The American West as Living Space

The American West as Living Space
Author: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1987
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780472063758

A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves

Canaries on the Rim

Canaries on the Rim
Author: Chip Ward
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999-11-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781859847503

This regional and personal biography begins when the author and his family moved to Grantsville, Utah for purposes of small-town neighborliness and safety. Tales began to circulate about local cases of cancer, birth defects, and respiratory problems, spurring a seven- year search that uncovered a history of ecocide and caused Ward to organize opposition to hazardous waste disposal, chemical weapons incineration, industrial pollution, and nuclear waste storage. Ward manages Utah's public library development program and is an activist in several environmental organizations. Neither index nor notes accompany this less academic addition to Verso's more scholarly Haymarket Series. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Decline of the West

The Decline of the West
Author: Oswald Spengler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195066340

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Brother West

Brother West
Author: Cornel West
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458730026

New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America's most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West's penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, I've never taken ...

Living on the Land

Living on the Land
Author: Nathalie Kermoal
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1771990414

From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to Living on the Land explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships, both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape. The authors discuss the integral role of women as stewards of the land and governors of the community and points to a distinctive set of challenges and possibilities for Indigenous women and their communities.

Live by the West, Die by the West

Live by the West, Die by the West
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786044624

In one volume: two Western adventures from the New York Times–bestselling Smoke Jensen series, featuring the heroic, gunslinging frontiersman. Triumph of the Mountain Man In a land of opportunity, there will be opportunists. But few are as vicious, cruel—or flat-out evil—as Clifton Satterly. This power-hungry robber baron has set his sights on Tua Pueblo, a quiet town in the New Mexico Territory. He plans to seize the timber-rich land through brute force and strip it clean with slave labor. But there’s one thing he didn’t plan on: a one-man wall of resistance named Smoke Jensen . . . Journey of the Mountain Man When it comes to outbursts of violence in the Old West, there’s nothing worse than a range war. They’re fueled by greed, fanned by gunfire, and fated to end in bloodshed, which is why Smoke Jensen would just as soon keep his distance. But when his cousin Fae is involved, he’s got no choice but to strap on his Colts, team up with four old friends—and get ready for a hundred-gun showdown. This is going to be one hell of a fight . . . Live Free. Read Hard

Living Off Biodiversity

Living Off Biodiversity
Author: Izabella Koziell
Publisher: IIED
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781899825677

"This book attempts to explore different natural resource sectors and to identify possibilities for mainstreaming the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into these sectors but without compromising livelihoods in the process. It advocates leveraging incremental change within the existing natural resource sectors through research, policy change, development and demonstration of alternative approaches. There are six chapters that discuss these issues in the forestry, agricultural, livestock and fisheries sectors and within rangelands. A discussion on insect diversity and livelihoods also constitutes a separate chapter. The whole book is framed by an introduction and macro-economic perspective on how to start to resolve the conflicts between conservation and development."--Editor.

Living Off-Grid in Wales

Living Off-Grid in Wales
Author: Elaine Forde
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786836599

Living Off-Grid in Wales addresses broad debates about the possibility of planning for a sustainable future, by an examination of rural development off the grid. Contrasting Wales’s policy on One Planet Development – a planning policy that encourages living off-grid – with a more DIY approach to living off-grid, the book presents case studies from eco-villages that imagine off-grid very differently. The text pivots on the problematic question that if planning is about the spatial reproduction of society, then why should it encourage autonomy from societal systems. The ethnographic case studies in the book comprise an ethnography of rural Wales, and the focus on eco-villages brings a fresh perspective to the anthropological literature on community by considering off-grid as a radical form of social assemblage.

Journey to the West (2018 Edition - PDF)

Journey to the West (2018 Edition - PDF)
Author: Wu Cheng'en
Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9812298894

The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!

Post-Growth Living

Post-Growth Living
Author: Kate Soper
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1788738896

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how can we create a movement capable of confronting it head-on? In Post-Growth Living, philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that is capable of collective happiness not in consumption but by creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.