Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place, Paperback - Robert Root

Reducere. For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being-and knowing-home. This book is ...

Reducere. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and inve...

The ideal photo album of Morocco, peppered throughout with `souvenirs' such as ticket stubs, posters, newspapers, labels and postcards.

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In this unvarnished account as both patient and physician, award-winning Professor of Psychiatry Linda Gask describes her search for her 'right' pl...

In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers...

This volume examines senses of place in which people not only perform religious acts in particular places but also understand emplacement / belongi...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

Reducere. Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration o...

Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion ...

Reducere. An invaluable resource for the home or commercial gardener who wishes to plant native species. Edward W. Chester, Austin Peay State University The ...

In the tradition of a decade of bi-annual gatherings of the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, this volume serves as the fifth refereed sym...

Reducere. Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or...

Reducere. Creativity isn't born, it's cultivated this innovative guide distills the work of extraordinary artists and thinkers to show you how. All the imagi...

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Reducere. In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focu...

The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. H...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Rosy SzymanskiNumber of pages: 230Collection: Heritage, Culture and IdentityPublication date: 2016Dimensi...

Reducere. Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there. "Bi...

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Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon ...

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"The sense of being lost, displaced, and homeless is pervasive in contemporary culture. The yearning to belong somewhere, to be in a safe place, is...

Reducere. This is the history of the Two Dot, at one time recognized by many as the largest ranch in the world. So begins the story of a unique part of the v...

Reducere. Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on e...

Reducere. Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequentl...

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This text proposes new perspectives on gender, race and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservat...

Reducere. Humans have created art in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming for at least 3, 000 years. Journalist Bob Bahr examines why the rugged countryside o...

DescriptionRandy Litchfield's fresh look at the perennial question of vocation combines theological reflection on the development of personal spiri...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

The definitive collection of nonfictionfrom war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writingfrom the ';legend of American lett...

Over the centuries, landscape painting has attracted countless artists. Its diversity, enhanced by the weather, special lighting conditions and sea...

Reducere. We know racism is entrenched in our systems and institutions, but what about our cities and public spaces?In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay ...

Rejection has many faces, but the pain that results is universal.It is imperative that we know: - the truths with regard to what rejection is- how ...

Reducere. Filled with the history, geography, sociology and anthropology this 2nd revised edition contains more than 7000 names of features throughout the st...

Reducere. The final volume in a full survey of the work of John Singer Sargent, covering his late watercolors, designs for the Boston murals, and work as an ...

DescriptionThe architecture of WG Clark is inextricably grounded in its place, the Atlantic coastal states of the American South. Over the course o...

Reducere. Nature's way of storing fruits, vegetables and preserves. Whether as a way to manage challenging economic times or retain a garden's bounty, root c...

With Nature is an inspirational guide to garden design, landscaping and working with naturePublisher: Hardie Grant BooksAuthor(s): Fiona BrockhoffI...

DescriptionLearn how to illustrate a variety of landscapes, from coastal vistas and rolling hills to city skylines and summer meadows, in this upda...

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This comprehensive, practical book offers budding artists the chance to take lessons with highly acclaimed experts, and learn the art of drawing an...

Reducere. An introduction to six common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guideline...