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This sensitive examination of the meanings of landscape draws on the author's rich experience with diverse enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of norwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dena of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich'in of the Mackenzie Delta. Johnson maintains that the ways people understand and act upon land have wide implications, shaping cultures and ways of life, determining identity and polity, and creating and mainting environmental relationships and economies. Her emphassis on landscape and ways of knowing the land provides a particular take on...

Everywhere the baby spider goes, he always hears a very strange noise: "Eeek "

He hears it when he goes into a room, when he rides in a car, when he jumps up and down the stairs, and even when he's playing at the park It scares him so much that he always runs away and hides until it sounds safe again. What could that strange noise mean? He asks his friends, the grasshopper, the ladybug, and the roly-poly, if they've ever heard that noise, but they never have. Together the four little friends try to figure out exactly what "Eeek" means so that the baby spider will know why the...

Everywhere the baby spider goes, he always hears a very strange noise: "Eeek "

He hears it when he goes into a room, when he rides in a car, when he jumps up and down the stairs, and even when he's playing at the park It scares him so much that he always runs away and hides until it sounds safe again. What could that strange noise mean? He asks his friends, the grasshopper, the ladybug, and the roly-poly, if they've ever heard that noise, but they never have. Together the four little friends try to figure out exactly what "Eeek" means so that the baby spider will know why the...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Years: Progressivism: Aesthetics: Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape.

This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put...

"This landmark volume is bound to become a theoretical touchstone and wellspring for assessing the unity and diversity of human conceptualizations of landscape. It deftly combines a rigorous...