Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow in the air, he was speaking about himself. In short, he spoke their language. In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau’s deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. His lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau’s being—heart, mind, and spirit. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau’s writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author’s photographs. Thoreau’s words are as vivid now as they were in 1890, when an English naturalist wrote that he was unusually able to “to preserve the flashing forest colors in unfading light.” Thoreau and the Language of Trees shows that Thoreau, with uncanny foresight, believed trees were essential to the preservation of the world.

Thoreau and the Language of Trees

Literature & Fiction

Higgins, Richard

United States

University of California Press

Discussing the role of museums in the conservation of antique clocks and the modern demand for them through the antiques trade, this historical and scientific look at English clockmaking in the 18th century links clocks to breakthroughs in both mathematics and astronomy. The craftsmanship required for the glass, gold, ivory, lacquer, textile, turtleshell, and wood cases of the period is described, and horology is positioned as a developing career field because of the dearth of skilled technicians working today.

The Intelligent Layman's Book of Royal & Imperial Clocks (The Intelligent Layman's Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Il Pub

This in-depth Unconstrained Analytics report is 8.5x11 in size, 253 pages and each page is in full-color.When associated with rising factional discord, the increased hostility from the Left resonates a violence that is becoming a clear and present danger.This report will provide an estimate of the current situation that transcends well-travelled two-party political narratives. The objective is to provide a strategic understanding of the Left that baselines the current situation to enable directionality, predictability, and actionability. To that end, the estimate will use a political warfare analysis to reframe the political environment in order to provide timely anticipatory situational awareness in support of decision-making.National policy has come under the influence of constructed narratives that mainstream and conservative leaders neither understand nor control. Lacking situational awareness to recognize the operational nature of information campaigns directed against national policy, responses tend to be tactically limited and predictably reactive along scripted action-reaction cycles built into the operational sequencing of information campaigns controlled by the Left. These powerful but misunderstood narratives drive policy.At their core, these narratives are not American. Rather, they are dialectically driven Neo-Marxist memes that infuse mass line efforts operating at the cultural level intent on powering down into the political space.This furthers the Left’s political warfare effort to impose conformance resulting in the non-enforcement of laws by those tasked with their oversight and enforcement. As these narratives transition into prevailing cultural memes, non-enforcement becomes institutionalized and enforced by an opposition that increasingly comes under the control of those narratives.As such, for the Left, political organizations like Congress become vehicles to execute lines of effort in an execution matrix along which information campaigns are executed from outside and above.

Re-Remembering the Mis-Remembered Left: The Left’s Strategy and Tactics To Transform America

Politics & Social Sciences

Coughlin, Stephen

Politics & Government

Eagle Tavern Publishing

This monograph examines the impact of modernism on contemporary security strategy development for religious, non-violent threats in the context of the Information Age. The monograph focuses on the challenge of strategy formulation resulting from modernism‘s interface with the threat from the Islamic Movement, the emergence of the digital terrain, and the US Department of Defense‘s (DOD) organizational culture.     The thesis is presented in a deductive manner and argues that modernism has created a strategic security seam that is being exploited by the Islamic Movement to create and perpetuate a strategic pseudo-reality. Based on Islamic functional doctrines of deception, the pseudo-reality is amplified by the digital environment and the DOD‘s organizational culture. The thesis leads the reader to conclude that a new category of strategy must be created to free the US from this pseudo-reality and to compensate for the modernist shortfalls afflicting security strategy formulation.

No Common War: Mundus Vult Decipi

Philosophy

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

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