Download or read book Green Lands for White Men written by Meredith McKittrick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari’s basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority. Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a Black population. Meredith McKittrick’s timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. While Schwarz’s plan was never implemented, it enjoyed sufficient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite. A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.

Download or read book Trouble in the Green Lands written by J. Houser and published by Painted Wings Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game is Changing. It’s been three years since Saff made the life-changing decision to embrace her Seeder nature and move to the Green Lands. She loves her job, her husband, her Seeder family, and everything about this enchanting new realm. Life couldn’t be more perfect. Except for the disturbing new war tactics displayed by their enemies, the Ivies. Rachel's senior year in high school is anything but typical. Discovering her true identity as a Seeder means learning new abilities, hiding from Ivy assassins, and preparing to leave the human world behind. But something's not right with her powers, causing crippling self-doubt and leading her to make unlikely allies. Rachel's ready to join the rebellion, helping to put an end to centuries of unrest amongst the green folk. But people and promises are rarely as they seem in a war filled with secrets and misdirects. Far from being on the same page, Rachel and her new mentor, Saff, realize they can only take the needed leap of faith by trusting each other. The ultimate goal for them both is to stay alive, find out who they can trust, and just maybe, if they can manage that, they can stop a never-ending war.

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Download or read book Green Unpleasant Land written by Corinne Fowler and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside's repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class and gender have both created and deconstructed England's pastoral mythologies. In particular, the book argues that Black and British Asian writers have challenged narrow, nostalgic views of rural England but also expressed attachment to English landscapes and the natural world.

Download or read book Green Infrastructure written by Mark A. Benedict and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructure helps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people, and determine which use makes the most sense. In this wide-ranging primer, leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for planners, designers, landscape architects, and citizen activists.

Download or read book The Boardgamer Volume 7 written by Bruce A. Monnin and published by Past Into Print Publishing. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boardgamer magazine was a quarterly magazine devoted primarily, but not exclusively, to the coverage of Avalon Hill / Victory Games titles and to other aspects of the boardgaming hobby. Initially, The Boardgamer’s publication ran concurrently with Avalon Hill’s house magazine, The General, but instead of focusing on new releases, it devoted coverage to those classic, Avalon Hill games which no longer graced the pages of The General. Following the cessation of The General in June 1998, The Boardgamer was the primary periodical dedicated to the titles from AH/VG, until its final issue in 2004. The contents of this volume consists of: Color War In Gangsters - Strategies of Tournament Champions New Optional Rules For Gangsters - Bombs, Shootouts & Cops BOARDGAMER’s Special Panzerblitz Issue - Errata Blackbeard PBeM Series Replay - High Adventure on the Cyber Seas Sailing The Cyber-Seas - Blackbeard PBeM Dreams Of Empire - Freedom In The Galaxy Revisited Poland On A Budget - An Alternate Opening In 4th Edition Third Reich Saratoga Campaign - A Revised 1776 Scenario A New “Young Kid” Is On The Horizon - Conquest 2001 Victory In The Pacific Report War And Peace - Question Box Yom Kipper - A Scenario For Flashpoint: Golan Solving The Polish Problem - Alternative Opening Attacks For Third Reich 4th Ed Common Errors In The Play Of Gunslinger - A Schizophrenic Look The Showdowns Of Gunslinger - Analysis Of Showdown #5: The Ambush What Are Those Indians Doing In My Backyard? - An Analysis Of Gunslinger Showdown #6: The Raid The Australian Strategy - Another Path To IJN Dominance In Victory In The Pacific Atlantic Fleet - Variant For Victory In The Pacific Great Thoroughbreds Of The Past - More Races For Win Place & Show Rules Clarifications For Dune Tokyo Express Clarifications - Question Box A Gunnery Facing Device - For Jutland Insert: Countersheet for Flashpoint: Golan Variant Scenario New Scenarios For Israeli Defense Force - Also Errata For IDF Italy On A Budget - Early Italian Play In 4th Edition Third Reich Third Reich Workshop - A Little Quiz I Joins dah Mob. Whattah I Do Now? - Strategies For Gangsters In The King's Service - An Addition To Down With The King Handicapping The 2002-2003 Caesar Awards - Who Will Wear The Laurels? 2002 Masters - Augusta Course Updated Inserts: Pro Golf Course Booklets for Arrowhead Park, Augusta National, Blackhawk, Eagle Sticks, Jamaica Run, and Muirfield Village Panzerblitz and Panzer Leader - Random Design Your Own Scenario Methodology A Bomber's Moon - And Other Sundry Items, A B-17 Variant 2002 March Madness Sweet Sixteen - Men's and Women's Teams The Quick And The Dead - Six-Player Replay of Gunslinger New Optional Rules - For Fortress Europa Winter War 29 - A Weekend At The Races The Last Campaign - Yorktown - 1781 (An Updated 1776 Scenario) Midwest Open 2002 - Victory In The Pacific Tournament

