Download or read book Nature s Tranquility written by and published by Creative Publishing International. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leafing through this book of thoughts, reflections and photographs gives the reader a sense of the silent beauty of pristine landscapes and pure waters. 25 color photos.
Download or read book Nature s Resilience written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Nature's Resilience Rediscover Your Strengths in the Wild** Are you ready to embark on an unforgettable journey into the heart of nature? "Nature's Resilience" is your ultimate guide to reconnecting with the wilderness and uncovering your hidden strengths, both physical and mental. Whether you're an experienced adventurer or a curious novice, this eBook offers a comprehensive exploration into the profound ways nature can shape and heal you. **Chapter 1 introduces you to the wild call of the great outdoors**, delving into the urge to reconnect with nature and how to prepare for the transformative journey ahead. You'll learn to embrace solitude in Chapter 2, where the importance of alone time and self-reflection are emphasized. Face your fears head-on in Chapter 3 with techniques for building confidence and heartwarming stories of triumph. Chapter 4 guides you through the essentials of building physical resilience, from enduring challenges to nutrition and sustenance in the wild. Mental toughness is the focus of Chapter 5, offering coping strategies, mindfulness techniques, and visualization exercises. Find inner peace in Chapter 6 with meditation tips and the healing power of silence that nature provides. Chapter 7 teaches you to learn valuable lessons from the landscape, adapting to seasonal changes, and discovering the wisdom of mountains and rivers. Get hands-on with wilderness survival skills in Chapter 8, mastering fire-making, shelter building, and water purification. Chapter 9 helps you build trust in yourself by listening to your instincts and celebrating small victories. Deepen your connection with the natural world through observation in Chapter 10, as you learn from wildlife, plant life, and weather patterns. Chapter 11 focuses on reconnecting with your community by sharing experiences and inspiring others through storytelling. As you journey back home in Chapter 12, apply the lessons you've learned to foster personal growth and rebuild with a new perspective. Discover nature's teachings of patience, simplicity, and renewal in Chapter 13. Strengthen your bonds with group expeditions in Chapter 14 and navigate any conflicts that arise. Finally, Chapter 15 sets the stage for your ongoing journey, encouraging you to set new goals and inspire continuous growth. "Nature's Resilience" is more than just an eBook—it’s a testament to the unbreakable bond between humanity and the natural world. Ready to discover the wilderness within? Order your copy today and take the first step towards embracing the resilience of nature.
Download or read book Troubled Natures written by Peter Wynn Kirby and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does "environment" really mean in the complex, non-Western milieu of present-day Tokyo? How can anthropology contribute to the technical discussions and quantitative measures typically found in environmental studies? Author Peter Wynn Kirby explores these questions through a deep cultural analysis of waste in contemporary Japan. His parameters are intentionally broad—encompassing ideas of "nature," attitudes toward hygiene, notions of health and illness, problems with vermin and toxic waste, processes of social exclusion, and reproductive threats. Troubled Natures concludes that how surroundings are conceived, invoked, and enacted is subjective, highly contextual, and under continual negotiation—with suggestive implications for anthropology, social science, and environmental studies generally. Kirby casts his anthropological lens over two Tokyo neighborhoods, comparing environmental consciousness and conduct in communities facing specific toxic threats (real or perceived). In each fieldsite, the tension between lofty rhetoric and daily practices helps highlight the practical ambivalence of Japanese environmental consciousness. Waste practices and ideas of pollution in Tokyo tie clearly into broader social issues such as exclusionary practices, emergent lifestyle changes, recycling efforts, and novel forms of energy production. Throughout, waste and environmental health problems in Tokyo collide against diverse cultural elements linked to nature(s)—uneasy relations between animals and humans; "native" conceptions of the "foreign" and the "polluted"; reproductive challenges in the face of a plunging fertility rate; and changing attitudes toward illness and health. The book’s thoughtful inquiry into the ways in which environmental questions circulate throughout Japanese society furnishes insight into central elements of contemporary Japanese life. As for the pivotal question of how to shape environmental policy internationally, Troubled Natures reminds us that efforts to influence a society’s waste shadow must unfold over a distinctive sociocultural topography where attitudes to garbage, health, purity, pollution, and excess can impact environmental priorities in profound ways.
Download or read book Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood written by Affrica Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education. Through adopting a common worlds framework, Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood generates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as: messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent; situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal; entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space. Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers.
