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Chattanooga's Robert Sparks Walker: The Unconventional Life of an East Tennessee Naturalist
Alexandra Walker Clark
History Press Library Editions
2013
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The legend that was Robert Sparks Walker began in a log cabin outside Chattanooga called Spring Frog Cabin, a humble abode built by a Cherokee naturalist in 1750. Walker would continue in the footsteps of that Cherokee to become synonymous both with Chattanooga and nature, penning thousands of articles, poems and books as a naturalist. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Walker gained international fame for his work, yet his largest impact remains in his native Tennessee. He helped to found the Chattanooga Audubon Society, including preserving his childhood home through Audubon Acres. Walker is remembered throughout the state for his nationally syndicated nature column, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Environmental Stewardship is given in his name. His life was one of adventure, reflection and a deep devotion to the understanding and preservation of nature. Local author Alexandra Walker Clark, granddaughter of Robert Sparks Walker, celebrates the life of this Scenic City pioneer.
Chattanooga's Robert Sparks Walker: The Unconventional Life of an East Tennessee Naturalist
Alexandra Walker Clark
History Press
2013
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The legend that was Robert Sparks Walker began in a log cabin outside Chattanooga called Spring Frog Cabin, a humble abode built by a Cherokee naturalist in 1750. Walker would continue in the footsteps of that Cherokee to become synonymous both with Chattanooga and nature, penning thousands of articles, poems and books as a naturalist. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Walker gained international fame for his work, yet his largest impact remains in his native Tennessee. He helped to found the Chattanooga Audubon Society, including preserving his childhood home through Audubon Acres. Walker is remembered throughout the state for his nationally syndicated nature column, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Environmental Stewardship is given in his name. His life was one of adventure, reflection and a deep devotion to the understanding and preservation of nature. Local author Alexandra Walker Clark, granddaughter of Robert Sparks Walker, celebrates the life of this Scenic City pioneer.
This book traces the history of the scent bottle from the alabaster containers of ancient Egypt to mass-produced commercial bottles. Perfume has been used in religious ceremony and also in medicine, for it was believed to have the power to ward off illness. Elaborately chased silver pomanders were carried during times of plague. The frivolity and luxury of scent were reflected in eighteenth-century 'toys', bottles in the form of fruit and figures in porcelain or enamel. The Victorian lady had a wide choice of scent bottles, including dual-purpose bottles which also held smelling salts or sal volatile. In the twentieth century, after Lalique's successful collaboration with Coty, commercial bottles were made in a variety of forms ranging from the highly luxurious to the amusing bakelite containers of the 1920s and 1930s.
The Adventures of Hobnob and Raisin - Paris Airport
Alexandra Walker-Jones
Old Inc Publishing
2013
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This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms, expectations or archetypes of a group. Alexandra Walker contends that throughout history, men have been constructed as archetypal dominators and women as victims. In casting women in this way, we have downplayed their pre-existing, innate capacities for strength, leadership and power. In casting men as archetypal dominators, we have downplayed their capacities for nurturing, care and empathy. The author investigates the widespread implications of this unconscious role-playing, arguing that even in countries in which women have many of the same legal rights as men, gender justice and equality have been too simplistically framed as ‘feminism’ and ‘women’s rights’ and that giving women the rights of men has not created gender balance. This book highlights the masculine and feminine traits belonging to all individuals and calls on international law to reflect this gender continuum.
Lured by the promise of land and opportunity, miners, cowhands, laborers, settlers and fortune-seekers poured into Colorado during the mid-to-late 19th Century and into the 20th. To accommodate the population boom, industrious Coloradoans built scores of hotels some elaborate, some modest, all a touchstone to this critical era in Centennial State history. Join Alexandra Walker Clark on this tour through Colorado's historic hotels. Discover how the Oxford and Brown Palace Hotels have managed to maintain their elegance, while others such as the Timberline Hotel of Holy Cross City and the California Hotel of Independence have vanished. With timeless recipes from hotel kitchens, learn how hotels have adapted to eras like the Native American desertion and the Roaring Twenties.
Het Wonderlijke Leven van een Ontbonden Pompoen is een speels en leerzaam kinderboek dat natuur en wetenschap combineert. Kinderen ontdekken samen met P. Ompoen hoe afbraak en groei hand in hand gaan in de kringloop van het leven. Het boek bevat niet alleen een verhaal vol verwondering, maar ook interactieve activiteiten, STEM-opdrachten en kleurplaten waarmee leerlingen composteren en plantengroei zelf kunnen ervaren. Perfect voor gebruik in de klas of thuis als milieubewust leeravontuur.
