Download or read book Endangered Guardians written by Donald V. Weatherman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intellectual history of America's two-party system, Donald V. Weatherman grapples with the central issue confronting political parties: What role should they play within a constitutional government?: By examining three major efforts at party reform-the Progressive movement, efforts to develop a responsible party system in the 1950s and 1960s, and Democratic nominating system reforms between 1968 and 1988-Weatherman shows how we have lost sight of the founders' original intentions to create a party system that would enhance the democratic tendencies of our political system while strengthening our constitutional structure.
Download or read book Saving Endangered Animals written by Louella Bath and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People and animals have shared the planet for thousands of years, but unfortunately, human behavior can seriously threaten species’ survival. This title examines this important concept, giving readers a close-up look at the animal species that are currently classified as endangered. Readers will learn about animals’ habitats and behavior how those things are affected by human activity. The text boasts a clear call to action, aimed to inspire readers to get involved in saving Earth’s endangered animals. Fact boxes and highly detailed photographs reinforce the concepts in the text, which is written to support elementary science curricula.
Download or read book Eating to Extinction written by Dan Saladino and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like “foodie,” but a form of reverence . . . Enchanting." —Molly Young, The New York Times Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these—rice, wheat, and corn—now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: The source of much of the world’s food—seeds—is mostly in the control of just four corporations. Ninety-five percent of milk consumed in the United States comes from a single breed of cow. Half of all the world’s cheese is made with bacteria or enzymes made by one company. And one in four beers drunk around the world is the product of one brewer. If it strikes you that everything is starting to taste the same wherever you are in the world, you’re by no means alone. This matters: when we lose diversity and foods become endangered, we not only risk the loss of traditional foodways, but also of flavors, smells, and textures that may never be experienced again. And the consolidation of our food has other steep costs, including a lack of resilience in the face of climate change, pests, and parasites. Our food monoculture is a threat to our health—and to the planet. In Eating to Extinction, the distinguished BBC food journalist Dan Saladino travels the world to experience and document our most at-risk foods before it’s too late. He tells the fascinating stories of the people who continue to cultivate, forage, hunt, cook, and consume what the rest of us have forgotten or didn’t even know existed. Take honey—not the familiar product sold in plastic bottles, but the wild honey gathered by the Hadza people of East Africa, whose diet consists of eight hundred different plants and animals and who communicate with birds in order to locate bees’ nests. Or consider murnong—once the staple food of Aboriginal Australians, this small root vegetable with the sweet taste of coconut is undergoing a revival after nearly being driven to extinction. And in Sierra Leone, there are just a few surviving stenophylla trees, a plant species now considered crucial to the future of coffee. From an Indigenous American chef refining precolonial recipes to farmers tending Geechee red peas on the Sea Islands of Georgia, the individuals profiled in Eating to Extinction are essential guides to treasured foods that have endured in the face of rampant sameness and standardization. They also provide a roadmap to a food system that is healthier, more robust, and, above all, richer in flavor and meaning.
Download or read book Guardians of the Wild written by Alian Hazel and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gaurdian of Nature: Champions for Imperiled Creatures" is a pivotal drive devoted to the insurance and conservation of Earth's most weak species. This powerful association works at the front of untamed life preservation, driven by an enthusiastic obligation to shielding biodiversity and encouraging an agreeable conjunction among people and the animals of the world collectively. At the core of Watchmen of the Wild is a group of devoted people, each perceived as a Hero for Imperiled Creatures. These bosses are specialists in their particular fields, going from untamed life researcher and biologists to protectionists and local area pioneers. Joined by a common vision, they team up flawlessly to address the diverse difficulties confronting jeopardized species. The association utilizes an all encompassing methodology, consolidating logical examination, local area commitment, and backing to think up an exhaustive system for untamed life preservation. Logical exploration shapes the bedrock of their endeavors, giving pivotal bits of knowledge into the way of behaving, living spaces, and dangers looked by imperiled creatures. This information is then converted into noteworthy preservation designs that focus on the prosperity of the species and their environments. Gatekeepers of the Wild perceives the interconnectedness of people and untamed life, understanding that feasible preservation requires the dynamic support of neighborhood networks. Through instructive projects, outreach drives, and organizations with native gatherings, the association endeavors to construct an aggregate feeling of obligation towards safeguarding our planet's rich biodiversity. One of the association's eminent undertakings is its accentuation on mechanical advancement. Outfitting the force of current apparatuses like satellite following, DNA investigation, and man-made brainpower, Guardian of the Wild utilizes state of the art strategies to screen and safeguard imperiled species. This combination of innovation guarantees that protection endeavors are viable as well as versatile to the developing difficulties looked by natural life. As Gatekeepers of the Wild keeps on supporting the reason for jeopardized creatures, it fills in as a motivating encouraging sign in the worldwide battle against biodiversity misfortune. Through their faithful devotion, cooperative soul, and imaginative methodology, they stand as obvious watchmen of the wild, working enthusiastically to get a future where all animal types can flourish in their regular living spaces.
