ilość książek w kategorii: 5817
Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains
ISBN: 9780806153407 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation s nineteenth-century history through paleoclimatological data and firsthand accounts of four dry periods in the 1800s, Prelude to the Dust Bowl demonstrates the dramatic and little-known role drought played in settlement, migration, and war on the plains. Stephen H. Long s famed... Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-op... |
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163,84 zł |
Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
ISBN: 9780821421598 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Margaret Garner the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery has inspired Toni Morrison s "Beloved, " a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Garner s story has defied solid historical treatment and Nikki M. Taylor s fierce, poetic history of Garner brilliantly captures her circumstances and her transformation from a murdering mother to an icon of tragedy, resistance, and motherhood. The story of Margaret Garner the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face... |
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246,17 zł |
Managing Water Quality in the Face of Uncertainty: A Robust Decision Making Demonstration for EPA's National Water Program
ISBN: 9780833090669 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its partners develop implementation plans to meet water quality standards. Climate change and other key drivers may significantly affect these plans, but are often neglected due to uncertainty. This study uses two case studies to demonstrate how Robust Decision Making (RDM) can help to address future uncertainty by identifying vulnerabilities in water quality plans and suggesting appropriate responses.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its partners develop implementation plans to meet water quality standards. Climate change and other key d...
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191,11 zł |
Cap Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight
ISBN: 9781557536846 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest actively flying pilot.The mid-1920s to the mid-1950s were Cornish's most active years in aviation. During that period, sod runways gave way to asphalt and concrete; navigation...
Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in...
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102,43 zł |
Living a Land Ethic: A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve
ISBN: 9780299298746 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicken coop, later to become famous as the Leopold "Shack," was the property's only intact structure. The Leopold family embraced this spent farm as a new kind of laboratory-a place to experiment on restoring health to an ailing piece of land. Here, Leopold found inspiration for writing A Sand County Almanac, his influential book of essays on conservation and ethics.
Living a Land Ethic chronicles the formation of the 1,600-acre... In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicke...
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81,90 zł |
Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains
ISBN: 9780803246744 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsaborn in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson s archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman s insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had... In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsaborn in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reserva... |
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339,17 zł |
William Pleasant Tyree: A Patriot's Legacy of Honor and Service
ISBN: 9781631320002 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Pleasant Tyree is the most interesting of all the Tyrees. His accomplishments were extraordinary given the conditions he faced during the time he lived (1821-1874). He was many things during his life: pioneer, soldier, prospector, carpenter, innkeeper, businessman, farmer, politician, and the father of eight children. Throughout his life, he was motivated to serve his neighbors and his community. He was the very definition of public service. William Pleasant Tyree was a patriot whose story deserves to be told.
William Pleasant Tyree is the most interesting of all the Tyrees. His accomplishments were extraordinary given the conditions he faced during the time...
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114,74 zł |
The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri
ISBN: 9780826220257 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. In The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. Lause examines the complex political and social context of what became known as "Price's Raid," the final significant Southern operation west of the Mississippi River.The success of the Confederates would...
As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state ...
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213,08 zł |
To Govern the Devil in Hell
ISBN: 9780875804866 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of Bleeding Kansas and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has...
One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of Bleeding Kansas and the viole...
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561,28 zł |
Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle
ISBN: 9781626195516 / Angielski / Miękka / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late night collision brought 68 of its weary immigrant passengers to watery graves. The 1916 Black Friday Storm sank four ships -- including the "unsinkable" James B. Colgate -- in the course of its 20-hour tantrum over the lake. In 1954, a difficult fishing season sent the Richard R into troubled waters in the hopes of catching a few more...
The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden...
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90,28 zł |
Faith in Paper: The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties
ISBN: 9780472035939 / Angielski / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Faith in Paper" is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that togetherhave awakened a new day in Native American sovereignty and established the place of Indian tribes on the modern political landscape. In addition to discussing the historic development of Indian treaties and their social and legal context, Charles E. Cleland outlines specific treaties litigated in modern courts as well as the impact of treaty litigation on the modern Indian and non-Indian...
"Faith in Paper" is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The b...
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191,19 zł |
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. the Ohio Quaker Genealogical Records. Listing Marriages, Births, Deaths, Certificates, Disownments, Etc
ISBN: 9780806305493 / Angielski / Miękka / 1088 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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657,54 zł |
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Listing Marriages, Births, Deaths, Certificates, Disownments, Etc., and Much Collateral Information of Inte
ISBN: 9780806319933 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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344,86 zł |
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Listing Marriages, Births, Deaths, Certificates, Disownments, Etc., and Much Collateral Information of Inte
ISBN: 9780806319940 / Angielski / Miękka / 762 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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344,86 zł |
Frozen in Time: A Minnesota North Stars History
ISBN: 9780803249981 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1967 the National Hockey Leaguedecided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, with its rich hockey history, was a natural choice for a new franchise. Thus the Minnesota North Stars were born. Frozen in Time examines the organization s signature seasons, from the late 1970s, when the club was at its worst, to its two surprising runs to the Stanley Cup Finals. The book recalls the exploits of characters such as Wren Blair, the firebrand ex-scout who would become the team s first coach and general manager, and... In 1967 the National Hockey Leaguedecided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, wit... |
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187,09 zł |
Chasing the Light: The Cloud Cult Story
ISBN: 9780816696536 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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77,90 zł |
Race and the University: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780806146553 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real estate agents in the university town of Norman denied the Henderson family their first three choices of homes, the sociologist and educator realized he still faced some formidable challenges. In this stirring memoir,... In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite h... |
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103,67 zł |
Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years
ISBN: 9780813151915 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist, is justly famous for his creation of Mr. Dooley, the Chicago Irish barkeep whose weekly commentary on national politics, war, and human nature kept Americans chuckling over their newspapers for nearly two decades at the beginning of this century. Largely forgotten in the files of Chicago newspapers, however, are over 300 Mr. Dooley columns written in the 1890s before national syndication made his name a household word. Charles Fanning offers here the first critical examination of these early Dooley pieces, which, far better than the... Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist, is justly famous for his creation of Mr. Dooley, the Chicago Irish barkeep whose weekly comme... |
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147,70 zł |
For All the Small Schools
ISBN: 9780991652815 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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283,02 zł |
The Woolen Industry of the Midwest
ISBN: 9780813151861 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the study of a regional industry, the book illustrates the impact of an expanding national market on a previously isolated market, offering new insights into a pioneer industry in the West and into the business methods and procedures of the time. The book discusses the growth of a myriad of small processing and manufacturing plants which drew raw materials from, and geared production and sales to that local economy, enjoying as they did, protection from eastern competitors who were saddled with high freight rates. The book demonstrates that once urbanization occurred in the region,... Through the study of a regional industry, the book illustrates the impact of an expanding national market on a previously isolated market, offering... |
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76,59 zł |