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Book Shades of Green

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Frizzell
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997-05-15
  • ISBN : 077358188X
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Shades of Green written by Alan Frizzell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a real community of interest on the state of the environment that transcends national boundaries? An answer to this vital question will ultimately determine the success or failure of initiatives where international co-operation and co-ordination are essential, such as atmospheric or water pollution controls. Shades of Green, volume two of the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme) series, analyzes data from identical surveys conducted in 22 countries and tackles a wide range of attitudes and priorities. Expectations of government in terms of environmental protection, a comparison of Canada-U.S. results, the level of knowledge on environmental issues from country to country, the perceived role for science in solving ecological problems, and attitudinal differences between the West and states of the former Soviet Union - these issues have serious implications for the environmental movement and government policies worldwide.

Book Shades of Green

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  • Author : Ryan W. Keating
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2017-08-08
  • ISBN : 0823276619
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Shades of Green written by Ryan W. Keating and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptional book that should make an immediately positive impact on the study of Irish Americans in the Civil War.” —The Journal of Southern History Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local communities in Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin and the relationships between soldiers and the home front. Research on the impact of the Civil War on Irish Americans has traditionally fallen into one of two tracks, arguing that the Civil War either further alienated Irish immigrants from American society or that military service in defense of the Union offered these men a means of assimilation. In this study of Irish American service, Ryan W. Keating argues that neither paradigm really holds, because many Irish Americans during this time already considered themselves to be assimilated members of American society. This comprehensive study argues that the local community was often more important to ethnic soldiers than the imagined ethnic community, especially in terms of political, social, and economic relationships. An analysis of the Civil War era from this perspective provides a much clearer understanding of immigrant place and identity during the nineteenth century. The author focuses on three regiments not traditionally studied—rather than those of New York City and Boston—and supports his argument through advanced quantitative analysis of military service records and a wealth of raw data, an unusual and exciting development in Civil War studies. Shades of Green’s impressive research provides a significant contribution to scholarship sure to bring something valuable to several fields of study.

Book Inventory

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  • Author : Darran Anderson
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2020-08-04
  • ISBN : 0374716595
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Inventory written by Darran Anderson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inventory is a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology, really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his country’s hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the objects of his youth in Northern Ireland." --Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey A lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland Inventory, Darran Anderson’s searing yet tender memoir, is an interwoven tale of political conflict, trauma, history, family, and resistance. With great rhythm, humor, and sometimes painful detail, Anderson tells the story of his city and family through the objects and memories that define them. Growing up in Derry, Northern Ireland, amid the unspeakable violence of the Troubles, Anderson was accustomed to poverty and fracture. Avoiding British soldiers, IRA operatives, unexploded bombs, and stray bullets, he and his friends explored their hometown with boundless imagination and innocence despite their dire circumstances. But his parents and extended family, Catholics living in Protestant-controlled Northern Ireland, could not evade the persecution. His father joined the IRA, spent time in prison, and yearned to escape the hellish reality of the Troubles. Throughout his inventive, evocative memoir, Anderson chronicles the history of Derry’s evolution from an island backwater to a crucial Allied naval base during World War II, and the diverging paths of his two grandfathers in the wake of the American military’s arrival: one, an alcoholic army deserter, drowns in the legendary River Foyle—the river that will take the life of the grandfather’s wife years later—while the other, a smuggler, lives off the river, retrieving the bodies of the drowned. Fifteen years after leaving Derry, Anderson returns to confront the past and its legacy when yet another family member goes missing in the Foyle. In Inventory, his gripping attempt to see who, or what, he can salvage from history’s shadows, Anderson creates “a presence in the shape of an absence,” unearthing the buried fates of family, country, and self.

Book They Almost Always Come Home

Download or read book They Almost Always Come Home written by Cynthia Ruchti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist - 2011 Carol Award and 2010 RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award When Libby's husband Greg fails to return from a two-week canoe trip to the Canadian wilderness, the authorities soon write off his disappearance as an unhappy husband's escape from an empty marriage and unrewarding career. Their marriage might have survived if their daughter Lacey hadn't died . . . and if Greg hadn't been responsible. Libby enlists the aid of her wilderness savvy father-in-law and her faith-walking best friend to help her search for clues to her husband's disappearance . . . if for no other reason than to free her to move on. What the trio discovers in the search upends Libby's presumptions about her husband and rearranges her faith.

Book Dick and Jane

Download or read book Dick and Jane written by Kenneth Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing a need for pre-marriage counseling, with time to allow change, this book leads a young person to make the necessary self-changes so that when marriage looms on the horizon, the person is prepared. Marriage preparation becomes part of a life style rather than 5 intense hours of counseling.

