A Country Year: Living the Questions

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What a beautiful book ...

A relaxing and enjoyable read...3.5 stars

The REAL Secret Life of Bees ... and Beekeepers..

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A Country Year: Living the Questions
Sue Hubbell
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0395967015

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When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age.

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What a beautiful book ..........2007-09-22

Sue Hubbell's voice is true. She shares great sadness so matter-of-factly that whole years are communicated in short paragraphs. 'Lyrical' almost applies, but does not, which in this case is a beautiful thing.

I came upon this book belated, more than 20 years after it was published, in the discard bin at my library. That is a shame, because this book is a gift, both in the pleasure it provides the reader and the way it so effortlessly connects us to the natural world.

Half way through, I googled Sue Hubbell to see if some lucky man had found her, and sure enough, he had. I hope he deserves her and has made her blissfully happy.

Then I googled 'farms for sale' and 'dogs for adoption'. I will probably continue my urban life, but when I surrender to sweet dreams of farm and country, Sue Hubbell's voice will be telling the story.

Everyone should read this book. It's lovely, and at the end, you will know some Latin names for plants and animals you did not know before. (You may interrupt your spouse to ask if he knew that some snakes are so evolutionarily advanced they do not lay eggs but give live birth to their young.)

A relaxing and enjoyable read...3.5 stars.......2007-09-19

Sue Hubbell writes in a very easy to read fashion. I enjoyed this book. I thought it read like a diary, as it details the authors life in the Ozarks in Missouri on a daily basis. I grew up on 500 acres in the Ozark mountains and I found myself relating to many of her experiences.

In 'Living the Questions' the author literally takes time out to smell the roses and journals what she observes. She takes time to watch nature around her & notices how God made everything to work in conjunction with everything else. Usually, I find scientific talk dull, but Ms. Hubbell made it interesting. The drawings made it feel like a well-read personal nature journal. This is a book you will enjoy it's an easy take on life and nature.

The REAL Secret Life of Bees ... and Beekeepers.........2007-09-05

"A Country Year" is an absorbing bucolic, understated tale of life as a rural beekeeper in the Ozarks. Sue Hubbell offers naturalist lessons without a whiff of pedantic as a shrewd observer of animal and plant life. Her story of the hard work needed to farm undercuts any idyllic fantasies of rural life, though there are compensations. "Green Acres" this aint!!

Hers is a tale of plucky self-reliance as an (aging) but still spry single woman. Sweet honey in the rock, indeed.

Hubbell's description of nature at times is so lyrical that it soars to the threshold of poetry.

Worth reading and savoring for its understated charms.

Just enjoy.......2007-02-12

This is solely for the pedantic review by "Urban Naturalist". This book is simply a look at a person who is making observations of the world around her. It does not need an over analyses or pretentious display of book learned education. It is a book written by an individual about simple things that make up her life and the feelings she receives from this experience. It is a nice read. You do not have to memorize the scientific name (genus species) of a critter for it to give you a unique memory. I write this as a field biologist working in Alaska who sees daily the awe in recent college grad eyes when they witness nature in person. There is nothing analytical about it, just visceral. This is what Sue writes about. For those interested in nature, I would recommend a search for the book "The Abstract Wild". Urban is Urban and this recommendation may give insight to that. Enjoy your reading time.

an untrimmed state...........2005-03-17

Sue Hubbell's A Country Year: Living the Questions is a classic nature/autobiography.

Written by a remarkable woman - a fifty-year-old ex-librarian and survivor of an unsettling divorce, a beekeeper and self-taught naturalist living alone in the Missouri Ozarks - this magical book is elegant and lovely. In essays as fresh and entrancing as the wilderness they describe, Hubbell testifies to the wholeness and serenity available to those who live 'in an untrimmed state.'

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A country year : living the questions
Sue Hubbell
Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VFC3YK

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Country Year Living the Questions
Sue Hubbell
Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VB284E

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A Country Year - Living The Questions
Sue Hubbell
Manufacturer: Harper & Row - Perennial
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K0B1QW

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A Country Year : Living the Questions
Sue Hubbell
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF2YOG

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A Country Year: Living the Questions
Sue Hubbell
Manufacturer: New York: Random House c,
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QO2REW

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The management of reindeer herds in northernmost Europe has been dramatically altered by changes in the environment, largely the result of human activities. This volume investigates the conditions upon which human-reindeer relations have been based, as well as those necessary for future reindeer management. It consists of three parts: I: Herders and Reindeer: The Cultural and Socioeconomic Dynamics of Human-Animal Relations II: Reindeer Herding - Effects on Soils, Soil Biota, and Vegetation III: Integrative Models for Reindeer Management: The Interface Between Social and Natural Sciences The results of process-oriented field and laboratory studies by scientists are efficaciously supported by those from research involving herders and their experience-based knowledge. In Northern Fennoscandia and Northwest Russia the issue is not just the conservation of the natural environment of reindeer, but also the survival of the SÃ¡mi, the northern indigenous people who herd them.

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The present rate and extent of species extinction -- estimated by some scientists as one species every 20 minutes -- are unprecedented in the history of mankind. Human activities are responsible for nearly all species loss, yet ethical aspects of this crisis are rarely mentioned. Any concern expressed tends to be over potentially valuable resources -- information for scientists, or compounds that could be used in new medicines -- that are lost when a species disappears.

In The Death of Our Planet's Species, Martin Gorke argues that such a utilitarian perspective is not only shortsighted but morally bankrupt. Holding doctoral degrees in both ecology and philosophy, Gorke is uniquely qualified to examine the extinction crisis from both scientific and philosophical perspectives. He offers a wide-ranging review of the literature on the subject, drawing together those two lines of reasoning that are almost always pursued separately.

