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A Concise History Of Australia

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Stuart MacintyrePublication Details
Book3rd edCambridge University Press2009Description
It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its origins. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DU112 .M13 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Waking Up In Eden : In Pursuit Of An Impassioned Life On An Imperiled Island

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Lucinda FleesonPublication Details
Book1st edAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill2009Description
Fleeson accompanies a plant hunter into the rain forest to find the last of a dying species, descends into limestone caves with a paleontologist who deconstructs island history through fossil life, and shadows a botanical pioneer who propagates rare seeds, hoping to reclaim the landscape. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) GE155.H3 F55 2009 AVAILABLE
Paradise Found : Nature In America At The Time Of Discovery

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Steve NichollsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2009Description
Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent?s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) QH102 .N53 2009 AVAILABLE
Wilderness And The American Mind

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Roderick Frazier NashPublication Details
Book4th edYale University Press2001Description
The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of “books that changed our world”, and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists”. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .N374 2001 AVAILABLE
Fresh Pond : The History Of A Cambridge Landscape

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Jill SinclairPublication Details
BookMIT Press2009Description
Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond’s geological, historical, and political ecology. The pond itself?a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago?was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) F74.C1 S54 2009 AVAILABLE
Journey To Planet Earth. Season Three. Future Conditional
Journey To Planet Earth. Season One. The Urban Explosion
Hot, Flat, And Crowded : Why We Need A Green Revolution– And How It Can Renew America

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Thomas L. FriedmanPublication Details
Book1st edFarrar, Straus and Giroux2008Description
Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. He shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet (which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the world stage) have combined to bring climate and energy issues to Main Street. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GE197 .F76 2008 DUE 02-03-10
Alternative Routes To The Sustainable City : Austin, Curitiba, And Frankfurt

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Steven A. MoorePublication Details
BookLexington Books2007Links
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Moore investigates the exemplary cities of Austin, Texas, Curitiba, Brazil, and Frankfurt, Germany to examine how each city has approached and maintained sustainability, and thus stimulated economic growth, preserved threatened ecosystems, and improved social equity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT241 .M67 2007 AVAILABLE
Global Outlook For Ice & Snow

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[editor, Joan Eamer ; maps and graphics, Hugo Ahlenius; authors, Pål Prestrud ... et al.]Publication Details
BookDivision of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), United Nations Environmental Programme2007Links
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Global Outlook for Ice and Snow provides an up-to-date, concise review of the state of the environment and the trends in ice and snow-covered regions (cryosphere) of the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QC926.32 .G59 2007 AVAILABLE
The Hudson : America’s River
E40° : An Interpretive Atlas

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Jack WilliamsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Virginia Press2006Links
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In East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas, Jack Williams examines a succession of beautiful but little-known towns along this cordillera (a term descended from the Latin chorda, meaning “braided rope”), revealing in their layers of history and geography how both their diverse cultural and social circumstances and their geological history were instrumental in forming each town’s distinctive character. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F106 .W67 2006 AVAILABLE
Red : Passion And Patience In The Desert

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Terry Tempest WilliamsPublication Details
BookVintage Books2002Links
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As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams writes lyrically about the desert?s power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoise?an animal that can ?teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience? ?Los Angeles Times Book Review ?Her finest writing . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F830 .W55 2002 AVAILABLE
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