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Ray Mears Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide to the Materials in the Wild and How To Use them for Food, Warmth, Shelter and Navigation
by Ray MearsLet Ray Mears, the grand master of bushcraft, teach you everything you need to know about how to survive outdoors. Ray's in-depth knowledge, and years of practical experience will equip you with the know-how you need to make the most of the great outdoors and experience it to the full. 'I wanted a book on basic survival and bushcraft relevant to UK and this hit the spot' -- ***** Reader review'This is a permanent resident in my rucksack and I read it over and over' -- ***** Reader review'Great book by the grand master of bushcraft' -- ***** Reader review'What can you say - it's Ray Mears and he's brilliant. Like all his stuff, very good.' -- ***** Reader review'Very clear, informative and easy to understand' -- ***** Reader review'Ruddy good read! The man knows his stuff!' -- ***** Reader review***************************************************************************************************Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook is a book of discovery, explaining the everyday skills you need to live in and enjoy the natural world.Season by season, this unique guide, with line illustrations, describes the resources and materials available in the wild and how to use them. Whether you want to spend a day, a week or a month out of doors, Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook will help you enjoy it to the full.Learn how to identify animal tracks, make a simple camp bed and shelter out of natural materials, pick edible fungi, smoke meat and fish, transport a fire and weave baskets, and many other essential skills...Packed with practical tips, insights into nature and respect for traditional knowledge, this is a book for families, groups and individual hikers and climbers - for everyone who enjoys outdoor life.
Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting (Routledge Research in Art History)
by Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.
Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium: Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
by Ben ChigaraThis book constitutes volume two of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. Following from volume one Southern African Development Community Land Issues, this book considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and international tribunals. Chigara demonstrates that land relations in the SADC have always been, and will perhaps remain, a matter for constitutional regulation. Because constitutional laws are distinctive from other laws only by constitutional design, legal contests appear to be the least likely means for settlement in the sub-region. Only human rights inspired policies, that respond to the call for social justice by acknowledging both the current and the underlying contexts to the disputes, hold the most potential to resolve these disputes. The book recommends efficient pedagogical counter-apartheid-rule psychological distortions regarding the significance of human dignity (PECAPDISH) as a pre-requisite and corollary to the dismantling of the salient physical legacy of apartheid-rule in affected SADC States. The book shows that PECAPDISH’s potential and benefits would be enormous. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of Property and Conveyancing Law, Human Rights Law, and Land Law.
Re-envisioning Plastics Role in the Global Society: Perspectives on Food, Urbanization, and Environment
by Ololade OlatunjiThis book covers the challenges and opportunities presented by plastics in the modern era and sheds light on the complex interplay of technology, environment, and socio-economic dynamics. With a thorough exploration of the history, uses, and potential of plastics, the book reviews the impact of plastics beyond single-use plastics, and critiques multiple long-term plastic applications that are significant for food security, water resource management, ecological conservation/restoration, and sustainable urbanization. It also explores frameworks for achieving a more sustainable plastic economy aligned with sustainable development goals. This book comprises 13 chapters, commencing with a critical assessment of plastics in the context of sustainable development and global society. It proceeds with a historical overview of plastics' evolution, showcasing pivotal milestones and innovations in modern industry and daily life. Subsequent chapters delve into diverse topics: the intricate relationships between plastics, food security, and sustainable urbanization; plastics' impact on water safety, management, distribution, and conservation; their potential as an alternative energy source; and their innovative applications in sustainable transportation and energy generation. Emphasis is placed on plastics' role in waste reduction and recycling, as well as the latest sustainable alternatives like biodegradable and recyclable materials. In the book's final sections, readers will learn about green buildings and climate-resilient cities constructed using innovative plastic materials, and plastics' significance in space exploration. The book concludes with a forward-looking perspective on plastics' future, accompanied by recommendations for a more sustainable coexistence between society and these versatile materials. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, industry professionals, and concerned citizens seeking to navigate the intricate landscape of plastics, their environmental implications, and their potential for sustainable development.
Re: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World
by Doyle Canning Patrick ReinsboroughThis unique book explores how culture, media, memes and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in the popular culture.
