Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City [Hardback]
Emily Bills (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822946342
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
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Atlanta’s Water Wars: Technocracy, Racial Politics, and Environmental Activism, 1945–2005 [Hardback]
Eric M. Hardy (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9780822947431
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
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Transplanting Modernity?: New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment [Hardback]
Jenny Leigh Smith (Editor); Tom Robertson (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822946397
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment
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In general, “development” denotes movement or growth toward something better in the future. International development—widespread in the decades following World War II—was an effort at purposeful change in landscapes around the world. Contributors ... .... Learn More -
Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes [Hardback]
Claudia Brosseder (Author)
£66.00ISBN: 9780822947592
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the di... .... Learn More -
The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World [Hardback]
Frank Uekotter (Author)
£72.50ISBN: 9780822947561
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises - climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes - means revisiting their origins, in ... .... Learn More -
The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town [Paperback]
Andy McPhee (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780822966715
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
In October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, the town’s main industry was steel and zinc mills—mills that continually emitted pollutants into th... .... Learn More -
Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota [Hardback]
George Vrtis (Editor); Chris Wells (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822947387
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling i... .... Learn More -
Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain [Hardback]
Matthew Wale (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9780822947516
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents regardless of their background, they posed a significant threat to those who considered themselves ... .... Learn More -
The Shale Renaissance: How Fracking Has Ignited Debate, Challenged Regulators, and Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century [Hardback]
Jonathan M. Fisk (Author); David Allen Good (Author); Soren Jordan (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9780822947363
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing - more commonly known as fracking - was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did... .... Learn More -
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 9, The: The Correspondence, November 1865–March 1868 [Hardback]
Iwan Rhys Morus (Editor); Geoffrey Belknap (Editor); James C. Ungureanu (Editor)
£115.00ISBN: 9780822946083
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
This ninth volume of the Tyndall correspondence covers the period from February 1, 1865, to November 29, 1866. Tyndall was by now in his mid-forties and in the prime of life. His career as a man of science was firmly established and flourishing. H... .... Learn More
