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California
A Fire Survey
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts after watering by El Niño cloudbursts and the thick forests of the rumpled Coast Range—all burn according …
Interior West
A Fire Survey
Häftad, 2018
192 kr
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Its fires help give to the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental both to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region, defined here as the states of Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado, its fires illuminate the ways its various parts show profoundly different …
Wild Visions
Wilderness as Image and Idea
Av Ben A Minteer, Mark Klett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
372 kr
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Our ideas of the wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a bold collage of short, thematic essays that complement the extensive photographic work.
The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
Av Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
Häftad, 2013
334 kr
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After Preservation
Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
Av Ben A. Minteer, Stephen J. Pyne
Inbunden, 2015
501 kr
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From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos - to protect nature from the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid …
After Preservation
Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
Av Ben A. Minteer, Stephen J. Pyne
Häftad, 2015
194 kr
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From John Muir to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos-to protect nature from the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid …
Fire
A Brief History
Häftad, 2019
302 kr
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Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the …
Fire
A Brief History
Inbunden, 2019
1862 kr
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Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the …
Undying Fire
A Fire History of Europe
Inbunden, 2026
1750 kr
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Europe’s unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization’s combustible coreThis work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame—and a history of fire refracted through Europe’s landscapes, sciences, and empires. Drawing on and substantially updating his classic …
Undying Fire
A Fire History of Europe
Häftad, 2026
403 kr
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Europe’s unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization’s combustible coreThis work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame—and a history of fire refracted through Europe’s landscapes, sciences, and empires. Drawing on and substantially updating his classic …
Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe''s Encounter with the World
E-bok, 2012
797 kr
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Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable …
Fire in America
A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
E-bok, 2017
693 kr
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From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Fire on the Rim
A Firefighter''s Season at the Grand Canyon
E-bok, 2016
520 kr
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In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.
Ice
A Journey to Antarctica
E-bok, 2016
606 kr
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“ The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves physical science with humanistic inquiry and perception. His audacity as well as his presentation …
World Fire
The Culture of Fire on Earth
E-bok, 2014
535 kr
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Back in Print World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then …
Fire on the Rim
A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon
Häftad, 1995
457 kr
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In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.
Fire in America
A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
Häftad, 1997
608 kr
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From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
World Fire
The Culture of Fire on Earth
Häftad, 1997
533 kr
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Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then …
Burning Bush
A Fire History of Australia
Häftad, 1998
590 kr
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Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers."Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a …
Ice
A Journey to Antarctica
Häftad, 1998
533 kr
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“The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves physical science with humanistic inquiry and perception. His audacity as well as his presentation …
Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Häftad, 2000
663 kr
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Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable …
Reconstructing the View
The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Av Rebecca A. Senf, Stephen J. Pyne
Inbunden, 2012
445 kr
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Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, "Reconstructing the View". The team's landscape …
Pyrocene
How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
Inbunden, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
236 kr
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A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. …
Pyrocene
How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
Häftad, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
264 kr
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A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. …
Voice and Vision
A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction
Häftad, 2011
324 kr
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It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art—that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential …
Awful Splendour
A Fire History of Canada
Häftad, 2008
426 kr
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Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses, and since Confederation, the country has devised various institutions to connect fire …
Smokechasing
Häftad, 2003
287 kr
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Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf—all have their critics and commentators, observes Stephen Pyne. ""Fire does not."" Aside from news reports on fire disasters, most writing about fire appears in government reports and scientific papers and in journalism that has more in …
Between Two Fires
A Fire History of Contemporary America
Häftad, 2015
385 kr
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From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as simple suppression and then was replaced with more …
Southwest
A Fire Survey
Häftad, 2016
192 kr
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With its scattered mountains and high rims, its dry air and summer lightning, its rising tier of biomes from desert grasses to alpine conifers, and its aggressive exurban sprawl, something in The Southwest is ready to burn each year and some high-value assets seem ever in their path. But the past …
