Download or read book Nourishing Waters Comforting Sky written by Stephen R. Jones and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing owls, and long-billed curlews. The native grasses grow greener as the cattle grow fatter. Throughout the region, river otters and mink swim in streams nourished by springs bubbling up from the High Plains (Ogallala) aquifer. Over years of close observation, Stephen R. Jones has gotten to know the Nebraska Sandhills--the twenty-thousand-square-mile expanse of stunning prairie and thriving wetlands. He has felt the warm breath of a white-tailed doe guarding her spotted fawn, learned to communicate with a family of long-eared owls, and developed an improbable hiking relationship with a wild turkey. He has documented a breeding bird population that is growing more diverse and witnessed the long-awaited return of nesting trumpeter swans. These personal stories, accompanied by words of insight from Native American leaders, Sandhills ranchers, and grassland ecologists, help us envision a quiet relationship with the natural world.
Download or read book Nourishing Waters Comforting Sky written by Stephen R. Jones and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen R. Jones’s essays explore the natural and cultural history of the Sandhills, giving special attention to the engaging and fragile beauty of the public-private ecosystems that surround and comprise the Crescent Lake National Wildlife area in western Nebraska.
Download or read book The Nebraska Sandhills written by Monica M. Norby and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly forty essays about the history, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, supplemented by numerous remarkable photos of the region"--
Download or read book The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands written by David Thomas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated atlas of the world’s deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environments Deserts and drylands account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet. Characterized by a lack of water and extreme temperatures, they are the result of atmospheric stability, large landmass characteristics, rain shadows, and cold ocean currents. They appear harsh and hostile, but deserts and drylands are also exceptionally beautiful environments. Desert ecosystems often teem with diverse forms of life that exhibit astonishing ingenuity in the face of such forbidding conditions. The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands takes readers on a guided tour of some of the most awe-inspiring desert environments on Earth, explaining their environmental and ecological dynamics and describing the techniques used to categorize and map them. From the ever-expanding Gobi of Mongolia and China to the ancient Namib of coastal Africa, this is the ultimate reference book for deserts. Features a wealth of color photos, maps, and infographics Describes the resilient and complex biodiversity of the world’s desert and dryland terrains Covers subtropical deserts, continental deserts, rain shadow deserts, and ocean margin deserts Addresses the challenges posed by global warming and human activity, and discusses solutions and opportunities Written by a team of leading experts
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Download or read book The Last Prairie written by Stephen R. Jones and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-author of "The Shortgrass Prairie" paints a startlingly vivid portrait of the Nebraska Sandhills as he delivers riveting accounts of the flora, fauna, wildlife, and rich cultural history of the region.
Download or read book Stir Frying to the Sky s Edge written by Grace Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for International Cooking, this is the authoritative guide to stir-frying: the cooking technique that makes less seem like more, extends small amounts of food to feed many, and makes ingredients their most tender and delicious. The stir-fry is all things: refined, improvisational, adaptable, and inventive. The technique and tradition of stir-frying, which is at once simple yet subtly complex, is as vital today as it has been for hundreds of years—and is the key to quick and tasty meals. In Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, award-winning author Grace Young shares more than 100 classic stir-fry recipes that sizzle with heat and pop with flavor, from the great Cantonese stir-fry masters to the culinary customs of Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as other countries around the world. With more than eighty stunning full-color photographs, Young’s definitive work illustrates the innumerable, easy-to-learn possibilities the technique offers—dry stir-fries, moist stir-fries, clear stir-fries, velvet stir-fries—and weaves the insights of Chinese cooking philosophy into the preparation of beloved dishes as Kung Pao Chicken, Stir-Fried Beef and Broccoli, Chicken Lo Mein with Ginger Mushrooms, and Dry-Fried Sichuan Beans.
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Download or read book The Millennial New World written by Frank Graziano and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of millennialism - the idea that something climactic will happen in the year 2000 - in Latin America, from the pre-Columbian period up to the present.
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Download or read book NET Bible Full notes Edition Cloth over Board Gray Comfort Print written by Zondervan, and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 2450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don’t need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect with the ancient words and cultural contexts of the biblical writers. The NET offers a completely new solution: pairing a readable, everyday English translation with the largest set of translators’ notes ever created for a Bible. The NET’s 60,000 notes bring complete transparency to every major translation decision and invite you to look over the translators’ shoulders, allowing you to come to your own understanding of the Scriptures. It is an indispensable resource for every Bible reader. Features include: The newest complete English translation based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and scholarship A translation that explains itself—over 60,000 translators’ notes offer unprecedented transparency Full-color maps Durable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk 8.75-point print size Scripture text in Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print® typeface
Download or read book Battle Bunny written by Jon Scieszka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it into a battle between a supervillain and his enemies in the forest--who, in the original story, are simply planning a surprise party.
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Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
