Book Description
An anthology of San Francisco writers of color, on cultural values and gentrification
Author : Shizue Seigel
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2018-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780990417347
An anthology of San Francisco writers of color, on cultural values and gentrification
Author : Michael Gorman
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838913067
In this stirring manifesto, public intellectual, librarian, and philosopher Gorman addresses head on the “existential panic” among library professionals caused by the radical shift in how libraries are viewed.
Author : Rick Pruetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351177427
Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided flood control, water purification, habitats, and recreational opportunities. But rather than rail against overdevelopment, this book celebrates communities succeeding in preservation. For ten years Pruetz explored communities that excel in saving their natural environment. In twenty-four illustrated vignettes, he captures the character of places from the volcanic range near downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Minneapolis’s Grand Rounds park system, to farmland improbably preserved on Long Island. As the longtime city planner of Burbank, California, Pruetz offers more than an appreciation of these communities. He brings a planner’s-eye view of the practices behind their achievements. His detailed reports of creative preservation solutions mark the trail for planners, commissioners, and citizens who seek to preserve the green legacy in their own backyards.
Author : Emma Marris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 163557496X
Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "Fascinating . . . hands-on philosophy, put to test in the real world . . . Marris believes that our idea of wildness--our obsession with purity--is misguided. No animal remains untouched by human hands . . . the science isn't the hard part. The real challenge is the ethics, the act of imagining our appropriate place in that world." --Outside Magazine From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions. Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe--from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. And she offers a companionable tour of the philosophical ideas that may steer our search for sustainability and justice in the non-human world. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.
Author : Lee Smith
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1662466137
Many of the people who are saying the schools are not providing students with the knowledge and skill levels needed for today’s or tomorrow’s workforce when they were in school were high achievers. Many were the best and brightest their schools had to offer. They also received their education during an era criticized as having not provided them with the knowledge and skills levels adequate for then or today’s needs. As defective products of the problem, they are not capable of meeting the challenge of effecting meaningful and lasting educational curriculum change. This brings up the question of what qualifies this author then to speak with authority on how to affect meaningful and lasting educational reform. The answer is that he is not part of all this. Many of the reformers recognize him as the guy who would punch them in the arm and take their lunch money. The author was also the class clown. His teachers said he was failing because he daydreamed in class. They said he was failing because he did not turn in his homework. They said that, while he had learned to walk and talk on his own without any help from them, that he had some organic problem keeping him from learning. What all these teachers and counselors and evaluators and probation officers and school board members and parents and foster parents and everyone else never, ever said is that he was struggling with division because he had not mastered the times tables. They just did not know, perhaps really did not care. He knew this, and in the early part of the fifth grade, he decided his life would be better and easier if he submitted to learning the multiplication tables. For this reason, he is essentially self-educated and so has a particularly different point of view from these other self-described, poorly prepared products of the education system. In addition to being outside the public education system, another factor in his qualifications to evaluate the nation’s educational efforts is his shoes; they are steel-toed.
Author : Lee Lowenfish
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1496214811
"A comprehensive look at professional baseball scouting from post WWII to the present day"--
Author : Jean-Christophe Vié
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 2831710634
"Wildlife in a Changing World" presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Beginning with an explanation of the IUCN Red List as a key conservation tool, it goes on to discuss the state of the world s species and provides the latest information on the patterns of species facing extinction in some of the most important ecosystems in the world, highlighting the reasons behind their declining status. Areas of focus in the report include: freshwater biodiversity, the status of the world s marine species, species susceptibility to climate change impacts, the Mediterranean biodiversity hot spot, and broadening the coverage of biodiversity assessments."
Author : Ralph G. Stahl, Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420062638
Choosing the optimal management option requires environmental risk managers and decision makers to evaluate diverse, and not always congruent, needs and interests of multiple stakeholders. Understanding the trade-offs of different options as well as their legal, economic, scientific, and technological implications is critical to performing accurate
Author : Kevin C. Brown
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1647790115
Cyprinodon diabolis, or Devils Hole pupfish: a one-inch-long, iridescent blue fish whose only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley, on the Nevada-California border. The rarest fish in the world. As concern for the future of biodiversity mounts, Devils Hole Pupfish asks how a tiny blue fish—confined to a single, narrow aquifer on the edge of Death Valley National Park in Nevada’s Amargosa Desert—has managed to survive despite numerous grave threats. For decades, the pupfish has been the subject of heated debate between environmentalists intent on protecting it from extinction and ranchers and developers in the region who need the aquifer’s water to support their livelihoods. Drawing on archival detective work, interviews, and a deep familiarity with the landscape of the surrounding Amargosa Desert, author Kevin C. Brown shows how the seemingly isolated Devils Hole pupfish has persisted through its relationships with some of the West’s most important institutions: federal land management policy, western water law, ecological sciences, and the administration of endangered-species legislation. The history of this entanglement between people and the pupfish makes its story unique. The species was singled out for protection by the National Park Service, made one of the first “listed” endangered species, and became one of the first controversial animals of the modern environmental era, with one bumper sticker circulating in Nevada in the early 1970s reading “Save the Pupfish,” while another read “Kill the Pupfish.” But the story of the pupfish should be considered for more than its peculiarity. Moreover, Devils Hole Pupfish explores the pupfish’s journey through modern American history and offers lessons for anyone looking to better understand the politics of water in southern Nevada, the operation of the Endangered Species Act, or the science surrounding desert ecosystems.
Author : L. D. Green
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1623173612
25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled “mentally ill.” While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the “Mental Health Industrial Complex” and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health.