(Re-) Konstruktion von lokaler Urbanität
by Wolf-Dietrich Bukow Johanna Rolshoven Erol YildizDie städtische Lebensweise ist für unseren Alltag längst selbstverständlich. Und sie ist – weltweit – hoch attraktiv. Studierende, Singles, junge Familien, Geflüchtete, Menschen jeder Altersgruppe und jeglicher Herkunft wollen urban leben. Die städtische Lebensweise hat sich zu einer Lebenskonstruktion, zu einem Urbanitätsnarrativ entwickelt, aufgeladen mit Erwartungen für ein besseres Leben, mehr Anerkennung und neue gesellschaftliche Möglichkeiten. Gleichzeitig steht der urbane Raum aber auch für Segregations‑ und Homogenisierungstendenzen, für überteuerte Mieten und investorengesteuerte Gentrifizierung. Beklagt wird ein Mangel an wohnortnahen Arbeitsmöglichkeiten, das Verschwinden von lokalen Geschäften und Dienstleistungen. Es ist ein massives Konfliktpotential, das jetzt durch die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels zusätzlich forciert wird. Statt endlich den bislang wie selbstverständlich gelebten Alltag zu hinterfragen, werden rein technologische Maßnahmen zeitgeistkonform propagiert oder es wird alles gleich rein profitorientierten Investoren überlassen. Oder man beschwört einfach den status ante und sucht sich Sündenböcke für Fehlentwicklungen. In dieser zunehmend brisanten Situation wäre es entscheidend, sich Klarheit zu verschaffen über das, was eine Stadtgesellschaft mitbringt, was sie ausmacht und worin ihr nachhaltiges Potential besteht, und dann die zunehmenden gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen gemeinsam kreativ anzugehen. Die (Re-)Konstruktion von lokaler Urbanität kann dazu ein erster Schritt sein.
Re-Origin of Species
by Alessandra NaccaratoWinner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging WritersWinner of CBC Poetry PrizeFrom hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world.
Re/Uses: 2133 Ways to Recycle and Reuse the Things You Ordinarily Throw Away
by Carolyn JabsRecommends methods for reusing stale foods, worn clothing, empty bottles, old newspapers, parts from broken appliances and other types of trash to perform useful functions around the house.
Re-Wild: 50 Paths to Reconnect with Nature
by Stefano Luca TosoniReconnect With Your Inner WildFrom wild harvesting, finding your own paths and reading hiking guides, to just stepping outside and appreciating nature, Re-Wild brings you 50 practices to bringing nature home. Book a stay here!Beginner’s hiking guide to pro wild harvesting. Divided by levels of difficulty, this nature guide book gives swaths of practical advice. From simple things like how to feel at home in nature and learning fun nature facts to finding a trail if you’re lost to foraging plants, mushrooms, herbs, or wild harvesting knick-knacks on nature trails, this hiking book has something to teach you.Connect with nature. In the day-to-day, we can lose ourselves in the stress and anxiety of the world we have built. Nature is enough to help you reconnect physically and spiritually to your roots. Simple practices such as taking a walk in the woods or swimming in a cold lake can help you to get outside your head and become one with nature. Immerse yourself in the beautiful images of places you've never been and find the most primitive form of peace we have ever known with Re-Wild.Inside Re-Wild, you’ll find:50 accessible and simple practices to reconnect with natureA stirring mix of evocative illustrations and photographsTips on everything from wild harvesting to mindfulness, helping readers from both a practical and conceptual point of viewIf you liked The Nature Fix, Surviving the Wild, or The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods, you’ll love Re-Wild.
REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology: Preventing and Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Nanomaterials (Routledge Studies in Environment and Health)
by Nertila KurajREACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology presents a thorough and comprehensive legal analysis on the status of nanoscale chemicals under the EU’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction) regulation, asking whether it effectively safeguards human health and environmental protection. This book examines the European Commission’s claim that REACH offers the best possible framework for the risk management of nanomaterials. Through a detailed and meticulous analysis of the four phases of REACH, Kuraj assesses the capacity of the Regulation to protect human health and the environment against the potential harms associated with exposure to nanomaterials, and draws attention to the ways in which the specificities of nanoscale chemicals are (not) tackled by the current REACH framework. Overall, this book is an innovative and timely contribution to the ongoing debate on how to best address the unprecedented risks posed by the growing pursuit of nanotechnological innovation by the EU and global policy agenda. REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of environmental law and policy, environmental governance, science and technology studies, and environment and health.
Reach for the Stars
by Emily CalandrelliFrom Emmy-nominated science TV star and host of Netflix’s hit series Emily’s Wonder Lab Emily Calandrelli comes an inspirational message of love and positivity.From the moment we are born, we reach out. We reach out for our loved ones, for new knowledge and experiences, and for our dreams!Whether celebrating life’s joyous milestones, sharing words of encouragement, or observing the wonder of the world around us, this uplifting book will inspire readers of every age. A celebration of love and shared discovery, this book will encourage readers to reach for the stars!