Download or read book Nature s Man written by Maurizio Valsania and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars have adequately covered Thomas Jefferson’s general ideas about human nature and race, this is the first book to examine what Maurizio Valsania terms Jefferson’s "philosophical anthropology"—philosophical in the sense that he concerned himself not with describing how humans are, culturally or otherwise, but with the kind of human being Jefferson thought he was, wanted to become, and wished for citizens to be for the future of the United States. Valsania’s exploration of this philosophical anthropology touches on Jefferson’s concepts of nationalism, slavery, gender roles, modernity, affiliation, and community. More than that, Nature's Man shows how Jefferson could advocate equality and yet control and own other human beings. A humanist who asserted the right of all people to personal fulfillment, Jefferson nevertheless had a complex philosophy that also acknowledged the dynamism of nature and the limits of human imagination. Despite Jefferson's famous advocacy of apparently individualistic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Valsania argues that both Jefferson's yearning for the human individual to become something good and his fear that this hypothetical being would turn into something bad were rooted in a specific form of communitarianism. Absorbing and responding to certain moral-philosophical currents in Europe, Jefferson’s nature-infused vision underscored the connection between the individual and the community.
Download or read book The Unfolding of The Seasons written by Ralph Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation and evaluation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons. Professor Cohen urges its reconsideration as a major Augustan poem, arguing that Thomson’s unity, diction and thought combine with a conception of man, nature and God which is poetically tenable and distinctive. The case for The Seasons as an important work of art depends upon its effectiveness as a moving vision of human experience, and Professor Cohen believes that many critics have not felt this effectiveness because they have misconceived Thomson’s vision and misunderstood his idiom. His study aims to persuade them to return to the poem and to examine it within the context of an Augustan tradition. Professor Cohen shows that Thomson’s great achievement is to have fashioned a conception which, by bringing nature to the forefront of his poem, became a new poetic way of defining human experience. Thomson was not the first nature poet in English, but he was the first to provide an effective idiom in which science, orthodox religion, natural description, and classical allusions blended to describe the glory, baseness and uncertainty of man’s earthly environment, holding forth the hope of heavenly love and wisdom. This study shows that Thomson found a personal idiom by means of which he created an artistic vision. It will appeal to those with an interest in English literature and in philosophy.
Download or read book Vasubandhu s Three Natures written by Ben Connelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ben Connelly shows the power of integrating early Buddhist psychology with the Mahayana emphasis on collective liberation. You’ll discover how wisdom from fourth-century India can be harnessed to heal and transform systems of harm within ourselves and our communities. The three natures (svabhavas)—the imaginary, dependent, and complete, realized natures—are inherent aspects of all phenomena. The imaginary nature of things is what we think they are. Their dependent nature is that they appear to arise from countless conditions. The complete, realized nature is that they aren’t as we imagine them to be: things that can be grasped or pushed away. The three natures form the backbone of Yogacara philosophy, and by showing us how to see beyond our preconceived notions of ourselves and others, beyond the things that we’re convinced are “true,” they open up a path to personal and communal healing. Dive into this empowering approach to freedom from suffering, from harmful personal and social patterns, and to finding peace and joyfulness in the present.
Download or read book Building Natures written by Julia Daniel and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets who capture these parks in verse explore the aesthetic principles and often failed democratic ideals embedded in the designers’ verdant architectures. The poetry of Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore foregrounds the artistry behind our most iconic green spaces. At the same time, it demonstrates how parks framed, rather than ameliorated, civic anxieties about an increasingly diverse population living and working in dense, unhealthy urban centers. Through a combination of ecocriticism, urban studies, and historical geography, Building Natures unveils the neglected urban context for seemingly natural landscapes in several modernist poems, such as Moore’s "An Octopus" and Stevens’s Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, while contributing to the dismantling of the organic-mechanic divide in modernist studies and ecocriticism.
Download or read book The Still Center written by Burton Porter and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can enjoy a fulfilling life under all sorts of circumstances, finding or creating a purpose, goal or meaning for our own unique existence, and developing an appreciation for the beauty and variety of experiences and impressions life presents. Prof. Burton Porter examines our present attitudes and values, and offers signposts for a successful life. Some are consistent with our current direction; others are at variance with contemporary trends. But with full, 21st-century awareness, the author points to dimensions of human beings that can be realized to create a fulfilling existence. In so doing, he introduces readers to a wealth of poetic and literary perspectives and delivers a clear explication of a wide range of traditions in moral theory and ethics. Writing in a clear, concise way, the author invites everyone to consider how to set today’s values and sensibilities into a broader framework of thought, and to ponder how to construct a satisfying, worthy self in the midst of chaotic social changes. Along the way he quickly introduces many of the major trends of Western philosophy, great thinkers from the Ancient Greeks to today. The book shows readers how to see the relevance today of pragmatism, formalism, relativism, postmodernism, logic and sophistry, and realism vs. idealism, and modern classics such as Mills and Hume.
