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The Desert Islands Of Mexico S Sea Of Cortez
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Author : Stewart W. Aitchison
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
The Desert Islands Of Mexico S Sea Of Cortez written by Stewart W. Aitchison and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Nature categories.
The desert islands in the Sea of Cortez are little known except to a few intrepid tourists, sailors, and fishermen. Though at first glance these stark islands may appear barren, they are a refuge for an astounding variety of plants and animals. While many of the species are typical of the greater Sonoran Desert region, some are endemic or unique to one or two islands. For example, Isla Santa Catalina is home to the worldÕs only rattlesnake that has lost its ability to grow a rattle. Other islands host nesting birds, such as Isla Rasa, a tiny, flat flow of basalt lava that attracts nearly half a million elegant and royal terns and HeermannÕs gulls each spring. The Desert Islands of MexicoÕs Sea of Cortez is one of the few books devoted to the biogeography of this remarkable part of the world. The book explores the geologic origin of the gulf and its islands, presents some of the basics of island biogeography, details insular lifeÑincluding residents of the intertidal zone Ñand provides a brief outlook for preserving this area. More than a simple guidebook, AitchisonÕs writing will take both actual and armchair travelers through a gripping tale of natural history. Like the rest of our fragile planet, the Sea of Cortez and its islands are threatened by humans. Overfishing has eliminated or greatly diminished many fish stocks, and dams on rivers that once flowed into the gulf prevent certain nutrients from reaching the sea. The tenuousness of this area makes the bookÕs extraordinary photographs and the firsthand descriptions by a well-known teacher, writer, and photographer all the more compelling.
Desert Islands
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Author : Walter de la Mare
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010
Desert Islands written by Walter de la Mare and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Desert Islands opens with a captivating essay on the romance of islands and castaways in literature and life, and the associations that have arisen in the imagination of readers in every generation. The essay leads on to over 200 pages of what de la Mare himself calls 'a rambling commentary', in the form of an anthology or commonplace book on every conceivable aspect of this teeming subject. There are notes, reflections and quotations from a lifetime's reading on wrecks, maroons, pirates, utopias, goats, hallucinations, exotic foods, misers, punishments, solitude , Darwin, parrots, idols, saints, hermits, maps, spices, drugs . . . and of course Daniel Defoe. Desert Islands is the perfect bedside or holiday book. It also playfully boasts a subtitle of rococo inventiveness and one of the longest you will ever read! 'A vast treasure chest, a bewildering collection . . . to dazzle and fascinate everyone who lifts the lid.' Geoffrey Grigson
Desert Islands And The Liquid Modern
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Author : Barney Samson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-21
Desert Islands And The Liquid Modern written by Barney Samson and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-21 with Social Science categories.
This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television. Drawing on Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, desert island texts are analysed in terms of their intersections with repressive and seductive mechanisms of power. Chapters focus on the desert island as: a conflictingly in/coherent space that characterises identity as deferred and structured by choice; a location whose ‘remoteness’ undermines satirical critiques of communal identity formation; a site whose ambivalent relationship with ‘home’ and Otherness destabilises patriarchal ‘Western’ subjectivity; a space bound up with mobility and instantaneity; and an expression of radical individuality and underdetermined identity. The desert island in popular culture is shown to reflect, endorse and critique a profoundly consumerist society that seduces us with promises of coherence, with the threat of repression looming if we do not conform.
How To Survive On A Desert Island
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Author : Jim Pipe
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2012-08-15
How To Survive On A Desert Island written by Jim Pipe and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Being stranded on a desert island is a relatively common theme in tales. However, this book teaches readers what to do if they are ever actually in such a situation. Informative text and real life stories demonstrate how to survive being trapped on an island in the middle of the ocean.
Desert Islands
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Author : Gilles Deleuze
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004-01-09
Desert Islands written by Gilles Deleuze and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
An anthology of 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, of which the early texts belong to literary criticism. Philosophy clearly dominates the rest of the book with a surprise admission by Deleuze that Sartre was his master.
Desert Islands
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Author : Walter De la Mare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Desert Islands written by Walter De la Mare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with English essays categories.
Desert Islands And Robinson Crusoe
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Author : Walter De la Mare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Desert Islands And Robinson Crusoe written by Walter De la Mare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) categories.
The Desert Islands Of Mexico S Sea Of Cortez
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Author : Stewart W. Aitchison
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
The Desert Islands Of Mexico S Sea Of Cortez written by Stewart W. Aitchison and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Nature categories.
The desert islands in the Sea of Cortez are little known except to a few intrepid tourists, sailors, and fishermen. Though at first glance these stark islands may appear barren, they are a refuge for an astounding variety of plants and animals. While many of the species are typical of the greater Sonoran Desert region, some are endemic or unique to one or two islands. For example, Isla Santa Catalina is home to the worldÕs only rattlesnake that has lost its ability to grow a rattle. Other islands host nesting birds, such as Isla Rasa, a tiny, flat flow of basalt lava that attracts nearly half a million elegant and royal terns and HeermannÕs gulls each spring. The Desert Islands of MexicoÕs Sea of Cortez is one of the few books devoted to the biogeography of this remarkable part of the world. The book explores the geologic origin of the gulf and its islands, presents some of the basics of island biogeography, details insular lifeÑincluding residents of the intertidal zone Ñand provides a brief outlook for preserving this area. More than a simple guidebook, AitchisonÕs writing will take both actual and armchair travelers through a gripping tale of natural history. Like the rest of our fragile planet, the Sea of Cortez and its islands are threatened by humans. Overfishing has eliminated or greatly diminished many fish stocks, and dams on rivers that once flowed into the gulf prevent certain nutrients from reaching the sea. The tenuousness of this area makes the bookÕs extraordinary photographs and the firsthand descriptions by a well-known teacher, writer, and photographer all the more compelling.
A Naturalist On Desert Islands
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Author : Percy Roycroft Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-16
A Naturalist On Desert Islands written by Percy Roycroft Lowe and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-16 with categories.
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Desert Islands And Robinson Crusoe
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Author : Walter De la Mare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Desert Islands And Robinson Crusoe written by Walter De la Mare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) categories.