Cactus Thorn
Title | Cactus Thorn PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Austin |
Publisher | Western Literature and Fiction |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780874172539 |
Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss, flees from his complicated and pressure-ridden life in New York City to the serenity of the desert's open spaces, finding a love and a landscape that will change his life.
Dew on the Thorn
Title | Dew on the Thorn PDF eBook |
Author | Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781611921175 |
Dew on the Thorn seeks to recreate the life of Texas Mexicans as Anglo culture was gradually encroaching upon them. Gonzalez provides us with a richly detailed portrait of South Texas, focusing on the cultural traditions of Texas Mexicans at a time when the divisions of class and race were pressing on the established way of life.
Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine
Title | Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Ran Knishinsky |
Publisher | Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2004-06-07 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780892811496 |
Examines the health benefits of the prickly pear cactus, summarizing the literature and research on its use in treating diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and other ailments, and including information about application and dosage.
Undomesticated Ground
Title | Undomesticated Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Stacy Alaimo |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2019-01-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501720465 |
From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings—as well as of popular journalism, visual arts, television, and film—powerfully demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be an essential concept for feminist theory and practice.Alaimo urges feminist theorists to rethink the concept of nature by probing the vastly different meanings that it carries. She discusses its significance for Americans engaged in social and political struggles from, for example, the "Indian Wars" of the early nineteenth century, to the birth control movement in the 1920s, to contemporary battles against racism and heterosexism. Reading works by Catherine Sedgwick, Mary Austin, Emma Goldman, Nella Larson, Donna Haraway, Toni Morrison, and others, Alaimo finds that some of these writers strategically invoke nature for feminist purposes while others cast nature as a postmodern agent of resistance in the service of both environmentalism and the women's movement.By examining the importance of nature within literary and political texts, this book greatly expands the parameters of the nature writing genre and establishes nature as a crucial site for the cultural work of feminism.
The Cactus Journal
Title | The Cactus Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Cactus |
ISBN |
Called to Healing
Title | Called to Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Troy-Smith |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791429754 |
Advocates and demonstrates women's path to personal wholeness and self-healing through an eco-feminist, reader-response analysis of four fictional narratives.
Computational Science – ICCS 2009
Title | Computational Science – ICCS 2009 PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Allen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 1047 |
Release | 2009-05-19 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3642019692 |
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a tri?ing investment of fact. ” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi The challenges in succeeding with computational science are numerous and deeply a?ect all disciplines. NSF’s 2006 Blue Ribbon Panel of Simulation-Based 1 Engineering Science (SBES) states ‘researchers and educators [agree]: com- tational and simulation engineering sciences are fundamental to the security and welfare of the United States. . . We must overcome di?culties inherent in multiscale modeling, the development of next-generation algorithms, and the design. . . of dynamic data-driven application systems. . . We must determine better ways to integrate data-intensive computing, visualization, and simulation. - portantly,wemustoverhauloureducationalsystemtofostertheinterdisciplinary study. . . The payo?sformeeting these challengesareprofound. ’The International Conference on Computational Science 2009 (ICCS 2009) explored how com- tational sciences are not only advancing the traditional hard science disciplines, but also stretching beyond, with applications in the arts, humanities, media and all aspects of research. This interdisciplinary conference drew academic and industry leaders from a variety of ?elds, including physics, astronomy, mat- matics,music,digitalmedia,biologyandengineering. Theconferencealsohosted computer and computational scientists who are designing and building the - ber infrastructure necessary for next-generation computing. Discussions focused on innovative ways to collaborate and how computational science is changing the future of research. ICCS 2009: ‘Compute. Discover. Innovate. ’ was hosted by the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.