(Išleidimo metai: 05-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816555437)
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contex...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816553396)
Narrating Mexicos evolution of fire through five eras--pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880-1980), and contemporary (1980-2015)--this volume relies on the myth of the five suns that the Aztecs used to characterize their histor...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816549238)
The Earth is fast transitioning from a planet shaped by ice to one shaped by fire in all its manifestations. Yosemite National Park offers a microcosm for understanding our current world. Stephen J. Pyne tells the story of how fire got removed f...Daugiau...
Ben A Minteer, Mark Klett, Stephen J. Pyne, Roderick Frazier Nash
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300260724)
A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness h...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Aug-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520391635)
A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over timeand our responsibility to reorient this relationship before its too late.?The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding spe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Sep-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520383586)
A dramatic reorientation of humanity&;s relationship with fireThe Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earths history. Since terrestrial...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816541119)
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contex...Daugiau...
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch.Australia is one of the worlds fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2020, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816540129)
Reprints selected, lightly edited, essays from the 9 regional volumes of the series that speak with special power for each region, plus one new essay on the 2017-18 fire season in California. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping vi...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Focus on Natural Forces In a historical moment gripped by environmental catastrophes of our own making, Julius von Bismarck confronts the forces of nature at their unruly extremes. Deploying sculpture, photography, video and technological...Daugiau...
Serija: Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireFire
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Aug-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295746180)
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pynenamed by Science magazine as the world...Daugiau...
Serija: Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireFire
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Aug-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295746203)
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pynenamed by Science magazine as the world...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816538799)
Slopovers collates surveys of three regions into the national narrative. With a unique mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, renowned fire expert Stephen J. Pyne shows how culture and nature, fire from nature and fire...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816538904)
Pyne, a fire specialist, surveys the fire history of the Northeast US, including Pennsylvania, the New Jersey pinelands, the Adirondacks, the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, Staten Island, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as the Northeast Fire Protec...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816537891)
An engaging guide to creativity and craft in nonfiction by the accomplished author of more than thirty successful books--Provided by publisher. Building on his earlier book Voice and Vision, the author details literary tools and strategies...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816538539)
Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by culture, and by time. It has no single expressio...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816537709)
Its fires help to give the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region—defined here as Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado—its fires illuminate the ways...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-May-2017, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816535125)
Provides a wide look at plains wildland fire in the 21st century and how it is interconnected with other themes of life and culture in the Midwest--Provided by publisher. Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532483)
The Southwest is part of the multivolume series describing the nations fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, Florida, and several other critical fire regions--...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816533510)
Its a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like that in Mann Gulch that shaped the literature...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Mar-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532728)
In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for w...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Mar-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532612)
In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes Californias fire scene unique...Daugiau...
Pyne (life sciences, Arizona State U.), a fire historian and former firefighter, recounts the fires that occurred in the summer of 1910 that burned millions of acres in the Northern Rockies and how US Forest Service fire policy was changed to full su...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2015, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532148)
Between Two Fires relates the play-by-play of the fire revolution and its aftermath--Provided by publisher. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of Americas fire revo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816531820)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Between Two Fires relates the play-by-play of the fire revolution and its aftermath--Provided by publisher. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of Americas fire revo...Daugiau...
Serija: Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireBurning Bush
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Sep-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295998824)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers. Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and...Daugiau...
Serija: Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireVestal Fire
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Jul-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295996172)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationsh...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Apr-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226259826)
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethosto en...Daugiau...
