wyszukanych pozycji: 6
National Parks Beyond the Nation, 1: Global Perspectives on America's Best Idea
ISBN: 9780806152257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement," the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience--an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks "America's... "The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement," the U.S. Nation... |
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219,51 zł |
Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
ISBN: 9780190249144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly "Pole Apart," the region has the most contested political history of any part of the Antarctic Continent. Since the start of the twentieth century, Argentina, Britain, and Chile have made overlapping sovereignty claims, while the United States and Russia have reserved rights to the entire continent. The environment has been at the heart of these disputes over...
Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest ...
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220,42 zł |
Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
ISBN: 9780197533550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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129,34 zł |
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
ISBN: 9781108429931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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898,30 zł |
Antarctica and the Humanities
ISBN: 9781137545749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human poopulation, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.
The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human poopulation, Antarctica has been imagined in powe...
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346,96 zł |
Antarctica and the Humanities
ISBN: 9781349713851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.
The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in power...
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212,02 zł |