Pubbl/distr/stampa	Golden, Colo., : Fulcrum Pub., 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (376 p.)
Disciplina	305.48/9692 305.489692
Altri autori (Persone)	MooreMariJo
Soggetto topico	Women and war War
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-46814-6 9786612468148 1-55591-882-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Introduction 1; The Endurance of Women: Before the Beginning of Time and Onward 3; Medusa, The Gorgon 4; The Daughters of Boudicca 10; In Search of Hypatia 19; This Land Had Seen War Before 24; Birthed from Scorched Hearts 29; The Shields of the Earth 36; Finding Home 39; A Turned-Around World 42; Saga of American Truth 45; Dead All Over the Hills: An Interview with Ex-Slave Mrs. Phoebe Banks 49; Shelton Laurel Diary 54; Carrie McGavock: The High Priestess of the Temple of the Dead Boys 59; Vows 65; Rya's Rainbow 67; A World of War 71 Hermine Jungus Komnik's World Wars I and II Experiences and Results 72Granddaughter Song 80; War Is Never Done! 83; A Fragile Being 94; My Mother's Tattoo 96; War's Sorrow Visits Our Daughters and Sons 105; La Scarlettina 108; How I Became an Evacuee 117; Majestic Theater: A Landscape of War 126; Recsk: Not Even Ghosts Wish to Visit Here Again 133; Memoirs of Guarded Reflections 139; The Collectors 140; MIA, Foreign and Domestic 146; The Coffee Table Book of War: A Memoir 149; Patch Work: Picturing Vietnam 152; The Magellanic Clouds of Vietnam 161; Johnny Stack 164; Dodge Charger 166 A Woman Accompanied by the World 169A Snapshot in Time: War in Ireland 177; In Search of a Larger Truth: Eritrea My Ithaca 179; Lebanon, Summer 2006: A View from Cyprus 184; Different Kinds of War: Battles on the Home Front 193; How Could It Be? 194; You're White 197; A Glimpse into the Life of a Levantine 201; Indigenous Women and the Legacy of Oppression 210; Surfacing 218; The Cure 219; Visceral 220; Birthplace, Women's Maximum Security Prison, Date: 1985 222; Fall, 1998 225; Last Night the Moon 235; Re-Waging the Battles: Native American Women's Poetry and the Reinterpretation of War 238 Protestors, Participants, Peace: Why, Why Not, and When? 247Goodnight, Mr. President 248; Those Policemen Are Sleeping: A Call to the Children of Israel and Palestine 250; We Live in Violent Times 253; Protesting the War about to Begin: March 19, 2003 261; Apache Warrior-Apache Troop 262; Figures from the Iraq War 266; Sufi Dancing with Dad 268; After Reading Women on War 275; The Call 278; F-16 285; The Best Way to Honor My Son's Death Would Be to Bring the Troops Home 286; Grandma 292; Selections from A War You Carry in Your Pocket 294; Civics after Grace Paley 309 Two Young Lives before and after Enlistment 312Better a Good Warrior 321; Woman's War Cry 328; American Helmets 333; Requiem for Arrival 335; Acknowledgments 337; Permissions 339; About the Editor 341; Contributors 343
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Autore	Pedersen Laura
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Golden, Colo., : Fulcrum Pub., 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina	813/.54 B
Soggetto topico	Novelists, American - 20th century Novelists, American - 21st century Floor traders (Finance) - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-46819-7 9786612468193 1-55591-884-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; Preface; One: God's Frozen People; Two: The First Event Leading Up to My Death; Three: American Buffalo...The King of Cooland Demon Rum; Four: He'd Always Have Paris...Trading Up...Danish for Beginners:; Five: Getting Up Your Irish...Family Diversity...Three's a Mob; Six: When Johnny Comes Typing Home...Wedding-Bell Blues; Seven: Onward Catholic Soldiers...Everything'sGood in the Hood...The Sinusitis Capital; Eight: Buffalo Runs Riot; Nine: A Full House; Ten: Egg Salad Days...Beads of Paradise; Eleven: The Tundra Years Twelve: Mary Tyler Moore for President...HitParade...The Americans with No Abilities ActThirteen: Born in the UUA...Keeping Kosher; Fourteen: Water Hazard...Is That Your Child?; Fifteen: Will Joke for Food...It's a Mad,Mad House...How I Learned to Cook; Sixteen: The Birth of an Entrepreneur...From Socks to Stocks...The Wizard of Odds; Seventeen: Everyone Was Groovy...Stardate 1965; Eighteen: Sleet Happens: The Blizzard of '77; Nineteen: Taking a Turn for the Nurse; Twenty: Bus Stop; Twenty-One: Enter, Stage Left...O.B. (Order Big)... A Decent Docent Doesn't Doze; Twenty-Two: Down on the Farm...Doing Time...Beat It Twenty-Three: Real World 101Twenty-Four: Earl and Me...The SewingCircle Turns Square; Twenty-Five: Will Work for AC...Mom Turns Pro...The Mosquito Coast; Twenty-Six: Home at Sweet Home...Class Clown...Dressing Down; Twenty-Seven: Can't We All Get a Lawn?...Pedersen v. Pedersen...Telling It to the Judge...The Play within the Play; Twenty-Eight: Disappearing Act...The Walkway Less Traveled; Twenty-Nine: Are Red and Green Making You Blue?; Thirty: In All Probability; Thirty-One: Home Alone; Thirty-Two: It Could Be Worse; Thirty-Three: The (Sweet) Home Stretch...Faking It Thirty-Four: When the Chips Are Down,the Buffalo's EmptyEpilogue: The People's Republic of Buffalo; About the Author
