Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.John Vaillant, author of Fire WeatherA timely and eclectic collectio...Daugiau...
At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers both a love song and a paean of regret to Americas most spectacular river (Denver Post) and a plea to save ( it) before its too late (The Wall Str...Daugiau...
Explore the uncharted Amazon with acclaimed botanist and pioneering Amazonian explorer, Richard Evans Schultes, guided by an intimate narrative that supplements his photography of indigenous tribes, hallucinogenic plants, stunning vistas, and much mo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Nov-2021, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474494175)
Lyle Campbells linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other langu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Nov-2021, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474494168)
Lyle Campbells linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other langu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Aug-2020, MP3, Leidėjas: Random House, ISBN-13: 9781473585980)
Brought to you by Penguin.A captivating new book - from the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that illuminates Colombias complex past, present, and future through the story of the great Rio Magdalena. Travellers often become...Daugiau...
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great R o Magdalena, illuminating Colombias complex past, present, and future.For Wade Davis, Colombia wa...Daugiau...
A defining scholarly publication on the past and current state of research with psychedelic plant substances for medicine, therapeutics, and spiritual uses.Certain plants have long been known to contain healing properties and used to treat everything...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Dec-2018, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781351381642)
Patrick Suppes (1922-2014) was an extraordinarily wide-ranging scholar. Although best known as a philosopher of science, Suppes made substantial contributions to a remarkably wide range of different fields of research including many relevant to econo...Daugiau...
Serija: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2016, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317410898)
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book b...Daugiau...
Serija: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2016, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317410881)
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book b...Daugiau...
Karyl Davis, M. Leslie Wade Zorwick, James Roland, Melissa Maxcy Wade
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2016, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317480952)
Debate holds enormous potential to build 21st century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution in the K-12 classroom, but teachers often struggle to implement and contextualize it effectively. Using Deba...Daugiau...
Karyl Davis, M. Leslie Wade Zorwick, James Roland, Melissa Maxcy Wade
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2016, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317480945)
Debate holds enormous potential to build 21st century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution in the K-12 classroom, but teachers often struggle to implement and contextualize it effectively. Using Deba...Daugiau...
From the author of INTO THE SILENCE, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world s leading author...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Oct-2012, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781610912068)
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the worlds most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Oct-2012, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781610912068)
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the worlds most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Dec-2011, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781597267946)
Wade Davis has been called "e;a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of lifes diversity."e; In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous culture...Daugiau...
Economic methodology has traditionally been associated with logical positivism in the vein of Milton Friedman, Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos and Thomas Kuhn. However, the emergence and proliferation of new research programs in economics have stimulated m...Daugiau...
In the rugged northern Rocky Mountains lies a spectacularly beautiful valley, known to the Native peoples as the Sacred Headwaters. There, on the edge of the Spatsizi Wilderness, the Serengeti of North America, three of the continents most important...Daugiau...
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.The price of lif...Daugiau...
