In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections—and missed connections—with nature. Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the accompanying belligerent early view of nature's inexhaustibility, Price then moves on to discuss the Audubon Society's founding campaign in the 1890s against the extravagant use of stuffed birds to decorate women's hats. At the heart of the book is an improbable and extremely witty history of the plastic pink flamingo, perhaps the totem of Artifice and Kitsch—nevertheless a potent symbol through which to plumb our troublesome yet powerful visions of nature. From here the story of the affluent Baby-Boomers begins. Through an examination of the phenomenal success of The Nature Company, TV series such as Northern Exposure and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and the sport-utility vehicle craze, the author ruminates on our very American, very urbanized and suburbanized needs, discontents, and desires for meaningful, yet artificially constructed connections to nature.Witty, at times even whimsical, Flight Maps is also a sophisticated and meditative archaeology of Americans' very real and uneasy desire to make nature meaningful in their lives.

Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America

Politics & Social Sciences

Price, Jennifer

Social Sciences

Basic Books

In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections—and missed connections—with nature. Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the accompanying belligerent early view of nature's inexhaustibility, Price then moves on to discuss the Audubon Society's founding campaign in the 1890s against the extravagant use of stuffed birds to decorate women's hats. At the heart of the book is an improbable and extremely witty history of the plastic pink flamingo, perhaps the totem of Artifice and Kitsch—nevertheless a potent symbol through which to plumb our troublesome yet powerful visions of nature. From here the story of the affluent Baby-Boomers begins. Through an examination of the phenomenal success of The Nature Company, TV series such as Northern Exposure and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and the sport-utility vehicle craze, the author ruminates on our very American, very urbanized and suburbanized needs, discontents, and desires for meaningful, yet artificially constructed connections to nature. Witty, at times even whimsical, Flight Maps is also a sophisticated and meditative archaeology of Americans' very real and uneasy desire to make nature meaningful in their lives.

FLIGHT MAPS: Adventures With Nature In Modern America

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

The French Language: present and past

History

Europe

Grant & Cutler

This volume, which originated in the 1986 conference on Anglo-Saxon Glass for the Archaeologist and Historian held at the British Museum, presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for glass and glassworking in Britain and Ireland between 350 and 1100. The eleven papers are divided into three sections (Vessel glass; Window glass and objects; Production evidence) and includes discussions of late Roman glass vessels in Britain, Anglo-Saxon window glass, beads and jewellery insets, Saxon glassworking at Glastonbury Abbey and Irish Early Christian glass. Contributors include Justine Bayley, Rosemary Cramp, Vera Evison, Martin Welch, Julian Henderson and the late Margaret Guido.

Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 350-1100

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

British Museum Press

"Will I Ever Find Freedom?" is based on a true story about a little girl who grew up from rejection, abuse, neglect, rape, fear, low self-esteem, sickness and depression. But through the entire journey, the Lord carried her through. As the storm struck, thunder and lightning hit, tears streamed, pain spread, throat dried, and voice was at a loss for words: the almighty King rowed the boat through the stream of the river; with its high mountains, low valleys and dead ends. A detour was taken to God's open door and out-stretched arms, and the Gospel of His word for her lost soul.

Will I Ever Find Freedom?

Religion & Spirituality

Kingdom Publishing Group, Inc.

At the frontiers of the Roman Empire, military settlements had  a profound influence on local crafting traditions. Legions were  not just fighting units - they contained a large number of  craftsmen, and the fortress would have been a centre of  manufacturing activity. A timber legionary fortress, for example,  required vast numbers of nails, many of which would have been  made by legionary smiths on site, and an army of thousands would  require many more pots, shoes and tents than could be produced by  local domestic potters and leather workers. But can all  developments in local craft and industry be seen as a result of  the appearance of the Roman army? The ten papers in this volume  focus on craft production in Roman Yorkshire, and the evidence  for the role of the army in local manufacturing activities.  Several papers examine broad questions surrounding the  organisation and scale of production in urban and rural areas.  Others consider the local evidence for individual materials and  production processes, including those associated with pottery,  glass, copper alloys, non-ferrous metals, leather, jet, and  building stone.

Aspects of Industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North

Wilson, Pete

Ancient Civilizations

Oxbow Books

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