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  • The Nature of Tomorrow

    A History of the Environmental Future

    An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisisFor centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the ... Leer más

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  • Eden on the Charles

    The Making of Boston

    Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of ... Leer más

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  • The Girl In the Glass Castle

    Everything from life to imagery such profound stories and images that will help guide you wether it be growing as a person or help shine light as it does to mine to share with you let the words and imagery sing into your mind that of a bird chirping outside your window with a low vibrant chime for that is my dream to bring joy into this world with my gift. -Michael RawsonAbout the AuthorBorn May 9 ... Leer más

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    The Nature of Tomorrow

    A History of the Environmental Future

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  • The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840

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    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

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  • The Artificial River

    The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862

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    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work, historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Leer más

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  • Nonzero

    The Logic of Human Destiny

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