Inhabited

Inhabited
Author: Phillip Vannini
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0228010276

People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada’s ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness offers a better – if messier – way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature’s vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.

Inhabited

Inhabited
Author: Charlie Quimby
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937226689

"The lives of Quimby's finely drawn characters interweave to produce a panorama as wide and full of light as the near–desert setting." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review Meg Mogrin sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor's inner circle, and knows more than she's letting on about her sister's death. Isaac Samson lives in a tent and believes Thomas Edison invented the Reagan presidency. When their town attracts a game–changing development, Isaac is displaced by the town's crackdown on vagrancy. As Isaac struggles to regain stability, Meg contends with conflicting roles of assisting the developer while serving on the homeless coalition. Isaac's quest to return a lost artifact soon intrudes into Meg's tidy world, digging up a part of her past she'd rather remained buried. Inhabited, a sister novel to Charlie Quimby's acclaimed Monument Road, returns to the Grand Valley of western Colorado to explore the dimensions of loss, the boundaries of compassion, and the endurance of love. CHARLIE QUIMBY is the author of Monument Road, an Indie Next List pick and Booklist Editors' Choice. He began his writing career as playwright and arts journalist, veered into corporate communications and then founded a marketing agency that now purrs along without him. Along the way, he collected awards and developed the notion he had a few good novels in him. A native Coloradan and adopted Minnesotan, he is at home in both places.

Inhabited

Inhabited
Author: Phillip Vannini
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0228010284

People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada’s ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness offers a better – if messier – way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature’s vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.

The Inhabited Island

The Inhabited Island
Author: Arkady Strugatsky
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1613736002

When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park. The Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this land-mark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work.

The Inhabited Pathway

The Inhabited Pathway
Author: Sebastiano Brandolini
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Architect-designed houses
ISBN: 9783906027494

Alberto Ponis was born in Genoa in 1933 and studied at Florence University, where he qualified as an architect in 1960. He worked in London with Erno Goldfinger and Denys Lasdun in 1960 64 under the strong and lasting influence also of the movements of Modernism and New Brutalism then prevailing in the theoretical discourse in British architecture. His own studio Ponis established in 1964 in Palau, on the Italian island of Sardinia, working since on private, public and urban planning commissions. In 1990 he was awarded the INARCH prize for the Village of "Stazzo Pulcheddu" in Palau. Ponis often refers to the natural conditions and the social history of Sardinia when talking about his work in architecture. Besides of nature and society, he has also extensively studied the "stazzo, " Sardinia s typical rural building type. This thorough knowledge of conditions, traditions and requirements are the foundation of an oeuvre of more than 300 residential buildings. Each of them deeply rooted in its environment and connected with the land and other dwellings by the "sentiero, " the path leading to and from the house. Ponis s houses are meant to be summer homes, their inert warmth reflecting the architect s fundamental optimism. They show a natural modesty and simplicity rather than their owner s wealth or status. They express the architect s great formal skills and sensitivity. They are inconceivable without the Sardinian landscape and history and the island seems to have been expecting just these particular buildings, merging naturally with nature. The new book "Alberto Ponis Sardinia" is the first comprehensive monograph on this highly interesting and original yet little known architect. In five lavishly illustrated sections it documents his biography and early work, his extensive research on Sardinia, eight selected buildings created between 1965 98 that make traceable the evolution of Ponis s work, his philosophy ( Thoughts and Forms ), and a concluding essay on the essence of his architecture. "

Are the Planets Inhabited?

Are the Planets Inhabited?
Author: E. Walter Maunder
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752439394

Reproduction of the original: Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter Maunder

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania
Author: John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN:

In 'History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania,' John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder delves into the rich cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania. Written in a scholarly and informative style, Heckewelder explores the traditional customs, social structures, and daily lives of these native tribes. Drawing on his personal interactions with the Lenape and other tribes, Heckewelder provides a comprehensive overview of their history and way of life. This book serves as an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Native American studies and early American history. Heckewelder's meticulous attention to detail and deep respect for the subject matter make this book a must-read for scholars and enthusiasts alike.

Inhabited Information Spaces

Inhabited Information Spaces
Author: David N. Snowdon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2004-01-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1852337281

In 1995 a group began to examine the relationship between people and information technology in the future. Stale thinking had emerged and the group wanted to improve on the rooted ideas of traditional HCI. This volume explores many issues surrounding theuse of information technology in a human context.

The Inhabited

The Inhabited
Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1776592859

In this fascinating tale from the height of science fiction's golden age, the inhabitants of Earth become vessels that are colonized by a telepathic species of aliens on the prowl for an exciting new world to conquer. It's a compelling look at twentieth-century life from an outsider's perspective.