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Springer Power Structure Ownership Integration and Competition in the US Electricity Industry
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Springer The Economics of Conservation Programs
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Springer Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Human Health Risk Analysis Biophysical Theory of Environmental Health Science
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Springer Subsurface Hydrological Responses to Land Cover and Land Use Changes
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Endangered Species Act History Conservation Biology and Public Policy
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Johns Hopkins University Press Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome Ancient
Book SynopsisHe discusses the strategies the Romans employed to alleviate or prevent flooding, their social and religious attitudes toward floods, and how the threat of inundation influenced the development of the city's physical and economic landscapes.Trade ReviewA comprehensive, insightful and lucid book-length study on a topic of great importance. -- Eric Kondratieff Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007 Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome is that rare thing in scholarship, a work that genuinely fills a gap in the scholarly literature. Professor Aldrete has brilliantly illuminated an aspect of ancient Rome that was ever present to the city's inhabitants but almost invisible to modern historians. -- Stanley Burstein History Teacher 2007 Thoughtful study. -- Dennis E. Trout American Historical Review 2007 A noble attempt to bring interdisciplinary evidence from outside classical sources to bear on a long-standing problem of Roman history and archaeology. -- James C. Anderson, Jr. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2008 A meticulously researched, well-written, and thoroughly referenced study of a little known aspect of Rome's history. -- Brian Fagan Historian 2009Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Floods and HistoryChapter OneFloods in Ancient Rome: Sources and TopographyFloods and the Foundation of RomePrimary Source Descriptions of Floods in Ancient RomeGeographic Extent of Floods Based on Primary SourcesThe Topography of Rome and FloodsMaps of Hypothetical Floods of Different MagnitudesChapter TwoCharacteristics of FloodsFlood Types and Basic HydrologyHydrology of the Tiber and the Tiber Drainage BasinDuration of Floods at RomeSeasonality of Floods at RomeFrequency of Floods at RomeMagnitude of Floods at RomeConclusionChapter ThreeImmediate Effects of FloodsIntroduction and MethodologyDisruption of the Daily Life of the CityDestruction of PropertyCollapse of StructuresInjuries and DrowningCleaning Up after a Flood: Water, Mud, Debris, CorpsesChapter FourDelayed Effects of FloodsWeakened BuildingsFood Spoilage and FamineDiseasePsychological TraumaRecovery and ReconstructionChapter FiveMethods of Flood ControlDrain: The Roman SewersFill: Attempts to Raise Ground LevelDivert: Canals and Channel Modification SchemesContain: Roman EmbankmentsAdministrative Oversight of the TiberChapter SixRoman Attitudes toward FloodsFloods and the Urban Fabric of Ancient Rome: Public BuildingsFloods and the Urban Fabric of Ancient Rome: HousingWater and the GodsFloods and the Gods: Portents and Divine AngerFlood Reports: Context and CausationFlood Prevention: Costs and BenefitsConclusion: The Romans' Failure to Make Rome Safe from FloodsAppendix I: List of Major Floods at Rome, 414 BC–AD 2000Appendix II: The Modern Tiber EmbankmentsAppendix III: A Note on Hydrological SourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Death in a Small Package
Book SynopsisJones compellingly narrates the biography of this frightfully hardy disease from the ancient world through the present day.Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for understanding the history of anthrax and its relationship to humans... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceIntroduction1. Infectivity and Fear: Charbon and the Cursed Fields2. Availability: Understanding the Germ of Anthrax3. Transmission: Anthrax Enters the Factory4. Casualty Effectiveness: War andAnthrax5. Resistance: Anthrax, the Modern Laboratory, and the Environment6. Detection and Verification: The Weapon and the DiseaseEpilogue: Stories about AnthraxAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Henry Holt & Company Inc Song for the Blue Ocean
Book SynopsisSounding a warning about the decline of the world's marine resources due to commercial fishing and other causes, this book considers the imminent extinction of some species.
