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  • Americans and Their Weather

    Updated Edition

    by William B. Meyer ...
    This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but can become either depending on the activities with which they interact. Meyer ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Great Murdering-Heir Case

    A Biography of Riggs v. Palmer

    by William B. Meyer ...
    Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.In 1882, Elmer Palmer was convicted of poisoning his grandfather Francis in rural northern New York State. In a famous decision in 1889, the New York Court of Appeals denied Elmer the right to inherit from Francis, even though the statute governing wills seemed to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

    Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”

    by William B. Meyer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left.Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Wetlands

    by John C. Callaway, Stephen Faulkner, Mary A. Hague, William B. Meyer, Thomas Michael Power, Joel W. Snodgrass ...
    Series series Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach
    The purpose of the Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach series is to publish a collection of short texts that each explore a specific environmental issue and describe the methodologies, theories, and findings pertaining to that issue from both natural and social science perspectives. Each text contains three natural science essays, three social science essays, and a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Neo-Environmental Determinism

    Geographical Critiques

    by Dylan M.T. Guss, William B. Meyer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses the key reasons for the doctrine’s rejection and presents alternative, non-deterministic frameworks ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Oxford History Of Mexico

    by William Beezley;Michael Meyer ...
    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Making of Americans

    by Gertrude Stein ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication.In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford History of Mexico

    by William Beezley; Michael Meyer ...
    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • American Catholics

    Gender, Generation, and Commitment

    by William V. D'Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge, Katherine Meyer, Bishop William B. Friend ...
    How much do American Catholics still identify with the Catholic Church? Do they agree with the Church's teachings, and how often do they participate in its sacraments? What do they think it takes to be a good Catholic? What do they consider to be the Church's core teachings? How do they believe issues of faith and morals should be decided: by the hierarchy, the laity, or some combination of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Stories To Make You Laugh

    The best medicine…

    by Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dudley Warner, Edgar Alan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J M Barrie, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Ring Lardner, Saki, Stephen Leacock, William James Lampton ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    Pure laughter, whether our own or others, makes us all feel more comfortable with the world and situations we find ourselves in. Why something is funny is hard to say but we know that there are people who are funny and can say funny things. It’s an immediate advantage for them.In this volume your hosts including Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, J M Barrie, O Henry and many others who range from the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mad Max and Philosophy

    Thinking Through the Wasteland

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad MaxBeneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists, historians, and ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Death Dust

    The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

    by William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer, Hanna Notte ...
    The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)—weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a series ... Read more

    $24.99 USD