wyszukanych pozycji: 39
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The Great Plains: A Fire Survey
ISBN: 9780816535125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast, grassy expanse that was either burnt or burning. The scene continued to burn until the land was plowed under or grazed away and broken by innumerable roads and towns. Yet, where the original landscape has persisted, so has fire, and where people have sought to restore something of that original setting, they have had to reinstate fire. This has required the persistence or creation of a fire culture, which in turn inspired schools of science and art that make the Great Plains today a regional hearth for American... Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast, grassy expanse that was either burnt or burning. The scene continued to burn until th... |
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71,87 |
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Smoke Chasing
ISBN: 9780816522859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "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 common with the sports page than the editorial page. Smokechasing presents commentaries by one of America's leading fire scholars, who analyzes fire the way another might an election campaign or a literary work. "Smokechasing" is an American coinage describing the practice of...
"Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf--all have their critics and commentators," observes Stephen Pyne. "Fire does not." ...
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102,69 |
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Slopovers: Fire Surveys of the Mid-American Oak Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska
ISBN: 9780816538799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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71,87 |
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Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780674060425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 text, its composition does need to be conscious and informed. Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but... 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. ... |
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138,44 |
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Fire: A Brief History
ISBN: 9780295746203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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583,74 |
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California: A Fire Survey
ISBN: 9780816532612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 Nino cloudbursts and the thick forests of the rumpled Coast Range--all burn according to local rhythms of wetting and drying. Fire season, so the saying goes, lasts 13 months. In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that...
The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and T...
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71,87 |
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Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon
ISBN: 9780295974835 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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. 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... |
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161,95 |
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Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia
ISBN: 9780295976778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 major contribution to the literature of environmental studies."--New York Times Book Review Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers."Mr. Pyne, showing wha... |
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189,64 |
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The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned about a Wider World
ISBN: 9780816555437 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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118,10 |
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The Northern Rockies: A Fire Survey
ISBN: 9780816533510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like that in Mann Gulch that shaped the literature of American fire. Big fires mostly hidden in the backcountry like the Fitz Creek and Howler fires that inspired the practice of managed wildfires. Until the fire revolution of the 1960s, no region so shaped the American way of fire. The Northern Rockies remain one of three major hearths for America's fire culture. They hold a major fire...
It's a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and ...
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71,87 |
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The Interior West: A Fire Survey
ISBN: 9780816537709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West region to the national fire scene. Pyne discusses the region's recent return to prominence due to fires along its front ranges; to invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle; and to its fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994.
Fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West region to the national fire scene. Pyne discusses the region's recent retur...
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71,87 |
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Here and There: A Fire Survey
ISBN: 9780816538539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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71,87 |
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The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
ISBN: 9780143123422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age from the author of How the Canyon Became Grand
From a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental history an exploration of the geologic time scale and evolution twinned with the story of how, eventually, we have come to understand our own past. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. The Last Lost World is an inquiry into the conditions that made it, the themes that define it, and the creature that emerged dominant from... An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age from the author of How the Canyon Became Grand
From a remarka... |
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110,00 |
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After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
ISBN: 9780226259963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park 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 encircle nature with our protection, to keep it apart, pristine, walled against the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial devastation, metastasizing fire regimes, and other quickening anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the earth is now...
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always h...
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97,34 |
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After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans
ISBN: 9780226259826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park 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 encircle nature with our protection, to keep it apart, pristine, walled against the march of human development. But we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial devastation, metastasizing fire regimes, and other quickening anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the earth is now...
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always h...
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254,15 |
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Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
ISBN: 9780878425440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice in Greenland. The flames ravaged pristine wilderness along with farms, towns, and mining camps, culminating in the deaths of seventy-eight firefighters in the Big Blowup along the Montana-Idaho border. Year of the Fires is the riveting story of that catastrophic year and its pivotal role in establishing how we deal with forest fire in this country.
In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice in G...
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81,48 |
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Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District
ISBN: 9780816521814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1882, Clarence Dutton s Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District has become one of the definitive books on the Grand Canyon. Commissioned as a study of the region s geology and issued by the fledgling U.S. Geological Survey, it is as much admired today for its literary as its scientific merits. With its beautiful illustrations by Thomas Moran and William Henry Holmes, it is a seminal work on the Canyon that has never been surpassed for its eloquence and authority. This new edition of Dutton s magnum opus makes that work available once... Originally published in 1882, Clarence Dutton s Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District has become one of the definitive books ... |
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308,23 |
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Marketing Secrets: Learn Rarely Revealed Expert Strategies
ISBN: 9780998913704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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183,13 |
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Marketing Secrets: Learn Rarely Revealed Expert Strategies
ISBN: 9780998913711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
468,31 |