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  • Big Dams of the New Deal Era

    A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

    The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate.Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Life in a Shell

    A Physiologist’s View of a Turtle

    Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an animal at once so familiar ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Restless Winds

    Memoirs of an Outdoorsman

    Donald C. Jackson’s newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America’s Deep South out into the world. Jackson’s essays explore landscapes, waters, and cultures that have defined Jackson’s career and life. Hunting and fishing stories from his Mississippi farm blend with tales from Africa, Alaska, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy

    San Francisco’s Fight for a Yosemite Water Supply

    Series series Public Lands History
    The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is widely seen as a watershed event in American environmental history. Passionately opposed by naturalist John Muir and his ardent supporters, the massive undertaking succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman, one of the most important, influential, and politically adroit engineers of the Progressive Era. In The Man Who ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Heavy Ground

    William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

    Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Deeper Currents

    The Sacraments of Hunting and Fishing

    In Deeper Currents, Donald C. Jackson guides us on a journey into the cathedrals of wild and lonely places, those sacred spaces where hunters and fishers connect with the rhythms of the earth and the spirit that resonates within us. Jackson explores hunting and fishing as frameworks—sacraments—for discovering, engaging, and finding meaning. He invites readers to consider connections with wilder ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Wilder Ways

    In Wilder Ways, Donald C. Jackson takes readers on a journey into the deep and very personal connections that can develop between people and wild places while hunting, fishing, and rambling across landscapes. Fishing by lantern light late at night for bullhead catfish on a small stream, hunting wood ducks and squirrels on his farm in north Mississippi, bow hunting deer as twilight creeps across a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Wilder Ways

    In Wilder Ways, Donald C. Jackson takes readers on a journey into the deep and very personal connections that can develop between people and wild places while hunting, fishing, and rambling across landscapes. Fishing by lantern light late at night for bullhead catfish on a small stream, hunting wood ducks and squirrels on his farm in north Mississippi, bow hunting deer as twilight creeps across a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Sportsman's Journey

    A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America’s Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield.Journeying alongside the author, readers will savor the magic of sunrises and the mystery of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Globalizing Justice

    Critical Perspectives on Transnational Law and the Cross-Border Migration of Legal Norms

    Series series SUNY series in the Foundations of the Democratic State
    Essays assessing the impact of globalization on law and court systems across the world.Globalization is a far-reaching and multifaceted phenomenon whose effects on law are just beginning to be appreciated fully. Globalizing Justice examines the effects of globalization on law and court systems in the developed and developing worlds. How has the global spread of legal norms changed the relationship ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Essentials of Kinesiology for the Physical Therapist Assistant E-Book

    Get a solid foundation in the language of movement! Essentials of Kinesiology for the Physical Therapist Assistant 3rd Edition builds on previous editions by delivering a rich and varied learning experience that is needed to succeed in today's fast-paced PTA education programs. Clear, concise explanations of anatomy and function, full-color illustrations and unique atlas-style chapters make even ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Awakening a Curate's Library

    The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887). His life, his book collection and his legacy to New Zealand

    Series series Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Occasional Publications
    This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD