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Americans and Their Weather
Updated edition
Häftad, 2014
696 kr
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This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards …
Americans and Their Weather
Updated Edition
E-bok, 2014
495 kr
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This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards …
Americans and Their Weather
Updated Edition
E-bok, 2014
495 kr
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This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards …
Americans and Their Weather
E-bok, 2014
459 kr
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This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards …
Environmental Advantages of Cities
Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
Häftad, 2013
592 kr
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The Earth as Transformed by Human Action
Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years
Av Turner, B. L. Turner II m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
1058 kr
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The Earth as Transformed by Human Action is the culmination of a mammoth undertaking involving the examination of the toll our continual strides forward, technical and social, take on our world. The purpose of such a study is to document the changes in the biosphere that have taken place over the …
Human Impact on the Earth
Häftad, 1996
716 kr
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At a level accessible to the educated lay reader, this book describes the changes human activities have produced in the global environment from 300 years ago to the present day. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative inventory of human impact in its varied forms - on the oceans, atmosphere, …
Great Murdering-Heir Case
A Biography of Riggs v. Palmer
Inbunden, 2024
1324 kr
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Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.In 1882, Elmer Palmer was convicted of poisoning his grandfather Francis in rural northern New York State. In a famous decision in 1889, the New York Court of Appeals …
Great Murdering-Heir Case
A Biography of Riggs v. Palmer
Häftad, 2024
436 kr
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Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.In 1882, Elmer Palmer was convicted of poisoning his grandfather Francis in rural northern New York State. In a famous decision in 1889, the New York Court of Appeals …
Progressive Environmental Prometheans
Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”
Inbunden, 2016
550 kr
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This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on …
Progressive Environmental Prometheans
Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”
E-bok, 2016
718 kr
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This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on …
Neo-Environmental Determinism
Geographical Critiques
Av William B. Meyer, Dylan M.T. Guss
Inbunden, 2017
604 kr
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This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses …
Neo-Environmental Determinism
Geographical Critiques
Av Dylan M.T. Guss, William B. Meyer
E-bok, 2017
815 kr
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This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses …
Progressive Environmental Prometheans
Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”
Häftad, 2018
550 kr
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This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on …
Neo-Environmental Determinism
Geographical Critiques
Av William B. Meyer, Dylan M.T. Guss
Häftad, 2018
604 kr
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This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses …
