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A New Plateau
For at least ten thousand years, until the arrival of railroads in the 1880s, thepeople of the Colorado Plateau—Canyon Country—primarily derived theirsustenance from the natural resources of the land they…
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And No Birds Sing
Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson’s influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carson’s editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring….
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Chrysalis
Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa’s skin look like a galaxy. She…
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City At The Point
An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes…
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Conquering Nature
Conquering Nature provides the only book-length analysis of the environmental situation in Cuba after four decades of socialist rule, based on extensive examination of secondary sources, informed by the study…
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Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency
The relevance and importance of Samuel P. Hay’s book, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency, has only increased over time. Written almost half a century ago, it offers an invaluable…
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Earth in Our Care
“What about the twenty-first century? Will we finally accept our responsibilities as guardians of planet Earth, the biological living trust, for the beneficiaries, the children of today, tomorrow, and beyond?…