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Book Where We Land

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  • Author : Tim Jones
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781988595023
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Where We Land written by Tim Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Zealand Navy frigate torpedoes a boat full of refugees fleeing a drowning country and Nasimul Rahman is one of the few survivors. First he has to reach the shore alive and then he has to avoid the trigger-happy Shore Patrol, on alert to stop climate change refugees entering the country. Donna is new to the Patrol. When word comes through that the Navy has sunk a ship full of infiltrators and survivors might be making their way ashore, it sounds like she might get to see some action. A tale of desperation and betrayal on a shrinking shore in the not too distant future.

Book We Are the Land

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  • Author : Damon B. Akins
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 0520976886
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book We Are the Land written by Damon B. Akins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.

Book The Land We Love

Download or read book The Land We Love written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book We Are the Land

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  • Author : Damon B. Akins
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-02
  • ISBN : 0520280504
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book We Are the Land written by Damon B. Akins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- A people of the land, a land for the people : Yuma -- Beach encounters : indigenous people and the age of exploration, 1540-1769 : San Diego -- "Our country before the Fernandino arrived was a forest" : native towns and Spanish missions in colonial California, 1769-1810 : Rome -- Working the land : entrepreneurial Indians and the markets of power, 1811-1849 : Sacramento -- "The white man would spoil everything" : indigenous people and the California gold rush, 1846-1873 : Ukiah -- Working for land: rancherias, reservations, and labor, 1870-1904 : Ishi Wilderness -- Friends and enemies : reframing progress, and fighting for sovereignty, 1905-1928 : Riverside -- Becoming the Indians of California : reorganization and justice, 1928-1954 : Los Angeles -- Reoccupying California : resistance and reclaiming the land, 1953-1985 : Berkeley and the East Bay -- Returning to the land : sovereignty, self-determination and revitalization since -- Conclusion : returns

Book We Belong to the Land

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  • Author : Elias Chacour
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2015-11-15
  • ISBN : 0268077096
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book We Belong to the Land written by Elias Chacour and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Belong to the Land, the gripping autobiography of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elias Chacour, capture his life's work toward peace and reconciliation for Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, world-renowned Palestinian priest, Elias Chacour, narrates the gripping story of his life spent working to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village and his work as a priest in Galilee to his efforts to build school, libraries, and summer camps for children of all religions, this peacemaker’s moving story brings hope to one of the most complex struggles of our time.

Book The Land We Share

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  • Author : Eric T. Freyfogle
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2003-08-08
  • ISBN : 9781610912402
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The Land We Share written by Eric T. Freyfogle and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it better understood in more collective terms, as an institution that communities reshape over time to promote evolving goals? What should it mean to be a private landowner in an age of sprawling growth and declining biological diversity? These provocative questions lie at the heart of this perceptive and wide-ranging new book by legal scholar and conservationist Eric Freyfogle. Bringing together insights from history, law, philosophy, and ecology, Freyfogle undertakes a fascinating inquiry into the ownership of nature, leading us behind publicized and contentious disputes over open-space regulation, wetlands protection, and wildlife habitat to reveal the foundations of and changing ideas about private ownership in America. Drawing upon ideas from Thomas Jefferson, Henry George, and Aldo Leopold and interweaving engaging accounts of actual disputes over land-use issues, Freyfogle develops a powerful vision of what private ownership in America could mean—an ownership system, fair to owners and taxpayers alike, that fosters healthy land and healthy economies.

Book The Land We Live in  Scotland  Ireland and the Devonshire coast

Download or read book The Land We Live in Scotland Ireland and the Devonshire coast written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clap When You Land

Download or read book Clap When You Land written by Elizabeth Acevedo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. Great for summer reading or anytime! Clap When You Land is a Today show pick for “25 children’s books your kids and teens won’t be able to put down this summer!" Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X and With the Fire on High!

Book The land we live in  a pictorial and literary sketch book of the British empire

Download or read book The land we live in a pictorial and literary sketch book of the British empire written by British empire and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knight s Tourist s companion through the land we live in

Download or read book Knight s Tourist s companion through the land we live in written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land We Live in  The Midland counties and the East coast of England

Download or read book The Land We Live in The Midland counties and the East coast of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land We Live in

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  • Author : Charles Augustus Goodrich
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 908 pages

Download or read book The Land We Live in written by Charles Augustus Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Concordance of the Proper Names in the Holy Scriptures

Download or read book A Concordance of the Proper Names in the Holy Scriptures written by Thomas David Williams and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ill Fares the Land

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  • Author : Tony Judt
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2010-03-18
  • ISBN : 1101223707
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Ill Fares the Land written by Tony Judt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America - the guarantee of a basal level of security, stability and fairness -- is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it's no longer part of the common discourse. Judt offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, we must look to our not so distant past and to social democracy in action: to re-enshrining fairness over mere efficiency. Distinctly absent from our national dialogue, social democrats believe that the state can play an enhanced role in our lives without threatening our liberties. Instead of placing blind faith in the market-as we have to our detriment for the past thirty years-social democrats entrust their fellow citizens and the state itself. Ill Fares the Land challenges us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in. For hope remains. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt reinvigorates our political conversation, providing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance, a new way of life.

Book The Land We Live in

Download or read book The Land We Live in written by Henry Mann and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living on the Land

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  • Author : Nathalie Kermoal
  • Publisher : Athabasca University Press
  • Release : 2016-07-04
  • ISBN : 1771990414
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Living on the Land written by Nathalie Kermoal and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to Living on the Land explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships, both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape. The authors discuss the integral role of women as stewards of the land and governors of the community and points to a distinctive set of challenges and possibilities for Indigenous women and their communities.