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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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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Human Transformations of the Earth [Paperback]
Charles French (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9781789259209
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studying Scientific Archaeology
Volume: 7
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This book charts and explains how human activities have shaped and altered the development of soils in many parts of the world, taking advantage of five decades of soil analytical work in many archaeological landscapes from around the globe. The c... .... Learn More -
Transplanting Modernity?: New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment [Hardback]
Jenny Leigh Smith (Editor); Tom Robertson (Editor)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822946397
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment
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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
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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 -
A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe [Hardback]
Stefan Dorondel (Editor); Stelu Serban (Editor)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822947172
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment
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The rise of industrial capitalism in the 19th century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known ... .... Learn More -
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy [Hardback]
James Baker Hall (Author); Wendell Berry (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9780813187235
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Through striking photographs, James Baker Hall powerfully conveys the physical experiences of a Kentucky tobacco harvest. He captures the process from beginning to end-from the tractor ride out to the field, where rows of tobacco stretch toward th... .... Learn More
