Download or read book Managing Fragility and Promoting Resilience to Advance Peace Security and Sustainable Development written by James Michel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fragility”—the combination of poor governance, limited institutional capability, low social cohesion, and weak legitimacy—leads to erosion of the social contract and diminished resilience, with significant implications for peace, security, and sustainable development. This study reviews how the international community has responded to this challenge and offers new ideas on how that response can be improved. Based on that examination, the author seeks to convey the importance of addressing this phenomenon as a high priority for the international community. Chapters explore the nature of these obstacles to sustainable development, peace, and security; how the international community has defined, measured, and responded to the phenomenon of fragility; how the international response might be made more effective; and implications for the United States.
Download or read book Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe written by Vanessa Voisin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions.
Download or read book Poetry of the Soul written by Audrey Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My poetry is in essence about spiritual awakening. Each verse a moment of passion (in all its forms) captured in a weaving of words. They are designed to have many layers of meaning, responsive to the mood and need of the reader. I aspire to be the woman I would hope to be, to achieve that I must carry on my own journey of creative and spiritual awakening. Enjoy my poetry; let them cast their glamour before you, arousing your senses and creativity.
Download or read book Fragile Majesty written by Keith Ervin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How public blindness and private greed have brought the rich ecosystem along the Pacific Crest to the verge of extinction.
Download or read book Letters of Scaevola on the Dismissal of His Majesty s Late Ministers written by John Allen and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of Scaevola on the Dismissal of His Majesty s Late Ministers written by Scaevola (pseud. [i.e. John Allen.]) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Performed in Her Majesty s Ship Sulphur During the Years 1836 1842 written by Edward Belcher and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Download or read book Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved in Her Majesty s Public Record Office London written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected References Concerning the USDA Forest Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tree People written by Naomi M. Stokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the haunting prologue, an Indian sachem vanquishes a sorcerer's evil spirit by ritualistically planting a cedar sapling over the grave where he was buried alive. Centuries later, the tree falls to man's hungry saws, and the Caliban is out of the bag. Stokes's voice takes on a hypnotic hush for the Indian legends".--The New York Times Book Review.
Download or read book The Natural History of Puget Sound Country written by Arthur R. Kruckeberg and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award Bounded on the east by the crest of the Cascade Range and on the west by the lofty east flank of the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound terrain includes every imaginable topograhic variety. This thoughtful and eloquent natural history of the Puget Sound region begins with a discussion of how the ice ages and vulcanism shaped the land and then examines the natural attributes of the region--flora and fauna, climate, special habitats, life histories of key organisms--as they pertain to the functioning ecosystem. Mankind's effects upon the natural environment are a pervasive theme of the book. Kruckeberg looks at both positive and negative aspects of human interaction with nature in the Puget basin. By probing the interconnectedness of all natural aspects of one region, Kruckeberg illustrates ecological principles at work and gives us a basis for wise decision-making. The Natural History of Puget Sound Country is a comprehensive reference, invaluable for all citizens of the Northwest, as well as for conservationists, biologists, foresters, fisheries and wildlife personnel, urban planners, and environmental consultants everywhere. Lavishly illustrated with over three hundred photographs and drawings, it is much more than a beautiful book. It is a guide to our future.