Unplugged
Alexandra Boyden Walker; Calvin Boyden Walker; Paul Walker
Robert D. Reed Publishers
2020
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UNPLUGGED: Hundreds of Activities for Teens to Do Without a Screen is designed for teenagers; it has hundreds of fun activities that teenagers can do that don't involve a screen. Some of the ideas are free and only take a few minutes while others may cost a small fortune and take years. UNPLUGGED contains useful ideas, such as creative ways to earn money and ideas to make their parents happy. There are a number of activities teens can do with their friends or to do to make new friends. The first section includes lists of activities that people can do, from cooking to earning money. The second includes things that teens should know about, like how to avoid being poor, how to negotiate, how to tell if someone is lying, and other similar skills. The third is similar to the second, only more focused on health. Because some of the sections are simply long lists, at the bottom “activities” were added which serve as hints or jumping-off points for that particular list. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Paul Walker is the dad. His daughter Alexandra Boyden Walker (age 13) and his son Calvin Boyden Walker (age 17) give their dad “rant scores” whenever he contributes to the book, yet it is obvious they have deep respect for him. Teens themselves, they are concerned their peers will grow up with compromised social skills because of their obsession with their devices, spending the equivalent of 136 days a year on them. So they did extensive research and created lists of healthier activities to do instead.
Once there was only the Curwood Forest between childhood friends, Cassie and Julian. Now there is a whole lot more...Cassie doesn't mind living in a small house by the old Curwood Forest, because just across the river lives her best friend Julian and his sweet, storytelling mother, Violeta.Julian doesn't mind living in a mansion with sweeping gardens that don't belong to him, or having a distant, grumpy man for a father, because he has Cassie and her wildness, her loving parents, and their garden with its rambling veggie patch.But when Violeta is lost from their lives, Cassie begins to fear that nothing can shift the shadow that has settled on her dearest friend. Years later, with Julian at boarding school and becoming more and more of a stranger to her, Cassie finds herself drawn into the mysterious world of her new tutor, Alisa, and she can't escape the growing feeling that everyone around her has something to hide. Then her own parents vanish from her home, and Cassie is thrown into an adventure more wondrous and terrifying than any of Violeta's tales.Can Cassie find her way back to her parents? To Julian? To herself? Or will she take the darker road, one that seems to have been waiting for her all along?
Once there was only the Curwood Forest between childhood friends, Cassie and Julian. Now there is a whole lot more...Cassie doesn't mind living in a small house by the old Curwood Forest, because just across the river lives her best friend Julian and his sweet, storytelling mother, Violeta.Julian doesn't mind living in a mansion with sweeping gardens that don't belong to him, or having a distant, grumpy man for a father, because he has Cassie and her wildness, her loving parents, and their garden with its rambling veggie patch.But when Violeta is lost from their lives, Cassie begins to fear that nothing can shift the shadow that has settled on her dearest friend.Years later, with Julian at boarding school and becoming more and more of a stranger to her, Cassie finds herself drawn into the mysterious world of her new tutor, Alisa, and she can't escape the growing feeling that everyone around her has something to hide. Then her own parents vanish from her home, and Cassie is thrown into an adventure more wondrous and terrifying than any of Violeta's tales.Can Cassie find her way back to her parents? To Julian? To herself? Or will she take the darker road, one that seems to have been waiting for her all along?
On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation
Alexandra Horowitz
Scribner Book Company
2014
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this "elegant and entertaining" (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments "does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world--in fact, many worlds--we've been missing" (USA TODAY). Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary--to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. Page by page, Horowitz shows how much more there is to see--if only we would really look. Trained as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and be in the real world--where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe--where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
"Living a life with natural and intuitive psychic abilities but not using them, is living half a life. You have no idea what you are missing." -Uma Alexandra BeepatUma Alexandra Beepat has been communicating with Spirit her entire life - it's a gift, but that doesn't mean it's always been easy. In Chronicles of a Spirit Walker, Uma shares her journey as she walked a tightrope between this world and the next while learning to embrace her soul purpose. Along the way she has dealt with the skepticism of others and her own concern that she might be crazy; however, the challenges are far outweighed by the countless blessings and miracles Spirit has given her and her clients. From the long-deceased guru who guided her to his ashram to the friend from beyond the grave teaching a lesson to his living skeptical friend - each story is a testament to the power of Spirit to cross the veil and support us in our everyday lives. Chronicles of a Spirit Walker also shares tips and exercises we can use to create a deeper connection with Spirit. Whether you are a developing medium searching for your tribe, or simply wondering if those signs from your loved one are real, the stories in Chronicles of a Spirit Walker will warm your heart and send those chills of validation up your spine.
The Three Musketeers (with an Introduction by J. Walker McSpadden)
Alexandre Dumas
Digireads.com
2016
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