Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina

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Challenging many of the methods and preconceptions of conventional folk-architecture studies, 'Homeplace' examines traditional houses in the mountains of Appalachia from the perspective offered by oral histories. Michael Ann Williams bases much of her study on interviews with some of the people most intimately familiar with her subject: more than fifty individuals born and raised in southwestern North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their testimony links the perspective of former occupants and the experiential aspects of folk architecture with more traditional scholarly studies.

Most scholarship on vernacular architecture emphasizes form and structure and is based primarily on the examination of extant buildings. While 'Homeplace' contains floor plans and historical photographs, it also illustrates how oral history is often a more reliable guide in the interpretation of folk buildings than artifactual or documentary evidence. By foregrounding inhabitants' reminiscences, Williams brings rural Appalachian architecture to life by emphasizing human experience within the dwelling.

An examination of universal concerns -- continuity and change in the inhabitants' uses and conceptualizations of interior spaces, domestic life and cultural change in southern Appalachia, the shifting importance of formal and informal spaces -- 'Homeplace' offers new insights into the folk building tradition and its cultural context that will be most helpful to those seeking a broader understanding of Appalachian life.

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42nd issue of an international literary magazine. This issue features work by: Patience Agabi, Rane Arroyo, Steve Aylett, Nicole Blackman, John Calder, Billy Childish, John Cooper Clarke, Cathy Eisenhower, Rich Ferguson, Hugh Fox, Richard Hell, Maxim Jakubowski, Joolz, Bill Knott, Tuli Kupferberg, M.L. Liebler, Debra Marquart, Joe Martin, Martin Millar, Deborah Pintonelli, d.j. renegade, Paulette Roberts, Anne Rouse, Salena Saliva, Neil Sparkes, Carolyn Stoloff, Adrienne Su, Gladys Swan, Lori Tsang, Michael Waters & Michael Wilding

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How do you spell S-A-S?.......2000-06-26

Gargoyle 42 is a brilliant collection of brash, dynamic and creative literary works. Particularly moving is the hard-hitting "Boyfriend" by Jenny Badman. When this woman lays it out there, you'll feel it. Buy the book!

Gargoyles and Jenny B, perfect together........2000-06-17

I loved this work! My fav section was the poem by Jenny B. It moved me and inspired me to make some changes in my life. This work was spellbinding, riveting and seductive. Encoré Jenny B!

Jenny B...........2000-06-17

This hot author is already outstanding. Not only has captured the heat of the moment, but she relates it to everyday life. It has flavor and edge. Loved it!

Jenny Badman is AWESOME!.......2000-06-17

This dynamic work of literature inspired me to take more chances in my life. I found it captivating, seductive and dark. Keep up the awesome work!

Deep Into The Night.......2000-05-20

GARGOYLE should be required reading for every creative writing class. This work sparkles with literary elegance and discipline, bubbles with sex and boils with blood. BUY IT! You will feel these writers breathing on your neck deep into the night!

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WILD WEST PB (Photographers at Work)
David Levinthal
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The Wild West - Photographers At Work
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The Wild West : Photographs by David Levinthal (Photographers at Work Ser.)
Constance (editor) Sullivan
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The Wild West : Photographs by David Levinthal (Photographers at Work Ser.)
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The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever-growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the relationship between the region's nature and its culture. In an engaging narrative that melds the personal with the professional, Timothy P. Duane--who grew up in the area--documents the impact of rapid population growth on the culture, economy, and ecology of the Sierra Nevada since the late 1960s. He also recommends innovative policies for mitigating the negative effects of future population growth in this spectacular but threatened region, as well as throughout the rural west.
Today, the primary social and economic values of the Sierra Nevada landscape are in the amenities and ecological services provided by its wildlands and functioning ecosystems. Duane shows how further unfettered population growth threatens the very values which have made the Sierra Nevada a desirable place to live and work. A new approach to land use planning, resource management, and local economic development--one that recognizes the emerging values of the landscape--is necessary in order to achieve sustainable development, Duane claims. Weaving personal experience with outstanding scholarship, he shows how such an approach must explicitly recognize the importance of values and the application of an environmental land ethic to future development in the area.

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Scholarly, definitive, and surprisingly engaging.......1999-08-29

Duane paints an interesting and comprehensive portrait of how the Sierra Nevada area has been transformed by the shift from an emphasis on resource extraction to a lifestyle choice.

His illustrations of the paradox thus created--the region's success as a recreation destination is imperiling the very qualities that are giving it that success--is particularly compelling.

Anyone with an interest in the Sierra Nevada, or mountain/recreational area living in general, will find this a fascinating read. I can't imagine anyone who is making policy for any area trying to grapple with the issues of growth and quality of life not having a copy of this work.

