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Saving Forest Ecosystems

A Century Plus of Research and Education at the University of Washington

by Robert L. Edmonds ...

After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causing environmental degradation and displacing native peoples.Conflicts about the future of Pacific Northwest forests have continued since then. Only recently have academics, government agencies, industry, small private landowners, tribes, and ... Read more

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After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causing environmental degradation and displacing native peoples.Conflicts about the future of Pacific Northwest forests have continued since then. Only recently have academics, government agencies, industry, small private landowners, tribes, and
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The Dramatic Imagination

Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

by Robert Edmond Jones ...

The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's ... Read more

$51.99 USD

The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's
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Trustee for the Human Community

Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa

Edited by Robert A. Hill, Edmond J. Keller ...

Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ... Read more

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Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization
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Steal Away Boy

Selected Poems of David Mitchell

Edited by Martin Edmond, Nigel Roberts ...

Structured in seven sections with poems written in the period between 1962 and 2009, this collection showcases the work of iconic New Zealand poet, political activist, and impresario David Mitchell. Literate and amusing, this compilation, which assembles widely scattered poems in one work for the first time, reintroduces Mitchell to a new generation. Drawn from magazines, journals, and private ... Read more

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Structured in seven sections with poems written in the period between 1962 and 2009, this collection showcases the work of iconic New Zealand poet, political activist, and impresario David Mitchell. Literate and amusing, this compilation, which assembles widely scattered poems in one work for the first time, reintroduces Mitchell to a new generation. Drawn from magazines, journals, and private
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Thieves Like Us

by Robert Edmond Alter ...

Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid.Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made some fancy burial plans -- but they were for her husband Farley, who wasn't dead yet. And until he was, Greta intended to leave no stone unturned.Then ... Read more

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Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid.Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made some fancy burial plans -- but they were for her husband Farley, who wasn't dead yet. And until he was, Greta intended to leave no stone unturned.Then
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A Small but Spartan Band

The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

by Zack C. Waters, James C. Edmonds ...

A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater.Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have ... Read more

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A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater.Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have
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Facility Management

by Edmond P. Rondeau, Robert Kevin Brown, Paul D. Lapides ...

From the moment it was first published, Facility Management became the ultimate reference for facility and design professionals who want to create a productive workplace that corresponds to the short- and long-term goals of their corporation. This Second Edition provides complete, fully up-to-date information and guidance on the evolving facility management profession that will help facility ... Read more

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From the moment it was first published, Facility Management became the ultimate reference for facility and design professionals who want to create a productive workplace that corresponds to the short- and long-term goals of their corporation. This Second Edition provides complete, fully up-to-date information and guidance on the evolving facility management profession that will help facility
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Infectious Forest Diseases

by J Stenlid, Robert Edmonds, Lilja Arija, Helen Griffiths, Robert Mathiasen, Naoto Kamata, Jean Guillaumin, Kathy Lewis, Caroline Mohammed, Rimvydas Vasaitis, Thomas Harrington, Thomas Kirisits, William Otrosina, Bernard Slippers, Daniel Rigling, Marieka Gryzenhout, Roberto Danti, Thomas Cech, Michael Ostry, Paolo Capretti, Rosie Bradshaw, Tadeusz Kowalski, Matteo Garbelotto, Richard Hamelin, Michael Wingfield, Libor Jankovský ...

Today, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on integrated pest and disease management approaches. A comprehensive range of diseases caused by ... Read more

$251.99 USD

Today, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on integrated pest and disease management approaches. A comprehensive range of diseases caused by
... Read more
Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers

by Robert Edmond Alter ...

When a young alligator tad with a disfigured snout brings humiliation and discomfort to Dad Peps, there begins a legendary feud between "Shovel Nose," who grows to the stature of a great gator, and Dad Peps, who fancies himself as a great gator grabber.It is more a laugh-aloud series of encounters than a deadly feud, and you will enjoy the blow by hilarious blow description of each encounter. In ... Read more

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When a young alligator tad with a disfigured snout brings humiliation and discomfort to Dad Peps, there begins a legendary feud between "Shovel Nose," who grows to the stature of a great gator, and Dad Peps, who fancies himself as a great gator grabber.It is more a laugh-aloud series of encounters than a deadly feud, and you will enjoy the blow by hilarious blow description of each encounter. In
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Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art

by Bob Wade, Lisa Sherman, Jason Mellard, Carl Hoover, Ricardo Hernandez, Carla Ellard, Jesse Sublett, Katie Robinson-Edwards, Dan Bullock, Marsha Milam, Jim Ferguson, Bill Fitzgibbons, Chris O'Connell, Temple Boon, Jack Massing, Michael Brick, Cleve Hattersley, Shannon Wynne, Lynn Barnett, Andi Scull, Richard Holland, Will Harte, Gary Webernick, Leea Mechling, Mike Shropshire, Karen Dinitz, John Kelso, John Tinker, Lonn Taylor, Dan O'Hara, DJ Stout, Jan Reid, Dick DeGuerin, Evan Voyles, Pete Gershon, Roy Bragg, Eric O'Keefe, Kevin Williamson, Marc English, Robert Faires, Edmond Ortiz, Michael Barnes, Anne Rapp, Diana Vela, Julie Sasse, Kent Zimmerman, Michael Hoinski, David Marion Wilkinson, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, Bert Beveridge, Claudia Alarcón, Joe Nick Patoski ...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s ... Read more

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Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s
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Vintage Sci-Fi 15 - 21 Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s

by Arthur C. Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, John Wyndham, Murray Leinster, Harlan Ellison, Jack London, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Robert Sheckley, Edmond Hamilton, Morrison Colladay, Henry Slesar, Murray F. Yaco, Theodore Sturgeon, Gerda Rhoads, Herbert D. Kastle, Mel Hunter, Dorothy Quick ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Vintage Sci-Fi
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12 hours 8 min

Vintage Sci-Fi 15 - 21 Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sNever on Mars by John WyndhamMembership Drive by Murray F. YacoThe Perfect Woman by Robert SheckleySpawning Ground by Lester Del ReyArena by Fredric BrownThe Stuff by Henry SlesarSuperiority by Arthur C. ClarkeCome Home From Earth by Edmond HamiltonDouble-Cross by Frederik PohlWhen t... ... Read more

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Vintage Sci-Fi 15 - 21 Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sNever on Mars by John WyndhamMembership Drive by Murray F. YacoThe Perfect Woman by Robert SheckleySpawning Ground by Lester Del ReyArena by Fredric BrownThe Stuff by Henry SlesarSuperiority by Arthur C. ClarkeCome Home From Earth by Edmond HamiltonDouble-Cross by Frederik PohlWhen t...
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Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics

When The Sleeper Wakes, Equality, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Mummy, A Crystal Age

by Abraham Merritt, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Mark Twain, Frederic W. Farrar, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Edmond About, Henry Holt, Robert Hugh Benson, Edith Nesbit, Edwin Lester Arnold, Jane C. Loudon, William Henry Hudson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens, William Morris ...

Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics is an enthralling anthology of groundbreaking time-travel and speculative fiction that explores humanity's imagination across eras. Each tale in this collection redefines the boundaries of time, reality, and existence, offering a deep dive into the consequences of bending time's rules. From the visionary imaginings of distant worlds to the perplexing ... Read more

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Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics is an enthralling anthology of groundbreaking time-travel and speculative fiction that explores humanity's imagination across eras. Each tale in this collection redefines the boundaries of time, reality, and existence, offering a deep dive into the consequences of bending time's rules. From the visionary imaginings of distant worlds to the perplexing
... Read more

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