Download or read book Immortal Guardians Spirit Animals Fall of the Beasts Book 1 written by Eliot Schrefer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark threat faces the world of Erdas in this riveting new saga from the New York Times bestselling series. A heart-pounding new adventure from the New York Times bestselling series.In the world of Erdas, every child must discover if they will summon a spirit animal, a rare and incredible gift. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan were rare even among those few. They summoned legendary animals--brave guardians who were reborn to protect their world. Now more of these legends are appearing across Erdas, bonded to special children. But a dark force has emerged. Older than memory, it has slept for centuries beneath the surface of the world. With the power to tear away spirit animals, it begins a rampage that will be felt in every corner of Erdas. If the young heroes can't stop it, the darkness will first consume the spirit animals . . . and then the world.
Download or read book Endangered Bears written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what types of bears there are, which ones are endangered, why they are endangered, and how humans can help prevent their extinction.
Download or read book Endangered written by Tim Flach and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed wildlife photographer presents “a powerful visual record of threatened animals and ecosystems facing the harshest of challenges” (The Guardian, UK). In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world—to settings ranging from forest to savannah to the polar seas to the great coral reefs—Flach has captured stunning images of endangered animals and their disappearing ecosystems. Among Flach’s subjects are primates coping with habitat loss, big cats in a losing battle with human settlements, elephants hunted for their ivory, and numerous bird species taken as pets. With eminent zoologist Jonathan Baillie providing insightful commentary on this ambitious project, Endangered unfolds as a series of vivid, interconnected stories that pose gripping moral dilemmas, unforgettably expressed by more than 180 of Flach’s incredible images.
Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant written by Charles Manley Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guardians written by Viecelli Don (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saving Endangered Species written by Todd Kortemeier and published by Science Frontiers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] offers a cutting-edge, comprehensive look at one of science's biggest challenges. Includes a look at the history of the topic, recent breakthroughs, key facts to consider, and questions that remain unanswered."--
Download or read book Theological Adventures written by Phillip Michael Garner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological Adventures began as a challenge to the teachers of The Institute for Global Outreach Developments International to provide me with those passages of Scripture they found the most difficult to produce an interpretive theology consistent with nonviolence and a nonviolent God. The allegorical method for dealing with OT violence has not led to a constructive theology capable of eradicating violence from the Christian tradition. However, genre identification of particular books enables a reader to discern the prejudicial nature of a book claiming to speak for God, e.g., Joshua as conquest narrative. Judges, as a reflection on violence and male-female relationships, qualifies as a “social critique” on Israelite society. This is wonderfully portrayed in the study of Samson as the archetypal strongman who represents Israel as a people. It is healthy to be honest enough about OT Scripture to require basic morality as a guide for reading its claims and stories. The gift of a moral conscience is a powerful voice for God’s image in us. I have found the OT to be consistent with the revelation of God in Christ Jesus when a person learns to read it correctly. The guiding interpretive lens is honesty about the intolerable violence sanctioned in the OT.
Download or read book Party Government written by E. Schattschneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study E. E. Schattschneider delineates six crucial points: A political party is an organized attempt to get control of the government. Parties live in a highly competitive world. The major parties manage to maintain their supremacy over the minor parties. The internal processes of the parties have not generally received the attention they deserve in treatises on American politics. The party is a process that has grown up about elections. And perhaps most important of all is the distribution of power within the party organization. But Party Government is not just about political parties. At its heart is the theory and practice of modern democracy, and it is the most cited, controversial, and probably single most influential study of political parties ever written, Schattschneider questions the purpose of government, who rules, and how government should be organized consistent with its fundamental purpose, which are the enduring fault lines of American democracy. He takes the reader through a thorough and penetrating examination of political parties and the American government. Starting with a historical overview and defense of parties, Schattschneider offers a searing analysis of politics itself, with special focus on the number of interest groups both affecting and affected by government. He describes the various types of political organizations--major parties, pressure groups, and minor parties--and offers a study of the two-party character of the American system. Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. offers a strikingly original new introduction about E. E. Schattschneider and his contribution to political science. Gracefully and wittily written, Party Government is mandatory reading for students and scholars of political science, government, and American political theory.