Download or read book PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT BY COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR HYPER IGM SYNDROME written by Edenilson Brandl and published by Edenilson Brandl. This book was released on with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the understanding of genetic disorders has advanced significantly, shedding light on the intricate interplay between our genetic makeup and psychological well-being. Among these conditions, Hyper-IgM Syndrome stands out, not only for its genetic complexities but also for the profound psychological challenges it poses to those affected and their families. This book aims to bridge the gap between genetic knowledge and psychological support, providing a comprehensive resource for individuals navigating the multifaceted journey of living with Hyper-IgM Syndrome. Hyper-IgM Syndrome is characterized by an inability to produce adequate immunoglobulin G (IgG), resulting in increased susceptibility to infections and a host of other health issues. However, the impact of this syndrome extends far beyond the physical realm. The emotional and psychological toll it takes can lead to feelings of isolation, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Recognizing this, I have dedicated this work to exploring how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can serve as an effective therapeutic approach to address these emotional challenges. The structure of this book is designed to guide readers through various dimensions of Hyper-IgM Syndrome, beginning with a foundational understanding of the condition itself. From trauma and genetic concepts to the principles of CBT, each chapter builds upon the last, creating a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing both the biological and psychological aspects of the syndrome. Throughout this book, you will find practical tools and strategies rooted in CBT that can empower individuals to manage their symptoms, navigate the complexities of their health journey, and foster resilience. Whether you are a patient, a caregiver, a healthcare professional, or someone simply seeking to understand Hyper-IgM Syndrome better, this book is intended to provide valuable insights and actionable strategies. I would like to express my gratitude to the individuals and families who have shared their stories, insights, and experiences with me. Your courage in facing the challenges of Hyper-IgM Syndrome has inspired this work and underscored the importance of a holistic approach to health that encompasses both mind and body. As you embark on this journey through the pages of this book, I encourage you to engage with the material actively. Whether through self-reflection, journaling, or applying the techniques discussed, I hope you find empowerment and support as you navigate the complexities of Hyper-IgM Syndrome and embrace the possibilities of psychological healing. Thank you for joining me on this journey toward understanding and support.
Download or read book Strange Natures written by Nicole Seymour and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.
Download or read book Lenten Soliloquies for Private and Public Use written by William Edward McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavior and the Natural Environment written by Irwin Altman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the present volume concerns people' s response to the natural environment, considered at scales varying from that of a house hold plant to that of vast wilderness areas. Our decision to focus on this particular segment of the physical environment was prompted in part by the intrinsic interest in this subject on the part of a diverse group of sodal scientists and professionals-and of laypersons, for that matter and in part by the relative neglect of this topic in standard treatments of the environment-behavior field. It also serves to bring out once again the interdisdplinary nature of that field, and we are pleased to have been able to inc1ude representatives from geography, sodology, soda! ecology, and natural recreation among our contributors. We believe that this volume will serve a useful purpose in helping to integrate the find ings and concepts in this presently somewhat fragmented field, scat tered as they are over a very diverse array of publications representing a similarly varied group of spedalties. It is hoped that the result will be to stimulate future development of this area and to add a measure of in creased coherence to it. Volume 7 of our series will be devoted to the theme of elderly people and the environment, with M. Powell Lawton joining us as guest co-editor. The titles of the papers comprising Volume 7 are shown on page v. Irwin Altman J oachim F. Wohlwill ix Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Download or read book Layers written by Drake Gaetano and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youve probably never given any thought to what life might be like for a man living and working in a womans world. However, if you were to ask G. Edwin Crandall, you might be enlightened by what he has to say. He is what a man should be:idealistic, sensible, good humored, dashing, witty, sensual, genuine, and determined.He's not your ordinary man about town. Among other things, hes an extraordinary hairstylist with an intriguing story to tell and hes not just talking shop. Even though most women find him easy to confide in, he has promises and secrets he must keep, layered with a few of his own deep dark secrets scattered here and there. Through a succession of life's lessons, Edwin embraces hisnurturingside early, discovering theres more to life than just another pretty face. Enter his world and join him forle voyage de votre vie, where the story will unfold to uncover his rise to fame, close encounters, trouble in paradise, and his ultimate realization that women with great style dont merely dazzle they inspire and can rock your world.
Download or read book Our Great Purpose written by Ryan Hanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics.
Download or read book Natures Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life In this volume there are several feigned stories of natural descriptions as comical tragical etc MS notes written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by . This book was released on 1671 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