Reading Expeditions: Geography and Environments, 1st Edition (Reading Expeditions Ser.)
by Carl Proujan National Geographic Learning StaffExplore the unique landscapes and wildlife of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and Antarctica. Discover what forces caused different environments to form and how this diverse geography affects how people live.
Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)
by Karen Edwards Derek Ryan Jane SpencerReading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past
by Robert SanfordWilliam Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Notable Features: -Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. -Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. -Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. -A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past
by Robert Stanford Mark Lapping Michael ShaughnessyWilliam Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts.Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
Reading Shaver’s Creek: Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest (Keystone Books)
by Ian MarshallWhat does it mean to know a place? What might we learn about the world by returning to the same place year after year? What would a long-term record of such visits tell us about change and permanence and our place in the natural world? This collection explores these and related questions through a series of reflective essays and poems on Pennsylvania’s Shaver’s Creek landscape from the past decade.Collected as part of The Ecological Reflections Project—a century-long effort to observe and document changes to the natural world in the central Pennsylvanian portion of the Appalachian Forest—these pieces show how knowledge of a place comes from the information and perceptions we gather from different perspectives over time. They include Marcia Bonta’s keen observations about how humans knowingly and unknowingly affect the landscape; Scott Weidensaul’s view of the forest as a battlefield; and Katie Fallon describing the sounds of human and nonhuman life along a trail. Together, these selections create a place-based portrait of a vivid ecosystem during the first decade of the twenty-first century.Featuring contributions by nationally known nature writers and local experts, Reading Shaver’s Creek is a unique, complex depiction of the central Pennsylvania landscape and its ecology. We know the land and creatures of places such as Shaver’s Creek are bound to change throughout the century. This book is the first step to documenting how. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Marcia Bonta, Michael P. Branch, Todd Davis, Katie Fallon, David Gessner, Hannah Inglesby, John Lane, Carolyn Mahan, Jacy Marshall-McKelvey, Steven Rubin, David Taylor, Julianne Lutz Warren, and Scott Weidensaul.
Reading Shaver’s Creek: Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest (Keystone Books)
by Ian MarshallWhat does it mean to know a place? What might we learn about the world by returning to the same place year after year? What would a long-term record of such visits tell us about change and permanence and our place in the natural world? This collection explores these and related questions through a series of reflective essays and poems on Pennsylvania’s Shaver’s Creek landscape from the past decade.Collected as part of The Ecological Reflections Project—a century-long effort to observe and document changes to the natural world in the central Pennsylvanian portion of the Appalachian Forest—these pieces show how knowledge of a place comes from the information and perceptions we gather from different perspectives over time. They include Marcia Bonta’s keen observations about how humans knowingly and unknowingly affect the landscape; Scott Weidensaul’s view of the forest as a battlefield; and Katie Fallon describing the sounds of human and nonhuman life along a trail. Together, these selections create a place-based portrait of a vivid ecosystem during the first decade of the twenty-first century.Featuring contributions by nationally known nature writers and local experts, Reading Shaver’s Creek is a unique, complex depiction of the central Pennsylvania landscape and its ecology. We know the land and creatures of places such as Shaver’s Creek are bound to change throughout the century. This book is the first step to documenting how.In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Marcia Bonta, Michael P. Branch, Todd Davis, Katie Fallon, David Gessner, Hannah Inglesby, John Lane, Carolyn Mahan, Jacy Marshall-McKelvey, Steven Rubin, David Taylor, Julianne Lutz Warren, and Scott Weidensaul.
Reading the Animal in the Literature of the British Raj
by Shefali RajamannarThis book explores representations of animals during British rule in India - the tigers, elephants, boars, furs, and feathers that so often all but obscured the human beneath and behind them, and that were such an important part of creating and maintaining the hierarchies that were the cornerstones of colonialism. The book exists on two levels: one offers a sophisticated view of how power and oppression work within constellations of species, race, class, gender, and nationhood, and the other is a deeply suggestive meditation on our humanness and how we locate it within a spectrum of relations. Drawing on a range of texts (hunting narratives, stories, poetry, novels, photographs, journals, paintings, and cartoons) the argument builds with a lucid and beautifully unintrusive feel for the telling example.
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
by Tom Wessels Brian D. Cohen Ann H. ZwingerLandscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes. An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell the age of a beaver pond and determine if beavers still live there? Why are pine trees dominant in one patch of forest and maples in another? What happened to the American chestnut? Turn to this book for the answers, and no walk in the woods will ever be the same.
