Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Journal: 1850-Sept. 15, 1851
Author: Henry David ThoreauJournal: 1850 - Sept. 15, 1851
Author: Henry David Thoreau1850-Sept. 15, 1851
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Great Aridness
Author: William deBuysPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199779104
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.
Journals
Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: State and Society in Transition
Author: J. LittlePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773566465
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Using a variety of documentary sources, including hundreds of petitions, letters, and reports to the government, Little traces the complex relationship between community life and government regulation. He reveals that at the same time development of responsible government was leading to increasingly centralized authority at the provincial level, a persistent sense of localism was forcing the state to decentralize its new institutions at the community level. The local population of this largely American-settled corner of Quebec, Little shows, clearly exerted an important influence on the evolution of the education, legal, social welfare, and municipal systems. State and Society in Transition makes a major contribution to the study of state formation in the recently unified province of Canada by taking into account not only the dialectical process between the centre and periphery but also the impact of institutional reform on social and economic development in general.
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Author: Philip BOWES
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