Lines in the Water - 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 Lines in the Water write by Ben Orlove. This book was released on 2002-06-13. Lines in the Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has played in their culture. He describes the landscapes and rhythms of life in the Andean highlands as he considers the intrusions of modern technology and economic demands in the region. Lines in the Water tells a local version of events that are taking place around the world, but with an unusual outcome: people here have found ways to maintain their cultural autonomy and to protect their fragile mountain environment. The Peruvian highlanders have confronted the pressures of modern culture with remarkable vitality. They use improved boats and gear and sell fish to new markets but have fiercely opposed efforts to strip them of their indigenous traditions. They have retained their customary practice of limiting the amount of fishing and have continued to pass cultural knowledge from one generation to the next--practices that have prevented the ecological crises that have followed commercialization of small-scale fisheries around the world. This book--at once a memoir and an ethnography--is a personal and compelling account of a research experience as well as an elegantly written treatise on themes of global importance. Above all, Orlove reminds us that human relations with the environment, though constantly changing, can be sustainable.
Waterlines
Waterlines - 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 Waterlines write by Alison Pelegrin. This book was released on 2016-08-22. Waterlines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state’s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of life in New Orleans to immerse the reader in the vastly different experience of living north of Lake Pontchartrain. In this fractured world, the Bogue Falaya River becomes a highway paved with benedictions, psalms, and praise for ordinary things, as Pelegrin searches the unfamiliar for an incarnation of home. Water—the threat of hurricanes and floods, as well as the tangled geographies and histories of the rivers and lakes themselves—sustains the poet as she settles into the casual beauty of “the daily route,” finding spiritual depth and delight in both human and natural wonders. “It’s said that figures as different as Jefferson and Goethe were comfortable in the world because they were at home at Monticello and Weimar respectively, and the same is true of Alison Pelegrin. Waterlines starts locally and then radiates outward, not geographically so much as emotionally and spiritually. There are poems about faith, poems of wry and even scary self-examination, poems that combine these themes and more. Pelegrin stays close to her roots yet journeys out and back, ranging widely and then coming home to tap strength and sustenance. In the end, Waterlines is a big, big book.”—David Kirby, author of Get Up, Please
Ductile-iron Pipe and Fittings
Ductile-iron Pipe and Fittings - 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 Ductile-iron Pipe and Fittings write by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 2003. Ductile-iron Pipe and Fittings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides practical information about the design and installation of ductile iron pressure piping systems for water utilities. The 12 chapters outlines the procedure for calculating pipe wall thickness and class, and describes the types of joints, fittings, valves, linings, and corrosion protection a
The Water Cure
The Water Cure - 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 Water Cure write by . This book was released on 1902. The Water Cure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lines Drawn Upon the Water
Lines Drawn Upon the Water - 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 Lines Drawn Upon the Water write by Karl S. Hele. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Lines Drawn Upon the Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proceedings of a conference held at University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Feb. 11-12, 2005.