Reading the Glass: A Sailor's Stories of Weather
by Elliot RappaportA fascinating insight into the science of weather and the strange, wild and wonderful world of life at sea.What's in a cloud? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather could be the difference between life and death. In Reading the Glass, he offers a sailor's-eye view of the moving parts of our atmosphere and unveils the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.Told through a series of tall ship voyages, Rappaport's narrative takes listeners from the icy seas of Greenland to the Roaring Forties, places where one can experience all four seasons in an hour. He navigates the turbulent waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, en route to storied port cities of the Mediterranean. In the vast tropical Pacific, he crosses the equator, where heat, moisture, and unsettled winds churn out powerful squalls, and drops anchor in isolated ports of call. He explores wide swathes of ocean to explain how the trade winds have carried ships westward for centuries, and how ancient Polynesian explorers pushed back the other way.Written in stunning prose, brimming with wisdom, curiosity, and humour, Reading the Glass brilliantly blends science and memoir to reveal how weather has shaped our oceans, our history, and ourselves.(P) 2023 Penguin Audio
Reading the Glass: A Sailor's Stories of Weather
by Elliot Rappaport'Brimming with knowledge and experience . . . delightful'TRISTAN GOOLEY, DAILY TELEGRAPH'A fabulous compendium of terror and disaster, expertise and courage'ADAM NICOLSON, author of The Seabird's Cry'Evokes panoramas of sea and land with confident flair'WALL STREET JOURNALWhat's in a cloud? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is the difference between life and death.From the icy seas of Greenland to the turbulent waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, from the powerful squalls near the equator to the ancient Polynesian explorers who ventured eastward against trade winds, Reading the Glass combines science and memoir to reveal the remarkable story of how weather has shaped our oceans, our history and ourselves.'An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville . . . I can't recommend this book highly enough'MARK VANHOENACKER, author of Skyfaring'A gripping account of what weather is, how it feels to be in the middle of it, and what we can expect going forward!'BILL MCKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature
Readings in Performance and Ecology
by Wendy Arons Theresa J. MayThis ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land.
Readings in Wood: What the Forest Taught Me
by John Leland“[Leland] brings the botanical into direct relationship with the spiritual, using a prose style that is as profound as it is pyrotechnic.” —Jim Warren, Washington and Lee UniversityAward-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an investigation of trees and forests and also of wood as a material that people have found essential in the creation of society and culture. Leland views with wit and erudition the natural world and the curious place of human beings as saviors and destroyers of this world.At once personal memoir, natural history, and cultural criticism, the book reflects Leland’s idiosyncratic vision. As vast as a forest, topics range from tree grain and leaf shape to economic theories, mathematics, and engineering. Readings in Wood is a hybrid testament of science, faith, superstition, and disbelief learned from sitting on tree trunks and peering at leaves and fungi. Leland hopes others will join him in nature’s classroom. Quite aware of the irony, he reminds us, “These leaves you desultorily turn over once hung in a green wood gone to make this book. Touching a book, you touch a tree. I pray that Readings in Wood’s essays, touching you, may justify in some small way the trees who died in their making.”“This book constitutes a hymn to the technical and the beautiful, a meander through the geography, geology, botany, mathematics and vigor of our plants, especially in the southern Appalachians.” —R. T. Smith, editor, Shenandoah, and writer-in-residence, Washington and Lee University“Informative, thoughtful, inspiring, and innately entertaining.” —The Midwest Book Review
Ready for Pumpkins
by Kate DukeHercules, a classroom guinea pig, has a revelation when he watches the first graders grow plants from seeds. He wants to grow things, too! And during summer vacation (spent with the teacher's dad), he gets his chance. With the help of a friendly rabbit, Herky prepares the soil, carefully plants pumpkin seeds, and waits. And waits, and waits. One of the most important things he learns about gardening is patience. It's very hard to go back to school when fall comes--especially because his pumpkins aren't quite ready yet. But in October, the teacher's dad arrives with a big pumpkin for her class--that just mysteriously grew in his yard! And Herky begins dreaming about next year's garden . . .Kate Duke has created a funny and charming book that shows not just how seeds grow into plants, but also how you need patience to see a long project through.
Ready for Rain
by Esther M. O'GradyOn a warm day, the wind starts blowing. The trees and animals feel the wind and know a storm is coming. Then a woman feels the wind and calls her children home. They read while the storm rages.