Download or read book Follies and Foibles written by Andrew Marum and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Water Follies written by Robert Jerome Glennon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its banks have died, and the profusion of birds and wildlife recorded by early settlers are nowhere to be seen. The river is dead. What happened? Where did the water go. As Robert Glennon explains in Water Follies, what killed the Santa Cruz River -- and could devastate other surface waters across the United States -- was groundwater pumping. From 1940 to 2000, the volume of water drawn annually from underground aquifers in Tucson jumped more than six-fold, from 50,000 to 330,000 acre-feet per year. And Tucson is hardly an exception -- similar increases in groundwater pumping have occurred across the country and around the world. In a striking collection of stories that bring to life the human and natural consequences of our growing national thirst, Robert Glennon provides an occasionally wry and always fascinating account of groundwater pumping and the environmental problems it causes. Robert Glennon sketches the culture of water use in the United States, explaining how and why we are growing increasingly reliant on groundwater. He uses the examples of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro rivers in Arizona to illustrate the science of hydrology and the legal aspects of water use and conflicts. Following that, he offers a dozen stories -- ranging from Down East Maine to San Antonio's River Walk to Atlanta's burgeoning suburbs -- that clearly illustrate the array of problems caused by groundwater pumping. Each episode poses a conflict of values that reveals the complexity of how and why we use water. These poignant and sometimes perverse tales tell of human foibles including greed, stubbornness, and, especially, the unlimited human capacity to ignore reality. As Robert Glennon explores the folly of our actions and the laws governing them, he suggests common-sense legal and policy reforms that could help avert potentially catastrophic future effects. Water Follies, the first book to focus on the impact of groundwater pumping on the environment, brings this widespread but underappreciated problem to the attention of citizens and communities across America.
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fables Foibles and Follies written by Edward Hackemer and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fables, Foibles & Follies" is a delightful potpourri of stories collected from the author's immediate family members, distant relatives, friends and close acquaintances. The time-lines of these tales cover many generations. A 'generation' has been described as the period of years between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring. Today, most schooled intellectuals define a generation as approximately thirty-three years, being careful not to commit that standard to any strict semblance of accuracy.A few years ago, the author's daughter (in-law) gifted him a subscription to one of those family discovery and heritage DNA services that you see advertised all over the television and internet. To be succinct, he surprisingly uncovered two siblings and countless relatives he never knew he had. With some patience from hiswife, and tons of help from old friends, close family and newfound relations, the author constructed quite an impressive family tree that goes all the way back to the middle 1600's. The gigantic, circular DNA roadmap includes genetic tags from Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Ireland, the Balkans and Central Europe. It is likely that the Balkan, British and Irish DNA roots stem from the pillaging and plundering of Northern Europe and the British Isles by medieval Viking hoards. With that in mind, it's no wonder the author played the Sousaphone in junior high and enjoys the taste of rakfisk, whale and lutefisk.The author discovered that his relatives certainly wore coats of many colors, spoke in many tongues, and traveled on foot, horseback, wagon and ship just to make it to the New World. It's easy to imagine that some of them may have been driven out of town on a rail.He spent many hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more hours doing research into his ancestry. His paternal great-great grandparents (Fredrik and Inge (Hofenhagen) Hackmeister) were young, newlywed Prussian immigrants aboard the SS Spree from Bremen, Germany. Inge and Fredrik were born in Posen, Prussia in 1841. After comparing passenger departure records from Hamburg, Germany, and crosschecking them with Port of New York arrival lists, the author discovered that an immigration clerk bastardized the family surname when Fredrik and Inge arrived in 1858. The name was instantly Anglicized and changed from "Hackmeister" to "Hackemer" likely because it sounded better and was easier to pronounce. In fact, immigration clerks arbitrarily changed countless surnames of European settlers in the early 20th Century from Boston to Ellis Island. Additionally, review of census records also indicated several changes made to the spelling of surnames throughout his family tree. Additionally, he discovered six instances of spelling changes in his family tree. Examples range from Archambault to Campbell, Faergahl to Furgal, Boedecker to Decker and Diehl to Deal. Norwegians, Swede, Danes and Icelanders have a bigger headache when it comes to surnames. Times have changed, but in years past, Nordic surnames most often followed the father's given (Christian) name. For example, if John had a son and named him Peter, Peter's full name would be Peter Johnson. John's daughter Jane would be Jane Johnsdaughter. In such a manner, one famous Norwegian poet and Nobel laureate in literature, walked about with the odd moniker of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.It is a foregone conclusion that even government-issued identification does not tell you who you really are. That little laminated card in your wallet or purse is nothing more than a government-sanctioned suggestion.Edward Hackemer suggests that if you want to know the whole story, you need to figure out who you are all by yourself. It's a daunting task, but please, do try to have fun despite the rigmarole.
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by Alexander Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The World s Great Classics Essays of British essayists written by Timothy Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
Download or read book Men and Manners written by William Shenstone and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Common Sense in Early 18th Century British Literature and Culture written by Christoph Henke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.
Download or read book The British Essayists Observer written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
