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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
14 online resources (4 video files, approximately 30 min. each) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
A collection from ECUs archive of documentaries and teaching films. A series of fourteen programs which examines aspects of 'landscape' in a contemporary cultural context.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
ARC is a trilogy of solo dance works created and performed by acclaimed New Zealand choreographer Douglas Wright. In three distinct sections the film charts a transformation: a journey from a primeval landscape of despair, through a bizarre and hilarious confrontation with a talking bird, and the emergence of "gravity's angel" in a space of air and delight.
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English
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This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects. Through twenty distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring...
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English
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"What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell....
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English
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Here is the book to help you create strip-pieced fabric landscape quilts that reflect the ever-changing moods of nature. With clear, precise information on color and fabric, learn to create visual illusions of depth, luminosity, reflections, or mist that add drama and emotion to your scenic imagery.
Author
Publisher
Universe
Language
English
Description
For anyone who is passionate about wildlife, this bucket list offers around-the-world listings of ways to experience animals and birds in their natural habitats. Fun, life-affirming activities are the focus from action-packed adventures (riding with wild horses in France, snorkelling with sharks in Belize) to more relaxing experiences (walking through a wildflower reserve in South Africa or floating among corals in the Maldives). Each activity is...
11) Landscapes
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides inspiration for landscape painting by presenting the work of six different artists; then offers instructions for creating one's own work.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996, ©1995
Edition
1st Vintage books ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 652 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we look at a landscape, do we see nature or culture? That question lies at the heart of this book. The author believes that every landscape, forest, river, or mountain, is a work of the mind, a repository of the memories and obsessions of the people who gaze upon it. In this work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, he ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of...
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English
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"From MindBodyGreen's Senior Sustainability Editor and the co-author of The Spirit Almanac comes a four-color guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, with new research on how nature heals us as well as tools for becoming stewards of the earth that nurtures us"--
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Language
English
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Description
Light not only catches the eye, it can transform your work into something truly magical. With four inspiring projects to get you started, world-renowned, award-winning quilt artist Gloria Loughman shows you how light can set a mood.
You'll get stunning results with her mosaic tile process for capturing the essence of natural light with your fabric selection. You'll learn how to create your own landscape quilt with her easy-to-master techniques, including...
16) Alongshore
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
x, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Along the shore are fishing boats and lighthouses, wharves and piers, resorts and shipwrecks - picturesque vistas that are visited and photographed but have never before been scrutinized from a historical or cultural perspective. In this enchanting book, John R. Stilgoe takes us on a tour of the seacoast, evoking its sights, sounds, and textures, and showing how it illuminates issues of landscape and of American culture. Drawing on sources as diverse...
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English
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The story of a woman with two swellings in her belly: a nascent baby, and a cancerous tumor. The poet could focus on the particulars of the medical case, using language from a traditional illness narrative.
Instead, she gives us the basics, then gathers up surprising and expansive material from various landscapes, the Black Hills, the prairies of Texas, the mountains, switchgrass, and, especially, the neighboring buffalo, to which she feels a profound...
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English
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"In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice,...
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English
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In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature-and their idea that elves live among us-Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it.
Icelanders believe in elves.
Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art-from ancient times to today-Brown...
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