Author : Jodine Hubbard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2017-11-05
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781978290167
Dirt Dwellers is a book about all the animals that live beneath the surface of the earth. Worms, moles, mice, rabbits and skunks. Some live in burrows part time and other live in the ground all their lives.
Author : Barbara Richardson
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1611688000
Community farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt. This anthology celebrates the Earth's generous crust, bringing together essays by award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and dirt lovers to tell dirt's exuberant tales. Geographically broad and topically diverse, these essays reveal life as lived by dirt fanatics - admiring the first worm of spring, taking a childhood twirl across a dusty Kansas farm, calculating how soil breathes, or baking mud pies. Essayists build a dirt house, center a marriage around dirt, sink down into marshy heaven, and learn to read dirt's own language. Scientists usher us deep underground with the worms and mycorrhizae to explore the vast and largely ignored natural processes occurring beneath our feet. Whether taking a trek to Venezuela to touch the oldest dirt in the world or reveling in the blessings of our own native soils, these muscular essays answer the important question: How do you get down with dirt? A literary homage to dirt and its significance in our lives, this book will interest hikers, gardeners, teachers, urbanites, farmers, environmentalists, ecologists, and others intrigued by our planet's alluring skin. Essayists include Vandana Shiva, Peter Heller, Janisse Ray, Bernd Heinrich, Linda Hogan, Wes Jackson, BK Loren, David Montgomery, Laura Pritchett, and Deborah Koons Garcia.
Author : Kevin R. Elmy
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1039195695
Just Not Dirt is a book helping soil caretakers to look at ways of managing regeneratively. That is building soil adding carbon back into the soil ecosystem. The soil health principles are global, they are true around the world. How you do it will have a regional flavour and agronomics. Topics extensively covered are the five soil health principles: keep a vegetative plant growing, increase plant diversity, reduce tillage, reduce use of synthetic inputs, and livestock integration, plus the rationale of why these are important. There are seven producer's stories telling of their regenerative agriculture journey from Western Canada and Western Australia.
Author : Adrienne Mason
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2013-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554537533
Uses the metaphor of an ark to explain why biodiversity is important to the survival of living things, including us.
Author : Charlotte Gill
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1553657926
Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
Author : Santos J. Hernandez Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666772445
Evil prowls twenty-four-seven, waiting for that one opportunity to sneak in or weasel its way into your mind while encouraging you to embrace fear, lies, hate, division, despair, and all things miserable. It wreaks havoc and fools you into believing the lies it peddles to the lowest bidder. Resisting evil is all about choices; the problem is that most are unaware of the influences being employed to draw you towards choices that will profoundly affect your lives. This is such a tale. Santos Hernandez's spirit was enlightened and his life was changed when Aro, a self-proclaimed atheist, delivered a seed of truth from God, unbeknownst to him, which profoundly altered the course of Hernandez's life. A new person, a strong faith, and all the more reason for evil to attack harder, while Hernandez's guardian angel works to influence him to seek a righteous path.
Author : Webster Perit Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Ohio
ISBN :
Author : Daniel J. Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2001-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 073886577X
Jay Walker, professional student and part-time private eye. Join him as he and his best friend Nick Gordon, attempt to solve the disappearance of one ten year old child. The search begins with Jay finding clues that the police did not or would not. He calls on old friends and contacts to make sense of the kidnapping, unwittingly informing all concerned that he is on the case. Quickly discovering the players are indistinguishable from one another. No police department is willing to help. Two including the nations biggest are ready to kill in order to prevent him from finding the child and the truth behind his kidnapping and dozens more. Jay Walker is a relatively ordinary guy, with extraordinary friends and a never say quit attitude. He thinks quickly, always ready for any situation. The kidnapping of one ten year old boy leads him to a dark world of corruption and murder. Exposure of the people involved would rock the country right to its roots. The police want to handle it their own way, Jay only wants to return a child to his parents. He is up against a well organized group who have friends in high places. The kidnappers work to a time- table, Jay's time is running out. Come inside and you will meet, Nick Gordon, cute as a button and a winning smile. Yet he can not get a date no matter how hard he tries, the only sure thing is he will follow Jay anywhere. Kim Yuen, Jay's girlfriend and lawyer. Rory Farrell, one of the coldest, nastiest people on earth. Kidnapping and murder to order. Walter, Rory's newest helper. They usually do not last long. Street cowboy, an undercover agent close to Rory and in extreme danger. The closer Jay gets the more dangerous it gets for this person. Marshall Barton. He's a cop. He is officially known as the sector chief. His power and influence have no title or limit. His job is to control the mess that is the case that Jay has unwittingly stumbled upon. His first priority is to keep a lid on this potential political bomb. Next, protect his undercover agent, then to catch and stop Rory Farrell and the people he works for. The hardest part is that the people that are pulling Rory's strings may be the same as the ones pulling his. Crazy Bobby, Melanie, Serge, Thad Think, Mitch, Spider and many others interact to make this book earn the title "Action Packed".
Author : S. L. Viehl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101165642
S.L. Viehl’s novels have featured some of the most memorable heroines in the history of the genre: the “wonderful” Cherijo Torin of Stardoc and the “spunky yet vulnerable” Jory Rask of Blade Dancer. Now joining their ranks is the compassionate and heroic interstellar paramedic Dair mu T’resa. Lieutenant Dair mu T’resa heads up a squadron of SEAL (surgically enhanced/altered lifeform) pilots. They provide planetary patrol for the Pmoc Quadrant, including Dair’s home planet Kevarzangia Two—a world populated by the underwater dwelling ’Zangians. Saved at birth by a radical surgical procedure that introduced human DNA into her body, Dair has been able to survive for brief periods of time outside her aquatic habitat—opening her mind to the wonders of the universe’s other races and cultures, yet closing her off from her own people. She finds a true home when her SEAL squadron teams up with medical personnel as a Bio Rescue unit, formed to respond to off-planet emergencies. But the altruism Dair embraces finds opposition among her fellow ’Zangians—and the Skartesh, a lupine alien species who fled their own dying world to settle in the dry land colony of Kevarzangia Two...
Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1478007060
In Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites’ own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.
