Nowhere in America
Title | Nowhere in America PDF eBook |
Author | Hal Rammel |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | American wit and humor |
ISBN | 9780252017179 |
A magical tour through the imaginary terrain of the comic imagination as revealed in children's lore, literature, folktales, travel lies, film comedies, cartoons, comic books, and folksongs. With 14 bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Geography Of Nowhere
Title | Geography Of Nowhere PDF eBook |
Author | James Howard Kunstler |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1994-07-26 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0671888250 |
Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs.
AMERICA NOWHERE.
Title | AMERICA NOWHERE. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 141 |
Release | 1992 |
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Outdoor America
Title | Outdoor America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 778 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Natural resources |
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The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America: Myths and languages. 1875
Title | The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America: Myths and languages. 1875 PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Publisher | |
Pages | 840 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Indians |
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Extensive anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and historical work on the Indians of the North, Central, and South Americas and, in North America, as far east as the Mississippi Valley.
Current Literature
Title | Current Literature PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Literature |
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Virtual America
Title | Virtual America PDF eBook |
Author | John Opie |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803235717 |
Virtual America traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centuries. Throughout history Americans have constructed mental pictures of unique places, such as the American West, that have taken on more authority than the actual gritty landscapes. This disconnect from reality is magnified by the new world of virtual realities on the computer screen, where personal immersion in interactive simulations becomes the ?default? environment. Virtual America identifies the connections (or lack thereof) between our individual selves, an American identity, and the geography ?out there.? John Opie examines what he calls First Nature (the natural world), Second Nature (metropolitan infrastructure/built environment), and Third Nature (virtual reality in cyberspace). He also explores how Americans have historically dreamed about a better life in daily, ordinary existence and then fulfilled it through the Engineered America of our built environment, the Consumer America of material well-being, and the Triumphal America of our conviction that we are the world's exceptional model. But these dream worlds have also encouraged placelessness and thus indifference to our dwelling in home ground. Finally, Opie explores Last Nature (a sense of place) and argues that when we identify an authentic place, we can locate authenticity of self?a reification of place and self?by their connectedness.