Natural Resources category: 648 books
New York Waterfalls
A Guide for Hikers & Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
A guide to 122 hikes to more than 300 publicly accessible waterfalls .
Peaceful Places: Los Angeles
100+ Sites for Tranquility Across the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
During her 1930s screenwriting days in Hollywood, wordsmith Dorothy Parker famously pegged Los Angeles as "72 suburbs in search of a city." Today even more communities radiate from the downtown core, creating a metropolitan universe of noise, speed, and congestion amid the glitter and bling....
Deep Water
The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank
The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated...
Carbon Play
The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and climate mitigation.
Carbon Play follows Robert Falls’s unique and extraordinary journey in...
by The Green Patriot Working Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Today, many Americans are concerned about global warming. According to a March 2007 MSNBC poll, 86% of Americans believe global warming is a critical or important threat, and according to an April 2007 ABC News/The Washington Post/Stanford University poll, 80% of Americans say they are willing to make...
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II
A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked...
by Brian Westland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
A stranger on first entering Arizona is impressed with the newness and wildness that surrounds him. Indeed, the change is so great that it seems like going to sleep and waking up in a new world. Everything that he sees is different from the familiar objects of his home, and he is filled with wonder...
by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The Negotiation Skills Study Brief provides a quick reference to key terms and concepts related to the specialized skills and techniques involved in the art of effective negotiation. This Study Brief is intended for students of communications, law, business, marketing, or management. It is also...
by Catherine Miglorie
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The marble deposits in Vermont are some of the richest in the world. Vermont�s Marble Industry takes readers deep inside the quarries of the Green Mountain State to show how stone was sawed and raised from the earth to be cut, polished, and carved into monuments and structures that today are spread...
Gold
Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Gleaming and perfect, gold has beguiled humankind for many millennia, attracting treasure hunters, adorning the living and the dead, and symbolizing wealth, power, divinity, and eternity. This book offers a lively, critical look at the cultural history of this most regal metal, examining its importance...
Southern African Development Community Land Issues
Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. In this volume, Ben Chigara undertakes a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of...
Waterfalls of North Georgia
North Georgia's Wonders of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“The southern part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia ranges to a height of 4784 feet on Brasstown Bald with several other peaks approaching that height. The average rainfall recorded for the years 1969-1991 in parts of northeast Georgia along the Blue Ridge Mountain crest and into South Carolina...
by Martine P. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
The Nation's Most Influential Sourcebook On Easy Ways to Recycle, Arts and Crafts And Recycling, Recycle While Travelling, Re-Using Bricks To Recycle, Recycling On Loon Mountain In New Hampshire and Visiting A Landfill
Carrying Coal to Columbus
Mining in the Hocking Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio's Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life. The first shipment of coal rolled into Columbus in 1830 and has continued ever since. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America was founded...