Transient Landscapes

Transient LandscapesLandscapethe unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural placeis inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through Earths natural environmental and climatological processes and that which comes from human intervention. The essays are grouped by

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Edelman argues that we must use reason to clarify the latent values inherent in the differing concepts of democracy and the consequences that flow from them

Explores how recent presidents have managed communications with the American public

and his life history is a moving expression of the Inupiaq way of life

Grain legumes are widely seen as a key food security crop in the developing world

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Argues that Plato's dialogues contain a surprisingly neglected account of Socrates' education about the love of noble virtue and that recovering this education could help broaden and deepen liberalism's moral and political horizon

This book offers a space for thoughtful living – for ways of engaging with the ‘nearness’ of the world – with hesitations

Critiques the predominant romantic ideal

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