Close Encounters With Nature
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Author | : Diya VS |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2018-04-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781980753032 |
This book is narrated by a nine year old child from her experiences and the interactions with her parents. It emphasize the importance to strike a balance between human and nature. This book is an excellent opportunity for all nature lovers to learn about animals and the delicate but fatal encounters of man and the wild.
Author | : Laura K. Guerrero |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 1215 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1506376711 |
A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members. Bestselling authors Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen, and Walid A. Afifi offer research-based insights and content illustrated with engaging scenarios to show how state-of-the-art research and theory can be applied to specific issues within relationships—with a focus on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. While maintaining the spotlight on communication, the authors also emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the study of personal relationships by including research from such disciplines as social psychology and family studies. The book covers issues relevant to developing, maintaining, repairing, and ending relationships. Both the "bright" and "dark" sides of interpersonal communication within relationships are explored.
Author | : Bruce M. Beehler |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0300244894 |
A twelve-month excursion through nature’s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this “personal encyclopedia of nature’s seasons,” lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation’s capital, Beehler describes trips to nature’s most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover’s bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one’s own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.
Author | : Gianni Morelli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9788854413467 |
From the ice caves of Iceland to diving in Mexico's cenotes, this stunning book showcases some of the world's most glorious destinations and thrilling adventures. Leafing through the inviting images, real and armchair voyagers can admire Hawaii's incredible painted forest, Canada's Northern Lights, the gorillas of Rwanda, and nomadic life in Mongolia. Priceless travel advice, as well as in-depth cultural analysis and inspirational quotes, make this a dream book.
Author | : Gilbert Michael Joseph |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822320999 |
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
Author | : Sang-Hee Lee |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393634833 |
“Deftly weaving together science and personal observation, Lee proves an engaging, authoritative guide… of the human condition.” —Kate Wong, editor at Scientific American What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient ancestors’ life expectancy? Did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution? And what do we have in common with Neanderthals? In this captivating bestseller, Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores our greatest evolutionary questions from new and unexpected angles. Through a series of entertaining, bite-sized chapters that combine anthropological insight with cutting-edge science, we gain fresh perspectives into our first hominin ancestors and ways to challenge perceptions about the traditional progression of evolution. With Lee as our guide, we discover that we indeed have always been a species of continuous change.
Author | : R.J Lambourne |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780852741412 |
Currently, science fiction in all its forms is enjoying enormous popular interest. There can be no doubt that science fiction books and films have great influence on the public view of science and scientists. Close Encounters? examines the historical development of science fiction as a genre in books and films, tracing its roots, examining its most common ideas, exploring its relationship to "real" science, and attempting to assess its cultural impact. Discussion focuses on major themes such as time travel, politics, religion, ecology, and disasters. The authors consider the science in science fiction, the images of scientists that science fiction conveys, and some of the political, religious, and social motifs prominent in science fiction. They also discuss pseudo-science and its growing influence on the public perception of science. This fascinating, thought-provoking study should be read by all those interested in how the nature of science and its role in our society is portrayed in science fiction.
Author | : David Yarrow |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0847858324 |
From big cats to elephants and indigenous communities, Wild Encounters is a must-have for nature lovers, conservationists, and anyone who is inspired by all that remains wild. David Yarrow travels from pole to pole and continent to continent to visit frozen Arctic tundras, vast African deserts, primordial rain forests, and remote villages, inviting us to truly connect with subjects we mistakenly think we have seen before. Yarrow takes the familiar—lions, elephants, tigers, polar bears—and makes it new again by creating iconic images that deliberately connect with us at a highly emotional level. For more than two decades, this legendary wildlife photographer has been putting himself in harm's way to capture the most unbelievable close-up animal photography, amassing an incomparable photographic portfolio, spanning six continents. Driven by a passion for sharing and preserving Earth's last great wild cultures and species, Yarrow is as much a conservationist as a photographer and artist. His work has transcended wildlife photography and is now collected and shown as fine art in some of the most famed galleries around the world. Featuring 160 of his most breathtaking photographs, Wild Encounters offers a truly intimate view of some of the world's most compelling—and threatened—species and captures the splendor and very soul of what remains wild and free in our world through portraits that feel close enough to touch.
Author | : Paul Krafel |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Seeing Nature is a series of true stories or parables that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to wild landscapes, including canyons, tundra, and mountain ridges, while others contemplate the human-made world: water-diversion trenches and supermarket check-out lines. At one point, Krafel discovers a world in a one-inch-square patch of ordinary ground. Inspiring for parents and teachers seeking to encourage excitement about the positive role of people in nature, Krafel's work harkens to St. Exupery's The Little Prince, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees. As Barbara Damrosch has noted: [This book] is a gift.... With curiosity, wit, and a spare and graceful style, Krafel notes why birds in flocks land as they do, how islands can move upstream in a river, how kelp forests, swaying gently, break the force of the sea's power, how tundra plants create whole ecosystems on bare rock from mere specks of life. Yet there are no long-winded sermons about the woods, or cute anthropomorphizations of animals. The book's economical, unsentimental style is part of its originality. Paul Krafel's years as a park ranger afforded him time to walk and think--his job was to observe the world around him. He is now a teacher, creating a curriculum for young people that is built on a startlingly simple truth: The world around us is an extended conversation between "upward spirals"--nature in regenerative, procreative modes--and downward spirals toward entropy and disintegration. As nature refreshes and rebuilds, the downward spirals are overcome. Nature's process becomes the process of replenishing hope.
Author | : Ronald H. Isaacs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Topics explored include: basic conceptions of God, early classical proofs of God's existence, theories of revelation, writing and pronouncing God's name, prayer, God in Jewish mysticism, Jewish theology since the Holocaust, how to respond when children ask about God, and how to develop a personal theology.