Author: Helmut Geist
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: land, change, volume, cover, encyclopedia, changing, earth
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 031332784X
ISBN-13: 9780313327841
Author: James C. McCa
Publisher: Heinema
Keywords: land, africa, history, black, brown, environmental
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-04-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0325000964
ISBN-13: 9780325000961
James C. McCann provides a synthesis of evidence and a narrative of Africa’s evironmental history over the past two centuries.
Authors:Susan E. Briggs, Charles L. Briggs, John R. Van Ness
Publisher: Univ Of New Mexico Pr
Keywords: land, new, mexico, grant, grants, perspectives, water, culture, hispanic
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 1987-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826309895
ISBN-13: 9780826309891
Author: Helmut Geist
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: land, volumes, change, cover, encyclopedia, earth, changing
Number of Pages: 792
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $236.95
ISBN-10: 0313327041
ISBN-13: 9780313327049
Scientists predict that the environment over the next 100 years will be threatened by severe challengesthe loss of biodiversity, expected changes in world-wide climate, and decreasing amounts of arable land and potable water for an exploding human population. All of these will greatly impact how the earth will be able to support life in the future. And at the center of these global environmental changes are developments in land use. Over the last 300 years, and in particular the last 50 years, the earth’s land has been altered drastically as a result of increasing industrialization and
Authors:Barbara Land, Myrick Land,
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Keywords: second, vegas, las, history, short
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 087417564X
ISBN-13: 9780874175646
This best-selling and entertaining history of Las Vegas has been updated to reflect the citys tremendous growth and change in recent years. Todays Las Vegas welcomes 35 million visitors a year and reigns as the worlds premier gaming mecca. But it is much more than a gambling paradise. In A Short History of Las Vegas, Barbara and Myrick Land reveal a fascinating history beyond the mobsters, casinos, and showgirls. The Lands present a complete story, beginning with southern Nevadas indigenous peoples and the earliest explorers to the first pioneers to settle in the area; from the importa
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: land, nation, reports, divided
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805090150
ISBN-13: 9780805090154
America in the ??aughts??hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country??s most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreich??s widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory and finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite have bought up congressmen, many in the working class can barely buy lunch. While a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery, the poor often go without health care for their children. And while the Master
Author: Martin J. Haigh
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: land, management, reconstruction, reclaimed
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 9054107936
ISBN-13: 9789054107934
This text is the first in a series that sets out to highlight work being done to restore land damaged by human activity, and to minimize further damage. Each volume explores a land management problem from a scientific perspective. This work investigates surface coal mining and its effects.
