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Pompeii: Public and Private Life (Revealing Antiquity)
Pompeii's tragedy is our
windfall: an ancient city
fully preserved, its urban
design and domestic styles
speaking across the ages.
This richly illustrated book
... > full story
Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy
Land Use and Society:
Geography, Law, and Public
Policy examines the history,
current practice, and unmet
needs of land use planning
and regulation in the United
... > full story
Patron Saints: How the Saints Gave New Orleans a Reason to Believe
In August 2005, Hurricane
Katrina ravaged New Orleans,
devastating not only
buildings and homes, but the
hope, spirit and faith of
... > full story
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Hurricane Katrina shredded
one of the great cities of
the South, and as levees
failed and the federal
relief effort proved
... > full story
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Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories (2nd Edition)
KEY MESSAGE: Essential Environment: Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories retains all the popular features of the landmark first edition—including its integrated ... > read more -
Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Much historical writing is far more concerned with the players than the stage: narratives of kings and cabbage-merchants, although acted out in fields and forests, typically include nature only as a ... > read more -
Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
Unweaving the Web of Destruction The continuing devastation of the world's tropical rain forest affects us all—spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment's ... > read more -
The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science)
Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to ... > read more -
Elements of Ecology (6th Edition) (Ecology Place Series)
KEY BENEFIT: Elements of Ecology, Sixth Edition maintains its engaging, reader-friendly style as it explains the basic principles of ecology. The text is updated to include new chapters on current ... > read more -
The Broken Fountain: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Columbia Classics in Anthropology) (Columbia Classics in Anthropology)
As Ida Susser writes in reference to Belmonte's Broken Fountain, "good ethnographies have long lives." This classic of urban anthropology, one of the most acclaimed ethnographies of recent years, ... > read more -
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future (State of the World)
"Top-ranked annual books on sustainable development."—GlobeScan survey of sustainability expertsIn State of the World 2007, the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team focuses on the ... > read more -
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic ... > read more -
The Last Giant Of Beringia: The Mystery of The Bering Land Bridge
"A tale of science, adventure, and personality that evolves into a complete review of the history and knowledge of Beringia.... I recommend it to everyone." -The Times (London) The intriguing theory ... > read more -
Pompeii: The History, Life and Art of the Buried City
The rediscovery of Pompeii in 1748 represented a decisive moment for our understanding of the Roman world. To visit the site on these pagesis to travel through time: here is the excitement and drama ... > read more
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