After critical examination of the current state of relevant ecological knowledge, Gorke presents a carefully considered case for attributing intrinsic value to all of nature, including all species. At the heart of his argument is an analysis of the concept of morality. According to this analysis, the universal character of morality does not permit us to establish limits of moral considerability. More precisely, every act of exclusion from the moral community is an arbitrary act and is not compatible with a moral point of view.

The Death of Our Planet's Species sets forth a sound and original argument about the philosophical and ethical dimensions of species conservation. Throughout, the author combines a high level of theoretical sophistication with clear and straightforward writing. Orignially published in German, this Island Press edition makes The Death of Our Planet's Species available for the first time to English-speaking experts and lay readers.

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Must Read.......2003-12-10

Gorke's book brings methodological and ethical issues of practicing and using ecological research into a clear focus. He asks a series of difficult questions about the state of the science and addresses the complex sets of social and ecology interactions that must be considered in any realistic discussion of extinction, sustainability, or "ecosystem health." A must read, but perhaps troubling to the epistemologically faint-of-heart.

A profound philosophical and ecological wake-up call.......2003-10-19

Knowledgeably written by Martin Gorke (Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Ethics at the University of Greifswald, Germany), The Death Of Our Planet's Species: A Challenge To Ecology And Ethics is a profound philosophical and ecological wake-up call concerning the mass extinctions caused by the explosion of human population with all that this phenomena comprises. Expressing the terrible losses caused by the destructions of entire species, and denouncing the moral bankruptcy of valuing species only with regard to how useful they appear to humans, The Death Of Our Planet's Species is a profound, forceful, extensively researched warning of the need to respect life on Earth itself -- and should be part of every environmental activist, academic, and community library Environmental Studies collection and reading list.

The Death of Our Planet's Species A Challenge to Ecology and Ethics [A book review from: Journal for Nature Conservation]

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The Death of Our Planet's Species A Challenge to Ecology and Ethics [A book review from: Journal for Nature Conservation]
N. Kohly
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR6QJ0

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal for Nature Conservation, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The death of our planet's species: a challenge to ecology and ethics [A book review from: Ecological Economics]

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The death of our planet's species: a challenge to ecology and ethics [A book review from: Ecological Economics]
S.E. Fredericks
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR347C

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The book will provide an up-to-date guide and review on a new form of heterogeneous catalysis which will prove to be increasingly important to the chemical industry in the light of new and future environmental legislation. The book will highlight chemical processes where present technology is likely to prove increasingly unacceptable due to associated problems of hazardous waste and/or low process efficiency. It's purpose is to reveal these problems and possible solutions and to introduce the readers to this new form of catalysis. It will prove to be especially important to fine/speciality/intermediate chemicals manufacturing companies who have little experience of heterogenous catalysis and to researchers interested in chemical aspects of 'Clean Technology'. The book will help to disclose the opportunities for researchers and companies in developing new 'environmentally friendly' chemical processes

Clean Synthesis Using Porous Inorganic Solid Catalysts and Supported Reagents (RSC Clean Technology Monographs)

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Clean Synthesis Using Porous Inorganic Solid Catalysts and Supported Reagents (RSC Clean Technology Monographs)
J.H. Clark , and C.N. Rhodes
Manufacturer: Royal Society of Chemistry
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0854045260

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Waste minimisation has a number of aims which include enhancing the intrinsic selectivity of any given process, providing a means of recovering reagents in a form which allows easy regeneration and the replacement of stoichiometric processes with catalytic ones. Solids, as catalysts or as supports for other reagents, offer potential for benefit in all these areas. This monograph provides an overview of the properties of the more useful solid catalysts and supported reagents, and highlights their most valuable applications in the preparation of organic chemicals in liquid phase reactions. Clean Synthesis Using Porous Inorganic Solid Catalysts and Supported Reagents is concerned with the use of solid catalysts in the clean synthesis of organic chemicals. The emphasis is on chemical processes of importance to the manufacture/preparation of fine and speciality chemicals, chemical intermediates and pharmaceutical intermediates, especially where catalysis is not currently used or where current catalysts are homogeneous, leading to difficult separation procedures and unacceptable levels of waste. This book focuses on solid catalysts based on inorganic supports and covers the emerging area of chemically modified mesoporous solid catalysts.

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This volume collects a series of survey articles on complex algebraic geometry, which in the early 1990s was undergoing a major change. Algebraic geometry has opened up to ideas and connections from other fields that have traditionally been far away. This book gives a good idea of the intellectual content of the change of direction and branching out witnessed by algebraic geometry in the past few years.

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Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners, and anecdotes, which, as Freud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.

Translated by Joyce Crick.
Introduction by John Carey.

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El humor sabe y huele a nosotros.......2006-06-26

Siempre he tenido muy en cuenta el sentido del humor de las personas. Y creo que detrás del sentido del humor está el sentido del interior. Algunas personas tienen el sentido del humor más agudo, pero esto no quiere decir que todos no tengamos un lado humorístico. En este libro FREUD habla como perfectamente lo resume el título de su libro, sobre el humor y su relación con el subconsciente. Qué nos motiva a hacer un chsite, qué hay detrás de un comentario mordaz, los chistes que tienen un propósito específico. Los chistes hostiles, los obscenos... "Jokes lies in technique".

Jokes are not a joke.......2005-10-30

For Freud jokes were not just fooling around, not primarily a means of play, not in short something of trivial importance. Rather they were expressions of our deepest instinctual drives and needs. Like errors in everyday life they are governed by an inner intentionality, and purposiveness.
Here it might be said that Freud exaggerates or is too extreme in his point- of- view and does not explain all humor by it.

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freud
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ79TM

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Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freud
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJILHG

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