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Changing Precipitation Regimes and Terrestrial Ecosystems

• Hardcover | Engels
• By the beginning of the twenty-first century, few people could deny the reality of global change. But while most alarm has been over increasing temper... Lees meer

Transforming Diné Education

• Hardcover | Engels
• Transforming Diné Education: Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice gathers the voices of Diné scholars, educators, and administrators to offer critical... Lees meer

The Desert Smells Like Rain

Gary Paul Nabhan

• Paperback | Engels
• Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rai n remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can lea... Lees meer

A Diné History of Navajoland

Klara Kelley, Harris Francis

• Paperback | Engels
• For the first time, a sweeping history of the Diné that is foregrounded in oral tradition. Authors Klara Kelley and Harris Francis share Diné history ... Lees meer

Cornerstone at the Confluence

• Hardcover | Engels
• Signed on November 24, 1922, the Colorado River Compact is the cornerstone of a proverbial pyramid--an elaborate body of laws colloquially called the ... Lees meer

Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest

W L Minckley, Paul C Marsh

• Paperback | Engels
• This comprehensive new book replaces and substantially expands upon the landmark Fishes of Arizona, which has been the authoritative source since it w... Lees meer

Secrets from the Center of the World

Joy Harjo

• Paperback | Engels | Sun Tracks | nr. 17
• "My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's p... Lees meer

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process

• Paperback | Engels | Amerind Studies in Archaeology | nr. 7
• The remains of hunter-gatherer groups are the most commonly discovered archaeological resources in the world, and their study constitutes much of the ... Lees meer

Artisans and Cooperatives

• Hardcover | Engels
• With new markets opening up for goods produced by artisans from all parts of the world, craft commercialization and craft industries have become key c... Lees meer

The Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos

• Hardcover | Engels
• Only a day's drive south of the U.S.-Mexico border, a tropical deciduous forest opens up a world of exotic trees and birds that most people associate ... Lees meer

Nature's Northwest

William G Robbins, Katrine Barber

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American West (Hardcover)
• At the beginning of the twentieth century, the greater Northwest was ablaze with change and seemingly obsessed with progress. The promotional literatu... Lees meer

Coastal Lives

Maximilian Viatori, Héctor Andrés Bombiella Medina

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy
• Peru's fisheries are in crisis as overfishing and ecological changes produce dramatic fluctuations in fish stocks. To address this crisis, government ... Lees meer

A Frontier Documentary

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, citizens and missionaries in the northwestern reaches of the new nation were without the protecti... Lees meer

Moveable Gardens

• Paperback | Engels
• Moveable Gardens explores how biodiversity and food can counter the alienation caused by displacement. By offering in-depth studies on a variety of re... Lees meer

When Language Broke Open

• Paperback | Engels | Camino del Sol
• When Language Broke Open collects the creative offerings of forty-five queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent who use poetry, prose, ... Lees meer

Across a Great Divide

• Hardcover | Engels | Amerind Studies in Archaeology | nr. 4
• Archaeological research is uniquely positioned to show how native history and native culture affected the course of colonial interaction, but to do so... Lees meer

People and Plants in Ancient Western North America

• Paperback | Engels
• The environmental diversity of North America is astounding--from circumpolar tundra with a small number of plants more than a few centimeters tall to ... Lees meer

Transforming Diné Education

• Paperback | Engels
• Transforming Diné Education: Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice gathers the voices of Diné scholars, educators, and administrators to offer critical... Lees meer

Great House Communities Across the Chacoan Landscape

John Kantner, Nancy M. Mahoney

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Papers | nr. 64
• Beginning in the tenth century, Chaco Canyon emerged as an important center whose influence shaped subsequent cultural developments throughout the Fou... Lees meer

No Species Is an Island

Theodore H Fleming

• Paperback | Engels
• In the darkness of the star-studded desert, bats and moths feed on the nectar of night-blooming cactus flowers. By day, birds and bees do the same, ta... Lees meer

Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds

James H Creechan

• Hardcover | Engels
• The popular history of narco-Mexico has long been narrowly framed by the U.S. "War on Drugs." Stereotypes overemphasize the criminal agency of celebri... Lees meer

Jardinería Desértica

George Brookbank, Félix P Hurtado

• Paperback | Spaans
• ¿Cuál es el mejor tiempo del año para plantar? ¿Cuándo es el mejor tiempo para fertilizar el árbol frutal? ¿Cuándo se debe plantar la mata de tomate e... Lees meer

Between the Andes and the Amazon

Anna M Babel

• Paperback | Engels
• Why can't a Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna M. Babel uses this question to open an analysis of language and social structure at the border of eastern... Lees meer

Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East

T J Wilkinson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Society for American Archaeology Book Award Winner Many fundamental studies of the origins of states have built upon landscape data, but an overall st... Lees meer