This is a compilation of simple philosophical essays. Most of them are radical, extremist and even revolutionary. The thread that binds the essays is nature and the present state of the environment. The purpose of these essays is to rend apart the fabric of society and cause a sea change in the behavior and thought processes of this civilization. They seek the hidden truths of todaya€™s modern world. The aim is not to make people happier with th ...
В пособии представлен набор из 10 кейсов – описаний реальных проблемных ситуаций, которые привели к научным открытиям. Каждый кейс содержит ряд заданий, последовательное выполнение которых позволяет понять суть метода научного познания и почувствовать тесные связи между всеми естественными дисциплинами и математикой. Кейсы содержат необходимый справочный материал, поскольку предполагается, что обучающийся не является одновременно специалистом в ...
From Lake Coeur d�Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain�rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Native peoples for thousands of years. With bountiful trout, accessible swimming holes, and challenging rapids it is a recreational mecca for residents and tourists alike. The Spokane also bears the legacy o ...
From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy in the Yukon�s Saint Elias Range, an in-and-out on skis for which he had not entirely learned how to ski, to a recent excursion across the Harding Icefield conceived under the influence of rain and whiskey, David Stevenson chronicles several decades of a life unified by a preoccupation with climbing. Reflective and literary, and also entertaining and funny, his accoun ...
Howard Zahniser (1906�1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was the culmination of Zahniser�s years of tenacious lobbying and his work with conservationists across the nation. In 1964, fifty-fou ...
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of farm a ...
One of the most spectacular drives in North America, the San Juan Skyway is a 236 mile loop which winds through forests of aspen and pine, over high passes with stunning panoramic views of mountain ranges exceeding 14,000 feet in elevation, through historic mining towns which played important roles in the colorful history of Southwest Colorado, and past the World Heritage Site of Mesa Verde.<br><br>In 1988 this drive was designated a ...
