Strategy of Survival
Title | Strategy of Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Crozier |
Publisher | Arlington House Publishers |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Strategies for Survival
Title | Strategies for Survival PDF eBook |
Author | William Dusinberre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-07-30 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780813947266 |
Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews -- conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers -- are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African Americans; thus the interviewees almost certainly spoke more frankly than they would otherwise have done. Dusinberre uses the interviews to assess the strategies by which slaves sought to survive, despite the severe constrictions bondage imposed upon their lives. Religion and escape were common means of coping with the indignity of family disruption, contempt, and the harsh realities of slavery. However, while Dusinberre recognizes the creativity and variety of slaves' responses to oppression, he acknowledges the dispiriting realities of the limits of slave resistance and agency. - Publisher.
Survival Strategies
Title | Survival Strategies PDF eBook |
Author | Raghavendra Gadagkar |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2001-05-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0674005570 |
Only in recent years have biologists and ethologists begun to apply careful evolutionary thinking to the study of animal societies--and with spectacular results. This book presents the choicest of these findings, illustrated with both photographs and explanatory diagrams.
Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave
Title | Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave PDF eBook |
Author | Jen White |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-06-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0374300852 |
Survival Strategy #50: If You Can, Be Brave It's easy to be brave when your eight-year-old sister, Billie, looks up to you as her protector. Twelve-year-old Liberty feels it's her job to look after Billie once they are sent to live with their father, whom they haven't seen since they were very young. Dad is unpredictable on his best days, but when he abandons the girls at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, Liberty's courage is truly put to the test. As she and Billie struggle to make it home on their own, they encounter a cast of both helpful and not-so-helpful characters, including a man with caterpillar eyebrows, a lady dressed entirely in lavender, a tattooed trucker with a soft spot for cats, a kid who is a little too obsessed with Star Wars, and a woman who lives with a houseful of nontraditional pets. Along the way, they learn that sometimes you have to get a little bit lost to be found.
Nepal
Title | Nepal PDF eBook |
Author | Leo E. Rose |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520338693 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Nepal; Strategy for Survival
Title | Nepal; Strategy for Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Leo E. Rose |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780520016439 |
The Human Scaffold
Title | The Human Scaffold PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Berson |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2021-03-23 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0520380495 |
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate. The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.