Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City [Hardback]
Emily Bills (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780822946342
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban 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)
£150.00ISBN: 9780822946083
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
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A Tale of Two Viruses: The Parallel Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses [Hardback]
Neeraja Sankaran (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780822946304
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Transplanting Modernity?: New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment [Hardback]
Jenny Leigh Smith (Editor); Tom Robertson (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780822946397
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
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A Monastery for the Ibex: Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949 [Hardback]
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780822946359
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000 ibex living in the Alps, all of which descended ... .... Learn More -
Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City [Hardback]
Carl A. Zimring (Editor); Steven H. Corey (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822946526
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
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Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1889, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from compl... .... Learn More -
Astronomy in India, 1784-1876 [Paperback]
Joydeep Sen (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822966470
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in... .... Learn More -
The Extraction State: A History of Natural Gas in the United States [Hardback]
Charles Blanchard (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780822946366
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Natural gas provides the fuel that allows us to heat our homes in winter and cool them in summer with the touch of a button or turn of a dial - when the industry... .... Learn More -
Krakow: An Ecobiography [Hardback]
Adam Izdebski (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9780822946137
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland's capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, ... .... Learn More -
Cultural Landscapes in India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed [Hardback]
Amita Sinha (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780822946427
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes in India, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences lan... .... Learn More
