Golf Beats Us All (And So We Love It

Joseph A. Amato

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Conservation on the Northern Plains: New Perspectives challenges widespread assumptions about people and nature, reframing understandings of both in the process. In eleven essays, ten authors trek across the Plains to find the people, places, and stories that define conservation.In addressing conservation's reach, the authors reflect on the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the spaces in between, covering species ranging from horses to honeybees and from pheasants to wolves. Each essay is a call to revisit conservation and re-engage in discussions of use and the environment. This collection tackles conservation issues in eight states and Canada, giving special attention to Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
The volume is edited by Dr. Anthony J. Amato, Associate Professor of Social Science at Southwest Minnesota State University
. . . the essayists in this volume will help readers understand the vitality and potential of one of North America's most distinctive and productive landscapes - Greg Breining, author of Wild Shore and Paddle North. 
Foreword by Dennis Anderson, Outdoors Editor and Columnist, Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Of related interest . . . Birding in the Northern Plains: The Ornithological Writings of Herbert Krause, by Ronald R. Nelson, and Natural History of the Black Hills and Badlands, by Sven Froiland and Ronald Weedon, published by The Center for Western Studies.
ISBN: 978-0-931170-95-9 215 pages 16 photographs $12.00

Conservation on the Northern Plains: New Perspectives

William Hoffman

Linda M. Hasselstrom

Anthony J Amato

Peter Carrels

Stephen L. Eliason

Andrea Glessner

Miles D. Lewis

Lisa Payne Ossian

Barry L. Stiefel

The Center for Western Studies

In fascinating detail, Amato explores how the concept of twos--contrasts, comparisons, polarities, dualities and contradictions--has been fundamental to human thought from infant development to national identities. In Amato's telling, two becomes, literally, who we are. His wide-ranging mind ranges across history, religion, art, philosophy, war, politics, and language. His book devotes significant space to essential figures who have considered those topics at length: Montaigne, William James, Isaiah Berlin. Here too are Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Dostoevsky, and Freud. Here too is language, especially analogy and metaphor, as used by poets, rhetoricians, politicians, and historians. Twos show us good, they show us evil. They lead to great art, they lead to atrocity. They lead from simple comparisons to complex civilizations. They lead to contemplative faith and ground-breaking science.

The Book of Twos

Ellis Press

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