Download or read book The Distant Lands written by Julien Green and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Julian Green's autobiography. "A compelling drama of the 1850s South. . . A delicious immersion into time and place." -Booklist. "There lurks in the shade of each magnolia and is heard rustling in every crinoline the South's impendin

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Download or read book Design Nature V written by Angelo Carpi and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the onward march of science and technology, and the continuing quest for improvement, there is a growing curiosity about the world around us. Close examination of structures in nature can be rewarding and surprising Nature has shown an extraordinary capacity to develop dynamic structures and systems over many millions of years and there is still much to be learnt. Aimed at providing researchers in this subject with fresh impetus and inspiration, this book consists of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Design and Nature. The contributions reflect the rich variety of work currently taking place around the world and cover the following topics: Nature and Architecture; Mechanics in Nature; Natural Materials and Processing; Solutions from Nature; Biomimetics; Biomimetics and Bioinspiration; Biocapacity; Education in Design and Nature, and Helical Design in Nature.

Download or read book The Heir of Exile written by J. Houser and published by Painted Wings Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation ~ Redemption ~ Revenge Leah never understood why her mom and aunt made them move so much. Or why her family of freaks could extend vines from their wrists. After getting caught shoplifting, again, Leah is forced to start over in a new town and high school. The friends she makes bring her understanding of the world around her crashing down. They’re like her. And they aren’t … human. Digging deeper, Leah finds the answers her mom kept from her all these years. Her dad didn’t die in a tragic accident. He was a king, murdered by his sister to steal his throne. Fleeing a besieged palace and pregnant with Leah, her mom turned to the human world, where they were forced to live in hiding. Wanting justice for her parents and the kingdom they once ruled over, and yearning to know how it feels to be amongst people like herself in a realm flooded with energy, Leah forms a plan. Her ticket to learning how to enter the Green Lands, how to use her powers, and how to get in close proximity to the murderous queen—is one of her new friends. He may be handsome and sweet, but Leah’s objective is clear. Date him. Get an invite to his brother’s wedding, which the queen will be attending. Take care of business. The queen has to die.

Download or read book Sustainable Development and Planning VII written by Ö. Özçevik and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 1147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the seventh in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in 2003. Organised by the Wessex Institute, the conference series provides a common forum for all scientists specialising in the range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning. In order to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without compromising future generations, planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers, and economists must work together The use of modern technologies in planning gives us new potential to monitor and prevent environmental degradation. In recent years, in many countries an increase in spatial problems has led to planning crises. Planning problems are often associated with uneven development, deterioration of the quality of urban life, and destruction of the environment. The increasing urbanisation of the world, coupled with the global issues of environmental pollution, resource shortage, and economic restructuring, demand that we ensure a decent quality of life for our cities. Other environments, such as rural areas, forests, coastal regions, and mountains, face their own problems that urgently require solutions in order to avoid irreversible damage. Effective strategies for management should consider planning and regional development, two closely related disciplines, and emphasise the demand to handle these matters in an integrated way. The papers in the book cover such topics as: Regional Planning; City Planning; Sustainability and the Built Environment; Cultural Heritage; Environmental Management; Environmental Policies and Planning; Sustainable Tourism; Resources Management; Social and Political Issues; Rural Developments; Sustainable Solutions in Emerging Countries; Transportation; Energy Resources; Environmental Economics; Sustainable Assessment; Sustainable Development Indicators; Sustainability Modelling; Governance; Resilience; Community Planning; Planning for Equality; Quality of Life.