Book Lords of Kerballa

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  • Author : John H. Underhill
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-08-28
  • ISBN : 1499067496
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Lords of Kerballa written by John H. Underhill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of Darkness is the tyrannical ruler of the western coastal city of Kerballa. In an attempt to extend his rule inland, he has kidnapped the Princess of Time and is holding her prisoner in his castle until she agrees to marry him. The young knight, Red John, is in love with the Princess. He sets out on a quest to free her accompanied by his friend Morduc, an Elven Prince. As they are crossing a river, John is swept away by a flash flood. Morduc continues on their quest alone. During that journey he meets his own true love Marianna, learns to speak Froggan, and survives a trip through dark and dangerous caverns beneath the mountains east of Kerballa. Meanwhile, a jungle tribe far downriver has saved John from the flood. He returns the favor by saving the tribe from the Monkey King. As a reward, he is offered the chief's daughter and royal rule, but declines, remaining faithful to the Princess. With Palla Nad and Yanibo, two new jungle friends, he arrives at the southern port city of Imbal where they all sign on as performers with a travelling circus. The circus docks at Kerballa on the very same day that Morduc enters the city disguised as a seedy old street magician. Both are eventually invited to perform at the castle. During their performances they succeed in rescuing the Princess just as lightning bolts begin to rain down upon the castle. The Master of Darkness is presumed dead and buried beneath the smoking rubble. Red John is elected the governor of the newly free Kerballa. In a festive wedding in the town square Red John marries the Princess, and Morduc marries his beloved Marianna.

Book 50 Shades of Green

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  • Author : Sandrine Woirnesson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 41 pages

Download or read book 50 Shades of Green written by Sandrine Woirnesson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie and her challenges as she decides to change her life around : where to live ? with whom ?

Book A Redder Shade of Green

Download or read book A Redder Shade of Green written by Ian Angus and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A socialist response to the looming ecological crisis As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and eco-socialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions. Some blame environmental disasters on overpopulation. Others wonder if Darwin’s evolutionary theories disprove Marx’s revolutionary views, or if capitalist history contradicts Anthropocene science. Some ask if all this worry about climate change and the ecosystem might lead to a “catastrophism” that weakens efforts to heal the planet. Ian Angus responds to these concerns in A Redder Shade of Green, with a fresh, insightful clarity, bringing socialist values to science, and scientific rigor to socialism. He challenges not only mainstream green thought, but also radicals who misuse or misrepresent environmental science. Angus’s argument that confronting environmental destruction requires both cutting-edge scientific research and a Marxist understanding of capitalism makes this book an essential resource in the fight to prevent environmental destruction in the 21st century.

Book A Different Shade of Green  A Biblical Approach to Environmentalism and the Dominion Mandate

Download or read book A Different Shade of Green A Biblical Approach to Environmentalism and the Dominion Mandate written by Gordon Wilson and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have been shockingly bad at using our Bibles and our brains when it comes to conservation and the environment. Unhinged environmentalism is not the answer, but neither are ignorance and apathy. It's time for something different. Christian responsibility for the natural world goes back to the very beginning, when God commanded us to "fill the earth and subdue it." This Dominion Mandate is an authoritative alternative to both environmental activists and to those who think "conservation" is a word progressives made up. So what does "dominion" mean for us, living in a world of constant reports about impending global meltdown; of oils spills, pollution, and strip-mining; of extinction threats both real and imagined? A Different Shade of Green contains a compelling Christian approach to biodiversity, life cycles, and the environment, offering solutions and correcting errors while teaching us how to give thanks for and rule over all of creation.

Book Shades of Green

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  • Author : Marjorie Green
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780952766711
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book Shades of Green written by Marjorie Green and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Color

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  • Author : Betty Edwards
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2004-09-23
  • ISBN : 1585422193
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Color written by Betty Edwards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This much-awaited new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations. Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color workshops, Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and-for those involved in art, painting, or design-how to mix and combine hues. Including more than 125 color images and exercises that move from simple to challenging, this volume explains how to: see what is really there rather than what you "know" in your mind about colored objects perceive how light affects color, and how colors affect one another manipulate hue, value, and intensity of color and transform colors into their opposites balance color in still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait painting understand the psychology of color harmonize color in your surroundings While we recognize and treasure the beautiful use of color, reproducing what we see can be a challenge. Accessibly unweaving color's complexity, this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.

Book The Practical Companion to the Work Table  Containing Selections for Knitting  Netting  and Crotchet Work

Download or read book The Practical Companion to the Work Table Containing Selections for Knitting Netting and Crotchet Work written by Mrs. Elizabeth JACKSON (of York.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mirror of Beauty

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  • Author : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2014-03-21
  • ISBN : 8184759932
  • Pages : 1325 pages

Download or read book The Mirror of Beauty written by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 1325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.

Book Advertising   Selling

Download or read book Advertising Selling written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Godey s Lady s Book

Download or read book Godey s Lady s Book written by Louis Antoine Godey and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Book Catalog

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  • Author : Sears, Roebuck and Company
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1248 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by Sears, Roebuck and Company and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: