This title addresses new thinking about landscape, which applies new techniques to the task of transforming outdated and disused post-extraction landscapes through design.
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What are the roots of human nature and what is wrong with the scientific picture of what and who we are? Was Thomas Hobbes right to say that human life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?" In this new work, biologist Mary Clark argues that the Western view of human na…
"People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? Closely argued but clearly written, David Harvey, a leading social theorist of his ge…
From homespun to haute couture, the dresses worn by American brides in the first half of the twentieth century had myriad influences. In "Bridal Fashion 1900-1950", living-history expert Kathleen York takes readers on an elegant journey back in time, marking the changes that eco…
A method for the practical identification and recognition of trees.
This book offers historical perspective on the 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal. Cultural hostilities more irreconcilable than any since the Civil War have divided America in two. In November 2008, the American people elected …
"The Unsettling of America" is Wendell Berry's personal, dramatic inquiry into the way in which we use the land that sustains us. For the roots of our attitudes toward farming, Berry goes back to the industrial revolution, which promised freedom from physical toil, and to the "c…
Betoog waarin de auteur laat zien dat er weinig reden is te veronderstellen dat de door 'Amerika gecreëerde wereldorde' binnen afzienbare tijd gevaar zal lopen.
"Understand the current concept of wetland and methods for identifying, describing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in the United States with Wetland Indicators and capture the current state of science's role in wetland recognition and mapping." "Environmental scientists a…
Monografie waarin de Amerikaanse econoom stelt dat de toekomstige economie van de Verenigde Staten wordt belemmerd als de welvaartsverschillen tussen groepen mensen in de samenleving te groot wordt.
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only …
Robert Hartley uses case studies of major companies such as IBM, Sears and Harley Davidson, to explain how to analyse the marketing strategies and outcomes of a variety of corporations.
By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. Not only the 20th but even the 21st century seemed destined to be the American centuries. But that super…