Download or read book Natural Grace written by William Dietrich and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the interactive clockwork world of geology, tides, Northwest weather, and snow, to the hidden roles of dirt, stream life, and mosses and lichens, Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Dietrich explores the natural splendors of the Pacific Northwest. His topics include alder and cedar; jellyfish, geoducks, crabs, and killer whales; mosquitoes and spiders; gulls, crows, and bald eagles; and sea otters, coyotes, raccoons, possums, deer, and cougars. This informative and engaging selection of natural history essays is adapted from articles published in the Seattle Times magazine, Pacific Northwest. A native Washingtonian, Dietrich has watched the Northwest double in population during his lifetime. Our rapidly changing view of nature is an underlying theme throughout his wide-ranging essays, as is the timely and essential question of how best to share and conserve the natural world that drew us to the region in the first place. Not a field guide nor an environmental policy book, Natural Grace is intended as a primer for people who are curious about the environment they live in and the pressures upon it. "We only care about what we know," says the author. "I’ve concluded that enthusiasm and commitment begin from learning just how marvelous this region is: Passion has to precede purpose." And there is much to marvel over. Dietrich has unearthed fascinating and unexpected facts about his subjects, and he has a gift for expressing complex information in clear and vivid language. He asks intriguing questions and makes good use of interviews with Northwest scientists and experts to convey current and historic attitudes and economic realities, and to consider where we go from here. For more information about the author go to: http://www.williamdietrich.com/
Download or read book Pathways of Learning written by David B. Kier and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the intent to present history as it really was, author David B. Kier offers a diverse collection of nineteen essays that address major and minor issues in both American and European history. Delivered from a traditionalas opposed to post-modernistpoint of view, Pathways of Learning explores a wide array of topics. Continuity and change is a familiar theme in Kiers work, as exemplified by the essay TJ and TR: A Tale of Two Revolutionaries, which compares and contrasts Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. Politics and ideology are the subjects of the essay The Nasty Nineties, which focuses on America at the end of the twentieth century. Intellectual currents are highlighted in essays about farmers in Populism as Parable and writers in The Impact of the Lost Generation. The influence of popular culture is featured in Another Side of War: the Home Front in World War II. Informative, entertaining, and frequently provocative, Pathways of Learning communicates the important role history plays in the world through varied and descriptive essays.
Download or read book Ecology Against Capitalism written by John Bellamy Foster and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of reference in ecological debates. This historical and philosophical focus is now supplemented by more directly political engagement in his new book, Ecology against Capitalism. In a broad-ranging treatment of contemporary ecological politics, Foster deals with such issues as pollution, sustainable development, technological responses to environmental crisis, population growth, soil fertility, the preservation of ancient forests, and the "new economy" of the Internet age. Foster's introduction sets out the unifying themes of these essays enabling the reader to draw from them a consolidated approach to a rapidly-expanding field of debate which is of critical importance in our times. Within these debates on the politics of ecology, Foster's work develops an important and distinctive perspective. Where many of these debates assume a basic divergence of "red" and "green" issues, and are concerned with the exact terms of a trade-off between them, Foster argues that Marxismproperly understoodalready provides the framework within which ecological questions are best approached. This perspective is advanced here in accessible and concrete form, taking account of the major positions in contemporary ecological debate.
Download or read book The Art of Gravity written by Jay Rogoff and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Balanchine, one of the twentieth century's foremost choreographers, strove to make music visible through dance. In The Art of Gravity, Jay Rogoff extends this alchemy into poetry, discovering in dancing -- from visionary ballets to Lindy-hopping at a drunken party -- the secret rhythms of our imaginations and the patterns of our lives. The poems unfold in a rich variety of forms, both traditional and experimental. Some focus on how Edgar Degas's paintings expose the artifice and artistic self-consciousness of ballet while, paradoxically, illuminating how it creates rapture. Others investigate dance's translation of physical gesture into allegorical mystery, especially in Balanchine's matchless works. Rogoff pays tribute to superb dancers who grant audiences seductive glimpses of the sublime and to all of us who find in dance a redemptive image of ourselves. The poet reveals dance as an "art of gravity" in the illusory weightlessness of a "dance that ends in mid-air," in the clumsiness of a Latin dance class's members "trip- / ping over each other in the high school / gym," and in the exploration of ultimate Gravity -- a sonnet sequence titled "Danses Macabres." Ultimately, Rogoff confronts with unflinching precision the dark consummation of all our dancing.
Download or read book The Last Wild Edge written by Susan Zwinger and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northwestern edge of North America is a final edge to settle on a finite planet. Where does mankind go from here? Where else have we not settled, altered, and consumed? Author Susan Zwinger suspects that we have saved this wild edge for last because its geography is punched, exploded, ground, and drenched. Its forest of enormous trees once created a boundary difficult to penetrate, let alone farm. Yet, today this wildness is under threat, as civilization bores its way into even this remote edge.
Download or read book Logging the Globe written by M. Patricia Marchak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of industrial forestry in the southern hemisphere and the restructuring of forestry in the northern hemisphere, the industry is undergoing tremendous change. Logging the Globe investigates the transformations that are taking place and their ecological, social, and economic impact.
