American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, Hardcover

Reducere. With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of...

Reducere. Crossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and wood...

"Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who he...

Reducere. DescriptionEver since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimat...

The Earth and environmental sciences are becoming progressively more quantitative due to the increased use of mathematical models and new data anal...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of Ameri...

Reducere. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment is an introductory college level textbook on the science of Life Cycle Assessment. It provides materials for a ...

DescriptionThis brings the story of the U.S. airlifter from the early 1960s to today's transport giants and tomorrow's stealth assault aircraft; re...

Reducere. Occupational health is a multidisciplinary field that deals with the safety, health and welfare of people at work. Fostering a safe and healthy wor...

Reducere. Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Na...

Reducere. Short Summary of the Book TitleThe selected title of this book, The Quanders Since 1684: An Enduring African American Legacy, is self-explanatory a...

Reducere. A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

Reducere. "Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intellige...

Reducere. In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA...

Description By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the h...

DescriptionFrom former New York Times Science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know Y...

Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of w...

This volume describes the many ways presidential actions have affected the development of capitalism in the post-World War II era. Contributors sho...

Reducere. A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast's 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker's groun...

Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its ac...

A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of l...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic memoir, Henry David Thoreau has written both a manual and a testimony to living a simple life amongst the physical and s...

Reducere. DescriptionGrinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug f...

Reducere. The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American...

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies ...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

DescriptionSonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

DescriptionAs part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and th...

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

Reducere. In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politic...

Reducere. What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressi...

Publisher: Claud PressNumber of pages: 60Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 5Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): L Egaire Humphre...

An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the scienc...

Emphasizing the interconnected nature of environmental geology and the multidimensional processes of the Earth, this new edition of Merritt's class...

DescriptionTambi n de este lado hay sue os. On this side too, there are dreams.Already being hailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new...

Reducere. As an environmental scientist, you are used to writing scientific articles, but how confident do you feel writing policy or regulatory documents? D...

Reducere. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The American Scholar, "" 1837 F...