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Cadillac Desert

Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440672822
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.

West Desert Pumping Project

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book West Desert Pumping Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Desert

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816510818
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Blue Desert written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

Final Environmental Impact Statement for the West Desert Pumping Project

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Statement for the West Desert Pumping Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the West Desert Pumping Project

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the West Desert Pumping Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Author : Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474443370
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy written by Aidan Tynan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West

Author : Michael Moore
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0890135916
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West written by Michael Moore and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work on medicinal herbs of the Western uplands is an authoritative presentation of more than 100 species. Unsurpassed as a field guide for its authoritative information on collection and medicinal preparation. Focuses on the plant life of rocky and arid lands of the West, and includes detailed information on the preparation and use of these vital herbs.

Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert of Egypt under the Ptolemies

Author : James C. R. Gill
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785701363
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert of Egypt under the Ptolemies written by James C. R. Gill and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from Mut al-Kharab, as well as a reexamination of pottery collected by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise in population during the Roman Period. It argues that such changes had already begun to take place during the Ptolemaic Period, likely as the result of a deliberate strategy directed toward this region by the Ptolemies. This book focuses on the ceramic remains in order to determine the extent of Ptolemaic settlement in the oases and to offer new insights into the nature of this settlement. It presents a corpus of Ptolemaic pottery and a catalogue of Ptolemaic sites from Dakhleh Oasis. It also presents a survey of Ptolemaic evidence from the oases of Kharga, Farafra, Bahariya and Siwa. It thus represents the first major synthesis of Ptolemaic Period activity in the Egyptian Western Desert.

Desert America

Author : Rubén Martínez
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 0805095616
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Desert America written by Rubén Martínez and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West—a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migration The economic boom—and the devastation left in its wake—has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over, evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin. In northern New Mexico, an epidemic of drug addiction flourishes in the shadow of some of the country's richest zip codes; in Joshua Tree, California, gentrification displaces people and history. In Marfa, Texas, an exclusive enclave triggers a race war near the banks of the Rio Grande. And on the Tohono O'odham reservation, Native Americans hunt down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border. With each desert story, Martínez explores his own encounter with the West and his love for this most contested region. In the process, he reveals that the great frontier is now a harbinger of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America.

The Tainted Desert

Author : Valerie L. Kuletz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134954263
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Tainted Desert written by Valerie L. Kuletz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.

Desert Oracle

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Geology and Geologic Hazards of Tooele Valley and the West Desert Hazardous Industry Area, Tooele County, Utah

Author : Bill D. Black
Publisher : Utah Geological Survey
ISBN 13 : 1557916330
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Geology and Geologic Hazards of Tooele Valley and the West Desert Hazardous Industry Area, Tooele County, Utah written by Bill D. Black and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 1999 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The petrographic database consists of 705 maceral analyses, reflectance measurements, and density and porosity determinations from Utah coal samples. These data were collected by the Utah Geological Survey from 1982 to 1995. Samples were collected from seven of Utah's 22 coal fields. Coal fields sampled are the Book Cliffs (182 samples), Wasatch Plateau (262 samples), Emery (41 samples), Sego (27 samples), Henry Mountains (173 samples), Kaiparowits Plateau (12 samples), and Coalville (four samples). The data are sorted by coal-field names; within each field the analyses are arranged alphabetically by coal-bed name to facilitate comparison. The aim of the database is to provide the industry with information on petrographic properties of Utah coals. In addition, it should help the coal operators and purchasers to determine the best uses for Utah coals.

Perpetual Mirage

Author : May Castleberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Mirage written by May Castleberry and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These photographic books enabled the images to speak directly to the viewer.

Anza-Borrego Desert Region

Author : Diana Lindsay
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899975909
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Anza-Borrego Desert Region written by Diana Lindsay and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its expanded 5th edition, The Anza-Borrego Desert Region offers complete coverage of the over 1 million acres of desert lands, including Anza-Borrego State Park, Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area (OWSVRA), parts of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, and adjacent BLM recreational and wilderness lands.

Southwestern Desert Resources

Author : William L. Halvorson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081655241X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Southwestern Desert Resources written by William L. Halvorson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southwestern deserts stretch from southeastern California to west Texas and then south to central Mexico. The landscape of this region is known as basin and range topography featuring to “sky islands” of forest rising from the desert lowlands which creates a uniquely diverse ecology. The region is further complicated by an international border, where governments have caused difficulties for many animal populations. This book puts a spotlight on individual research projects which are specific examples of work being done in the area and when they are all brought together, to shed a general light of understanding the biological and cultural resources of this vast region so that those same resources can be managed as effectively and efficiently as possible. The intent is to show that collaborative efforts among federal, state agency, university, and private sector researchers working with land managers, provides better science and better management than when scientists and land managers work independently.

The Spring

Author : Annie Connole
Publisher : Chin Music Press
ISBN 13 : 1634050266
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Spring written by Annie Connole and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac tale of death, love, rebirth, survival, and resilience.

Desert Chrome

Author : Kathryn Wilder
Publisher : Torrey House Press
ISBN 13 : 1948814374
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Desert Chrome written by Kathryn Wilder and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER "A raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemption—grounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang." —LAURA PRITCHETT, author of Stars Go Blue Kathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of America's mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures—their complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid West—and celebrates the animal nature in us all. KATHRYN WILDER's work, cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies and Hawai'i magazines. A past finalist for the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Wilder holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.