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The Shimmering Is All There Is : On Nature, God, Science, and More /
"The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament-as a loving wife, mother, and d...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2021]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Nancy Baker Jones
- Introduction / Martin Donell Kohout
- Essays / Heather Catto Kohout: The Wonder and Power of Water
- Dreaming Time
- A Mother's Legacy
- Growing Hope
- "Everywhere There's Lots of Piggies ..."
- Carnivorocity
- James Cameron, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Nature of Nature
- Massachusetts, Part I: Of Books and Houses and Hospitality
- Massachusetts, Part II: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
- Mapping the Geography of Hope: Our Place in the Wilderness
- Sorry, Dad: Wilderness and Government Regulation
- Purity, Ambiguity, and the Investment Portfolio
- The Devil's Bargain: On Gardening and Violence
- Still More on Violence: There Will Be Blood
- Home with the Armadillo: A Love Letter to Texas
- The Gift Economy
- Made for You and Me: Some Thoughts on Private Property
- Double Vision: Prophets, Tribalism, Eugenics, and the Environment
- Cleaning Out the Mental Refrigerator: Niebuhr, McKibben, and Band-Aids
- "A Cup of Tea, a Warm Bath, and a Brisk Walk"
- Stubbing the Giant's Toe: Thoughts on Midwestern Agribusiness
- Hall of Mirrors: The Lost Art of Conversation
- Of Mothers and Mountains
- Barbers, Bison Meat, and the Invisible Hand
- "Sit. Stay. Stay! I Said STAY, Dammit!"
- Faith, Bureaucracy, and Sheep: Thoughts on Changing One's Mind
- Hosts, Guests, and Strangers: Thoughts on Hospitality
- Singing in the Dark
- The Rising Light
- Shooting Holes in the Constitution: Some Thoughts on Guns and Violence
- Meat and Flourishment: Carnivorocity, Take Two
- A Field That Don't Yield: Writer's Block and the Language of Community
- Lenten Reflections: Dead Trees, Bafflement, and Submission
- Tragic Waste: Some Thoughts on the S-Word
- Dorothea Brooke, Betty Friedan, and Big Ag
- The Power of Poetry: Peace, Demons, Sonnets, and Resurrection
- Learning to Listen, and Love
- Gratuitous Beauty
- Signs of the Times: Billboards, Property Rights, and the Enlightenment
- Field Notes from Madron̳o Ranch: Bison and Birds
- Silos: My Beef with Freeman Dyson
- Food Science: Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, and the Old Testament
- Children of Dawn: Sin in the Twenty-First Century
- A Furry Flurry of Fully Furrowed Brows: My Beef with Freeman Dyson, Part II
- Re-Wilding the Monocultural Self
- Edsels and the Enlightenment: The Downside of Corporate Personhood
- Field Notes from Inside My Head: Connecting Art and Commerce
- Angels in the Dark
- A Father's Legacy
- Submission Guidelines
- Take Me to the River
- Bonfires in the Soul
- Spring Creed
- Microbiomes and Individual Identity: Alexander Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury
- Jellyfish and Revelation
- The Cliff of the Unknown: Desire, Tolerance, and Identity
- Poetry and the Pelvic Bowl
- A Tale of Two Kitties: Thinking About Predators and Cancer
- This and Not That
- The Unsteady Rock: Descartes, Salamanders, and the Nicene Creed
- Mind the Gap: Ghosts, Trees, and Goodbye to a River
- Repairing the World: Beatles, Alaskan Mountain Goats, and Asiatic Cheetahs
- Poems: Invocation
- Prophet
- Compunction
- What She Knew
- Sacrifice
- Proof
- Within
- With
- Ordination
- Ordination: Piedras Negras
- Beside
- Beneath.