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  • Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

    by Char Miller ...
    Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller’s literary tour de force that illuminates the historical background of how we got here, what we need to do now, and how we can thrive into the future ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nature and Place in Texas

    A History

    by Alex Hunt, Samuel Brunk, C.J. Alvarez, Julie Courtwright, Tim Bowman, Scot McFarlane, Andrew C. Baker, Alana de Hinojosa, Todd M. Kerstetter, Brian Frehner, Neel Baumgardner, Arthur R. Gómez ...
    Series series Environmental Histories of Texas
    Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state’s natural ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Forty Years a Forester

    by Elers Koch ...
    Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot, he helped establish the boundaries of most of our national forests in the West, designed new fire-control strategies and equipment, and served during the formative years of the agency. Forty Years a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On the Edge

    Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

    by Char Miller ...
    On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native's eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • La tragedia de la inundación de San Antonio / The Tragedy of the San Antonio Flood

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    After being lost to history for more than a century, La tragedia de la inundación de San Antonio is widely available for the first time, translated into English to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the San Antonio flood of 1921 and the dozens of lives lost.This short work of twenty sections paints a picture of the city’s segregated population and income disparities before plunging into ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • West Side Rising

    How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement

    by Char Miller ...
    On September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers. Floodwaters ripped through the city’s Latino West Side neighborhoods, killing more than eighty people. Meanwhile a wall of water crashed into the central business district on the city’s North Side, wreaking considerable damage.The city’s response to ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Ogallala

    Water for a Dry Land

    by John Opie, Char Miller, Kenna Lang Archer ...
    Series series Our Sustainable Future
    2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick.Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land is an environmental history and historical geography that tells ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use and management * technology and industry * polluti ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

  • Cities and Nature in the American West

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    Series series The Urban West Series
    In less than a century, the American West has transformed from a predominantly rural region to one where most people live in metropolitan centers. Cities and Nature in the American West offers provocative analyses of this transformation. Each essay explores the intersection of environmental, urban, and western history, providing a deeper understanding of the com- plex processes by which the urban ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fifty Years of the Texas Observer

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    For the past five decades the Texas Observer has been an essential voice in Texas culture and politics, championing honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, while providing a platform for many of the state’s most passionate and progressive voices. Included are ninety-one selections from Roy Bedichek, Lou Dubose, Ronnie Dugger, Dagoberto Gilb, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins, Larry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD