Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard B. Primack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606221X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden Warming written by Richard B. Primack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unnervingly close-to-home perspective [on] the dynamics and impact of climate change on plants, birds, and myriad other species, including us.”—Booklist In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. Warming temperatures have pushed blueberry flowering three weeks earlier, and in 2012, following a period of record-breaking warmth, blueberries began flowering on April 1—six weeks earlier than in Thoreau’s time. In Walden Warming, Richard B. Primack uses Thoreau and Walden, icons of the conservation movement, to track the effects of a warming climate on Concord’s plants and animals, with the notes that Thoreau made years ago transformed from charming observations into scientific data sets. Primack finds that many wildflower species that Thoreau observed, including familiar groups such as irises, asters, and lilies, have declined in abundance or disappeared from Concord. Primack also describes how warming temperatures have altered other aspects of Thoreau’s Concord, from the dates when ice departs from Walden Pond in late winter, to the arrival of birds in the spring, to the populations of fish, salamanders, and butterflies that live in the woodlands, river meadows, and ponds. Demonstrating the effects of climate change in a unique, concrete way using this historical and literary landmark as a touchstone, Richard Primack urges us to heed the advice Thoreau offers in Walden: to live simply and wisely. In the process, we can minimize our own contributions to our warming climate.

Author : Kristen Case
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107476097
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau at Two Hundred written by Kristen Case and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert M. Thorson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728416
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden’s Shore written by Robert M. Thorson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward," Thoreau invites his readers in Walden, "till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality." Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of that hard reality, not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert M. Thorson is interested in Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press. At Walden's climax, Thoreau asks us to imagine a "living earth" upon which all animal and plant life is parasitic. This book examines Thoreau's understanding of the geodynamics of that living earth, and how his understanding informed the writing of Walden. The story unfolds against the ferment of natural science in the nineteenth century, as Natural Theology gave way to modern secular science. That era saw one of the great blunders in the history of American science--the rejection of glacial theory. Thorson demonstrates just how close Thoreau came to discovering a "theory of everything" that could have explained most of the landscape he saw from the doorway of his cabin at Walden. At pivotal moments in his career, Thoreau encountered the work of the geologist Charles Lyell and that of his protégé Charles Darwin. Thorson concludes that the inevitable path of Thoreau's thought was descendental, not transcendental, as he worked his way downward through the complexity of life to its inorganic origin, the living rock.

Author : Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000527131
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art written by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent collector of modern and indigenous art and critically contextualises her own art production in relation to expressionist concepts of art and to gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration. Visual analyses highlight how she collaborated with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era and how the circulation of these photographs served as a means to intervene in the public sphere of culture in interwar Germany. Finally, the book provides an analysis of Walden’s continuing work for Der Sturm after her voluntary exile from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 and highlights the importance of women’s supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of modern art in museums and archives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and gender studies.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden's Stationer and Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382821818
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walden's Miscellaneous Poems written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521424820
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Walden written by Robert F. Sayre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of Thoreau's classic contains a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

Author : English Guernsey Cattle Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Guernsey Cattle Society's Herd Book written by English Guernsey Cattle Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: