In View of the Mountains
Author | : Jennifer Patten |
Publisher | : Jennifer Patten |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2011-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1458123979 |
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Author | : Jennifer Patten |
Publisher | : Jennifer Patten |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2011-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1458123979 |
Author | : Michael Collier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
A collection of aerial photographs by Michael Collier that profile the remote regions of the world that reveal some of the geological phenomena that have shaped the planet.
Author | : John Muir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maggie Doyne |
Publisher | : Harper Horizon |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2022-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0785240292 |
Between the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person--regardless of age--takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds. Maggie’s story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world during a gap year before starting college. During her travels, the trajectory of her life alters when she has a surprise encounter with a Nepali girl breaking rocks in a quarry. Maggie decides to invest her life savings of five thousand dollars to buy a piece of land and open a children’s home in Nepal. That home becomes Kopila Valley Children’s Home, and eventually, the nonprofit Maggie launches, the BlinkNow Foundation, also starts the Kopila Valley School, which provides tuition-free education for more than four hundred students. Maggie and BlinkNow’s work have been recognized around the world for their innovative, sustainable work. However, this book isn’t a how-to for fledging philanthropists or nonprofit founders--it’s a coming-of-age story about a young woman suspended between two worlds, as well as the love, loss, healing, and hope she experiences along the way. And Maggie’s inspiring, intimate tale shows readers an important truth: the power to change the world exists within all of us.
Author | : Florence Cope Bush |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780870497261 |
Dorie's story begins with her childhood on an isolated mountain farm, where we see first-hand how her parents combined back-breaking labor with intense personal pride to produce everything their family needed--from food and clothing to tools and toys--from the land. Lumber companies began to invade the mountains, and Dorie's family took advantage of the financial opportunities offered by the lumber industry, not realizing that in giving up their lands they were also letting go of a way of life. Along with their machinery, the lumber companies brought in many young men, one of whom, Fred Cope, became Dorie's husband. After the lumber companies stripped the mountains of their timber, outsiders set the area aside as a national park, requiring Dorie, now married with a family of her own, to move outside of her beloved mountains.
Author | : David Brooks |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0241400694 |
NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMAL Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting. This is the second mountain. What does it mean to look beyond yourself and find a moral cause? To forget about independence and discover dependence - to be utterly enmeshed in a web of warm relationships? What does it mean to value intimacy, devotion, responsibility and commitment above individual freedom? In The Second Mountain David Brooks explores the meaning and possibilities that scaling a second mountain offer us and the four commitments that most commonly move us there: family, vocation, philosophy and community. Inspiring, personal and full of joy, this book will help you discover why you were really put on this earth.
Author | : Bernard Debarbieux |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022603125X |
In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material realities but as social constructs, ones that can mean radically different things to different people in different settings. From the Enlightenment to the present day, and using a variety of case studies from all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a wide range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social programs, have been shaped according to them. A rich hybrid analysis of geography, history, culture, and politics, the book promises to forever change the way we look at mountains.
Author | : Reyna Grande |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743269586 |
Grande puts a human face on the epic story about those who make it across the border into America, those who never make it across, and those who are left behind.
Author | : Cynthia Rylant |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140548750 |
Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International
Author | : Haily Meyers |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1423653181 |
Children experience and explore their favorite parts of nature.