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St Martin's Press The Outermost House A Year of Life On The Great
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Henry Holt & Company Inc RISING POWERS SHRINKING PLANET
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John Wiley & Sons By His Own Hand The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
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Genealogical Publishing Company A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland
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Genealogical.Com, Inc. Gazetteer of the State of New York. Reprinted with an Index of Names Compiled by Frank Place
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Penguin Random House LLC Into Great Silence A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
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Beacon Press Opportunity Montana Big Copper Bad Water and the Burial of an American Landscape
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Penguin Random House LLC For The Common Good
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Penguin Random House LLC Beyond Growth The Economics of Sustainable
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Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. But Will the Planet Notice How Smart Economics Can Save the World
Book SynopsisAnd when confronting the entwined challenges of climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. This book explores global economics and the economists wrestling with the scope of climate chaos and the means of realigning incentives to resolve the threat.
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Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL The Way Out
Book SynopsisBelieve in climate change. Or don't. It doesn't matter. But you'd better understand this: the best route to rebuilding our economy, our cities, and our job markets, as well as assuring national security, is doing precisely what you would do if you were scared to death about climate change.
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Hill & Wang Larding the Lean Earth
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Random House USA Inc Pirate Hunters
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Wild Heart of Florida
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Fossiling in Florida
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida River of the Golden Ibis
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Everglades Patrol
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University Press of Florida Lacand243n Maya in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisDrawing on his 49 years of studying and learning from the Lacandon Maya, James Nations discusses how in the midst of external pressures such as technological changes, missionary influences, and logging ventures, Lacandon communities are building an economic system of agroforestry and ecotourism.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Toxic Matters
Book SynopsisExplores the interplay between bodies, soil, industrial emissions, and the wealth of dynamic particulate matter that passes in between. At the same time, the book emphasizes the crucial function of narrative expression for making sense of this modern-day reality and for shifting existing power dynamics as exposed communities exercise their voices.
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Ohio State University Press Narrating Space Spatializing Narrative
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Ohio State University Press City Scripts
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Ohio State University Press Olfactory Rhetoric
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New York University Press The South Pole 19101912 An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram 19101912 An Account of the Norwegian Antartic Expedition in the Fram
Book SynopsisBefore Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters to become the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. Read the fascinating account of his journey in The South Pole. Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag on the South Pole on December 14, 1911: a full month before Robert Falcon Scott arrived on the same spot. Amundsen's 'The South Pole' is less well-known than his rival's, in part because he is less of a literary stylist, but also, perhaps, because he survived the journey. His book is a riveting first-hand account of a truly professional expedition; Amundsen's heroism is understated, but it is heroism nonetheless. --The Times of London, 23 June 2001 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the spring of 1911 two separate expeditions left their respective camps in AntarcticTrade Review"Amundsen was the supreme exponent of Polar technique. He towered above his rivals; he brought an intellectual approach to exploration and stood, as he still stands, the antipole to the heroic delusion... The journey to the South Pole remains his masterpiece, the culmination of the classical age of Polar exploration and, perhaps, the greatest snow journey ever made." -Roland Huntford,The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
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New York University Press Feminism and Ecology An Introduction
Book SynopsisIn recent years, as environmentalists have examined the link between women's subordination and the degradation of our natural world, the relationship between feminism and ecology has become a crucial one. In Feminism and Ecology, Mary Mellor, tracing ecofeminist activism from the Love Canal demonstrations to socialist ecofeminism, provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history. Mellor examines the connections between feminism and the Green movement, outlining the contributions of major participants while contextualizing them within a wider range of debates. Looking past the shortsighted assertion that women and men stand in equal relation to the natural order, Mellor discusses the association of women with biology and nature, illustrating how the relationship between women and the environment can help further our understanding of the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Against trends toward radical economic liberalism, global capitaliTrade Review"Mary Mellor has written a timely and exciting book which leads one to share her optimism about critical social analysis and the politics of new social movements--and the potential for social change." -Diana Leonard,University of London "A coherent, readable, and critically engaged survey that will be an indispensable resource for anyone thinking about, or teaching, the relations between ecological politics, feminist theory and philosophy, and the 'new social movements.'" -The Times Literary Supplement
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Art of Revitalization Improving Conditions in Distressed InnerCity Neighborhoods 12 Contemporary Urban Affairs
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Rlpg/Galleys The Capacity for Wonder
