Environmental History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 8

Cole Bedford
Engineering the Modern American West

During the second half of the 19th century, Americans dramatically altered the landscape of the arid American West---especially its precious few rivers. Engineers built ever more ambitious dams, canals, d…

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Ben Lamm
The Elements of Civilization

By the cofounder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, which recently gained global headlines for reviving the extinct dire wolf --- the first of many planned "de-extinction" projects, including wool…

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David Suzuki, Ian Hanington
Lessons from a Lifetime

This keepsake collection, featuring tributes from Margaret Atwood and Neil Young, captures the essence of a revolutionary life as it celebrates the legacy of environmental icon David Suzuki.Across his 90 …

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Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Wildness

In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology, Lydi…

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Tommy Hart Jones
A History of Sautee Nacoochee

"A History of Sautee Nacoochee is a complete local Georgia history that's intended to be a "readily accessible compendium of useful information about the valleys." Indeed, Jones has compile…

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Carry Somers
The Nature of Fashion

"One of our favorite reads of 2025." Dressed: History of Fashion Podcast Named one of the best fashion books of 2025 by Fashionista If plants have shaped fashion's past, couldn't they hold the s…

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Cathy Jean Maloney
Olmsted's Riverside

Olmsted's Riverside tells the story of the oasis of Riverside, Illinois, a Chicago suburb planned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1869. The book describes the village's inception and details …

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Ainsley Elbra
Battling the Board

The boards and management of listed companies are under increasing pressure from investors to address urgent environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. These include concerns over their companies'…

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Jason P Julian
Stepping Outside

The story of state parks in Texas is a compelling one, rich with environmental and cultural history. Environmental geographer and scientist Jason P. Julian's visits to each state park, initially for outdo…

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Diane Muldrow,
Once a Wasteland

Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection.This is a story of a happy ending. But it didn't start that way. The place? The Krejci salvage yard, in the Cuyahoga River valley between the Ohio cities of Cl…

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Carrol L Henderson
A National Legacy

An expansive account of how Minnesota became the epicenter of nongame wildlife conservationMinnesota became a national leader for a new era of conservation in 1977 when the state's Department of Natural R…

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Nico Medina, Who Hq,
Where Are the Everglades?

"Long before the Everglades became one of the largest wetlands in the world and a national park, it was covered by a warm, shallow sea. Across millions of years, sea levels dropped, the land below su…

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Nico Medina, Who Hq,
Where Are the Everglades?

"Long before the Everglades became one of the largest wetlands in the world and a national park, it was covered by a warm, shallow sea. Across millions of years, sea levels dropped, the land below su…

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Simon Boughton
The Wild River and the Great Dam

Discover the complicated history behind the construction of Hoover Dam---one of the country's most recognizable and far-reaching landmarks---and its lasting political and environmental effects on the Colo…

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Julie Brugger
Public Land and Democracy in America

Julie Brugger explores what democracy means to ordinary Americans by analyzing conflict over public lands and the management of Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument in southern Utah.

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Jean Craighead George,
The Buffalo Are Back

The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the …

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Georgann Eubanks
The Fabulous Ordinary

Georgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast of the US.

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Sarah Fabiny, Who Hq,
Where Are the Rocky Mountains?

Did you know that the Rocky Mountains are more than three thousand miles long and span both the United States and Canada? Learn more about these majestic mountains in this book for young readers!The Rocky…

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Jess Mcgeachin
South with the Seabirds

Enter Mary Gillham, Isobel Bennett, Hope Macpherson and Susan Ingham, four scientists who successfully petitioned to be the first women to join an Australian research expedition to Macquarie Island, a rem…

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