Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Paperback - Donald Worster

Reducere. Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it...

Reducere. Spur Awards"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, " John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scien...

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 ...

Reducere. North America's Indian peoples have always viewed competitive sport as something more than a pastime. The northeastern Indians' ball-and-stick game...

Publisher: Steve Savage Publishers LimitedAuthor(s): Donald MacDonaldIllustration(s): 52ill.d.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2004Dimensions:...

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

Demonstrates that looking at nature through the lens of the marketplace is a surprisingly effective approach to protecting the environment. Barbara...

Reducere. If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his bla...

Reducere. A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of internat...

Reducere. From the ancient city of Jerusalem to the mountains of New York, the Scrolls of Onteora, known as the Cremona Document, tell the story of the Knigh...

Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing in God be good for you...

The third edition of Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas is a fully updated overview of the political economy and its connection with ...

Reducere. The decades after World War II were a golden age for roadside attractions in the Sunshine State. The advent of the family automobile put Florida's ...

Nick O'Donovan tells the story of how the techno-optimism once associated with the rise of the knowledge economy came to be supplanted by widesprea...

Reducere. Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,...

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Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 71 major in...

Continuous economic growth is not sustainable because such growth depends on depletion of finite natural resources, ever-increasing debt, continuou...

Reducere. DescriptionAn honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation...

A reissue of three classic volumes of Hebridean Folk Songs

Driven into exile from Carmena, Spain, in 1577, to escape the threat of death by the Inquisition, the Robledo family immigrates first to New Spain ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald A. RitchieDoing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historia...

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing HouseAuthor(s): Donald MeltzerNumber of pages: 238Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 22Cover type: Paperba...

Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians...

Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to...

Reducere. In the tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Ben Kane, Outlaw is a rousing historical novel that mixes legend with fact to bring to life the time, the ...

Reducere. This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-s...

Reducere. "A rip-roaring tale...inspired by but not slavish to historical events of the Dark Ages, this book is full of twists and turns...A fast-moving, tho...

Greening the Past argues that "western civilization" is rapidly approaching a crisis unique in world history, and that a new world-view now emergin...

Reducere. Block Island explores the evolution of the small, 7-by-3-mile island that lies between Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Montauk Point, New York. In ...

Since her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. She was a teenager of a...

DescriptionBetween 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. ...

Reducere. Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political lif...

Reducere. DescriptionIn early 1969, word reached London that the little Caribbean island of Anguilla had become a hotbed of rebellion and a haven for gangste...

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