Human Shores
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The Human Shore
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Author : John R. Gillis
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-17
The Human Shore written by John R. Gillis and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with History categories.
Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An account of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence of those who live and dream at land’s end.
Human Shores
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Author : Byron Beynon
language : en
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
Release Date : 2012
Human Shores written by Byron Beynon and has been published by Lapwing Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Poetry categories.
These Human Shores Volume 1
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Author : Ron Wiseman
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-07-18
These Human Shores Volume 1 written by Ron Wiseman and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Poetry categories.
The series of anthologies: These Human Shores, of which this book is the first, will explore the nature of life from birth to death. The theme of this book was chosen by our founder, Ron Wiseman. As editor of These Human Shores, he has creatively and wisely chosen poems that will not only celebrate life, but will reawaken the feelings we all have about the wonder and splendor of living. The fountains of words that are displayed upon these pages speak from the lives of brilliant poets from all over the world. From wise words to enchanting tales and funny stories of babyhood, through the vast array of stories and anecdotes of toddlerhood, this book describes the beginning of life from many perspectives, then it becomes much more reflective as we bring you the greatest treasures of life: "Memories through sessions of sweet silent thought". We laugh, we cry, we smile, we sigh and most of all we affirm life itself. This is life, this is poetry, this is love.
These Human Shores The Four Corners Of The Moon
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Author : Diane Allen Hemingway
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-12-18
These Human Shores The Four Corners Of The Moon written by Diane Allen Hemingway and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-18 with Poetry categories.
This anthology is the second in a series published by the International Poetry Fellowship (IPF). This volume is about the changing seasons, represented as "The Four Corners of the Moon". It is written by a number of amateur and professional poets who are all members of AllPoetry.com and the IPF. It is a cross-cultural look at the world from many poets from many countries, and you can enjoy the mystery of the world over from the comfort of your chair.
These Human Shores
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Author : Ron Wiseman
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-06-07
These Human Shores written by Ron Wiseman and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-07 with Poetry categories.
Life is the affirmation for all that there is, all that has come into being, all that will pass through time. If we humans know anything about life, it is because we live. The series of anthologies: These Human Shores, of which this book is the first, will explore the nature of life from birth to death.What is the correlation between poetry and the stages of life? Why, everything! As we celebrate life with poetry, we celebrate poetry with life! The theme of this book was chosen by our founder, Ron Wiseman; and his name speaks rightly, for he is a wise man. As editor of These Human Shores, he has creatively and wisely chosen poems that will not only celebrate life, but will reawaken the feelings we all have about the wonder and splendor of living. Although it is just a book, and as such non-living, the fountains of words that are displayed upon these pages speak from the lives of brilliant poets from all over the world, bathing us in their lifelight. We have so much to be grateful for; our joys, our tragedies, our loves and our losses, as each has become part of who we are. Without life, there would be no poetry, without poetry it would be much more difficult to share our experiences, for poetry, like no other art, can transcend language to speak directly to our hearts and spirits. From wise words to enchanting tales and funny stories of babyhood, through the vast array of stories and anecdotes of toddlerhood, this book describes the beginning of life from many perspectives, then it becomes much more reflective as we bring you the greatest treasures of life: “Memories through sessions of sweet silent thought”. Memories of being young, wild and free, memories of long rich lives; we laugh, we cry, we smile, we sigh and most of all we affirm life itself. This is life, this is poetry, this is love.
The Human Shore
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Author : Harvena Richter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-05
The Human Shore written by Harvena Richter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05 with Fiction categories.
The riveting account of a woman and her three children caught in the vicious grip of a New England hurricane. The house that Nona believes she loves more than her husband is swept away—she survives clinging to a fragment of flooring, hurled by the waves across the bay.
Those Distant Shores
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Author : Santiago Sia
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Those Distant Shores written by Santiago Sia and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Philosophy categories.
“Distant Shores” can mean various things. Literally, distant shores refer to one’s travel destinations. Figuratively, they represent human desires, ambitions, or goals. But “distant shores” also stand for the human yearning, imbedded in everyone, for final fulfillment. Such yearning makes human beings fundamentally restless. This work is about all of these forms of restlessness. In story form, it explores a fundamental philosophical theme: human transcendence. The narrative follows the life-journeys of three Filipino boyhood friends who had different ambitions in, and dreams about, life. A parallel story of another young man from Spain, who is coming to grips with his father's philosophical views on life, links up with one of these Filipinos during a trip to Ireland. As the four characters’ respective and very different narratives unfold, their dialogues develop and their reflections deepen, one is caught up in the challenges they have had to face, the goals they have achieved, and the failures and successes they have encountered. In different, and at times unexpected, ways they illustrate the restlessness of human nature itself.
At The Beach
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Author : Jean-Didier Urbain
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003
At The Beach written by Jean-Didier Urbain and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.
Around the world, when people think of vacation it's the beach they want--even when long distances must be traversed, the seashore is the place to escape the rigors of modern life. How did this come to be, and what does our ongoing love affair with the beach mean? How do shore vacations differ from traditional tourism, and what does this tell us about our fears and dreams? In At the Beach, Jean-Didier Urbain offers witty and insightful answers to these questions. Urbain traces the transformation of the beach from a place of mythological threats and a demanding workplace fraught with danger to a destination for medical treatment and the pursuit of pleasure. He looks to the emergence of the modern vacation in the nineteenth century, examines representations of beachgoing in literature and the arts, and shows the transgressive side of beach culture--from nudism to hedonism to various "scandals" about costume, behavior, and sexuality that make the beach the site of social spectacle as well as leisure. Urbain's ultimate focus is the paradoxical enterprise of the residential seaside vacationer, who travels in order to stay in one place and who leaves the everyday world behind to reconstruct an idealized version of it at the shore. He argues that unlike tourists, who move from place to place, beach vacationers are not seeking to explore nature, to discover other cultures, or even to "get away from it all"; rather, they are attempting to re-create their own identities through a simplified community they can no longer find elsewhere. Blending history with social observation, Urbain presents an original, incisive, and entertaining account of this enduring ritual of escape and recreation.
The Canadian Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Canadian Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.
The Life And Letters Of Joseph Severn
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Author : William Sharp
language : en
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston
Release Date : 1892
The Life And Letters Of Joseph Severn written by William Sharp and has been published by London : S. Low, Marston this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Artists categories.