Environmental & Earth Sciences - Archaeological Method & Theory

Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City [Hardback]

Emily Bills (Author)

£45.00

ISBN: 9780822946342
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)

£39.00

ISBN: 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)

£115.00

ISBN: 9780822946083
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
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Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age [Hardback]

Kärin Nickelsen (Author); David P. D. Munns (Author)

£30.00

ISBN: 9780822946540
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
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From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They've imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth... .... Learn More

Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960 [Hardback]

Raf De Bont (Author)

£43.00

ISBN: 9780822946618
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
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Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont st... .... Learn More

Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century [Hardback]

Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund (Author)

£31.00

ISBN: 9780822946595
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under ... .... Learn More

A Tale of Two Viruses: The Parallel Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses [Hardback]

Neeraja Sankaran (Author)

£43.00

ISBN: 9780822946304
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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In 1965, French microbiologist André Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on lysogeny - one of the two types of viral life cycles - which resolved a contentious debate among scientists about the nature of v... .... Learn More

The Birds of Kentucky [Hardback]

Burt L. Monroe (Author); William Zimmerman (Author)

£30.50

ISBN: 9780813151410
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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The first book of its kind to be published for the Bluegrass State, The Birds of Kentucky is designed to provide an accurate and scientifically rigorous description of all the species of birds found in Kentucky. This comprehensive gu... .... Learn More

Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed [Hardback]

Amita Sinha (Author)

£39.00

ISBN: 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 ... .... Learn More

City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History [Paperback]

Kathleen A. Brosnan (Editor); William C. Barnett (Editor); Ann Durkin Keating (Editor)

£19.00

ISBN: 9780822966739
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
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Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of L... .... Learn More