Desert Awareness
Author : Cathy Klinesteker
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Arid regions
ISBN :
Meeting Places: Locating Desert Consciousness in Performance
Author : Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9401210926
Book Description
Over the period 1999-2005, choreographer and dancer Tess de Quincey and a team of international artists conducted a series of art-laboratories and performances in and around the Central Desert town of Alice Springs. These art-labs culminated in the 2005 performance of Dictionary of Atmospheres, staged during the Alice Desert Festival. Drawing upon practice-based research conducted while interning with de Quincey during the development and staging of Dictionary of Atmospheres, Anderson contemplates the way in which moments from the production illustrate the artist’s approach to and articulation of place. Meeting Places offers meditation on the nature of experience as it manifests in serial site-specific art encounters in desert locations. Mary Elizabeth Anderson is an assistant professor in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre & Dance at Wayne State University. Her research explores dimensions of popular participation in performance, with particular focus on placemaking, teaching artistry and reflective practice.
Clementina's Cactus
Author : Ezra Jack Keats
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451479572
Book Description
Keats departs from his traditional style for his one and only wordless picture book, Clementina's Cactus. Clementina and her father are out for a walk in the desert when Clementina discovers a lone cactus, all shriveled and prickly. But Clementina discovers there is something beautiful hiding inside that thick skin.
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
Author : Steven J. Phillips
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520219809
Book Description
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Defending the Little Desert
Author : Libby Robin
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
Environmental protection and responsibility - Australia.
The Desert Underground
Author : Robin Kobaly
Publisher : Summertree Institute
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781733238700
Book Description
The Desert Underground is a graphic, virtual tour of the hidden but magnificent world under the surface of desert soils, a realm that silently works under our feet every day. Readers are led along an illustrated tour through our desert soils, delving deeper and deeper into the underground. This tour reveals the amazing partnerships that connect every plant underground across the landscape, and illustrates the interlocking biological and geological systems that work together to create a surprising carbon sponge that helps combat climate change wherever desert soils remain intact.
The Word in the Desert
Author : Douglas E. Christie
Publisher :
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195083334
Book Description
Growing scholarly debate in recent years on the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by early Christian monks known as the desert fathers. This book explores the setting within which their early monastic movement emerged.
Desert Survival Skills
Author : David Alloway
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0292745923
Book Description
An “authoritative, comprehensive, well written, and entertaining” guide to staying alive in the desert from a Texas Parks and Wildlife veteran (Library Journal). Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn’t lead themselves, much less a horse, to water. David Alloway’s goal in this book is to help all of them survive when circumstances beyond their control strand them in the desert environment. In simple, friendly language, enlivened with humor and stories from his own extensive experience, Alloway—a naturalist and search-and-rescue veteran who’s worked with the US Air Force on survival skills—here offers a practical, comprehensive handbook for both short-term and long-term survival in the Chihuahuan and other North American deserts.
The Expanding News Desert
Author : Penelope Muse Abernathy
Publisher : Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781469653242
Book Description
This report delves into the implications for communities at risk of losing their primary source of credible news. By documenting the shifting news landscape and evaluating the threat of media deserts, this report seeks to raise awareness of the role interested parties can play in addressing the challenges confronting local news and democracy. The Expanding News Desert documents the continuing loss of papers and readers, the consolidation in the industry, and the social, political and economic consequences for thousands of communities throughout the country. It also provides an update on the strategies of the seven large investment firms--hedge and pension funds, as well as private and publicly traded equity groups--that swooped in to purchase hundreds of newspapers in recent years and explores the indelible mark they have left on the newspaper industry during a time of immense disruption.
Discover the Desert
Author : Kathryn Ceceri
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1619301113
Book Description
Delving into a seemingly dry and barren ecosystem, this fun-filled activity book closely examines the desert landscape and shows how many exciting discoveries it holds. Exploring native plants and animals and depicting the extreme temperatures, rough terrain, and vast distances in detail, this lively reference describes lost civilizations as well as today’s desert-dwelling cultures. “Try This” science and history activities are also included—from creating mirages and fashioning an Anasazi clay bowl to growing salt crystals and even assembling a cactus dish terrarium. Demonstrating why adventurers have always been drawn to the world’s deserts, this entertaining overview also provides education on the environment, examining how the health of the planet depends on the careful treatment of the desert’s many resources.
