1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798378203321

Autore

Leopold Estella B.

Titolo

Stories from the Leopold shack : sand county revisited / / Estella B. Leopold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-755961-1

0-19-046324-4

0-19-046323-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

LeopoldA. Carl

Disciplina

508.73

Soggetti

Restoration ecology - Wisconsin

Restoration ecology - United States

Nature conservation - Wisconsin

Nature conservation - United States

Sauk County (Wis.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; EPIGRAPH; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Chapter One: The Shack Enterprise ; Rebuilding ; The Inaugural Visit ; We Meet the Neighbors ; The Shack: Look, Mother, Someone Lives There! ; Planting Pines ; The Music of Our Days and Nights ; Our Second Fireplace, a Remodel (1936) ; The Flying Visitor ; Woopsie! ; Chapter Two: Winter ; Cutting Wood, Banding Birds ; Our Shack Is Vandalized ; The Slough and the River ; Games in Winter ; Cutting the Good Oak ; Chapter Three:  Spring ; Planting Again

Poco and Pedro Sky Dance ; Warbler Watching ; Meat Rock and Calling to the Owls ; Goose Music ; What Species Do the Deer Prefer? ; Road Kill for Supper ; Chapter Four: Summer ; The Rhythms of Summer ; Tree House ; Leopold Benches ; Our Beach ; On the Shores of Lake Chapman ; What We Found in the Sand Blow ; Later Years: Building Trails ; Chapter Five: Fall ; Bounty from Our Shack Garden and Orchard ; Carl's Hawks ; Hunting Traditions ; Early Deer Hunting Near the Shack



Property ; Dad and Gus ; Chapter Six: The Evolving Archery Endeavors ; Artisan and Archery ; Roving and Archery Practice

Mother's Tournament Successes Lady Diana ; Hunting at the Shack and Beyond ; Chapter Seven: The Shack Landscape and Its Restoration: ; The Lay of the Land ; Glacial Carvings: The Johnstown Moraine and the Green Bay Lobe ; Early Forests ; Vegetation Phases ; Early and Historical Records ; What We Did on the Land: Restoration Efforts ; The Shack Yard-and the Plants We Love ; The Old Cornfield, and Finding the Natives ; Maples Soft and Hard ; Our Vegetable Garden and the Original Orchard ; Moist Prairie South of the River Road ; The Sand Blow ; Tamaracks ; "Pines Planted. Do Not Molest"

The Neighbor's Fire, April 21, 1948 We Plant an Oak ; Chapter Eight: The Continuing Process of Restoration,1948:-Present; The Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve ; The Bradley Study Center and a Prairie Experiment ; The Leopold Fellows Program ; The Significance of Prairie Building ; The Aldo Leopold Foundation ; Charlie Bradley's Woods and Prairie ; Restored Vegetation Areas ; Oak Forests and Resilient Prairie Plants ; Of Sandhill Cranes and Ducks ; Nina's Phenology ; Other Restoration Projects ; Driftless Area Landowners ; Chapter Nine: The Shack Idea ; The Results: A Mosaic

Starker's Place at Sage Hen Field Station, California Luna's Place on the New Fork, Wyoming ; Nina and Charlie's Place near the Wisconsin Shack ; Carl and Lynn's Shack in Costa Rica ; My Shack West in Colorado ; Chapter Ten: Epilogue Family and Familiarity; Appendices: Three Pet Stories; Sammy the Crow ; Pedro Visits a Tenth-Grade French Class ; Fluminea, the Manitoba Crow ; Where Did They Come From? ; Aldo Leopold's Family ; Estella Bergere's Family ; NOTES AND SOURCES ; Preface ; Chapter One ; Chapter Two ; Chapter Three ; Chapter Four ; Chapter Five ; Chapter Six ; Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Sommario/riassunto

Estella Leopold, the daughter of revered American ecologist, conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold, whose 'A Sand County Almanac' is an enduring American classic, takes us inside the place where 'land ethic' theory started.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438351103321

Titolo

Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective : Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice / / edited by Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Edward P. St. John, Maia Chankseliani, Lina Uribe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2013

ISBN

9789462092303

9462092303

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Other Books

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerHeinz-Dieter

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education

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.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Fairness in higher education access-- normative and historical perspectives -- pt. II. Excellence, equity, effectiveness-- a comparative look at the policies of access -- pt. III. Resistance to managerialism : Chile and California -- pt. IV. Policy changes towards greater fairness.

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing mainstream developments that engender increasing inequality and market-dependency in higher education. The book’s chapters consider how different national communities channel access to higher education, what their “implicit social contracts” are, and what outcomes are produced by different policies and methods. The book is essential reading for scholars of higher education and students concerned with increasing inequality in a globalizing educational marketplace.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484399403321

Titolo

Social Robotics : 6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings / / edited by Michael Beetz, Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-11973-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 412 p. 150 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 8755

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Computers and civilization

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Control engineering

Robotics

Automation

Artificial Intelligence

Computers and Society

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Control, Robotics, Automation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments -- Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities -- Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life -- Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots -- Personal robots for the home -- Social acceptance and impact in the society -- Robot ethics in human society and legal implications -- Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding -- Control architectures for social robotics -- Socially appealing design methodologies -- Safety in robots working in human spaces -- Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots -- Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming -- Knowledge representation and reasoning



frameworks for robot social intelligence -- Cognitive architectures that support social intelligence for robots -- Robots in the workplace -- Human-robot interaction -- creative and entertaining robots.                                                                                                                              .

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2014, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2014. The 41 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Amongst others, topics covered are such as interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments; robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities; socially assistive robots to improve quality of life; affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots; personal robots for the home; social acceptance and impact in the society; robot ethics in human society and legal implications; context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding; control architectures for social robotics; socially appealing design methodologies; safety in robots working in human spaces; human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots; robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming; knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social intelligence; cognitive architectures that support social intelligence for robots; robots in the workplace; human-robot interaction; creative and entertaining robots.