Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls i...

Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in t...

How can we make better sense of animal behavior by using what we know about the brain? This is the first book that attempts to answer this importan...

A collection of over eight hundred songs, representing most of the southern states and every type of negro folk-song. There are short chapters on t...

The present confrontation of Communist China and the United States, on which the future of peace in Asia hinges, is merely the latest phase in a co...

Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms...

The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as...

Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how ...

The American Revolution gave birth not just to a new nation, but to a new landscape. America was paradise to its native inhabitants, while to the c...

'Larvatus prodeo', announced Rene Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: 'I come forward, masked'. Deliberately disguising or silen...

"Shady Practices" is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental...

The development of modern China’s most important export commodity, silk, is traced from the opening of the treaty ports to the 1930s. This study ex...

The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully ...

In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals...

The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These es...

Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The questi...

The purpose of this book is to acquaint the geoscientist with issues associated with the debate over orientation and magnitude of stress in the lit...

Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environmental th...

The desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segrega...

Our politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of...

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for ...

Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insigh...

By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight...

This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen Wohl...

India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influenc...

By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight...

India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influenc...

Applying tools for data analysis to the rapidly increasing volume of data about the Earth An ever-increasing volume of Earth data is being gathered...