In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) by: James C. Scott (Author) Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 2025-02-25 Language: English Print Length: 248 pages ISBN-10: 0300278497 ISBN-13: 9780300278491 Book Description James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit “A posthumous conclusion to a scholarly career of upending conventional wisdom . . . and ...
How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918 (Transforming War) by: Heather Venable (Author) Publisher: Naval Institute Press Publication Date: 2019-12-15 Language: English Print Length: 352 pages ISBN-10: 1682474682 ISBN-13: 9781682474686 Book Description For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neit...
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, now a major motion picture by: Bob Grandin (Author) Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication Date: 2019-12-01 Language: English Print Length: 352 pages ISBN-10: 1760877263 ISBN-13: 9781760877262 Book Description Now a major motion picture. This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that br...
The Life of Our Sacred Father, Hypatius of the Rufinianae (Cistercian Studies Series) (Volume 301) by: Callinicus (Author), Bradley K. Storin (Translator) Publication Date: 2024-12-02 Language: English Print Length: 184 pages ISBN-10: 087907356X ISBN-13: 9780879073565 Book Description The life of Hypatius offers a precious witness to the timeless perspectives, values, and virtues of the former fifth-century abbot and saint. Better known by its short title, the Life of Hypatius was written in the...
Llangorse Crannog: The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog by: Alan Lane (Author), Mark Redknap (Author) Publisher: Oxbow Books Publication Date: 2020-02-08 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 1789253063 ISBN-13: 9781789253061 Book Description The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next fo...
Divine Participation: A Reconstruction of St Cyril of Alexandria’s and Fr Matta Al-miskin’s Commentaries on the Gospel of St John (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 38) by: Wagdy Samir (Author) Publisher: Brill Academic Pub Publication Date: 2025-03-27 Language: English Print Length: 244 pages ISBN-10: 9004729119 ISBN-13: 9789004729117 Book Description This monograph examines humankind’s union with God by two fathers, Cyril of Alexandria and Matta al-Miskin, in their commentaries on the...
The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street by: Mike Tidwell (Author) Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 2025-03-25 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1250362261 ISBN-13: 9781250362261 Book Description A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023’s record heat domes and raging ...
Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca by: Rhana Gittens Wheeler (Author) Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Publication Date: 2024-10-15 Language: English Print Length: 222 pages ISBN-10: 1496853369 ISBN-13: 9781496853363 Book Description The Black community of Atlanta, a city once heralded as the “Black Mecca of the South,” is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid the city’s urban renaissance, residents face rising property values...
The Battle of Marne 1914 Author(s): Andrew Uffindell (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Publication Date: September 19, 2013 Edition: Illustrated Language: English Print length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 1848848013 ISBN-13: 9781848848016 Book Description The First Battle of the Marne was one of the most pivotal battles in history. Fought outside Paris in September 1914, it turned the tide of the German invasion of France, and robbed Kaiser Wilhelm II of his best chance of winning the First Worl...
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (Routledge Approaches to History) Author(s): Martin L. Davies (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 4, 2009 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 274 pages ISBN-10: 0415995205 ISBN-13: 9780415995207 Book Description Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses...
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