Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks, Paperback - Philip G. Terrie

Reducere. Explores the competing understandings of how best to manage the Adirondack Mountains. Philip G. Terrie introduces the key players and events that h...

Reducere. In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and sc...

Reducere. Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bay...

Reducere. In this title, David Tatham demonstrates that Winslow Homer's 'Adirondack oils and watercolours constitute a highly original examination of the hum...

An urban nature book telling the story of an East London borough through its trees, past and present.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 5 Tables, black and white; 3 Illust...

Reducere. To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest ...

Reducere. The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented...

Reducere. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane an...

Reducere. In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but h...

This book analyzes the successes and impediments of various educational policies in Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. The authors analyze how ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven VogelIllustrator: Kathryn K. DavisNature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them...

Reducere. In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping ...

The Very First Book on Camping in America and the Great Benefits of Wilderness TravelThis deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of original camp...

In Contested Lands, T. G. Fraser untangles the threads of history in the Middle East and, in doing so, weaves a detailed and insightful picture of ...

Reducere. His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Belove...

Get to know the real Rome during a compelling 24 hours in the lives of the people who lived there.

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

During a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their com...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 390Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true un...

In this fascinating novel you find that invisible beings, Nature spirits, of the most various kinds exist in Nature, and that every one of them has...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.Huma...

Pachetul contine 3 carti: • Programul Terra in Egiptul Antic. Computerul genetic al zeilor Vol. 1 (504 pagini, include poster cu dimensiunile: 620 ...

Programul Terra in Egiptul Antic: Seria completa Toni Victor Moldovan - Pachet 3 carti

Concise history of the Sri Lankan people.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Wickramasinghe NiraNumber of pages: 416Publication date: ...

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the pra...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Reducere. In this compelling book, award-winning adventure writer and former Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue team member Peter Bronski chronicles true sto...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Paul E. CeruzziIllustration(s): 88 figuresNumber of pages: 536Collection: History of ComputingPublication date: ...

DescriptionCombining a fascinating, thought-provoking and - above all - readable text with over 800 photographs, plans, and sections, this exciting...