The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled o…
Robert Kohler argues that the work begun by Linnaeus culminated around 1900, when collecting and inventory were organized on a grand scale in natural history surveys. Supported by governments, museums, and universities, biologists launched hundreds of collecting expeditions to e…
Castaways (or Naufragios) is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-1536). It is also an enthralling story of adventure and survival against unimaginable odds. Its author, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a fortune-seeking sixteenth-century S…
Describes, using clear diagrams, how to make cheap, good quality equipment for tramping and camping. Covers materials, patterns and design, cutting out, making up and finishing and testing of clothing, sleeping bags and tents.
Ensayos presentados por reconocidos especialistas en el simposio interdisciplinario realizado en Nueva York en el año 2003. Los trabajos documentan el extraordinario impacto que las exploraciones europeas, en particular las españolas, tuvieron en la historia y la cultura de las …
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violen…
Sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.
Sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.
