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DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth
teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an
independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company
Globalvision. A graduate of Cornell and the London School of
Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a multiple
Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was among the first to
cover the S&L crisis. In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST was
the first to expose Wall Street's connection to subprime loans,
predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates.
Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of
nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham.
He owns no derivatives or tranches.
There are twenty-four World Heritage Sites scattered across the
United States. These U.S. World Heritage Sites are the most
important natural and cultural areas around the world; these are
the places that the United Nations, and the 167 countries it
represents, have recognized as the most important contributions to
the world’s heritage. World Heritage Sites are premier visitor
destinations, yet most people are not familiar with the World
Heritage Site designation and many of the places included on the
World Heritage List. A Guide to America's World Heritage Sites: The
Heritage of Humanity describes these twenty-four sites, including
why they are so important, the visitor attractions they feature,
and logistical advice on how to visit them.
This fully updated second edition presents a conceptual framework
of outdoor recreation management in the form of a series of
management matrices. It then illustrates this framework through new
and updated case studies in the US national parks, and concludes
with the principles of outdoor recreation management. Written by an
author team with extensive academic and practical experience in the
field of outdoor recreation, the book: - Develops and presents a
matrix-based framework of strategies and practices for managing
outdoor recreation in a sustainable way. - Illustrates application
of best management practices through a series of case studies in
diverse national parks. - Includes lecture slides and online
matrices to aid the teaching of outdoor recreation management to a
new generation. Managing Outdoor Recreation, 2nd Edition is an
essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of
parks, outdoor recreation and related subjects, as well as a
helpful tool for practitioners.
Robert Manning (died c.1338) was a Gilbertine monk from
Lincolnshire whose early English verse writings make him a notable
forerunner of Chaucer. The first part of his Chronicle or Story of
England translates into Middle English rhymed couplets Geoffrey of
Monmouth's fabulous Latin history, as retold in the Roman de Brut
of Wace, with some additions from Bede. Manning's express purpose
is to let the people know which of their kings 'were fools and
which were wise'. Beginning with the genealogy of the earliest
British kings, he traces the arrival of the Trojan Brutus on
British soil, tells of the battles of Arthur and concludes with the
death of Cadwaladr in 682. Published as part of a two-volume set in
1887, Volume 1 takes the narrative up to Arthur's time and includes
an introduction and modern English side-notes by the scholar
Frederick James Furnivall (1825 1910).
Robert Manning (died c.1338) was a Gilbertine monk from
Lincolnshire whose early English verse writings make him a notable
forerunner of Chaucer. The first part of his Chronicle or Story of
England translates into Middle English rhymed couplets Geoffrey of
Monmouth's fabulous Latin history, as retold in the Roman de Brut
of Wace, with some additions from Bede. Manning's express purpose
is to let the people know which of their kings 'were fools and
which were wise'. Beginning with the genealogy of the earliest
British kings, he takes the story up to the death of Cadwaladr in
682. This edition, published in two volumes in 1887, was edited
with an introduction and modern English side-notes by the scholar
Frederick James Furnivall (1825 1910). Volume 2 also includes
indexes of rhymes, names and subjects, as well as a glossary of
Middle English words.
This fully updated second edition presents a conceptual framework
of outdoor recreation management in the form of a series of
management matrices. It then illustrates this framework through new
and updated case studies in the US national parks, and concludes
with the principles of outdoor recreation management. Written by an
author team with extensive academic and practical experience in the
field of outdoor recreation, the book: - Develops and presents a
matrix-based framework of strategies and practices for managing
outdoor recreation in a sustainable way. - Illustrates application
of best management practices through a series of case studies in
diverse national parks. - Includes lecture slides and online
matrices to aid the teaching of outdoor recreation management to a
new generation. Managing Outdoor Recreation, 2nd Edition is an
essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of
parks, outdoor recreation and related subjects, as well as a
helpful tool for practitioners.
There are fifty-five National Heritage Areas scattered across the
US and they continue to grow in number and diversity. Though
they're not officially national parks, their conservation,
education, and recreation related objectives echo those of the
national parks: to conserve nationally significant natural and
cultural landscapes and to make them available to the public for
purposes of education, recreation, and sustainable tourism-related
economic development. But the methods of achieving these objectives
are different-very different-than those used in the national parks.
While both national parks and NHAs are established by Congress,
national parks are conventionally large areas of public land that
are owned and managed by the National Park Service (NPS). NHAs take
a more inclusive, partnership-based approach to their work; they
offer local citizens, government at all levels, non-profit
organizations, and private sector enterprises the opportunity to
define, celebrate and conserve the natural, historic, cultural,
scenic and recreational resources that have been vital in shaping
their identity and destiny. NHAs are composed primarily of private
lands; they're living landscapes where participants reside, work
and play. Each chapter in this guidebook describes the remarkable
natural and cultural resources that define NHAs and highlights
nearby visitor attractions, enticing readers to visit NHAs and to
enjoy and appreciate the attractions offered.
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