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Author | : Scott Chaskey |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1101118172 |
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In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Rural Life, This Common Ground is an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the country's first community-supported farms. By reflecting on four seasons of activity at his beloved Quail Hill Farm in eastern Long Island, Scott Chaskey offers stirring insight into the connections between land and the human family. Whether writing about the voice of a small wren nesting in the lemon balm or a meadow of oats, millet, and peas rising to silver and green after a fresh rain, this poet-farmer's contagious sense of wonder brings us back to our bond with the soil.
Author | : J. Anthony Lukas |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2012-09-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 030782375X |
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Author | : Molly Bang |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590100564 |
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Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world's environment safely.
Author | : Frederick M. Hess |
Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0807765163 |
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"At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. Written as a series of back-and-forth exchanges, this engaging book illustrates a model of civil debate between those with substantial, principled differences. It is also a powerful meditation on where 21st-century school improvement can and should go next"--
Author | : Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146966268X |
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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.
Author | : John Emmeus Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2020-11-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734403008 |
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Land that is owned and managed for the common good is a hallmark of community land trusts. CLTs are locally controlled, nonprofit organizations that steward permanently affordable housing (and other assets) for people of modest means. This book explores the global growth of CLTs in twenty-six original essays by authors from a dozen countries.
Author | : Jeremy Gilbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9781849649773 |
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Common Ground explores the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. The book asks how forces and ideas opposed to neoliberal hegemony, and to the individualist tradition in Western thought, might serve to protect some form of communality, and how far we must accept assumptions about the nature of individuality and collectivity which are the legacy of an elitist tradition. Along the way it examines different ideas and practices of collectivity, from conservative notions of hierarchical and patriarchal communities to the politics of 'horizontality' and 'the commons' which are at the heart of radical movements today. Exploring this fundamental faultline in contemporary political struggle, Common Ground proposes a radically non-individualist mode of imagining social life, collective creativity and democratic possibility.
Author | : Rob Cowen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022642426X |
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"Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban environs, nature is all around us, it is in us. It is us. This is what Rob Cowen discovered after moving to a new home in northern England. After ten years in London, he was suddenly adrift, searching for a sense of connection. He found himself drawn to a square-mile patch of waste ground at the edge of town. Scrappy, weed-filled, this heart-shaped tangle of land was the very definition of overlooked - a thoroughly in-between place that capitalism had no further use for, leaving nature to take its course. Wandering in meadows, woods, hedges, and fields, Cowen found it was also a magical, mysterious place, haunted and haunting, abandoned but wildly alive - and he fell in fascinated love."--Book jacket.
Author | : John D. Leshy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 030023578X |
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The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.
Author | : Richard DuFour |
Publisher | : Solution Tree Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1934009865 |
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This anthology presents the recommendations of education leaders, and each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and offers specific strategies for developing PLCs. These leaders have found common ground in expressing their belief in the power of PLCs although clear differences emerge regarding their perspectives on the most effective strategy for making PLCs the norm in North America.