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Urbanatural Roosting: Planetary Living for Our New Millennium
The time has come for a new idea and a new word to describe that idea. The new word is “urbanature.” The idea this word describes suggests that nature and urban life are not as distinct as human beings have … Continue reading
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Nature’s Web
The World Wide Web received its name around 1990 from Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, and Robert Cailliau, a Belgian information scientist, in an essay entitled “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HypertextProject.” Their goal was to produce “a way to … Continue reading
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Language of Flowers
Emily Arndt, Class of 2013, Dickinson College The language of flowers, also known as floriography, is the expression of messages and emotions through flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has … Continue reading
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* * * * * * * * Reviews of Works by Ashton Nichols * * * * * * * * *
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Technology NEWS WATCH; Views of Nature Before Darwin Jumped Into the Debate By SHELLY FREIERMAN Published: New York Times, September 21, 2000: front page “Circuits” section, Thursday A Romantic Natural History, maintained … Continue reading
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B. Ashton Nichols
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: As Author: Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), part of the Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters series. Series Editor, Marilyn Gaull. Nominated for the John Burroughs Medal and the American Publishers Prose Prize (a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashton Nichols, Charles Darwin, evolution, natural history, poetry, prose, Romanticism, science
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Student Researchers and Contributor Acknowledgments
Grateful thanks to Jennifer Lindbeck, member of the Dickinson Class of 1998, and Mellon research assistant during the establishment of the initial architecture, research, and writing of Romantic Natural History. Additional thanks also to Emily Arndt, Class of 2013, summer … Continue reading
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