A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness

• Author : Frederic Cople Jaher
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 23 March 1994

Home to nearly one-half of the world's Jews, America also harbours its share of anti-Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility and no national church, the questions arise of how anti-Semitism became a presence in America, and how did America's beginnings and history affect the course of this bigotry?

• Author : Diane Cook
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 30 July 2020

'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel 'brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St. John Mandel) Longlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award 2022 A Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the Year A 'Best Book of the Year 2020' according to BBC Culture * An Irish Times Best Debut Fiction of 2020 Bea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog

• Author : Diane Cook
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 11 August 2020

A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children.” — Washington Post "5 of 5 stars. Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what people are capable of when they want to survive in both

• Author : Diane Cook
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 07 October 2014

“Astonishing. . . . The stories are surreal, with the sharpest edge and in one way or another, each story reveals something raw and powerful about being human in a world where so little is in our control.” — Roxane Gay A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the

• Author : Wendy Harding
• Publisher : University of Iowa Press
• Release : 01 October 2014

"In Under the Sign of Empty, Wendy Harding adopts a transdisciplinary perspective that draws on the theories of geographers, historians, sociologists, and philosophers to understand the reasons for the enduring perception of emptiness in the American landscape. In doing so, she identifies a recent trend in the literature of place that corrects the misperceptions resulting from this trope"--

• Author : Wayne P. Van Meter
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1985

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1985

• Author : Jiří Anděl,Ivan Bičík,Petr Dostál,Zdeněk Lipský,Siamak G. Shahneshin
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 11 April 2010

Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing damaged ecosystems on the one hand, and finding effective ways to use the landscape on the other. The discipline has the specific goal of designing and assessing future scenarios of landscape development, while not losing sight

• Author : Randall K. Wilson
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release : 25 February 2020

How it is that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America’s public land system. The result is a

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1985

• Author : Regis A. Duffy OFM
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 01 April 2010

A penetrating study of the impact of culture on the Catholic Church in the U.S., and the importance of the Church to the culture. "Emmaus," writes the author, "is not only the name of a town in the gospel of Luke. It is also a state of mind." He portrays the American Emmaus as an ongoing conversion walk of twentieth-century Christians who attempt to recognize the crucified and risen Christ within the complex and pluralistic cultures of the United

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1968

• Author : Samuel P. Hays
• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• Release : 23 March 2023

An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present—with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1967

Considers S. 1321, to establish the North Cascades National Park and Ross Lake National Recreation Area, to designate the Pasayten Wilderness, and to expand the Glacier Peak Wilderness, in Washington State. May 25 hearing was held in Seattle, Wash., May 27 hearing in Mount Vernon, Wash., and May 29 hearing in Wenatchee, Wash.

• Author : Stefan Körner
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 23 March 2023

This book provides a first overview of the phemonemon of post-industrial urban wilderness: urban landscapes once shaped by heavy industry that are being re-colonized naturally by forests. These new types of urban woodlands are often overlooked by ecologists, foresters and planners. Individual chapters consider urban woodlands from the perspectives of ecology, environmental sociology, forestry, nature conservation and landscape architecture.