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Autore	McCallum Ian <1944->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Golden, Colo., : Fulcrum Pub., c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina	304.2
Soggetto topico	Environmentalism Green movement Environmental responsibility Nature - Effect of human beings on
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-46818-9 9786612468186 1-55591-886-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. Remembering where we come from -- pt. 2. Looking ahead.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456988603321

Autore	Scott Doug <1944->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Golden, Colo., : Fulcrum Pub., c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina	333.78/216/0973
Soggetto topico	Wilderness areas - Government policy - United States Wilderness areas - Law and legislation - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-46806-5 9786612468063 1-55591-876-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Table of Contents; Foreword ix; Preface xi; Introduction 1; People Saving Wilderness ... for People 1; The Impulse to Preserve Wildness 3; The Wilderness Act: A People's Law 4; Challenges Ahead 6; Chapter 1: Wilderness in Our Lives 9; The Wilderness We Have Saved 9; What Preserving Wilderness Requires 13; Chapter 2: Wilderness: From Concept to Action 19; PART 1: THE WILDERNESS IDEA 19; The Need for Wilderness 19; John Muir 21; Wilderness Vanishing 23; National Parks and Wilderness 24; PART 2: THE BEGINNINGS OF A WILDERNESS PRESERVATION POLICY 27; Aldo Leopold 27 The First Wilderness Area and the "L-20" Regulation 29Bob Marshall 30; The Wilderness Society 31; Forest Wilderness or National Parks? 32; "Wilderness" and "Wild Areas"-The "U" Regulations 35; Chapter 3: Wilderness: "There Ought to be a Law" 37; How Permanent? 37; "Not by Law" 39; The Idea of a Comprehensive Wilderness Program 40; Howard Zahniser 40; Imagining a Wilderness Law 41; Building Consensus 43; Echo Park 44; The "Wilderness Bill" 47; The Eight-Year Legislative Odyssey 50; Chapter 4: Putting the New Wilderness Act to Work 57; The Law Changed Everything 57 The Ten-Year Wilderness Review Process 59Stewart Brandborg 61; The "Great Liberating Force" 62; Grassroots Organizing and Citizen Wilderness Proposals 63; Congress Expands Agency Wilderness Proposals 65; Eastern Wilderness and the "Purity Theory" 66; The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act 68; National Park Service Resistance to Wilderness Designation 72; Wilderness in National Wildlife Refuges 73; Chapter 5: Expanding the Scope of Wilderness Preservation 75; The "60 Million-Acre Myth" 75; PART 1: NATIONAL FOREST "ROADLESS AREAS" 77; Scapegoat: The First Citizen-Initiated Wilderness Area 79 NEPA, Roadless Areas, and "RARE" 79The Endangered American Wilderness Act and "RARE-II" 81; Release Language and the Post-RARE-II Wilderness Laws 82; PART 2: THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT JOINS THE WILDERNESS PROGRAM 84; The Federal Land Policy and Management Act 85; The Loss of Big Wilderness 86; The National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Rule 88; PART 3: WILDERNESS ON A SCALE TO MATCH ALASKA 89; The Alaska Coalition and "D-2" 90; The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 91; Chapter 6: Wilderness Yet to Save 95; Our Unprotected Wilderness 95 How Much Unprotected Wilderness? 96Giving Roadless Areas a Fair Shake 97; Giving Roadless Areas the Brush-off 99; Anything but Statutory Wilderness 100; The Majority of Americans Are "Not at the Table"as the Fate of Wilderness Is Decided by Agencies 104; Chapter 7: Wilderness Politics 107; The Power of Public Opinion for Wilderness 107; Wilderness Opponents 108; What the Polls Say about Public Attitudes 111; The Realities of Legislative Politics 114; Wilderness and Compromise 117; The Geography of Wilderness Politics 120; Connecting Wilderness with People 122 The Wilderness System of the Future 122
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454900203321