The scholarly component--I did find myself skimming a few areas--makes it a great reference work. It is very well indexed and clearly presented. And each time I started feeling like I was wading, I re-engaged fully at the start of the next section.

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Shaping the Sierra : Nature, Culture and Conflict in the Changing West
Timothy P. Duane
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Frank J. Popper
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 809 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West.(Review) (book review)
Author: Frank J. Popper
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
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This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.

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MONEY AND THE MORALITY OF EXCHANGE.
J. and Bloch, M. (eds.): Parry
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Upon the foundation of his unique experience and education, the late Arcadius Kahan (1920-1982) built a substantial body of scholarship on all aspects of the tsarist economy. Yet some of his important contribution might well have been dissipated were it not for this collection, since many of these essays were often available only in isolated, obscure sources. This posthumous volume makes readily available for the first time ten of Kahan's essays, nine previously published in English and one in German, which serve to integrate his carefully developed picture of nineteenth-century Russian economic history. Kahan's remarkable vision forms a complement to the thought of Gerschenkron, and this volume is certain to become a valuable source for scholars and students of Russian and European economic and social history.

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Today many people are looking into herbal therapy as a natural form of illness management. But of the thousands of plants on earth, which can be used safely? What dosages are correct? What illnesses can be helped with herbs? What about interactions with prescription medicines? Here a practicing clinical pharmacist provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use reference, arranged alphabetically by ailment.

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Not enough comparison on various "cures".......2000-04-26

I found that although this book has good intentions it was not helpful for someone looking for more then just a list of disease states and various herbals used to treat them. Each disease state lists the herbals sometimes used but did not give any information on why one might be better or worse then the others. It was concise as others have pointed out. I would recommend the APhA book on herbs over this one.

This is the book I've been waiting for........1999-07-26

The direction I needed to take in this new frontier

An excellent primary reference for health practitioners........1999-06-22

Clear and concise treatments and monographs for medicinal herbs. An invaluable reference for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care practitioners entering this exciting field of complementary therapies.

A deceptively important book.......1998-09-16

Steven Ottariano's Medicinal Herbal Therapy breaks new ground in terms of clarity, insight and the accessible delivery of information about the healing benefits of natural herbs. Written by a practicing clinical pharmacist, Medicinal Herbal Therapy provides an easy-to-read perspective on how and when natural medications can augment or sometimes replace modern synthetic preparations that are often prescribed by physicians either out of habit or as a result of a lack of knowledge. Anyone searching for information about herbal cures will find the information they desire--and more--in Medicinal Herbal Therapy.

The book's organization makes it easy to use. Part One, "What Ails You?" is alphabetically arranged to help you locate herbs by the symptoms they cure. Part Two, "The Healing Herbs" alphabetically lists herbs and the ailments they cure.

Straight forward, to the point!.......1998-08-29

Very valuable information, succinctly presented. Also very useful for physicians, who might want to know a little more about Phytotherapy.

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"The Firecracker Boys" never quit!.......2005-09-07

With John Bolton as our renegade permanent representative to the UN, working for the US nuclear weapons industry by trying to stop the UN program of nonproliferation, "The Firecracker Boys" so brilliantly described in Dan O'Neill's book continue even today with their diabolical efforts. Not to mention NASA's plan to send nuclear powered rockets into space.

Essential, scary reading.......2004-03-13

About a fascinating chapter in American history, and how the democratic process prevailed--barely--over the certain vested interests in the military-industrial complex. Makes Dwight Eisenhower look like a prophet--and also details some of the career of Edward Tellar, rightly celebrated as the father of the American H-bomb but then subsequently responsible for much bad science, including Ronald Reagan's Star Wars. This book is very well researched and documented. One moral to draw: citizens must be involved with public policy. The former Soviet Union, undertaking a similar project, turned areas of Siberia so radioactive that it will not be safe to dwell there for 10,000 or more years. We almost did the same in Alaska--but thankfully did not. Read this book to (1) understand how this disaster was averted, and what we can do to continue to safeguard our democratic processes; and (2) for great--true--story.

Creepy.......2003-11-19

I cannot help but notcice how the reviewers which seem to have been deeply disgusted by this book prefer to remain anonymous. Even if their opinion is that nuclear testing should continue, it disturbs me that these reviewers were not taken aback by the colossal mountain of half-truths, misrepresentations, and downright lies that the AEC (Atomic Energy Comission) used to lobby this project to Alaskans.

And remember, these are the same guys who concluded that it would be acceptable to conduct underground nuclear tests near one of the most active fault lines in the world, on Amchitka Island out on the Aleutian chain.

I can only say that never again will I be able to look at a map of my state without imagining a "polar bear shaped harbor" etched in to the wind battered coast somewhere between Barrow and Kotzebue.

