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Aftermath

Prepare for and Survive Apocalypse 2012

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

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Aftermath

Prepare for and Survive Apocalypse 2012

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

Originally published: New York: Broadway Books, 2010.

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Broadway Books

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0767930797

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9780767930796

Apocalypse 2012

A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

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Apocalypse 2012

A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

In this provocative work, Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike.

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274

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Three Rivers Press

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0767924487

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9780767924481

The dictionary of biographical reference

By: Lawrence B. Phillips

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The dictionary of biographical reference

By: Lawrence B. Phillips

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. 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.

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3382116820

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9783382116828

The Environmental Imagination

Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

By: Lawrence Buell

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The Environmental Imagination

Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

By: Lawrence Buell

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature. The green tradition in American writing commands Buell's special attention, particularly environmental nonfiction from colonial times to the present. In works by writers from Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry, John Muir to Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson to Leslie Silko, Mary Austin to Edward Abbey, he examines enduring environmental themes such as the dream of relinquishment, the personification of the nonhuman, an attentiveness to environmental cycles, a devotion to place, and a prophetic awareness of possible ecocatastrophe. At the center of this study we find an image of Walden as a quest for greater environmental awareness, an impetus and guide for Buell as he develops a new vision of environmental writing and seeks a new way of conceiving the relation between human imagination and environmental actuality in the age of industrialization. Intricate and challenging in its arguments, yet engagingly and elegantly written, The Environmental Imagination is a major work of scholarship, one that establishes a new basis for reading American nature writing.

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Harvard University Press

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0674262433

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9780674262430

The Books of Moses Revisited

By: Paul J. N. Lawrence

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The Books of Moses Revisited

By: Paul J. N. Lawrence

Who wrote the first five books of the Bible? Does it really matter who did? The Books of Moses Revisited explores this question by comparing the covenants of Exodus/Leviticus and Deuteronomy with the inter-state treaties of the late second millennium BC. Some compelling similarities come to light, both in the pattern adopted and in many small details. Lawrence clearly demonstrates this with many examples and diagrams, yet without assuming that readers possess a detailed knowledge of ancient history and linguistics. Despite the entrenchment of the widely held theory--the so-called Documentary Hypothesis--that the first five books of the Bible were the product of an anonymous editor living many centuries after Moses, this book argues that the first five books of the Bible bear many hallmarks of being late second millennium BC compositions and that Moses should not be ruled out as being the author. The book also explores how several ancient texts--the Egyptian Story of Sinuhe, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey--were transmitted in antiquity and suggests that a similar process also lies behind the transmission of the first five books of the Bible.

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124

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498269923

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9781498269926

Integrations

The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education

By: Lawrence Blum,Zoë Burkholder

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Integrations

The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education

By: Lawrence Blum,Zoë Burkholder

Education plays a central part in the history of racial inequality in America, with people of color long advocating for equal educational rights and opportunities. Though school desegregation initially was a boon for educational equality, schools began to resegregate in the 1980s, and schools are now more segregated than ever. In Integrations, historian Zoë Burkholder and philosopher Lawrence Blum set out to shed needed light on the enduring problem of segregation in American schools. From a historical perspective, the authors analyze how ideas about race influenced the creation and development of American public schools. Importantly, the authors focus on multiple marginalized groups in American schooling: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinxs, and Asian Americans. In the second half of the book, the authors explore what equal education should and could look like. They argue for a conception of "educational goods" (including the development of moral and civic capacities) that should and can be provided to every child through schooling--including integration itself. Ultimately, the authors show that in order to grapple with integration in a meaningful way, we must think of integration in the plural, both in its multiple histories and the many possible meanings of and courses of action for integration"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022678603X

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9780226786032

Apocalypse 2012

A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

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Apocalypse 2012

A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

In this provocative work, Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike.

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Three Rivers Press

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0767924487

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9780767924481

Solar Cataclysm

How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

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Solar Cataclysm

How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

Science journalist and futurist Lawrence Joseph has studied the unprecedented solar storms since the last ice age and in Solar Cataclysm he reveals the monumental ecological, biological, emotional, political, financial, and cultural effects they have had in the past, and will ultimately have on humanity’s future. This timely, fascinating, and relevant book from the bestselling author of Apocalypse 2012 sounds an intelligent and urgent warning about the possible catastrophic consequences we will face in the coming years if we don’t listen to what the sun is trying to tell us. Popular science fans who made The World Without Us a runaway bestseller, readers open to new angles on history like those presented in Guns, Germs, and Steel, and anyone who is concerned about tomorrow and what we can do to ensure humankind’s survival must read Solar Cataclysm.

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288

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Harper Collins

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0062061933

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9780062061935

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Aftermath

Aftermath

Apocalypse 2012

Apocalypse 2012

The dictionary of biographical reference

The dictionary of biographical reference

The Environmental Imagination

The Environmental Imagination

The Books of Moses Revisited

The Books of Moses Revisited

Integrations

Integrations

Apocalypse 2012

Apocalypse 2012

Solar Cataclysm

Solar Cataclysm

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