The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State, Hardcover - David Stradling

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountai...

Reducere. Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State--from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Sout...

Reducere. In this lively and engaging book, Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of nineteen dramatic events. From the l...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fei-Ling WangWhat does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rer...

Reducere. Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of pa...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): New York Chamber of CommerceIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2009Dimension...

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach mystical experiences and myst...

Reducere. Writer, activist, and indefatigable community leader in the American West, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) offers a remarkable, well-researched...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

Reducere. Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained lar...

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

Publisher: Arkose PressIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 800Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 164 x 240 x 51Cover typ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Stephen David RossThis anthology has been significantly expanded for this edition to include a wider range of contemporary ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aileen EasterbrookIllustrator: Johanna Van Der SterreA delightful tour of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State through...

Reducere. How did two national movements--which both share the same national ethos based on territorial and human elements and the same history--fail to reac...

Reducere. Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden...

Reducere. Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from appro...

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. In Mayalogue, Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric ...

Reducere. Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in ...

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

Reducere. Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the Engl...

Reducere. Forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: Whe...

Reducere. Unworkable discusses the ongoing implosion of our globalized world from three distinct angles: the capitalist elimination of labor through technolo...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

Reducere. Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Par...

Reducere. The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2, 000 pages ...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

Contributor(s): Author: David KinsleyIn this book, you can see how the divine has been perceived in feminine form. Here are ten of the best known g...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shoma MoritaTranslator: Akihisa KondoEditor: Peg LevineThis book presents the progressive nature of Morita therapy across f...

Reducere. Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, Da...

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. A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhis...

Reducere. The Archaeology of Inequality explores the different aspects of social boundaries and articulation by comparing several interdisciplinary approache...

Reducere. Essential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct vol...

Reducere. The best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, E...

Reducere. The Musical, Second Edition, introduces students and general readers to the entire scope of the history of musical theater, from eighteenth-century...

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

Reducere. Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad underst...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major...