Natural Resources category: 648 books
Fuel Taxes and the Poor
The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve...
by Theodore Wood, William Plane Pycraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
MY object in the following pages is merely to give a very brief account of some of those birds which are useful, or the reverse, to farmers and gardeners. It is seldom possible, of course, to give an exact estimate of their value. In many cases they are useful in some ways, but mischievous in others....
by Trish Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
What is it about another person that sometimes makes friendship instantaneous? Despite differences in both age and background Bella and Evelyn meet and when Evelyn announces, ‘What I’d like is to be buried naturally straight in the earth with a tree planted on my grave,’ they find they are able...
Guarding the Goldfields
The story of the Yukon Field Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
Canada's gold rush of the late 1890s attracted dreamers and schemers from all over North America. Guarding the Goldfields is the story of the men sent to guard the Yukon and maintain order.
by Joel Chandler Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The Sea Island Hurricanes tells of the destruction and relief efforts after the devastation of the Hurricanes of 1893 on the Sea Islands between Savannah and Charleston, on the Atlantic Coast of the United States.
by William Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
In this adrenaline-charged sequel to Poacher Wars Wasserman again finds himself in predicaments that require his vast knowledge of investigative techniques to apprehend violent outlaw hunters and bring them to justice. Join him in a series of fearsome face-offs with the likes of Limping Wolf and Fast...
Artists and Arabs
Or, Sketching in Sunshine
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
From the Tweed to the Shetland Isles, they were thick upon the hills; in every nook and corner of England, amongst the cornfields and upon the lakes; in the valleys and torrent beds of Wales, the cry was still 'they come.'
On the continent, both artists and amateurs were everywhere. Smith toiling...
Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things
Power Devices with Your Plants, Modify High-Tech Toys, Turn a Penny into a Battery, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
As the eighth book in Cy Tymony's Sneaky Uses series Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things includes never-before-seen activities, including Sneaky Fashion such as Light-up Nails and Sneaky Belts and Bracelets.Over 30 new inventions are outlined inside Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things,...
Pushing Our Limits
Insights from Biosphere 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Pushing Our Limits is a fresh examination of Biosphere 2, the world’s first man-made mini-world, twenty-five years after its first closure experiment. Author Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in the enclosure during the 1991–1993 experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view...
Soil Ecology in Northern Forests
A Belowground View of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Forest soils form the foundation that underpins the existence of all forests. This book encapsulates soil ecology and functioning in northern forests, focusing on the effects of human activity and climate change. The authors introduce the fundamental principles necessary for studying forest soils,...
The Sugar Season
A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family's Quest for the Sweetest Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A year in the life of one New England family as they work to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art--the sweetest harvest, maple syrup...
How has one of America's oldest agricultural crafts evolved from a quaint enterprise with "sugar parties" and the delicacy...
by Ronald A. Foresta
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Peaceful Places: Portland
103 Tranquil Sites in the Rose City and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Everybody knows about Portland's food scene, its outdoor recreation, its bike lanes, beer pubs, and coffee shops. Whether you call it Stumptown or Bridgetown--or even PDX--Portland has been mocked as the city "where young people go to retire." But seemingly every weekend there's a festival,...
Taking Back Eden
Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Taking Back Eden is the gripping tale of an idea—that ordinary people have the right to go to court to defend their environment—told through the stories of lawsuits brought in eight countries around the world. Starting in the United States in the l960’s, this idea is now traveling the planet,...