Author: Maurice RickardsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415926485
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Encyclopedia of Ephemera
Author: Maurice RickardsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415926485
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Panama-Pacific dental congress
Author: Upper Alameda Creek Urban Study
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alameda Creek Watershed (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
AB Bookman's Yearbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
A Guide to Pharmacy Museums and Historical Collections in the United States and Canada
Author: George B. GriffenhagenPublisher: Amer. Inst. History of Pharmacy
ISBN: 9780931292347
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Preserving the Desert
Author: Lary M. DilsaverPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938086465
Category : Desert conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
National parks are different from other federal lands in the United States. Beginning in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone, they were largely set aside to preserve for future generations the most spectacular and inspirational features of the country, seeking the best representative examples of major ecosystems such as Yosemite, geologic forms such as the Grand Canyon, archaeological sites such as Mesa Verde, and scenes of human events such as Gettysburg. But one type of habitat--the desert--fell short of that goal in American eyes until travel writers and the Automobile Age began to change that perception. As the Park Service began to explore the better-known Mojave and Colorado deserts of southern California during the 1920s for a possible desert park, many agency leaders still carried the same negative image of arid lands shared by many Americans--that they are hostile and largely useless. But one wealthy woman--Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, from Pasadena--came forward, believing in the value of the desert, and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a national monument that would protect the unique and iconic Joshua trees and other desert flora and fauna. Thus was Joshua Tree National Monument officially established in 1936, with the area later expanded in 1994 when it became Joshua Tree National Park. Since 1936, the National Park Service and a growing cadre of environmentalists and recreationalists have fought to block ongoing proposals from miners, ranchers, private landowners, and real estate developers who historically have refused to accept the idea that any desert is suitable for anything other than their consumptive activities. To their dismay, Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation. Distributed for George Thompson Publishing
Antiquarian Bookman
Author: The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates LowryPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.