Télécharger le livre :  Shrinking the Earth
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The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-01-08

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Télécharger le livre :  A Passion for Nature
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"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-10-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Dust Bowl
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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 chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-09-09

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Télécharger le livre :  A River Running West
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2002-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Wealth of Nature
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Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1994-10-27

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