The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa, Paperback

The 'Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health' focuses on the role of nature for our health and wellbeing by demonstrating the multiple health b...

Reducere. DescriptionSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians li...

Examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part...

Reducere. Iowa six-player girls' basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 per...

Reducere. Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...

Reducere. The state of Iowa is just as well known for prominent wrestlers as it is acres of corn and beans. That gives the state the mighty distinction of fe...

Reducere. DescriptionSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians li...

Reducere. The philosophy of science movement is in disarray. The collapse of logical empiricism, and the rise of historicism and social construtivism have le...

John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker, rediscovers Scotland's mountains, bothies and wildlife in the stormiest months. Wild Wint...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is hardly news that our planet is on the brink of ecological disaster. Yet amid the alarming headlines, a grassroots restoration move...

Reducere. From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colo...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (University of Greifswald, Germany) NorthIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Pub...

Reducere. Descendants of Slavery: on the Event Horizon is book about problems and problem solving in the African American community. It is a red flag on the ...

DescriptionWomen, Warfare and Representation considers the various ways the American servicewoman has been represented throughout the 20th century ...

Reducere. Come along with Jodie Toohey as she hikes some of the trails in eastern Iowa's and northwestern Illinois' state parks. Part guidebook, part memoir,...

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DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Benjamin R. CohenNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover typ...

In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

Reducere. DescriptionFor decades, the Iowa State Fair was considered the classic summer exposition; it was what most Americans envisioned when they thought o...

Reducere. Western Connecticut consists of a rich mixture of culture, history, sport, ingenuity and agriculture and the Danbury Fair drank deeply from its roo...

Reducere. Everyone shops online these days, but there are certain experiences and products that resist the move to e-commerce. When we can order almost anyth...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone shops online these days, but there are certain experiences and products that resist the move to e-commerce. When we can order a...

Reducere. Untold stories from the American heartland of living between two worlds At six years old, Antonia Rivera crossed the border from Mexico with nothin...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Albert BaiburinTranslator: Stephen DalzielNumber of pages: 455Collection: New Russian ThoughtPublication date: 20...

Reducere. DescriptionA House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's...

Reducere. Hop into the back seat with Kay on her family's road trip from the mountains of Colorado to the farms of Iowa. Sometimes the back seat is unfair an...

Reducere. This critical volume focuses on the concept of deification in Christian intellectual history. It draws together Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, a...

The authors featured in this CSIS publication were members of The Project on Nuclear Issues' (PONI) 2020 Nuclear Scholars Class. The PONI Nuclear S...

This monograph examines Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throug...