Standing at the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Standing at the Edge write by Joan Halifax. This book was released on 2018-05. Standing at the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[This book is] an ... examination of how we can respond to suffering, live our fullest lives, and remain open to the full spectrum of our human experience"--Amazon.com.
The Place with No Edge
The Place with No Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Place with No Edge write by Adam Mandelman. This book was released on 2020-04-08. The Place with No Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
City on the Edge
City on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City on the Edge write by Michael Streissguth. This book was released on 2020-09-01. City on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has endured decades of crime, drugs, economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, and population decline. Michael Streissguth spent more than three years interviewing a young survivor of the streets, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, who shared their stories as they found ways to make life work against sometimes formidable odds. He also contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed. The result is an eye-opening look at life in America in the twenty-first century, where people strive to turn their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for themselves and the city where they live.
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge write by Mayhill C. Fowler. This book was released on 2017-05-08. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde restores the periphery to the center of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today.
At the Edge of the State: Indigenous Peoples and Self Determination
At the Edge of the State: Indigenous Peoples and Self Determination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Edge of the State: Indigenous Peoples and Self Determination write by Maivân Lâm. This book was released on 2021-10-25. At the Edge of the State: Indigenous Peoples and Self Determination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on issues raised by the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, this study reveals the obstacles to self-determination for these peoples in all parts of the world. The author argues, using both legal and social theory, that the right of self-determination can be available to indigenous peoples, and proposes measures that the UN might institute to oversee the realization of this right. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
