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Mommy Time (Hardcover)
Monique James-Duncan; Illustrated by Ebony Glenn
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In this remarkable collection of 22 essays, the award-winning
author of The River Why braids his contemplative, activist, and
rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole,
speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between
our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet. Photos.
The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed.Â
During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole
messy truth about the legacy of last century’s big dam building
binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good
government project has drifted oceans away from that original
virtuous intent. Governments plugged the nation’s rivers in a
misguided attempt to turn them into revenue streams. Water control
projects’ main legacy will be one of needless ecological
destruction, fostering a host of unnecessary injustices.
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estimated 800,000 dams in the world can’t be blamed for
destroying the earth’s entire biological inheritance, but they
play an outsized role in that destruction. Cracked: The
Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World is a kind of speed date
with the history of water control -- its dams, diversions and
canals, and just as importantly, the politics and power that
evolved with them. Examples from the American West reveal that the
costs of building and maintaining a sprawling water storage and
delivery complex in an arid world—growing increasingly arid under
the ravages of climate chaos—is well beyond the benefits
furnished. Success stories from Patagonia and the Blue Heart of
Europe point to a possible future where rivers run free and the
earth restores itself.Â
Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes
place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place
in the practice of social science and history. There is significant
interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing
together the geographical and sociological 'imaginations'. The
geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one,
concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying
them and the links between them. The sociological imagination
aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract
social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the
intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical
uses. They show that place is as important for understanding
contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also
show how the concept can provide insight into 'old' problems such
as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice.
The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept
that can 'mediate' the geographical and sociological imaginations.
Edward Said's oft cited claim that Orientalists past and present
have spun imaginary geographies where they sought ground truth, has
launched a plethora of studies of fictive geographies.
Representations often reveal more about the culture of the writer
than that of the people and places written about. Yet the study of
imaginary geographies has raised many questions about Western
writers' abilities to provide representations of foreign places;
there is now much interest in Western mis-representations of places
(imaginary geographies). This text explores the interplay between a
system of "othering" which travellers bring to a place, and the
"real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing
the tensions between the imaginary and real, James Duncan and Derek
Gregory and a team of international contributors focus primarily
upon travellers from the 18th and 19th centuries to pin down the
imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors
focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and
Europe - with the European examples being drawn from Britain,
France and Greece. This book presents a unique contribution from
geographers - with their sensit
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.
Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes
place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place
in the practice of social science and history. There is significant
interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing
together the geographical and sociological 'imaginations'. The
geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one,
concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying
them and the links between them. The sociological imagination
aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract
social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the
intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical
uses. They show that place is as important for understanding
contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also
show how the concept can provide insight into 'old' problems such
as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice.
The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept
that can 'mediate' the geographical and sociological imaginations.
A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and
throwing the faith of a young Jesuit Jesuit into crisis. A boy's
mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed
anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the
Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman
on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces
her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the
angry young man, and innumerable others. The journeys of this
unintentional menagerie carry them to the healing lands of Montana
and a newly founded community-where nothing tastes better than
Maker's Mark mixed with glacier ice, and nothing seems less likely
than the soul-filling delight a troupe of spiritual refugees, urban
sophisticates, road-weary musicians, and local cowboys begin to
find in each other's company. With Sun House, David James Duncan
continues exploring the American search for meaning and love that
he began in his acclaimed novels The River Why and The Brothers K.
When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with
brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted
readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of
the twenty- first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of
wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and
connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love,
romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a
moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle's
writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life
affords, is a balm. His essays manage to find, again and again,
exquisite beauty in the quotidian, whether it's the awe of a child
the first time she hears a river, or a husband's whiskers that a
grieving widow misses seeing in her sink every morning. Through
Doyle's eyes, nothing is dull. David James Duncan sums up Doyle's
sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian
Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to quiet glories
hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size,
renown, or commercial value, and he brought inimitably playful or
soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings." A life's
work, One Long River of Song invites readers to experience joy and
wonder in ordinary moments that become, under Doyle's rapturous and
exuberant gaze, extraordinary.
Growth Management Principles and Practices shows how to integrate
diverse growth management practices into a comprehensive system
that balances potentially competing planning goals.Authors Nelson
and Duncan argue that growth planning must be coordinated among
different levels of government and across regions in order to be
effective. Studies of growth trends, profiles of regulations in
various states, and numerous tables and photographs illustrate the
benefits of properly integrated growth management activities and
the adverse effects of unmanaged growth and poor planning. The
authors also explain how growth management fits into a broad policy
framework. They look at how growth management can protect
taxpayers, help governments plan for public facilities when and
where they're needed, distribute facility costs according to
burdens imposed and benefits receives, and protect local and
regional economic bases.
When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left
behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as
hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his
writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st
century. Though Doyle occasionally wrote about Catholic
spirituality, his writing is more broadly about the religion of
everyday things. He writes with a delightful sense of wonder about
the holiness of small things, and about love in all its forms:
spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, friendly love, love
of nature, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a time
when our world feels darker than ever, Doyle's essays are a balm
for the tired soul. He finds beauty in the quotidian: the awe of a
child the first time she hears a river, the whiskers a grieving
widow misses seeing in her sink every day -- but through his eyes,
nothing is ordinary. David James Duncan sums up Doyle's
sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian
Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to the glories
hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size or
renown, and brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or
heartfelt language to his tellings." In a time when wonder seems to
be in short supply, Your One Wild and Precious Life, Doyle and
Duncan invite readers to experience it in the most ordinary of
moments, and allow themselves joy in the smallest of things.
Growth Management Principles and Practices shows how to integrate
diverse growth management practices into a comprehensive system
that balances potentially competing planning goals.Authors Nelson
and Duncan argue that growth planning must be coordinated among
different levels of government and across regions i
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