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Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areasby Alex S. MacLean, Julie Campoli, Elizabeth HumstoneISBN 1884829511 (1-884829-51-1)
Hardcover, Planners Press, American Planning Association
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The Annotated Indian Act 1993: Including Related Treaties, Statutes, and Regulationsby HawleyISBN 0459557165 (0-459-55716-5)
Hardcover, Thomson Professional Pub Canada
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At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada's Forestsby Elizabeth MayISBN 1550138324 (1-55013-832-4)
Hardcover, Key Porter Books
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Basic Microcomputer Programs for Urban Analysis and Planningby John R. OttensmannISBN 0412008718 (0-412-00871-8)
Softcover, Chapman & Hall
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Best Development Practices: Doing the Right Thing and Making Money at the Same Timeby Douglas R. Porter, Christine C. Heflin, Reid H. Ewing, Urban Land Institute, Marybeth Deanna, Florida Dept. of Community AffairsISBN 1884829104 (1-884829-10-4)
Softcover, Amer Planning Assn
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Best Development Practices: Doing the Right Thing and Making Money at the Same Timeby Reid H. Ewing, Urban Land Institute, Marybeth Deanna, FloridaISBN 1884829112 (1-884829-11-2)
Hardcover, American Planning Association
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Better Models for Development in Virginiaby Edward McMahon, Shelley Smith Mastran, Conservation Fund (Arlington, Va.), Sara S. HollbergISBN 097052921X (0-9705292-1-X)
Softcover, Conservation Fund
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Canada's Forests at a Crossroads: Anassessment in the Year 2000by Global Forest Watch CanadaISBN 1569734402 (1-56973-440-2)
Softcover, World Resources Inst
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Lifeby Jane JacobsISBN 0394729110 (0-394-72911-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."Los Angeles Times
"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating experience."New York Times [via]More editions of Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life:
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in Americaby Bruce E BabbittISBN 1559630930 (1-55963-093-0)
Hardcover, Island Pr
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Costs of Sprawl 2000: Tcrp Report 74by Robert W. Burchell, William R. Dolphin, George Lowenstein, Catherine C. GalleyISBN 0309067197 (0-309-06719-7)
Softcover, Transportation Research Board
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The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 067974195X (0-679-74195-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'Book summary:This book is an attack on current methods of city planning and re-building. It is also an explanation of new principles and an argument for different methods from those now in use. It is the first real alternative to conventional city planning that we have had in this century. Its author, herself a city dweller and an editor of Architectural Forum, is direct and practical in her approach. What, she asks, makes cities work? Why are some neighborhoods full of things to do and see and why are others dull? Why does the crime rate soar in our public housing developments and why are some of our older neighborhoods, despite their evident pov-erty, so much more safe, stable and congenial? Why do some neighborhoods attract interested and responsible populations and why do others degenerate? Why are Boston's North End and the eastern and western extremes of Greenwich Village good neighborhoods and why do orthodox city planners consider them slums? What alternatives are there to current city planning and rebuilding?
Conventional city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by too many people, by mixtures of commercial, industrial and residential uses, by old buildings and narrow streets and by small landholders who stand in the way of large-scale development. Such neighborhoods, they insist, breed apathy and crime, discourage investment and contaminate the areas around them. The response of con-ventional city planning is to tear them down, scatter their inhabitants, lay out super-blocks, and rebuild the area accord-ing to an integrated plan, with the result, as often as not, that the crime rate rises still higher, the new neighborhood is more lifeless than the old one, and the surrounding areas deteriorate even more, until the life of the whole city is threatened.
But Mrs. Jacobs observes that in any number of cases these very conditions--mixed uses, dense population, old buildings, small blocks, decentralized ownership--create the very opposite of slums, neighborhoods that regenerate themselves spontaneously, that are full of variety and diversity, that attract large numbers of casual visitors and responsible new residents, that encourage investment and revitalize the areas around them. Boston's North End (condemned as a slum by or-thodox planners) is such a neighborhood, and so is Greenwich Village. Rittenhouse Square and Telegraph Hill are others. Nearly every large city can produce still other examples.
Why then do some city neighborhoods die and why do others flourish? And what can city planners do to avoid the death and encourage the life of our great American cities? The solutions proposed by Mrs. Jacobs in this book represent a sharp break with conventional thinking on the subject and they carry with them the ring of simple truth which marks this book as an inevitable classic of social thought.
