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Beyond precipitating illness and death in a great many people
across the globe, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a diverse range of
further impacts. Among these, it has revealed that rapid
large-scale change in the behaviour of societies is possible, it
has led to inspiring stories of human endeavour (and dispiriting
stories of human greed), and it has offered a stark warning as to
the fragility of current economies. In addition, the pandemic has
provided a desperately needed opportunity for reflection on
humanity's present trajectory, a course that is destroying the
life-support systems on which we-and the innumerable species with
whom we share the Earth-depend. In this collection of new writing,
a number of the world's most exciting environmental thinkers
provide their visions for what a radically new normal could look
like in a post- Covid world. Between them, they shine a light on a
spectrum of key topics, including economics, energy, food systems,
education, climate, rewilding, animal rights, and communication.
Triggered by the Covid-19 lockdown, the author, a passionate
conservationist, finds himself drawing inspiration from goings-on
in the small back garden of his terraced suburban house, an outdoor
space that he has measured at thirteen paces long by four paces
wide. Contemplating what a love of nature really means and implies,
the author weaves a narrative of interlinked ideas that are
integral to humanity's positive cohabitation of Earth with the rest
of life.
Readers learn how to leverage human psychology and publicly
available information to attack a target. The book includes
sections on how to evade detection, spear phish, generate reports,
and protect victims to ensure their well-being. Readers learn how
to collect information about a target and how to exploit that
information to make their attacks more effective. They also learn
how to defend themselves or their workplace against social
engineering attacks.
Big Bend National Park (BBNP), Tex., covers 801,163 acres (3,242
km2) and was established in 1944 through a transfer of land from
the State of Texas to the United States. The park is located along
a 118-mile (190-km) stretch of the Rio Grande at the United
States-Mexico border. The park is in the Chihuahuan Desert, an
ecosystem with high mountain ranges and basin environments
containing a wide variety of native plants and animals, including
more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds,
56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals. In addition, the
geology of BBNP, which varies widely from high mountains to broad
open lowland basins, also enhances the beauty of the park.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
A lively, informal history of over three centuries of southern
hospitality and cuisine, Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the
South traces regional gastronomy from the sparse diet of Jamestown
settlers, who learned from necessity to eat what the Indians ate,
to the lavish corporate cocktail parties of the New South. Brimming
with memorable detail, this book by Joe Gray Taylor ranges from the
groaning plates of the great plantations, witnessed by Frederick
Law Olmsted and a great many others, to the less-than-appetizing
extreme guests often confronted in the South's nineteenth-century
inns and taverns: ""execrable coffee, rancid butter, and very
dubious meat."" Taylor describes the diet of the early pioneers,
with its corn bread, beaver-tail soup, and black bear meat, and the
creation of the South's regional cuisines, including Kentucky's
burgoo and south Louisiana's gumbo. He tells of the rounds of
visitation that were the social lifeblood of the Old South, of the
fatback and hoecake that fed plantation slaves, and of the
starvation diet of the Confederate soldier and civilian. Taylor
then looks at how technological advances and urbanization have in
some cases enhanced, but more often diluted, the southern eating
experience, and he finds that despite the introduction of fast-food
""abominations"" and factory-made horrors such as quick grits and
canned biscuits, the region's sturdy eating, drinking, and social
traditions still flourish in many byways and on some main avenues
of the modern South. In a new introduction, noted food writer John
Egerton looks at what motivated Joe Gray Taylor to undertake this
fine study and discusses how southern food studies have progressed
since the book was first released.
From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruptionextending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Longseems to have had a glamorous side. Handing the colony back and forth between their empires, the French and Spanish left a legacy that lives in such forms as the architecture of the Vieux Carré and a civil law deriving from the Napoleonic Code. Acadian refugees, German farmers, black slaves and free blacks, along with Italians, Irish, and the "Kaintucks" who helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans added to the state's distinctiveness. Made rich by sugar cane, cotton, and Mississippi River commerce before the Civil War, Louisiana faced poverty afterward. Battles between Bourbon Democrats and Reconstruction Republicans followed, ultimately involving the Custom House Ring and the Knights of the White Camellia. By methods that remain controversial, Huey Long ended "government by gentlemen" with economic transformations others had sought. Gas, oil, and industrialization have additionally "Americanized" the state. Something of Louisiana's historic joie de vivre remains, however, to the gratification of residents and visitors alike; both will enjoy Joe Gray Taylor's telling of the story.
The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse
despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness
challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action
is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades
alternative explanations of social and political inaction have
emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit
model, denialism proposes that people actively avoid unpleasant
information that threatens their established worldviews,
lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial:
Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people avoid awareness of climate
change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal
industrial complex. The contributors examine the theory of
denialism in regards to environmental pollution and animal abuse
through a range of disciplines, including social psychology,
sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural history and law.
The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse
despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness
challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action
is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades
alternative explanations of social and political inaction have
emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit
model, denialism proposes that people actively avoid unpleasant
information that threatens their established worldviews,
lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial:
Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people avoid awareness of climate
change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal
industrial complex. The contributors examine the theory of
denialism in regards to environmental pollution and animal abuse
through a range of disciplines, including social psychology,
sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and law.
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