Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Benton Mackaye - Conservationist Planner and Creator of the Appalachian Trail - cover

Benton Mackaye - Conservationist Planner and Creator of the Appalachian Trail

Larry Anderson

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

The life of the visionary conservationist who created the Appalachian Trail is chronicled in this “first-rate biography of a unique American thinker” (Mark Harvey, Journal of American History).   Born in 1879, Wilderness Society cofounder Benton MacKaye was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation and recreation. Spanning three-quarters of a century, his career had a major impact on emerging movements in conservation, environmentalism, and regional planning. MacKaye's seminal ideas on outdoor recreation, wilderness protection, land-use planning, community development, and transportation have inspired generations of activists, professionals, and adventurers seeking to strike a harmonious balance between human need and the natural environment.   This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history. Drawing on extensive research, Larry Anderson traces MacKaye's extensive career, examines his many published works, and describes the importance of MacKaye's relationships with such influential figures as Lewis Mumford, Aldo Leopold, and Walter Lippmann.
Available since: 12/30/2002.
Print length: 468 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Best Binaural Beats Collection The - Sleep Aid - Volume 3 - Sleep Aid - cover

    Best Binaural Beats Collection...

    Empowered Living

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Binaural beats result from hearing 2 dissimilar frequencies in each ear so headphones are required. If you hear two different frequencies in each ear, you'll hear the difference between two as a binaural beat. 
    Listening to binaural beats may increase particular brainwave frequencies. Our brain mimics the frequencies we hear in the beat. If you wish to better your alpha brainwaves, listen to a binaural beat in the alpha range. This is called entrainment or frequency-following response. 
    If you wish to relax, practice stress reduction, learn to meditate, or evoke the Relaxation Response download and listen to these binaural beat MP3 files. There are various ones that use different frequencies and patterns. Most have descriptions you can utilize to help decide which one(s) to use. 
    You might find these binaural beat files helpful while learning how to meditate. Utilize them to get started. Or you might find them of use on a more regular basis. The only way to learn is to try them yourself and determine what works best for you. 
    Beta brainwaves (13-40 Hz) are associated with active thinking and concentration. Alpha brainwaves (7-13 Hz) are associated with relaxation and/or drowsiness. Theta brainwaves (4-7 Hz) are associated with dreams, meditation, and REM sleep.
    Show book
  • Alice Adams - Hollywood Stage - cover

    Alice Adams - Hollywood Stage

    Hollywood Stage Productions

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Alice Adams starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray.
    Show book
  • Solutions Architect's Handbook - Kick-start your career as a solutions architect by learning architecture design principles and strategies - cover

    Solutions Architect's Handbook -...

    Saurabh Shrivatava, Neelanjali...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Turning into an arrangements designer requires an involved methodology, and this release of the Arrangements Planner's Handbook brings precisely that. This book recording will show you how to make powerful, versatile, and shortcoming open minded arrangements and cutting edge engineering plans in a cloud climate. It will likewise assist you with building powerful item procedures for your business and execute them beginning to end. 
    This new version includes extra parts on troublesome advances, like Web of Things (IoT), quantum registering, information designing, and AI. It likewise remembers refreshed conversations for cloud-local engineering, blockchain information capacity, and centralized computer modernization with public cloud. 
    The Arrangements Designer's Handbook gives a comprehension of arrangement engineering and how it squeezes into a dexterous undertaking climate. It will take you through the excursion of arrangement engineering configuration by giving nitty gritty information on plan support points, high level plan designs, enemies of examples, and the cloud-local parts of current programming plan. 
    Toward the finish of this book recording, you'll have taken in the strategies expected to make proficient engineering plans that meet your business necessities.
    Show book
  • How Design Makes The World - cover

    How Design Makes The World

    Scott Berkun

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they go wrong? And what can we learn from how these experts think that can help us improve our own lives? 
    In How Design Makes The World, bestselling author and designer Scott Berkun reveals how designers, from software engineers to city planners, have succeeded and failed us. From the airplane armrest to the Facebook “like” button, and everything in between, Berkun shows how design helps or hinders everyone, and offers a new way to think about the world around you. 
    Whether you spend time in a studio or a boardroom, an office or the outdoors, How Design Makes the World empowers you to ask better questions—and to understand the designs in everything that matters.
    Show book
  • How to DJ Right - The Art and Science of Playing Records - cover

    How to DJ Right - The Art and...

    Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A “lucid, comprehensive guide” to becoming a club DJ “from beat matching to promotion to not going deaf” by the authors of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (Rolling Stone). 
     
    Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton wrote the definitive history of the DJ in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. Now they share their extensive knowledge of the creative and technical aspects of DJing in this clear, accessible, entertaining guide for all aspiring jocks. 
     
    How to DJ Right covers every aspect of DJing from establishing a music collection and a distinctive sound, to elementary record-spinning, to the complex skills of scratching, hot-mixing, and beat-juggling, as well as the unique art of creating an evening of sound that is perfectly timed, balanced, and unforgettable.  
     
    Diagrams throughout make phrases, beat timing, and song structure comprehensible without a background in music theory. The authors also include recommendation lists on everything from the best (and most fun) songs to practice with, to the best sources for building a library of disks, CDs, and MP3s. For those who want to turn pro, the authors give sage advice on the vagaries of the club and music business. Enlivened by short quotes, anecdotes, and photos of famous DJs such as Grandmaster Flash and Derrick Carter, How to DJ is the definitive book for anyone who has ever considered becoming a DJ.
    Show book
  • Of One Blood - cover

    Of One Blood

    Andrew White

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Of One Blood is a poignant and disturbing play about the infamous murder of three civil rights workers - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner – in Mississippi in 1964. The broadcast includes an interview with Rita Bender, Michael Schwerner's wife in 1964. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring David Schwimmer alongside Lee Arenberg, John Cothran Jr., Judyann Elder, Arye Gross, Valerie Landsburg, Macon McCalman, Bruce Norris, Joey Slotnick, Renee Victor, Thomas Victor and Brian Wesley Thomas.
    Show book