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17 produkter
Life in a Shell
A Physiologist’s View of a Turtle
Häftad, 2013
261 kr
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Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of …
Thomas Jefferson and the Rocky Mountains
Exploring the West from Monticello
Häftad, 2002
294 kr
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Recounts Thomas Jefferson's role in advocating and shaping the exploration, settlement and development of the trans-Mississippi West. Jackson argues that although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Jefferson must take his place alongside the pioneers.
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
A Confluence of Engineering and Politics
Av David P. Billington, Donald C. Jackson
Häftad, 2017
300 kr
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The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams' …
Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy Volume 8
San Francisco's Fight for a Yosemite Water Supply
Inbunden, 2025
550 kr
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The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is widely seen as a watershed event in American environmental history. Passionately opposed by naturalist John Muir and his ardent supporters, the massive undertaking succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman, one of the …
Dams
Inbunden, 1998
3082 kr
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Dams have been used to control water for thousands of years, with the oldest known dam being a small earthen structure in present-day Jordan dating to c.4000 BCE. Since then, cultures throughout the world have practised the art of dam-building and the technology has evolved in myriad ways. The …
Dams
E-bok, 2017
3636 kr
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Dams have been used to control water for thousands of years, with the oldest known dam being a small earthen structure in present-day Jordan dating to c.4000 BCE. Since then, cultures throughout the world have practised the art of dam-building and the technology has evolved in myriad ways. The …
Dams
E-bok, 2017
3664 kr
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Dams have been used to control water for thousands of years, with the oldest known dam being a small earthen structure in present-day Jordan dating to c.4000 BCE. Since then, cultures throughout the world have practised the art of dam-building and the technology has evolved in myriad ways. The …
The History of Large Federal Dams: Planning, Design, and Construction in the Era of Big Dams
Av Donald C. Jackson, Martin V. Melosi
Häftad
391 kr
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Sportsman's Journey
Inbunden, 2021
1322 kr
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A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America’s Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far …
Sportsman's Journey
Häftad, 2021
291 kr
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A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America’s Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far …
Restless Winds
Memoirs of an Outdoorsman
Inbunden, 2026
1176 kr
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Donald C. Jackson’s newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America’s Deep South out into the world. Jackson’s essays explore landscapes, waters, and cultures that have defined Jackson’s career and life. Hunting and fishing …
Restless Winds
Memoirs of an Outdoorsman
Häftad, 2026
275 kr
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Donald C. Jackson’s newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America’s Deep South out into the world. Jackson’s essays explore landscapes, waters, and cultures that have defined Jackson’s career and life. Hunting and fishing …
Heavy Ground
William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
Av Norris Hundley, Donald C. Jackson
Häftad, 2020
510 kr
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Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California's Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American …
Building the Ultimate Dam
John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West
Häftad, 2005
273 kr
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Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or rock fill. In the early twentieth century, John S. Eastwood designed novel dams that minimized the concrete necessary for construction.Eastwood's …
Deeper Currents
The Sacraments of Hunting and Fishing
Inbunden, 2016
302 kr
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In Deeper Currents, Donald C. Jackson guides us on a journey into the cathedrals of wild and lonely places, those sacred spaces where hunters and fishers connect with the rhythms of the earth and the spirit that resonates within us. Jackson explores hunting and fishing as frameworks - sacraments - …
Tracks
Inbunden, 2006
303 kr
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Tracks is a pilgrimage into the wild, beautiful, and lonely places around us. Donald C. Jackson, a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at Mississippi State University, invites the reader to share the trail with him and discover connections to different vistas not only in the South …
Wilder Ways
Inbunden, 2012
302 kr
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In Wilder Ways, Donald C. Jackson takes readers on a journey into the deep and very personal connections that can develop between people and wild places while hunting, fishing, and rambling across landscapes. Fishing by lantern light late at night for bullhead catfish on a small stream, hunting …
