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Faith in Nature
Environmentalism as Religious Quest
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295985565
Pub Date: October 2005
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans? place in the universe ? can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in...
Seeking Refuge
Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295992112
Pub Date: August 2012
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major North American bird migration routes. The landscapes they cross vary from wetlands to farmland to...
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991993
Pub Date: March 2012
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam?s most important economic regions. Its swamps,...
The Lost Wolves of Japan
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295988146
Pub Date: March 2008
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that...
George Perkins Marsh
Prophet of Conservation
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295983158
Pub Date: March 2003
Imprint: University of Washington Press
George Perkins Marsh (1801?1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources,...
Shaping the Shoreline
Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991399
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline...
The Republic of Nature
An Environmental History of the United States
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295993294
Pub Date: August 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past...
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991412
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Diné) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds...
Toxic Archipelago
A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991382
Pub Date: July 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them...
Public Power, Private Dams
The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295989129
Pub Date: February 2009
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In the years following World War II, the world?s biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum...
Iceland Imagined
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295992938
Pub Date: February 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since...
Making Mountains
New York City and the Catskills
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295990149
Pub Date: February 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills...
Where Land and Water Meet
A Western Landscape Transformed
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295984995
Pub Date: January 2006
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon...
Driven Wild
How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295982205
Pub Date: January 2005
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of...
Landscapes of Conflict
The Oregon Story, 1940-2000
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295990439
Pub Date: February 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however,...
Drawing Lines in the Forest
Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295990118
Pub Date: February 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development....
Faith in Nature
Environmentalism as Religious Quest
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295985565
Pub Date: October 2005
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Seeking Refuge
Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295992112
Pub Date: August 2012
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991993
Pub Date: March 2012
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The Lost Wolves of Japan
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295988146
Pub Date: March 2008
Imprint: University of Washington Press
George Perkins Marsh
Prophet of Conservation
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295983158
Pub Date: March 2003
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Shaping the Shoreline
Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991399
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The Republic of Nature
An Environmental History of the United States
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295993294
Pub Date: August 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991412
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Toxic Archipelago
A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295991382
Pub Date: July 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Public Power, Private Dams
The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295989129
Pub Date: February 2009
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Iceland Imagined
Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295992938
Pub Date: February 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Making Mountains
New York City and the Catskills
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295990149
Pub Date: February 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Where Land and Water Meet
A Western Landscape Transformed
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295984995
Pub Date: January 2006
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Driven Wild
How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295982205
Pub Date: January 2005
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Landscapes of Conflict
The Oregon Story, 1940-2000
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295990439
Pub Date: February 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Drawing Lines in the Forest
Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295990118
Pub Date: February 2010
Imprint: University of Washington Press