologyandengineering. Theconferencealsohosted computer and computational scientists who are designing and building the - ber infrastructure necessary for next-generation computing. Discussions focused on innovative ways to collaborate and how computational science is changing the future of research. ICCS 2009: ‘Compute. Discover. Innovate. ’ was hosted by the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Book Herencia

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  • Author : Nicolás Kanellos
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0195138244
  • Pages : 658 pages

Download or read book Herencia written by Nicolás Kanellos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the U.S., ranging from the early Spanish explorers to the present day.

Book City of Collision

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  • Author : Philipp Misselwitz
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2006-06-02
  • ISBN : 3764378689
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book City of Collision written by Philipp Misselwitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man’s-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence. Der Krieg hat Einzug in die Städte gehalten. Spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001 ist deutlich geworden, dass nicht mehr nur Jerusalem und der Nahen Osten betroffen sind, sondern auch westliche Metropolen. Das Buch stellt eine umfassende urbanistische Untersuchung der aktuellen Situation in Jerusalem aus trilateraler Perspektive vor: israelische, palästinensische und internationale Fachleute kommen zu Wort. Diskutiert werden Produktion und Nutzung von städtischem Raum unter den Bedingungen des Konflikts, wie z.B. der sog. Sicherheitszaun, urbane Enklaven, Exklaven, der Umgang mit Monumenten und Niemandsland oder die Instrumentalisierung von Infrastrukturen, die zu einem krassen Nebeneinander von hoch entwickelten oder verarmten städtischen Räumen führen. Der Konflikt bringt jedoch nicht nur Destruktion und Gewalt mit sich, sondern zeigt vielmehr auch ambivalente Wirkungen und mit ihnen neue kulturelle und urbane Realitäten. Jerusalem ist zu einem Prototyp im Zeitalter neuer städtischer Gewalt geworden.

Book Arizona Cactus

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  • Author : Deborahann Smith
  • Publisher : American Traveler Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9781558380929
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Arizona Cactus written by Deborahann Smith and published by American Traveler Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking full-colour guides. Bound in water repellent, film laminated covers. Extensive center-spread maps of the state highlights locations featured in each book. Special 8-pocket and 4-pocket lucite display racks available with purchase of the series.

Book Thorn In The Heart

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  • Author : Chinh Nguyen
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2019-04-29
  • ISBN : 0359625185
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Thorn In The Heart written by Chinh Nguyen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Salle Hayden MA, NLP. Author, Editor v? publish. ----------- Thank you so much for sharing this book with me. Your feeling is quite clear. I know that there are many ""kids"" in the Vietnamese community who do not really know their parents' and grandparents' suffering. This book is an introduction to understanding the human tragedy that Vietnam had been for so long. I'm not sure that it has changed so much under the Communists, but we can't see into that window, can we? I appreciate your skill and fervor. Salle Hayden

Book Cactus Soup

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  • Author : Eric A. Kimmel
  • Publisher : Two Lions
  • Release : 2011-04
  • ISBN : 9780761458326
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cactus Soup written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by Two Lions. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.

Book Contributions

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  • Author : University of Michigan. Pathological Laboratory
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Contributions written by University of Michigan. Pathological Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picturing a Different West

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  • Author : Janis P. Stout
  • Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780896726109
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Picturing a Different West written by Janis P. Stout and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a women's tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. Cather's travels repeatedly took her to the Southwest, and she wrote three novels with Southwestern settings. Starting with the masculine tradition of Western art that was prevalent when Austin and Cather launched their careers, Janis P. Stout shows how the authors challenged and revised that tradition. Rather than a West of adventure, violence, and conquest, open only to rugged and daring men, the authors envisioned a new West--not conventionally feminine so much as an androgynous space of freedom for women and men alike. Their vision of an alternative West and their alternative ways of thinking about and portraying gender are inseparable. Placing Cather and Austin alongside contemporaries Elsie Clews Parsons, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Laura Gilpin, Stout emphasizes the visual nature of Austin's and Cather's personal experiences of the West and Southwest, their awareness of the prevailing visual representations of the West, and the visual nature of their books about the West, with respect to both prose style and illustrations. In closing, Stout demonstrates the continuance of their tradition in illustrated western books by Leslie Marmon Silko and by Margaret Randall and Barbara Byers.

Book Cactus Thorn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melody Graulich
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cactus Thorn written by Melody Graulich and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists

Download or read book Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists written by Theodore H. Fleming and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on the ecology, evolution, and conservation of columnar cacti and their vertebrate mutualists, demonstrating that the survival of these cacti depends on animals who pollinate them and disperse their seeds.