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Nature and Madness
Book SynopsisThrough much of history, humanity's relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence - while enjoying and appreciating the forces of nature, we have also sought to plunder, alter and control them. The author of this study uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Piri Reis Map of 1513
Book SynopsisThis detailed study of the 1513 Piri Reis world map offers commentary and explication of a major milestone in cartography. It aims to disprove dubious conclusions drawn and clarify longstanding mysteries in order to open up new ways of looking at the history of exploration.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press What Nature Suffers to Groe Life Labor and Landscape on the Georgia Coast 16801920
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on a particular place and time to explore how environment and human culture transform each other. It shows how each successive community on the Georgia coast forged unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Values at Sea Ethics for the Marine Environment
Book SynopsisWhile the field of environmental ethics has explored rights and duties for land use, stewardship and policy, relatively little attention has been given to comparable issues of marine environments. Aiming to fill this gap, this book collects 15 papers on a broad array of ethical and policy issues.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Lifes Philosophy Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World
Book SynopsisOffers a bold perspective on the power of feelings to move us away from ecological and cultural degradation toward sound, future-focused policy and action. This book acknowledges the powerlessness of the intellect without the heart, and, like Thoreau before him, he rejects the Cartesian notion of mind-body separation.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Rosalie Edge Hawk of Mercy The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists
Book SynopsisA biography of Rosalie Edge (1877-1962), he first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. It draws on Edge’s personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names 'Joan of Arc' and 'hellcat'.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Company Towns in the Americas Landscape Power and WorkingClass Communities
Book SynopsisCompany towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Fields and Streams
Book SynopsisExamining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organised, and viewed in the United States.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Geographical Diversions Tibetan Trade Global Transactions
Book SynopsisWorking at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Blue the Gray and the Green Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
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John Wiley & Sons Deforestation Trends in the Congo Basin Reconciling Economic Growth and Forest Protection
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MJ - Ohio University Press Wielding the Ax
Book SynopsisForests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests.ThaddeusTrade Review“This is a very well researched work on a topic of considerable contemporary importance in relation to forest utilisation and conservation. It is especially good on the wide range of historic uses of the coastal forests in particular, not just for material resources, but also for social and ritual purposes by local people.” * Tanzanian Affairs *“Sunseri’s history consistently argues that the loss of local environmental control helped push a substantial deforestation across the coastal landscape. He contends further that the assault on coastal peoples' rights to forest access continues. The overt authoritarianism and violence of former decades has yielded to a more benign intervention on the part of international conservation organizations…a new wrinkle on a historically familiar pattern….” * African Studies Review *“Tanzania enjoys a reputation as a place deeply concerned with preserving its beautiful landscapes and wildlife for global humanity to enjoy in perpetuity. This compact and masterful study (Wielding the Ax) traces the fraught environmental history that preceded this current era of ‘eco-governmentality’ in Tanzania.” * African History *“(Wielding the Ax) illustrates the wide variety of demands placed on the forests with the not-so-surprising, but documented, conclusion that Tanzanian scientific forestry was neither rational nor efficient, but fell prey to the usual political machinations…. This is the first significant work bringing together Tanzanian forestry and social issues….” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This exemplary book is worth reading far beyond the boundaries of Tanzania or the shores of Africa for several reasons. It takes the strong political ecology approach to writing environmental history in a way that is mercifully jargon free. It reveals the sequence of transformations from tribal society to imperialism and post-colonialism, and right through to present ‘green neoliberalism’ of international conservation. It rests on wide reading and thorough research…. Sunseri’s book tells how Tanzania’s forests have always been peopled. It is a perspective too easily ignored.” * Environment and History *“Sensitive oral interviews and deft fieldwork support a markedly populist perspective on the impact of national and international decisions on resilient local residents…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Sunseri demonstrates how authority over the forest has shifted from nineteenth‐century chiefs, known as ‘ceremonial ax wielders,’ to scientific forestry experts of the colonial state, and later to biodiversity advocates of the global NGO community…. Surprisingly, a forest history provides a new lens for interpreting the major events of Tanzanian colonial and postcolonial history.” * American Historical Review *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Thinking Geographically Space Theory and Contemporary Human Geography Continuum Studies in Geography
Book SynopsisThe 1990s saw geography transformed by a range of cultural and philosophical approaches. Designed for students as an introduction to these ideas, this book covers the history of geographic thought and explores world issues in social, cultural, political and economic geography using modern theory.Trade Review"Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume "pushes the envelope" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history and status of the discipline, and will stand as a milestone in the discipline's conceptual understanding over the next decade or more." Barney Warf, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsHistory of geographic thought; new geographies; geographies of the body; geographies of text; geographies of money; geographies of governance; geographies of globalization.
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