Author: Susan Elizabeth Benner
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
South American women authors look at the female experience.
Fire from the Andes
Author: Susan Elizabeth Benner
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
South American women authors look at the female experience.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
South American women authors look at the female experience.
World Fire
Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then ponders Antarctica, the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications.”—Booklist“A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world’s love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.”—Outside
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Greece, Iberia, Russia, and India and then ponders Antarctica, the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control, Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental, cultural, and political implications.”—Booklist“A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world’s love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.”—Outside
Fire on the Andes
Author: Carleton Beals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
An intensely interesting and vivid picture of Peru.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
An intensely interesting and vivid picture of Peru.
Coals of Fire
Author: Elizabeth Hershberger Bauman
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Preacher Peter is wakened by strange noises on the roof. To his dismay he finds there are young men destroying his hatch. As a Mennonite minister he believes in the way of peace, so instead of calling the authorities or shouting threats, Peter and his wife invite the young men in for a midnight meal. Their act of kindness brings unexpected results. Peter is not alone in this collection of true stories. Each tells of returning love for hate, good for evil. Written for elementary age children (but of interest to teens and adults), Elizabeth H. Bauman shares 17 true stories of men and women from various times and countries who showed the universal power of Christian love.
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836197232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Preacher Peter is wakened by strange noises on the roof. To his dismay he finds there are young men destroying his hatch. As a Mennonite minister he believes in the way of peace, so instead of calling the authorities or shouting threats, Peter and his wife invite the young men in for a midnight meal. Their act of kindness brings unexpected results. Peter is not alone in this collection of true stories. Each tells of returning love for hate, good for evil. Written for elementary age children (but of interest to teens and adults), Elizabeth H. Bauman shares 17 true stories of men and women from various times and countries who showed the universal power of Christian love.
Fire in the Andes
Author: Sewall Hamm Menzel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cocaine industry
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cocaine industry
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Fire Management Notes
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape
Author: Thomas Vale
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597266027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape seeks a middle ground between those conflicting paradigms, offering a critical, research-based assessment of the role of Native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Contributors focus on the western United States and look at the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad, landscape scale, and which could have been important in almost any part of the West. Each of the seven chapters is written by a different author about a different subregion of the West, evaluating the question of whether the fire regimes extant at the time of European contact were the product of natural factors or whether ignitions by Native Americans fundamentally changed those regimes. An introductory essay offers context for the regional chapters, and a concluding section compares results from the various regions and highlights patterns both common to the West as a whole and distinctive for various parts of the western states. The final section also relates the findings to policy questions concerning the management of natural areas, particularly on federal lands, and of the "naturalness" of the pre-European western landscape.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597266027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape seeks a middle ground between those conflicting paradigms, offering a critical, research-based assessment of the role of Native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Contributors focus on the western United States and look at the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad, landscape scale, and which could have been important in almost any part of the West. Each of the seven chapters is written by a different author about a different subregion of the West, evaluating the question of whether the fire regimes extant at the time of European contact were the product of natural factors or whether ignitions by Native Americans fundamentally changed those regimes. An introductory essay offers context for the regional chapters, and a concluding section compares results from the various regions and highlights patterns both common to the West as a whole and distinctive for various parts of the western states. The final section also relates the findings to policy questions concerning the management of natural areas, particularly on federal lands, and of the "naturalness" of the pre-European western landscape.
Fire Under the Andes
Author: Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Fire of the Andes
Author: Juanita Coulson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Young Men and Fire
Author: Norman Maclean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226500621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Tells what happened on August 5, 1949 in Man Gulch, Montana when fifteen smokejumpers came to fight a forest fire.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226500621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Tells what happened on August 5, 1949 in Man Gulch, Montana when fifteen smokejumpers came to fight a forest fire.