James A Young: 23 books
Cheatgrass
Fire and Forage on the Range
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid and semiarid rangelands between the Sierra Nevadas, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains. It is the first grass to appear after the region's long,...
Purshia
The Wild And Bitter Roses
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
A useful and complete summary of all the scientific information available on one of the most significant plant species in the western and intermountain regions. Among the plant species of the great Basin rangeland, the Purshia—ancient members of the rose family evolved to survive the aridity and...
by James A. Young, B. Abbott Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
**A sophisticated ecological analysis of ranching in northern Nevada featuring a new chapter and new epilogue by the authors.**First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has become a classic in the environmental history of the Great Basin, brilliantly combining a lively account of the development...
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 1
Milk composition, genetics and breeding
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
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by Daina Ramey Berry, Jonathan M. Bryant, Bobby J. Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Geriatric Psychiatry Study Guide
Mastering the Competencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Trainees in subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry and general psychiatry need to master core competencies in geriatric psychiatry in order to practice. This book is designed to provide short-answer question-based learning centering around the core curriculum topics in geriatric psychiatry and is primarily...
King James - Geneva - American Standard - Basic Bible in English - New Heart English - World English - Youngs literal - Parallel Bible
King James 1611 - Geneva 1560 - American Standard 1901 - Basic English 1949 - New Heart 2010 - World English 2000 - Young'S Literal 1898
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
This publication contains King James Bible (1611, Pure Cambridge, Authorized Version) and Geneva Bible (1560) and American Standard Bible (1901) and Bible in Basic English (1949) and New Heart English Bible (2010) and World English Bible (2000) and Young's Literal Bible (1898) translation. It has...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Advances in Heat Transfer
Cumulative Subject and Author Indexes and Tables of Contents for Volumes 1-31
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles over a broader scope than is allowable in either journals or texts.
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