An operator's guide to human terrain teams / / Norman Nigh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910709817303321
• Autore: Nigh Norman
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newport, RI : , : Center on Irregular Warfare & Armed Groups (CIWAG), US Naval War College, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (73 unnumbered pages) : color illustration, color maps
• Collana: [CIWAG Case Studies ; ; 12]
• Soggetti: Special forces (Military science) - United States; Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Military intelligence - United States; Cultural awareness; Counterinsurgency; Counterinsurgency - Afghanistan; Intercultural communication; Case studies.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "2011"--Cover sheet which precedes the PDF cover.; Series taken from citation on the U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons cover sheet which precedes the PDF cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Liberty Hyde Bailey : essential agrarian and environmental writings / / edited by Zachary Michael Jack

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974310703321
• Autore: Bailey L. H (Liberty Hyde), <1858-1954.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 9780801457593; 0801457599; 9780801458835; 0801458838
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): JackZachary Michael <1973->
• Disciplina: 630
• Soggetti: Agriculture; Nature conservation; Environmentalism; Country life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface. Sower and Seer: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings of Liberty Hyde Bailey -- Introducing Sower and Seer, Liberty Hyde Bailey -- I. WORKMANSHIP -- II. CONSCIENCE -- III. EDUCATION -- IV. COMMUNITY -- V. NATURE -- VI. FARM -- VII. POETICS -- VIII. APPRECIATIONS -- IX. CODA, THE AGRARIAN WAY -- Index -- About the Editor
• Sommario/riassunto: "Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her messengers. The light, the dark, the moon, the cloud, the rain, the wind, the falling leaf, the fly, the bouquet, the bird, the cockroach-they are all ours. If one is to be happy, he must be in sympathy with common things. He must live in harmony with his environment. One cannot be happy yonder nor tomorrow: he is happy here and now, or never. Our stock of knowledge of common things should be great. Few of us can travel. We must know the things at home."-from "The Meaning of the Nature-study Movement "To feel that one is a useful ; and cooperating part in nature is to give one kinship, and to open the mind to the great resources and the high enthusiasms. Here arise the fundamental common relations. Here arise also the great emotions and conceptions of sublimity and grandeur, of majesty and awe, the uplift of vast desires-when one contemplates the earth and the universe and desires to take them into the soul and to express oneself in their terms; and here also the responsible practices of life take root."-from "The Holy Earth "Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself popularized. For Aldo Leopold, Bailey offered a model of the scholar-essayist-naturalist. In his revolutionary work of eco-theology, The Holy Earth, Bailey challenged the anthropomorphism-the people-centeredness-of a vulnerable world. A trained scientist writing in the lyrical tradition of Emerson, Burroughs, and Muir, Bailey offered the twentieth century its first exquisitely interdisciplinary biocentric worldview; this Michigan farmer's son defined the intellectual and spiritual foundations of what would become the environmental movement. For nearly a half century, Bailey dominated matters agricultural, environmental, and scientific in the United States. He worked both to improve the lives of rural folk and to preserve the land from which they earned their livelihood. Along the way, he popularized nature study in U.S. classrooms, lobbied successfully for women's rights on and off the farm, and bulwarked Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservationism. Here for the first time is an anthology of Bailey's most important writings suitable for the general and scholarly reader alike. Carefully selected and annotated by Zachary Michael Jack, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Bailey's celebrated and revolutionary thinking on the urgent environmental, agrarian, educational, and ecospiritual dilemmas of his day and our own. Culled from ten of Bailey's most influential works, these lyrical selections highlight Bailey's contributions to the nature-study and the Country Life movements. Published on the one-hundredth anniversary of Bailey's groundbreaking report on behalf of the Country Life Commission, Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings will inspire a new generation of nature writers, environmentalists, and those who share with Bailey a profound understanding of the elegance and power of the natural world and humanity's place within it.

Global fragments : globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical theory / / Eduardo Mendieta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958105903321
• Autore: Mendieta Eduardo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9780791479278; 0791479277; 9781435611832; 1435611837
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/201
• Soggetti: Globalization; Globalization - Philosophy; Globalization - Social aspects - Latin America; Civilization, Modern - 21st century; Critical theory; Latin America Foreign relations 1980-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Epistemic Hubris and Dialogical Cosmopolitanism -- Globalizations -- Philosophizing Globalizations -- Invisible Cities -- Latinamericanisms -- From Modernity, through Postmodernity, to Globalization -- Remapping Latin American Studies -- The Emperor’s Map -- Critical Theory -- Beyond Universal History -- Politics in an Age of Planetarization -- The Linguistification of the Sacred as a Catalyst of Modernity -- Which Pragmatism? Whose America? -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of ; Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.