Earth Works

Author : Scott Russell Sanders
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253000955
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Works written by Scott Russell Sanders and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Sanders' finest essays in which he examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness.

Author : Editors of Chartwell Books
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785834397
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Earth Works written by Editors of Chartwell Books and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Earth Works explains with info-graphics, 3D illustrations and surprising cutaways, the function of thousands of organisms, natural systems and atmospheric systems, geographical and geological phenomena.

Author : Lindsay Jones
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937795
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Newark Earthworks written by Lindsay Jones and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks—the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans, called the "Hopewell culture," as social gathering places, religious shrines, pilgrimage sites, and astronomical observatories. Yet much of this territory has been destroyed by the city of Newark, and the site currently "hosts" a private golf course, making it largely inaccessible to the public. The first book-length volume devoted to the site, The Newark Earthworks reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains of the earthworks and the site’s undeniable importance to our history. Including contributions from archaeologists, historians, cultural geographers, and cartographers, as well as scholars in religious studies, legal studies, indigenous studies, and preservation studies, the book follows an interdisciplinary approach to shine light on the Newark Earthworks and argues compellingly for its designation as a World Heritage Site.

Author : Chadwick Allen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966621
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthworks Rising written by Chadwick Allen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices Typically represented as unsolved mysteries or ruins of a tragic past, Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood. In Earthworks Rising, Chadwick Allen issues a compelling corrective, revealing a countertradition based in Indigenous worldviews. Alongside twentieth- and twenty-first-century Native writers, artists, and intellectuals, Allen rebuts colonial discourses and examines the multiple ways these remarkable structures continue to hold ancient knowledge and make new meaning—in the present and for the future. Earthworks Rising is organized to align with key functional categories for mounds (effigies, platforms, and burials) and with key concepts within mound-building cultures. From the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio to the mound metropolis Cahokia in Illinois to the generative Mother Mound in Mississippi, Allen takes readers deep into some of the most renowned earthworks. He draws on the insights of poets Allison Hedge Coke and Margaret Noodin, novelists LeAnne Howe and Phillip Carroll Morgan, and artists Monique Mojica and Alyssa Hinton, weaving in a personal history of earthwork encounters and productive conversation with fellow researchers. Spanning literature, art, performance, and built environments, Earthworks Rising engages Indigenous mounds as forms of “land-writing” and as conduits for connections across worlds and generations. Clear and compelling, it provokes greater understanding of the remarkable accomplishments of North America’s diverse mound-building cultures over thousands of years and brings attention to new earthworks rising in the twenty-first century.

Author : John Farndon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780751308303
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Earth Works written by John Farndon and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on questions about the earth such as What lies at the centre of the Earth?, Why do continents move? and Why do rivers bend? this book features simple, hands-on experiments and projects which use safe everyday equipment that let the reader discover for themselves the way the Earth works. It is also possible to create your own home laboratory with everyday materials from your home and garden.

Author : N. A. Trenter
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727729668
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthworks written by N. A. Trenter and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing can be built without some excavation and transfer of soil (or rock) from one part of a site to another and this makes earthworks the most common product of civil engineering operations. Although normally seen as major structures, such as earth fill dams or large highways or railway embankments, the majority of earthworks are connected with minor civil works and building construction. Whatever the type of work, the principles are the same. Earthworks: a guide accumulates information on topics that are essential to earthworks engineering.

Author : Suzaan Boettger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520221087
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthworks written by Suzaan Boettger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Earthworks movement provides an in-depth analysis of the forms that initiated Land Art, profiling top contributors and achievements within a context of the social and political climate of the 1960s, and noting the form's relationship to ecological movements. (Fine Arts)

Author : David Lee Harrison
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590783726
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glaciers written by David Lee Harrison and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting look at one of the earth's most extraordinary forces of nature reveals how glaciers--enormous and destructive sheets of ice--have impacted our planet.

Author : Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497608171
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthworks written by Brian W. Aldiss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is humanity’s only hope. “Aldiss’ dark vision of collapsing society and withering earth is poignant and brutal . . . [a] richly detailed world” (Science Fiction Ruminations). In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over‐farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex‐convict Knowle Noland, the hallucinating sea captain of the Trieste Star, finds himself wrapped up in a plot to incite a global war that will wipe out millions. War, it seems, is the only way to drastically reduce the population and create a better world for those who survive.

Author : H. Byron Ballard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996758376
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Works written by H. Byron Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Works is a book for a time of cultural change that author Byron Ballard calls "Tower Time." This book explores long-term effects on both the planet and its inhabitants and includes tried-and-true rituals and ceremonies to improve resilience and face inevitable change with courage and humor. You will find ideas, inspiration, and hope.