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Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category)
Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence
(Communications Category) The Renewable Energy Landscape is a
definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and
minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to a more renewable
energy future. It focuses attention, for the first time, on the
unique challenges solar, wind, and geothermal energy will create
for landscape protection, planning, design, and management. Topics
addressed include: Policies aimed at managing scenic impacts from
renewable energy development and their social acceptance within
North America, Europe and Australia Visual characteristics of
energy facilities, including the design and planning techniques for
avoiding or mitigating impacts or improving visual fit Methods of
assessing visual impacts or energy projects and the best practices
for creating and using visual simulations Policy recommendations
for political and regulatory bodies. A comprehensive and practical
book, The Renewable Energy Landscape is an essential resource for
those engaged in planning, designing, or regulating the impacts of
these new, critical energy sources, as well as a resource for
communities that may be facing the prospect of development in their
local landscape.
Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or
broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of
environmental, social, and economic challenges. This collection
explores the `work' that plants do in contemporary capitalism,
examining how vegetal life is enrolled in processes of value
creation, social reproduction, and capital accumulation. Bringing
together insights from geography, anthropology, and the
environmental humanities, the contributors contend that attention
to the diverse capacities and agencies of plants can both enrich
understandings of capitalist economies, and also catalyze new forms
of resistance to their logics.
In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters
more sinister, sadistic, and deeply demented than Baron
Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic whose penchant for
Eastern mysticism and hatred of communists foreshadowed the Nazi
scourge that would soon overtake Europe, Ungern- Sternberg
conquered Mongolia in 1919 with a ragtag force of White Russians,
Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians. In "The Bloody White
Baron," historian and travel writer James Palmer vividly re-creates
Ungern-Sternberg's spiral into ever-darker obsessions, while also
providing a rare look at the religion and culture of the
unfortunate Mongolians he briefly ruled.
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Warren James Palmer
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This volume collects all of the new pulp and weird fiction of James
Palmer (2014 New Pulp Award nominee for Best Short Story) to date,
including work from such popular anthologies as Gideon Cain,
Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars, and Monster Earth. Within these pages
you will find everything from weird menace tales in the style of
Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft to swashbuckling sword and
sorcery to far flung future science fiction. Action heroes rub
elbows with strange creatures as: A 40's private eye must retrieve
a powerful magic ring before it falls into the hands of the local
mob. A daring space ace confronts a cosmic mystery aboard a
derelict starship. A young journalist must fend off a frightening
alien invasion threatening his small town. A sword-slinging Puritan
stalks a fallen angel in witch-haunted Colonial America. An
American general fights evil on a post-apocalyptic Mars. All this
and more await you in... Into the Weird Over 400 pages of
pulse-pounding pulp action from the editor and co-creator of
Monster Earth and Betrayal on Monster Earth
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