This edition is set from the first American edition of 1961 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House. [via]More editions of The Death and Life of Great American Cities:
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Dene Nation: The Colony Withinby Mel WatkinsISBN 0802063152 (0-8020-6315-2)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Earth and Land Use Planningby Gary B. Griggs, John A. GilchristISBN 0878721274 (0-87872-127-4)
Hardcover, Duxbury Press
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Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Useby Alan Rike Drengson, Duncan MacDonald TaylorISBN 0865713650 (0-86571-365-0)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Ecotourism Development Manualby Camilla RomundISBN 0965622703 (0-9656227-0-3)
Hardcover, Words Out
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Edge Cityby Joel GarreauISBN 0385424345 (0-385-42434-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Edge City: Life on the New Frontierby Joel GarreauISBN 0385262493 (0-385-26249-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Environment, Natural Systems, and Development: An Economic Valuation Guideby Maynard M. Hufschmidt, East-West Environment and Policy Institute (Honolulu, Hawaii)ISBN 0801829313 (0-8018-2931-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Environmental Planning in New Zealandby Harvey C. Perkins, P. A. MemonISBN 0864691750 (0-86469-175-0)
Hardcover, Dunmore Press
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The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dreamby Sheryll CashinISBN 1586483390 (1-58648-339-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmerby Richard Rhodes, Bill GreerISBN 0803289650 (0-8032-8965-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapeby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0671888250 (0-671-88825-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Plans & Ordinancesby Randall ArendtISBN 1559637420 (1-55963-742-0)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Guide to California Planningby William FultonISBN 0923956050 (0-923956-05-0)
Softcover, Solano Pr
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Hope for the Landby Charles E. LittleISBN 0813518024 (0-8135-1802-4)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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The Indian Act of Canadaby Richard H. BartlettISBN 0888802048 (0-88880-204-8)
Hardcover, University of Saskatchewan, Native Law Centre
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Indian Band Membership: An Information Booklet Concerning New Indian Band Membership Laws and the Preparation of Indian Band Membership Codesby CanadaISBN 0662540956 (0-662-54095-6)
Softcover, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
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Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project: A Reportby Canada, Milton Freeman Research LimitedISBN 0660004003 (0-660-00400-3)
Softcover, Minister of Supply and Services Canada
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Keepers of the Forest: Land Management Alternatives in Southeast Asiaby Mark PoffenbergerISBN 0931816815 (0-931816-81-5)
Softcover, Kumarian Pr
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Land Use Controls: Cases and Materialsby Robert C. Ellickson, Vicki L. BeenISBN 0735539960 (0-7355-3996-0)
Hardcover, Aspen Law & Business
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Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practiceby Brian Blaesser, Alan C. WeinsteinISBN 0918286581 (0-918286-58-1)
Hardcover, Amer Planning Assn
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Land Use in Americaby Patrick F. Noonan, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Henry L. DiamondISBN 1559634642 (1-55963-464-2)
Softcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Land Use in America'Book summary:Over the past two decades, great strides have been made on a wide variety of environmental fronts. Air and water quality have improved significantly, certain endangered species are on the road to recovery, and there is a marked increase in environmental awareness among the general population. Yet at the same time, little has changed in our approach toward how land is used.Henry L. Diamond and Patrick F. Noonan, two preeminent figures in the modern conservation movement, examine that unfortunate circumstance as they provide a broad overview of major land use issues of the past twenty-five years and a ten-point agenda for future action. They look at key trends and patterns of the past two decades, and consider what can be done to help communities throughout the country accomodate growth in better, more environmentally sound, more fiscally responsible ways.Diamond and Noonan base the synthesis and analysis featured in the first part of the book in large part on a series of papers from leading scholars, public officials, and practitioners that are included in their entirety in the second part of the book. The contributors provide and in-depth look at important topics, including: Howard Dean, governor of Vermont, on Vermont's experience with growth management plan Douglas P. Wheeler, secretary of the California Resources Agency, on the implementation of ecosystem management in California Jean W. Hocker, president of the Land Trust Alliance, on what land trusts are and how they work John A. Georges, chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper Company, on management of forest resources Jerold S. Kayden, professor at Harvard University, on private property rights and the"takings" issue [via]
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Life Above the Jungle Floorby Donald PerryISBN 0671644262 (0-671-64426-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Living with Michigan's Wetlands: A Landowner's Guideby Thomas W. Ford, Wilfred CwikielISBN 1889313009 (1-889313-00-9)
Softcover, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council
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Living with Your Landby John R. VosburghISBN 0684311453 (0-684-31145-3)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Local Groundwater Protectionby Martin Jaffe, Frank DinovoISBN 0918286433 (0-918286-43-3)
Softcover, Amer Planning Assn
