Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Demuth Bathsheba)(Paperback)

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Demuth Bathsheba)(Paperback)

Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans--the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia--before American

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (McNeill J. R.)(Paperback)

Kinnaird Head Lighthouse: An Illustrated History (Strachan Michael A. W.)(Paperback)

On the promontory of Kinnaird Head, on the northeast coast of Scotland, sits a peculiarly designed lighthouse. It is an exception in history--the only lighthouse in the world to be built into a castle. Originally constructed in 1571 by Sir Alexander Fraser, the castle towered over his new town of

Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Charbonnier Pierre)(Paperback)

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not

Scottish History (Hamilton John)(Paperback)

An ancient Scots law says that the head of any dead whale found on the Scottish coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail the property of the queen.The Scots excel at elephant polo, a game usually played in the East. The modern game was co-founded in the 1980s in Scotland,

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Cronon William)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our

The Environment: A History of the Idea (Warde Paul)(Paperback)

The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces

Scottish Lighthouses: An Illustrated History (Strachan Michael A. W.)(Paperback)

Before the age of the lighthouse Scotland's untamed seas and perilous rocky coast too often witnessed the watery end to the mariner's voyage. From its establishment in 1786, it was the remit of the Northern Lighthouse Board to tame these harsh seas with the building of guiding lights around

Environmental Geology: An Earth Systems Approach (Merritts Dorothy)(Paperback)

Become better informed of the connected nature of environmental geology and the multidimensional processes of the Earth through the case studies, conceptual explanations, and relevant presentation of material found in Environmental

What Is Environmental History? (Hughes J. Donald)(Paperback)

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J. Donald Hughes provides a

Coast of Utopia Trilogy (Stoppard Tom)(Paperback / softback)

The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays, Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage, span the lives and loves of a group of Russian friends at home and abroad in the tumultuous years between 1833

The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation (Neyrat Frdric)(Paperback)

This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire

Battle of Surigao Strait (Tully Anthony P.)(Paperback)

Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls

Terry Jones' Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History (Jones Terry)(Paperback)

An Alternative Roman History An entertaining rewriting of Roman history from the perspective of the Barbarians who weren t really barbaric at all In this completely fresh approach to Roman history, Terry Jones offers us not only the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, he also

Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating (Stensrud Astrid B.)(Paperback)

Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change. Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus,

The History of English: An Introduction (Gramley Stephan)(Paperback)

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the development of the language

Global Environmental Politics (Chasek Pamela S.)(Paperback)

Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for thirty years. The eighth edition continues this practice by covering critical new developments in global environmental politics and

Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 (Steller Georg Wilhelm)(Paperback)

The European discovery of the northwest coast of America is fully and dramatically recorded in this journal, an invaluable historical and scientific source document. It is also a gripping narrative of human conflict, of nature as the overwhelming adversary, of terror and pain and death, and of

The Alps: An Environmental History (Hadshar Rose)(Pevná vazba)

Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked to them for divine inspiration, and

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nio Famines and the Making of the Third World (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award. Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis

Overlander (Brown Alan)(Paperback / softback)

An epic coast-to-coast cycling trip through the wild and lonely interior of the Highlands, with a personal take on Scotland's landscape and

Magic: The Gathering: Legends: A Visual History (Wizards of the Coast)(Pevná vazba)

An official guide to the most iconic legends and legendary creatures from the world of Magic: The Gathering The world of Magic: The Gathering is home to many fantastical characters and creatures, but perhaps none so intriguing as its legendary creature cards, which include dragons, demons, angels,

A History of Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire (Brosius Maria)(Paperback)

An innovative approach to the history of the First Persian Empire, offering an accessible historical narrative for students and general readers alike A History of the Achaemenid Empire considers archaeological and written sources to provide an expansive, source-based introduction to the diverse and

Critical Themes in Environmental History of India (Chakrabarti Ranjan)(Pevná vazba)

A first of its kind in India, the book addresses the fundamental questions of environmental concern and enquires into the complex patterns of human - nature interaction within the discipline of environmental history in India. This book delves into history to examine a number of critical themes,