Download or read book Re Framers written by John R. Vile and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.S. Constitution, covering more than 170 proposals from the nation's beginnings to the present day. The U.S. Constitution was carefully written by a remarkable group of men, but subsequent generations of Americans have devoted enormous time and energy to "improving" it. From colonial times to the present day, Americans of all political persuasions have campaigned to reform, remake, or replace this key document. The growth of the Internet and self-publishing has spawned a virtual explosion of such proposals. This book documents the numerous ideas for change—some practical, some idealistic, and some bordering on fanatical—that reflect America's Constitutional heritage and could shape the nation's future. Re-Framers: 170 Eccentric, Visionary, and Patriotic Proposals to Rewrite the U.S. Constitution sets the stage for this review by describing various prequels to the U.S. Constitution and explaining how the final document emerged at the Constitutional Convention. The subsequent chapters examine many proposed alternatives and revisions to the Constitution from its establishment until the present, illuminating perceived strengths and weaknesses of the current document as well as the pros and cons of possible amendments. Readers ranging from lay citizens who are interested in constitutional issues to historians, political scientists, law professors, and reference librarians will all benefit from this unparalleled examination of proposed constitutional amendment.
Download or read book Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on pioneering research, this volume on South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies' perspective on the vast and largely uncharted domain of how local cultures are coping with climate changes and environmental crises.The primary focus is on three countries that have high emission rates: India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Whereas the dominant discourse on climate largely reflects the view of Western cultures, this volume adds indigenous views and practices that provide insight into Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic responses. Making use of textual materials, fieldwork, and analyses, it highlights the close links between climate solutions, forms of knowledge, and the various socio-cultural and political practices and agencies within societies. The volume demonstrates that climate is global and plural. Contributors are: Monika Arnez, Somnath Batabyal, Joachim Betz, Susan M. Darlington, Dennis Eucker, Rüdiger Haum, Albertina Nugteren, Marcus Nüsser & Ravi Baghel, Martin Seeger, and Janice Stargardt.
Download or read book Guardian Expansion and Extension Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GOALPARA GUARDIAN OF BRAHMAPUTRA written by YAMINI MALHOTRA and published by SGSH publication. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to "Goalpara: The Hidden Gem of Assam," a journey through one of the most enchanting districts of Assam, India. Nestled along the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River, Goalpara is a region teeming with natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and extraordinary medicinal and geological potential. This book aims to explore and celebrate the diverse flora, fertile soils, unique climate, and the profound significance of the Brahmaputra River's waters, especially during the sacred Ashtami of Goddess Durga in April. Goalpara's landscape is a tapestry of vibrant greenery and colourful blooms. From the striking lilies of various varieties that grace its wetlands to the resilient cactus-like plants that dot its terrain, this district is a botanist’s paradise. The towering trees, lush vegetables, and fragrant flowers add to the region’s natural splendour, creating an environment that is both picturesque and ecologically significant. The medicinal herbs and plants of Goalpara hold ancient secrets and modern scientific promise. For centuries, these natural remedies have been used by local communities for their healing properties. This book delves into the myriad ways these plants contribute to health and well-being, supported by contemporary research that highlights their potential in modern medicine. The Brahmaputra River, a lifeline for Assam, holds a special place in the hearts of the people of Goalpara. Each year, during the Ashtami of Kamakhya/Durga in April, the river is believed to bestow its pious waters with unique scientific benefits. This sacred event is a testament to the deep spiritual connection between the river and the local populace, blending tradition with a touch of mystical reverence. Goalpara’s soil is another marvel, rich in nutrients and endowed with unique scientific properties that support the growth of diverse crops and plants. The fertile land not only sustains the agricultural backbone of the region but also nurtures the vibrant ecosystems that flourish here. The book examines the soil's composition, its agricultural significance, and its potential for future scientific discoveries. The climate of Goalpara, with its tropical characteristics, plays a crucial role in shaping the region’s natural and agricultural landscapes. The monsoon rains bring life to the fields and forests, while the warm summers and mild winters create a conducive environment for a variety of flora and fauna. This section of the book provides an in-depth analysis of the climatic patterns and their impact on the local ecology and agriculture. In "Goalpara: The Hidden Gem of Assam," we embark on an exploration that intertwines nature, tradition, and science. Through vivid descriptions, scientific insights, and a deep appreciation for the local culture, this book seeks to illuminate the unique attributes of Goalpara, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of its extraordinary potential and timeless beauty. Join us on this journey through Goalpara, where every page unveils a new facet of this remarkable region, inviting you to discover the hidden treasures and untold stories of Assam's enchanting district.
Download or read book Guardian Pipeline Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
