Author : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Publisher : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788400065300
Author : Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806133775
In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.
Author : Marie-Theres Albert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 311030838X
The publication is the first in a new series on existing and innovative paradigms in Heritage Studies. The series aims at systematising and developing the academic discourse on heritage, which has yielded a wealth and breadth of contributions over the past few years. The publication offers its own emphasis by developing heritage studies with a perspective towards and as a contribution to human development. It thus offers a vision for the construction and establishment of a new discipline. The academic mainsprings and research interests of this repositioning of heritage studies as an academic discipline are discussed by internationally renowned thinkers and heritage practitioners. The publication thus establishes first important points for discussion. Central to this publication are questions concerning the sustainable protection and use of heritage, focussing on the world cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, but equally questions on the relation of heritage and memory and how these could mutually enrich our understanding of heritage.
Author : Paul McCaffrey
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN :
Examining the ongoing changes in Earth's climate, this book explores causes, arguments for and against the existence of global warming, and what the future may hold.
Author : Charles Brand
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Andes
ISBN :
A British naval officer's evocative account of a stormy winter crossing of the Andes he made by mule and by foot in 1827. Brand travelled to Peru via Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. His journal comments on Rio's slave market (pp 12-15), the botanical gardens and social life (including a detailed description of the imperial family), Pampa Indians, ladies of Santiago de Chile and Lima, a bullfight at Mendoza, the black washerwomen of Buenos Aires, South American houses, etc. He also visited the Juan Fernandez islands. The appendix comprises detailed climatic observations and critical observations and critical reports of Andean posthouses.
Author : Charles Mungoshi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807083215
Moving and provocative short stories that explore the strained relations between parent and child, husband an wife, brothers, and friends, as traditional values of rural Africa clash with ambitions of urban life.
Author : Forbes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 900445053X
The books in this series contain a number of essays on ancient technology, covering both the preclassical and the classical period. These volumes describe certain phases of ancient technology, and try to use modern technology, philological and archaeological evidence to sketch ancient technology for the benefit of historians.
Author : Edgar Leopold Layard
Publisher :
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1884
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Luca Molinari
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
From the Neoclassicism of Thomas Jefferson design of Monticello and sketches of the White House, to "all'italiana" gardens and parks, to the strong Roman classicism of the Jefferson Memorial, to Costantino Brumidi's frescoes in Congress and the National Library, to the striking composition of Luigi Moretti's Watergate Complex - America's capital is infused with the influences of a culture that laid the foundations of Western society. This book is an homage to this strong and still alive relationship and essential reading for all those interested in architecture and the visual arts.
