Salmon. A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate, Hardback - Mark Kurlansky

In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldIllustrations: 8-page c...

The internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Mark Kurlans...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and ...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

An erudite and affectionate history of the Basque people, a nation without a country, the origins of which go back to pre-Roman times, and whose ow...

Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient be...

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed ...

A study of the Lummi Indians of northwestern Washington and the political and economic forces that have determined their changing fortunes over 150...

Reducere. Announcing the paperback edition of World Without Fish, the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account--for kids--of what is happening to th...

Reducere. The author of the comparable food histories }Cod{ and }Salt{ turns his attention to the much-mythologised and expansively various substance profoun...

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and ro...

B format edition of Kurlansky's history of salt and its influence on the events of history and on the culinary traditions of nations around the wor...

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The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.Publ...

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

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Reducere. This book is a reflexion of the personal journey of the author, a journey of the heart, a spiritual quest and a very unique search for freedom, und...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

ENPublisher: WELSH BOOKS COUNCILAuthor(s): GWEN DAVIESNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 286 x 272 x 25Cover type: Hardback

A social, economic, planning, and global history

Reducere. The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In stud...

Publisher: HalsgroveAuthor(s): Simon ButlerIllustration(s): 200 illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 245 x 267 x 21Co...

Reducere. Genealogical And Family History Of Southern New York And The Hudson River Valley; A Record Of The Achievements Of Her People In The Making Of A Com...

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth...

Reducere. Salmon Matters explores how the salmon in the Pacific Northwest are directly tied to the vitality of the forest surrounding the salmon streams. Wit...

The book provides a comprehensive survey of Irish literature and its multi-faceted environmental themes. Lucid analyses of well-known and forgotten...

Discover the journey of human evolution - all the way from fish, to monkeys, to cavemen, to... You! A simple picture book introduction to the theor...

Discover the journey of human evolution - all the way from fish, to monkeys, to cavemen, to... You! A simple and playful picture book introduction ...

Reducere. All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Nor...

Reducere. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

Strange stories of Welsh mysteries, crimes, characters, achievers, inventors, folklore and legends

Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the major disease malaria, the cure discovered in the ba...

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DescriptionIn 1895 Scottish entrepreneur, engineer, and outdoor adventurer Henry Ogle Bell-Irving built the Good Hope Cannery in Rivers Inlet, BC. ...

Publisher: Triumph BooksAuthor(s): Mark FeinsandNumber of pages: 256Collection: The FranchisePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 223 x 38Cover ...

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