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“black e mary”

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  • Reining in the Rio Grande

    People, Land, and Water

    by Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, Black E. Mary ...
    The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

    The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

    Edited by John G. Douglass, William Graves ...
    Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ... Read more

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  • River Flowing From The Sunrise

    An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan

    by James M Aton, Robert McPherson ...
    The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific explorers to busted miners, the San Juan has attracted more attention and fueled more hopes ... Read more

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  • The Bicycle Diaries: My 21,000-Mile Ride for the Climate

    by David Kroodsma ...
    Environmental researcher David Kroodsma dreamed of bicycling down his driveway in Palo Alto, California, and pedaling for months until he reached the tip of South America. When he finally planned his trip, he wanted more than just adventure; he also wanted to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change on the countries he would explore. So he set out on a well-packed bicycle with a ... Read more

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  • Undermining

    A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

    by Lucy R. Lippard ...
    "A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." —Rebecca SolnitIn Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another trademark work" that combines text and full-color images to explore "the intersection of art, the environment, geography and politics" ( ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Great Aridness

    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

    by William deBuys ...
    With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are

    How Indigenous Cultural Resistance Can Restore the Earth, Recover Community, and Create Sustainable Futures

    by PhD Maceo Carrillo Martinet ...
    **Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth are one and the same.Global knowledge, personal stories, and natural science for repairing environmental harm, restoring biodiversity, and rekindling cultural-ecological bonds—for readers of The Serviceberry and Fresh ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World

    A Global Ecological History

    by Gregory T. Cushman ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Salt Lakes

    An Unnatural History

    by Caroline Tracey ...
    An acclaimed nature writer’s dazzling love letter to a strange ecosystem and a moving odyssey into her own identity.More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth’s surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • No Rain in the Amazon

    How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet

    by Nikolas Kozloff ...
    Series series MacSci
    Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Green Republic

    A Conservation History of Costa Rica

    by Sterling Evans ...
    With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Fate of the Forest

    Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon

    by Susanna B. Hecht, Alexander Cockburn ...
    The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of ... Read more

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