Download or read book Seeder Wars Omnibus written by J. Houser and published by Painted Wings Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where botanical beings with unique powers hide their young amidst unknowing humans, two high schoolers find themselves at the center of a never-ending war that threatens to destroy everything they hold dear. With spies and assassins lurking around every corner, Mel and Rachel are forced to play a dangerous game of secret identities and questionable alliances to protect themselves and the ones they love. As the war intensifies, they must navigate a web of lies, propaganda, and betrayal, all the while searching for lost secrets that could end the bloodshed. With its heartwarming blend of family, friendship, and romance, this young adult fantasy trilogy will take you on a thrilling journey through the modern human world and an alternate realm of botanical wonders. This Omnibus includes all three books in the Seeder Wars Trilogy: Book 1—Seeder Shadow Wars Book 2—Trouble in the Green Lands Book 3—Unitas: Trio Bonus scenes also included: Story 1.5—The Return & Question Story 2.5—Kaylah's Chronicles Featuring illustrations and annotations by the author.

Download or read book An Ocean without Charts written by Jonathan Edward Feinstein and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters Raff and Emblem Cawlens, Kazani Basan and Chanya Sanai continue their chase after rogue Wayfarer Julian d'Alere across the Bright Ocean through lands few if, any explorers, have yet visited and discover a far broader conspiracy than expected.

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Download or read book The Thresholds of Innocence written by Cyrus Shahrzad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITHIN ALL THAT HARSH REALITY, A LOVE BLOOMS THAT TAKES OVER ALL THE PATRIOTIC FERVOR AND THE DEEP LOVE FOR THE MOTHER LAND. A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER, A LOVE THAT DRAWS THE LINES OF HIS FUTURE HIS DEEP LOVE FOR JUST BEING A FREE MAN TAKES HIM TO THE LAND OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY. THIS IS THE STORY OF ALMOST ALL OF US. STORY OF US NEW GENERATION AMERICANS WHO HAVE COME HOME TO BE FREE. THIS LOVE STORY IS THE LOVE OF ALL WHO PREFERRED TO BE FREE THAN BEING AT THE MERCY OF PATRIOTISM UNDER DICTATORSHIP.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability written by Robert Brinkmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 2585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of sustainability continues to evolve as a discipline. The world is facing multiple sustainability challenges such as climate change, water depletion, ecosystem loss, and environmental racism. The Handbook of Sustainability will provide a comprehensive reference for the field that examines in depth the major themes within what are known as the three E’s of sustainability: environment, equity, and economics. These three themes will serve as the main organizing body of the work. In addition, the work will include sections on history and sustainability, major figures in the development of sustainability as a discipline, and important organizations that contributed or that continue to contribute to sustainability as a field. The work is explicitly global in scope as it considers the very different issues associated with sustainability in the global north and south

Download or read book The Logos Reader written by Stephen Eric Bronner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 2002, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture was established in response to the increasing erosion of a left political culture and the new possibilities for international political engagement and cooperation produced by the Internet. Many of the best known intellectual representatives of what might be termed a "rational radicalism" soon served as the core group for this new online journal that has reached about four million readers. The Logos Reader brings together the most influential and controversial work to appear in the journal. In its pages, writers of exceptional stature such as Stanley Aronowitz, Ulrich Beck, Drucilla Cornell, Fred Dallmayr, J?rgen Habermas, Douglas Kellner, and Eric Rouleau articulate liberal and socialist values even as they retain theoretical viewpoints influenced by critical theory. The contributors deal with some of the most pressing political issues of our age, including transnational developments, U.S. foreign policy, the Iraqi War, the plight of the Palestinians, and the domestic concerns currently dominating American politics. With themes that speak to the most pertinent and enduring issues of a post-9/11 culture, the essays in The Logos Reader represent the best of modern liberal thought and will influence contemporary political discourse.