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Managing Development in Small Townsby David J. Brower, Candace Carraway, Thomas Pollard, C. Luther PropstISBN 0918286344 (0-918286-34-4)
Softcover, Amer Planning Assn
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Michigan's Economic Future: Challenges and Opportunitiesby Charles L. BallardISBN 0870137964 (0-87013-796-4)
Softcover, Michigan State Univ Pr
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Moratorium: Justice, Energy, the North, and the Native Peopleby Hugh McCullum, Karmel Taylor McCullum, John OlthuisISBN 0919030173 (0-919030-17-3)
Hardcover, Anglican Book Centre
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The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Toolsby Stewart BrandISBN 0394707761 (0-394-70776-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools'Book summary:The Next Whole Earth Catalog Paperback: 608 pages Publisher: POINT; dist by Random House; 1st edition (October 1980) Language: English ISBN-10: 0394739515 ISBN-13: 978-0394739519 Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 10.7 x 1.6 inches Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds [via]
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Nitassinan: Inuit Struggleby Marie WaddenISBN 1550540017 (1-55054-001-7)
Hardcover, Douglas & McIntyre, Limited
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Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homelandby Marie WaddenISBN 1550548956 (1-55054-895-6)
Hardcover, Douglas & McIntyre
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earthby Mathis Wackernagel, Williams E. Rees, Phil TestemaleISBN 086571312X (0-86571-312-X)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America With the Center for Land Use Interpretationby Matthew Coolidge, Sarah SimonsISBN 1933045337 (1-933045-33-7)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Pathways to Self-Determinationby Leroy Little BearISBN 0802065392 (0-8020-6539-2)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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A People's History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn, Ww Norton & Co New PrISBN 1565843797 (1-56584-379-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A People's History Of The United States: 1492-Presentby Howard ZinnISBN 0606301127 (0-606-30112-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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A People's History of the United States: Teaching Editionby Howard ZinnISBN 1565843665 (1-56584-366-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A People's History of the United States: The Wall Chartsby Howard Zinn, George KirschnerISBN 1565841719 (1-56584-171-9)
Softcover, New Pr
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Few works of American history have done more to change the way in which recent generations have looked at their past than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. With millions of copies sold, Zinn's social history fleshes out the bare skeleton of traditional historical texts with the stories of working men and women throughout this country's history.
A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts is a set of two posters and an explanatory booklet designed to bring the contents of the original People's History to an even broader audience. Illustrated in full color, they portray over five hundred years of American social and cultural history. Organized thematically as well as chronologically, they allow the reader to trace the developments of specific topicsfrom slavery and resistance to the role of womenthrough images and quotations that go well beyond the wars and presidencies of traditional American history.
A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts creates a unique tool for learning about American history from the celebrated book that turned history on its head. [via]More editions of A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts:
Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Regionby James KatesISBN 081663579X (0-8166-3579-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New Yorkby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720245 (0-394-72024-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of our time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens--the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses--and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man--an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches--and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself.
Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear--his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"--a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses--an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time--without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system.
Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars--he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder.
This is how he built and dominated New York--before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done. [via]More editions of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York:
The Practice of Local Government Planningby Frank S. SoISBN 0873260201 (0-87326-020-1)
Hardcover, Published in cooperation with the American Planning Association by the International City Management Association
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Project Approval: A Developer's Guide to Successful Local Government Reviewby Albert SolnitISBN 0534013325 (0-534-01332-5)
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Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American Westby Donald WorsterISBN 0394751612 (0-394-75161-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American West'Book summary:When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospectors, and entrepreneurs who were zealously following Horace Greeley's famous advice to "go west." Yet while the epic chapter in American history opened by these adventurous men and women is filled with stories of frontier hardship, we rarely think of one of their greatest problems--the lack of water resources. And the same difficulty that made life so troublesome for early settlers remains one of the most pressing concerns in the western states of the late-twentieth century.
