Mining California: An Ecological History, Paperback - Andrew C. Isenberg

Reducere. An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little av...

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

DescriptionIn the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken,...

Reducere. Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought mo...

Reducere. This highly readable, spectacularly illustrated compendium is an ecological journey into a wondrous land of extremes. The California Deserts explor...

DescriptionDid you know that an estimated 5, 000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black histor...

Through nine successful editions, and for over 45 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehe...

Fire has shaped the Earth's landscape and vegetation for the past 400 million years. This book explores the history of wildfire, and how humans hav...

In this illustrated history, Alastair Cameron explores the history and heritage of the slate mining industry in the Lake District.

Gold drew stampeders to Alaska's Innoko river region in 1906, when the town of Ophir was founded. More than 40 years later, the unchanging, governm...

Reducere. When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes...

Focuses on a micro approach to political economy that grounds policy choices in the competitive environments of domestic politics and decision-maki...

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Reducere. There are worse horrors than the evils that men do. Near the end of World War II, during the Battle of The Bulge, a US Army unit pursues a renegade...

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Reducere. Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the...

Argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. Returning ethics to its root sense, this work proposes that th...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Stuart KirschIllustration(s): 15 b-w illustrations and 3 mapNumber of pages: 328Publication dat...

Learning Begins, written by a teacher for teachers, translates current brain research into practical classroom strategies. Because students learn w...

Reducere. Idaho Library Association Book AwardJulie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she ret...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Copper mining is as ubiquitous to the Upper Peninsula of Michi...

Reducere. On the morning of May 27, 1896, the peaceful township of Campbell awoke to shocking news. Six people were brutally murdered at the home of Colonel ...

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In the last 20 years, the cognitive sciences have revealed fresh, surprising, and useful insights into how and why our students learn. Teachers can...

Reducere. How do university finances really work?From flagship public research universities to small, private liberal arts colleges, there are few aspects of...

Reducere. This textbook explores the different aspects of data mining from the fundamentals to the complex data types and their applications, capturing the w...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nationPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): John Mack Faragher...

Reducere. YOU are a New Englander with a bad case of gold fever. Gold has been discovered in California, and you want to go claim some for yourself. Will you...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Patricio FloresIllustration(s): 20 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 162Collection: Critical Envi...