wyszukanych pozycji: 4
A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War Two
ISBN: 9780803272880 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service's management of America's national forests. Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the U.S. Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. For a few decades after World War Two, this "conspiracy of optimism" masked the fact that high levels of resource extraction were destroying forest ecosystems. The effects of intensive management-massive clear-cuts, polluted streams, declining wildlife populations, and marred scenery-initiated several...
A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service's management of America's national forests. Confronted with ...
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103,89 zł |
The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s-1970s
ISBN: 9780700618736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region's first century of electrification, Paul Hirt's new study reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient,...
The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even ...
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341,76 zł |
Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History
ISBN: 9780295996578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment--in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern landscape and modified it over time, and how the changing landscape in turn affected human society, economy, laws, and values. Northwest Lands and Peoples includes essays by historians, anthropologists, ecologists, a botanist, geographers, biologists, law professors, and a... It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment--in a place. This collection of e... |
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472,92 zł |
Between Manuscript and Print: Transcultural Perspectives, ca. 1400-1800
ISBN: 9783111242309 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor. While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a...
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medie...
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391,20 zł |