A Well Written and Researched Cautionary Tale.......2002-02-04

Behind the blithe title of this book is a serious work. More, it's an important book. Its subject is Project Chariot, a proposed nuclear excavation on Alaska's Bering Strait. Project Plowshare, initiated in the late 50's, was the umbrella effort to put nuclear explosions to work for non-military purposes, and Project Chariot was billed as one of its first trials. The Firecracker Boys is the history of the conception, marketing, and eventual failure by the nuclear establishment in the face of a burgeoning environmental movement.

But the book is more than a history; it's the story of the the people on both sides of the fight, and of nuclear testing.There are few books which analyze the history of nuclear testing in the United States, and while detailing the story of Project Chariot, Dan O'Neill gives the most comprehensive history I've yet read of nuclear testing in general. This was surprising to me because I have been in search of such a book, and was delighted to discover it behind what would seem to be a narrow slice of the annals of nuclear testing.

O'Neill shows us the world of the Eskimos who, for centuries or longer, lived not far from the selected site of the harbor which was to be blasted from the Bering shore. We also get a view into the life and motivations of Edward Teller, the vociferous proponent of Plowshare's geographical engineering, and other nuclear scientists and officials: "If your mountain isn't in the right place, drop us a card". In addition, the Atomic Energy Commission, in an effort to appear interested in the safety of such a detonation, instituted a program of scientific studies of the site and of the Eskimos nearby. When the biologists, geologist and sociologists refused to be cowed and censored by the AEC, the scientists spoke out at great risk in order to let the truth be known.

The struggle for the truth, as told by O'Neill, is an important element of the book, and a cautionary tale for today. The U.S. Government, under the auspices of the AEC, misled and deceived the citizens of the U.S. about the safety and necessity of nuclear testing. The author patiently outlines the contrast between recently declassified materials, and what the officials of the AEC were saying to the press, the Eskimos and to the American public about the dangers of fallout from nuclear testing. No doubt, the AEC felt it was justified in such disregard and duplicity in the name of national security and of the progress of science. When agents of the government act in a manner beyond accountability and scrutiny, and with ideological obsessiveness, the result is usually detrimental to the public. In this well written and well researched book, Dan O'Neill tells a mostly forgotten story which every American should know.

A dull diatribe on something that never happened.......2000-10-05

The author writes with a 20-20 hindsight that doesn't even begin to try to understand the bomb, the Cold War, or the nature of those times. What point was there in writing an anti-nuclear book about a nuclear detonation that NEVER happened?

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The Firecracker Boys
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The Firecracker Boys: H-bombs, Eskimos, and the Birth of the Environmental Movement

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The Firecracker Boys: H-bombs, Eskimos, and the Birth of the Environmental Movement
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In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. The Firecracker Boys is a story of the U.S. government's arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it--launching America's environmental movement. As one of Alaska's most prominent authors, Dan O'Neill brings to these pages his love of Alaska's landscape, his skill as a nature and science writer, and his determination to expose one of the most shocking chapters of the Nuclear Age.

The Firecracker Boys.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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The Firecracker Boys.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Paul D. Boyer
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on May 1, 1995. The length of the article is 2589 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Firecracker Boys.
Author: Paul D. Boyer
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1995
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v51 Issue: n3 Page: p62(4)

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The Firecracker Boys
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The Library Of Original Sources, Editors Edition 1907 Vol. 6. Editor-In-Chief Oliver J. Thatcher (Advance In Knowledge 1650-1800.)

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The Library of Original Sources, Vol. 6: Advance in Knowledge, 1650-1800

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Volume VI of a ten-volume set

The Library Of Original Sources, Editors Edition 1907 Vol. 6. (Advance In Knowledge 1650-1800.)

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The Library Of Original Sources, Editors Edition 1907 Vol. 6. (Advance In Knowledge 1650-1800.)

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George Miksch Sutton is one of the best known and most beloved bird artists of the twentieth century. This marvelous book presents thirty-five paintings of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by Sutton. The exquisite watercolors, housed in the Field Museum of Natural History, span three decades and depict nineteen species of North American birds. Many of the paintings are reproduced here for the first time.

In his introduction to the collection, ornithologist Paul Johnsgard discusses Sutton's contributions to bird art and to ornithology. And is essays accompanying the paintings, Johnsgard describes his and Sutton's personal encounters with the birds.

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A stunning one-of-a-kind collection .......2006-12-19

Simply put, this is a stunning collection of 35 watercolors of downy chicks, nestlings, and fledglings painted from life by one of the premier bird artists of the 20th century, George Miksch Sutton. The 19 species of North American birds, many reproduced here for the first time, are exquisite paintings standing alone but the highly readable, informative text by internationally renowned ornithologist Paul A. Johnsgard is both indispensable and helps make this a must-have, one-of-a-king bird lovers delight. The book is a steal at this price.

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Baby Bird Portraits
George Miksch Sutton , and Paul A. Johnsgard
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