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Launching Liberalism - On Lockean Political Philosophy

de Michael P. Zuckert

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 A reflection on the work of John Locke. The text explores the complexity of the Locke's engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his effect on later liberal thinkers, and his success in transforming the political understanding of the Anglo-American world.
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The Princeton Field Guide To Dinosaurs - Second Edition

de Gregory S. Paul

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 The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features some 100 new dinosaur species and 200 new and updated illustrations, bringing readers
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Smelter Smoke In North America - The Politics Of Transborder Pollution

de John D. Wirth

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 Provides an analysis of the development of a North American institutional response to continental air pollution. The text chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how efforts to protect the environment evolved.
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A Culture Of Secrecy - Government Versus The People'S Right To Know

34,70€

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 This work examines who in the American government is hiding what from the rest of the country, how they're doing it, and why it matters. The contributors include Matthew M. Aid, Scott Armstrong, Alexander Charns, James X. Dempsey, Paul Green and Joan Hoff.
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Quest For The Golden Circle - The Four Corners And The Metropolitan West, 1945-1970

de Arthur R. Gomez

34,70€

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 Traces the development of the Four Corners region - where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona meet - and its two main industries - tourism and mining - to illustrate how each contributed to the economic and urban transformation of the region over the 1950s and 1960s.
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The Four Seasons Of Kansas

de Daniel D. Dancer

25,69€

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Class Struggle And The New Deal - Industrial Labour, Industrial Capital And The State

de Rhonda F. Levine

42,43€

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 A reassessment of New Deal policymaking, arguing that the major constraints on and catalysts for FDR's policies were rooted in class conflict. The author analyzes the balance of class forces during the Great Depression and the ways in which they influenced federal policies.
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Mesa Verde National Park - Shadows Of The Centuries

de Duane A. Smith

20,54€

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Federal Land, Western Anger - Sagebrush Rebellion And Environmental Politics

de R.Mcgreggor Cawley

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 Delving beneath the political cliches and shallow media coverage, this text illuminates the underlying reasons for the vitriolic battle that pitted public land users in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming against the federal government's Bureau of land management during the last decade.
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Launching Liberalism - On Lockean Political Philosophy

de Michael P. Zuckert

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 A reflection on the work of John Locke. The text explores the complexity of the Locke's engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his effect on later liberal thinkers, and his success in transforming the political understanding of the Anglo-American world.
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Acting For Endangered Species - The Statutory Ark

de Shannon C. Petersen

45,00€

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 A political and legal history of the Endangered Species Act that explains how and why this piece of legislation has become so controversial. It addresses the legal history of the act, showing how the courts created a far more powerful law than Congress originally envisioned.
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Selling Yellowstone - Capitalism And The Construction Of Nature

de Mark Daniel Barringer

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 The story of commercial activities in the Yellowstone National Park from the 1870s through to the 1960s. It examines the place of business in the development of America's national parks, demonstrating the prominent role played by profit-driven entrepreneurs in shaping the physical landscape.
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Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains

38,56€

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 This interdiciplinary series explores the interplay between resource exploitation and economic, social, and political experiences in the American West.
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Collecting Nature - The American Environmental Movement And The Conservation Library

de Andrew G. Kirk

69,53€

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 Denver's Conservation Library was established in 1960 as a repository for environmental and conservation documents. In chronicling its history, Andrew Kirk also traces the cultural history of American environmentalism as viewed through the lens of this unique institution.
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Home On The Range - A Century On The High Plains

de James R. Dickenson

25,69€

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 This volume chronicles the drama of the settling and development of the High Plains, as viewed through the saga of journalist Dickenson's family and the wheat-farming community of McDonald, Kansas. It depicts American rural life and its struggle to survive.
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Contest For Constitutional Authority - The Abortion And War Powers Debates

de Susan R. Burgess

42,43€

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 Most Americans view the judiciary as the ultimate authority in constitutional questions. The author of this book, however, sees things differently - arguing that each branch of government has the right to interpret the Constitution, a theory known as ""departmental review"".
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Thomas Hobbes And Political Theory

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 This collection of essays explores from a variety of perspectives the political theory of Thomas Hobbes, described as one of the greatest English political thinkers. His ideas emerged in a period of political turmoil - a time of civil war, regicide, puritanical rule and royal restoration.
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Fragile Paradise - The Impact Of Tourism On Maui, 1959-2000

de Mansel G. Blackford

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 This work chronicles the growth - and the growing pains - of the tourist economy on Maui. It takes the readers into the heart of this island paradise to reveal the complexity of economic and environmental issues, especially as perceived by Maui's residents since the 1950s.
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Empowering The West - Electrical Politics Before Fdr

de Jay Brigham

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 This study examines the conflict between public power advocates and the private utility industry over control of the environment before the New Deal. In identifying the political nature of modernization, Brigham tells a story that is also environmental and social.
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The Inhabited Prairie

de Donald Worster e Terry Evans

45,00€

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 Known for her photographs of the prairie as an orderly grid, taken from high above, Evans here works at lower altitudes to focus on the land as an inhabited place. All these images help the viewer to understand the layers of life on the prairie, and the complex interweaving of nature and man.
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Conservation Trusts

de Darler Guenzler e Sally K. Fairfax

69,53€

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 This title examines a variety of conservation organizations in the United States built on or close to trust principles, some government creations, some private, some combinations of the two, to explain how conservation trusts are created and how they work.
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The Great Art Of Government - Locke'S Use Of Consent

de Peter Josephson

69,53€

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 This volume examines John Locke's writings on both consent and the art of governance to show how each informs the other. Moving beyond previous scholarship it gives us a Locke as much concerned with the effective functioning of government as with the roots of moral legitimacy.
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Nontimber Forest Products In The United States

83,69€

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 A comprehensive examination of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the USA, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them. It brings together research from numerous disciplines.
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Conservation Trusts

de Darler Guenzler e Sally K. Fairfax

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 This title examines a variety of conservation organizations in the United States built on or close to trust principles, some government creations, some private, some combinations of the two, to explain how conservation trusts are created and how they work.
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