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Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike
Jared OrsiIn Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise ...
Jon T. ColemanJared Orsi has shown how aspiring gentlemen like Zebulon Pike used frontier hardships to enhance their status. See Jared Orsi, “Zebulon Pike and His 'Frozen Lads': Bodies, Nationalism, and the West in the Early Republic,” Western ...
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
More editions... Kent Curtis, Jared Farmer, Mark Fiege, Drew Isenberg, Ari Kelman, Linda Nash , Jared Orsi, Sara Pritchard, Jeff Sanders, Robert Self, Bruce Stadfeld, Ellen Stroud, and Bob Wilson. Kathyrn Morse, Jay Taylor, and Kim Todd read the entire ...
Lamar Series in Western History: Emerald City: an ...
Matthew W. Klingle... including Thomas Andrews, Kathy Brosnan, Kent Curtis, Jared Farmer, Mark Fiege, Drew Isenberg, Ari Kelman, Linda Nash, Jared Orsi, Sara Pritchard, Jeff Sanders, Robert Self, Bruce Stadfeld, Ellen Stroud, and Bob Wilson. Kathyrn Morse ...
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Jared OrsiThis book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century.
National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on ...
PreviewCONTENTS PART I two three four five PART II List of Illustrations | ix Acknowledgments | xi Introduction | 3 Adrian Howkins, Mark Fiege, and Jared Orsi one Beyond the Best Idea: A Look at Mount Rainier, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert ...
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the ...
PreviewJared Orsi n early September 1805, two very powerful men were I thinking about rivers. Upon their concerns hung the fates of nations. One was Nemesio Salcedo, the highest-ranking Spanish official in northern Mexico. On September 9, from ...
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Jared OrsiAn fascinating history of flood control efforts in Los Angeles from the 1870s to the present, showing how engineering has continually failed to contain nature. This book teaches us to think of cities as ecosystems.
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan ...
Preview7 Flood Control Engineering in the Urban Ecosystem JARED ORSI A winter storm rolled onshore at Los Angeles on February 13, 1980. A second storm followed a day later, then a third and a fourth and a fifth. A sixth storm brought the heaviest ...
Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
Prakash KumarMark Fiege, Fredrik Jonsson, and Jared Orsi were part of a reading group where we discussed the crossover themes between environmental history and the history of science. Thaddeus Sunseri very generously read several chapters, and ...
Citizen's Guide to Colorado's Water Heritage
Colorado Foundation for Water EducationBy Jared Orsi - e don't usually think of Colorado rivers as being important for navigation. Wehave interstates for that. Roadsigns point the way to all destinations. The McDonalds, Motel 6, and Conoco station at the next interchange take care of ...
Citizen Explorer: The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike
Jared OrsiVirgil W. Dean. Special issue, Kansas History 29 (Spring 2006): 34–47. Oliva, Leo E., ed. “'Sent Out by Our Great Father': Zebulon Montgomery Pike's Journal and Route across Kansas, 1806.” In “The Pike Expedition: A Bicentennial Reflection ...
Recreating the Rhône: nature and technology in France since ...
Sara B. Pritchard... Karin Ellison, Martina Kaup, Ari Kelman, Matthew Klingle, Neil Maher, Betsy Mendohlson, Suzanne Moon, Linda Nash, Jared Orsi, Karen Oslund, Adam Rome, Josh Silverman, Adam Sowards, Ellen Stroud, Greg Summers, Joseph Taylor, ...
Quicklet on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: ...
Niko SilvesterChapter-By-Chapter Commentary & Summary Niko Silvester. ThinkQuest. Africa: The Cradle of Civilization. UCLA Department of Geography. Jared Diamond. UCLA Spotlight. Jared Diamond. About The Author Nicole Silvester Nicole has ...
Iron Cowboy
Diana PalmerCharmed by her audaciousness, Jared seduced the town's plain Jane. But their burgeoning relationship soon thrust Sara into Jared's hidden world of intrigue. Now the iron cowboy had to steel himself for the fight of his life…and his heart.
Never Too Late Collection 1, Books 1-4: Romantic Comedy ...
Donna McDonald“It's Lauren McCarthy,” Jim said finally, her name hanging in the air between them. “I know her. She used to be Lauren McCarthy Smith, exwife of Jared Smith. Jared Smith was the bastard who slept with my exwife,” Barrett exclaimed. “I'll be ...
Quicklet on Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared ...
Nicole SilvesterNicole Silvester. still a fine book: A review of the book, critiquing the idea that all of the essays use natural experiments and not just straightforward comparisons. Skeptic.com Natural Experiments of History: Information on a lecture by Jared ...
History and Presence
Robert A. OrsiFrederika Randall (New York: Picador, 2010), 264–267; on Pope John Paul II ( Saint Karol Wojtyla) and Fatima, see George Weigel, ... The phrase in the text is from Robert H. Sharf, “Experience,” in Critical Terms for Religious Studies, ed.
Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the ...
Richard J. Orsiabout Mills, Eberlein warned, “we shall be in an awkward fix if Mills flies the track and pulls out and there is grave danger he may”; Eberlein to Cornish, San Francisco, July 15, 1903, Eberlein Correspondence. For the campaign to oust Mills for ...
Out in the Blue
Kelly JensenWhen his employer grounds him, Jared starts thinking in terms of his coffin. Then he meets Finley and learns he’s not the only one lost.
Breakaway
Avon GaleCan NHL rookie Lane remind rival enforcer Jared why he loves the game, and why love might be worth the risk?
The Officer's Lover
Pam JenoffTen years ago Jordan Weiss suffered the devastating death of her boyfriend Jared, a gifted rower at Cambridge.
A Hidden Affair
Pam JenoffTen years ago, intelligence officer Jordan Weiss's life was turned upside down when her college boyfriend Jared drowned.
This Strange Illness: Alcoholism and Bill W.
Jared LobdellThis brilliant work, both personal and professional in character, is a study of alcoholism, of a movement aimed at its cure, and of an individual participant in this development.
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