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Rivers of Empire represents a radically new vision of the American West and its historical significance. Showing how ecological change is inextricably intertwined with social evolution, and reevaluating the old mythic and celebratory approach to the development of the West, Worster offers the most probing, critical analysis of the region to date. He shows how the vast region encompassing our western states, while founded essentially as colonies, have since become the true seat of the American "Empire." How this imperial West rose out of desert, how it altered the course of nature there, and what it has meant for Thoreau's (and our own) mythic search for freedom and the American Dream, are the central themes of this eloquent and thought-provoking story--a story that begins and ends with water. [via]More editions of Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American West:
Saving the Tropical Forestsby Judith Gradwohl, Russell GreenbergISBN 1853830143 (1-85383-014-3)
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Scoping of Environmental Effects: A Guide to Scoping and Public Review Methods in Environmental Assessmentby New ZealandISBN 0477058744 (0-477-05874-4)
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Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Natureby Theodore SteinbergISBN 0520207092 (0-520-20709-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans' attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature.
Beginning along the Missouri River, Steinberg recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. Then he travels to Louisiana, where an army of lawyers butted heads over whether Six Mile Lake was actually a lake or a stream. He continues to Arizona to investigate who owned the underground, then to Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains to see who claimed the clouds. He ends in crowded New York City with Donald Trump's struggle for air rights.
Americans' obsession with owning nature was immortalized by Mark Twain in the tale of Slide Mountain, where a landslide-prone Nevada peak turned the American dream of real estate into dust. In relating these modern-day "Slide Mountain" stories, Steinberg illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.More editions of Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Nature:
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 085634012X (0-85634-012-X)
Hardcover, Blond and Briggs
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Matteredby Ernst Friedrich SchumacherISBN 0060916303 (0-06-091630-3)
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One the 100 most influential books published since World War II
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Hailed as an eco-bible by Time magazine, E.F. Schumachers riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against bigger is better industrialism, Schumachers Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachss The End of Poverty, Paul Hawkens Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yuniss Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibbens Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 0881791695 (0-88179-169-5)
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneoby Eric HansenISBN 0375724958 (0-375-72495-8)
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At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story, Stranger in the Forest provides a rare and intimate look at the vanishing way of life of one of the last surviving groups of rain forest dwellers. Hansen's absorbing, and often chilling, account of his exploits is tempered with the humor and humanity that prompted the Penan to take him into their world and to share their secrets. [via]More editions of Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo:
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dreamby Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff SpeckISBN 0865476063 (0-86547-606-3)
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There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day.
Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.More editions of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream:
Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judgesby Charles Monroe HaarISBN 0691044449 (0-691-04444-9)
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The Takings Issue: Constitutional Limits on Land-Use Control and Environmental Regulationby Richard M. Frank, Robert Meltz, Dwight H. MerriamISBN 1559633808 (1-55963-380-8)
Hardcover, Island Pr
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Umbrella Final Agreement between the Government of Canada, the Council for Yukon Indians, and the Government of the Yukonby Canada, Council for Yukon Indians, Yukon TerritoryISBN 0662207319 (0-662-20731-9)
Hardcover, [Indian and Northern Affairs Canada]
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Vegan: The New Ethics of Eatingby Erik Marcus, Erik MacUsISBN 0935526358 (0-935526-35-8)
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The Wealth of Citiesby John O. NorquistISBN 0738201340 (0-7382-0134-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringeby Thomas L. DanielsISBN 1559635975 (1-55963-597-5)
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Who Owns Scotland Now?: The Use and Abuse of Private Landby Auslan CrambISBN 1851589643 (1-85158-964-3)
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The World Is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Foodby Jose BoveISBN 1859844057 (1-85984-405-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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La Convention De La Baie James Et Du Nord Quebecois: Convention Entre Le Gouvernement Du Quebec, Le Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec), La Northern Quebec Inuit Association, Et Le Gouvernement Du Canadaby Quebec (Province)ISBN 0775424706 (0-7754-2470-6)
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LA Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidosby Howard ZinnISBN 1583220542 (1-58322-054-2)
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Actualizado y ampliado incluyendo la presidencia de Bush, La otra historia de los Estados Unidos nos vuelve a recordar que la grandeza verdadera de America se encuentra no en los generales militares, sino en sus voces disidentes. [via]More editions of LA Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidos:
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