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My Visit to Mono Lake: a children's book
ISBN: 9781467953245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Salty water, tufa towers, brine shrimp, and birds are some of the things 9-year old Monica Jones learned about from the rangers at Mono Lake. Her book explains the basic natural environment of California's beautiful inland sea and nearby tourist sites and includes 26 color photographs and a map. Written for 4th grade level readers and up, this is a great souvenir for every visitor to Mono Lake.
Salty water, tufa towers, brine shrimp, and birds are some of the things 9-year old Monica Jones learned about from the rangers at Mono Lake. Her book...
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50,10 zł |
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Putting California on the Map: Von Schmidt's Lines
ISBN: 9781987736434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,55 zł |
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Water and the California Dream: Historic Choices for Shaping the Future
ISBN: 9781619026179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. Land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state. The key has been redirecting water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mullholland, whose leadership began the process of water irrigating unlimited growth. Using first-person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, Carle concludes that now is the time to...
Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. Land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically alt...
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73,86 zł |
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Mono
ISBN: 9781475069815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1934 and 1941, the City of Los Angeles sent 2,000 men to work on aqueducts and an 11-mile tunnel beneath volcanic craters in the Mono Lake Basin of the Eastern Sierra. MONO tells the story of fish biologist Justin Hearth, as he surveys the waters of the Mono Lake watershed, falls in love with that landscape, and also with Alisa Stohler. Her family had been forced from a farm in the Owens Valley in 1930 and is now caught up in changes brought by the distant city's unending thirst for growth. This story explores the minds and hearts of a generation shaped by the Great Depression and...
Between 1934 and 1941, the City of Los Angeles sent 2,000 men to work on aqueducts and an 11-mile tunnel beneath volcanic craters in the Mono Lake Bas...
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77,55 zł |
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Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around the World
ISBN: 9780520266544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where authors David and Janet Carle make their home. Former park rangers, the authors set out on an around-the-world journey in search of water-related environmental and cultural intersections along the 38th parallel. This book is a chronicle of their adventures as they meet people...
Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrive...
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189,01 zł |
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Burning Questions: America's Fight with Nature's Fire
ISBN: 9780275973711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld canisters onto the ground. Slowly a line of fire begins to creep downhill. The flames are well behaved, almost hesitant. This is a backing fire, unlikely to attract media attention unless it escapes, like the disastrous Los Alamos Cerro Grande fire did in 2000. This book explores a century of controversy over prescribed burning--using fire as a tool--and fire suppression. For more than 100 years, America waged an all-out war against wildland fire. Decades of fire suppression caused fuels to build up at alarming levels in our... A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld canisters onto the ground. Slowly a line of fire begins to creep downhill. The flames... |
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191,10 zł |
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Introduction to Fire in California: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780520379145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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114,66 zł |
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Introduction to Water in California
ISBN: 9780520287907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands, dams, and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture, the environment, and politics. Essential reading in a state facing the future with an overextended water supply, this fascinating book shows that, for all Californians, every drop counts.
New to this updated edition: *... This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmo...
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136,50 zł |
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The Spotting Scope: a mystery novel
ISBN: 9781475200546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I thought I was in the forever business. National and state parks are supposed to preserve special places for all time. A certain job security had always gone along with that idea if you were a park ranger. But I've learned to never say forever." Jack Morgan had been a park ranger at Saline Lake until the National Monument was shut down by a Congress determined to push back against environmentalism. Leading a search for a 17-year old boy hiking alone in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Jack uncovers connections with a dead man on the shore of Saline Lake, bludgeoned with a birdwatcher's spotting...
"I thought I was in the forever business. National and state parks are supposed to preserve special places for all time. A certain job security had al...
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77,55 zł |
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Drowning the Dream: California's Water Choices at the Millennium
ISBN: 9780275967192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. In the last one hundred years, land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism have dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state. The key has been water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River and, finally, Northern California rivers. Whoever brings the water, brings the people wrote engineer William Mulholland, whose leadership began the process of water irrigating unlimited growth. Using first-person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, Carle... Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. In the last one hundred years, land ownership patterns and real ... |
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382,20 zł |
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Introduction to Fire in California: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780520379138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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436,80 zł |
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Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around the World
ISBN: 9781087874807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,90 zł |
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Mono Lake Basin
ISBN: 9781531638092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mono Lake dominates the volcanic landscape east of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite National Park and Nevada. The lakes unusual water chemistry produces algae and brine shrimp, feeding millions of birds and creating strange mineral formations called tufa, for which the lake is famed. From the early days of the Kuzedika Paiutes to the arrival of miners and settlers in the late 19th century, the lake has stood sentinel for the surrounding camps, mines, and towns. Around the lake, the town of Lee Vining has served travelers and residents since 1926, and Carson Camp has been a recreational...
Mono Lake dominates the volcanic landscape east of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite National Park and Nevada. The lakes unusual water chemistry prod...
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139,40 zł |
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Kingdom Transformational Leadership
ISBN: 9781450554190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Addressing the experience of kingdom transformational leaders and organizations, Kingdom Transformational Leadership introduces the three kingdoms and leadership perspectives that affect leaders, the power behind transformational leadership, a model of leadership balancing spirit and truth and the principles, characteristics and dispositions of a Kingdom Transformational Leader in four distinct stages of development. With the added bonus study guide, Kingdom Transformational Leadership can be used for personal study and development or in a small group setting--in both situations giving the...
Addressing the experience of kingdom transformational leaders and organizations, Kingdom Transformational Leadership introduces the three kingdoms and...
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68,59 zł |
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