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Engineering Nature: Water, Development, & the Global Spread ...

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, & the Global Spread ...

Jessica B. Teisch

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 ...
Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History

Green Versus Gold: Sources In California's Environmental History

Carolyn Merchant

Jessica Teisch prepared the bibliographies with major contributions from Tamara Whited. Elisa Cooper assisted in research and copying, and Hilary Goldstein, Andrea Clark, and Jessica Teisch spent many long hours preparing the ...
Leonardo da Vinci für Dummies

Leonardo da Vinci für Dummies

Jessica Teisch

Jessica Teisch und Tracy Barr lüften die Rätsel um das Renaissance-Genie, sie geben Einblick in die geheimen Aufzeichnung von Leonardo, erläutern die Bedeutung seiner Erfindungen und beschreiben seine geradezu revolutionären Studien zur ...
Engineering Progress: Californians and the Making of a ...

Engineering Progress: Californians and the Making of a ...

Jessica Beth Teisch

Engineering Progress: Californians and the Making of a Global Economy by Jessica Beth Teisch, B.A. (Brown University) 1994 M.S. (University of California, Berkeley) 1997 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for ...
Carolina del Norte: Geographies of Latinization in the ...

Carolina del Norte: Geographies of Latinization in the ...

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A Special Issue of Southeastern Geographer, Summer 2011 Robert Brinkmann, Graham A. Tobin. Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise jessica b. teisch Teisch examines the processes by which ...
Jessica + Jessica = Trouble

Jessica + Jessica = Trouble

Molly Mia Stewart

At first, Jessica Wakefield thinks it will be fun to share her name with the new Jessica in Mrs. Otis's class, until the newcomer sets out to be better than the old Jessica at everything. Original.
Leonardo da Vinci voor Dummies

Leonardo da Vinci voor Dummies

Jessica Teisch

Leven en werk van Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
Da Vinci For Dummies

Da Vinci For Dummies

Jessica Teisch, Ph.D

This friendly guide provides an easy-to-follow introduction to da Vinci's life and works, including the story behind celebrated paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, the lowdown on his inventions, which include the helicopter ...
Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the ...

Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the ...

Randal L. Hall

17; Erin Elizabeth Clune, “From Light Copper to the Blackest and Lowest Type: Daniel Tompkins and the Racial Order of the Global New South,” Journal ofSouthern History 76 (May 2010): 275–314; and Jessica B. Teisch, Engineering Nature: ...
Cities and Nature in the American West

Cities and Nature in the American West

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Sweetening the Urban Marketplace California's Hawaiian Outpost JESSICA TEISCH In 1921, Elwood Mead, professor at the University of California and chair of California's Land Settlement Board, received a call from George P. Cooke, ...
Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in ...

Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in ...

Ian Tyrrell

... History of Technology 21 (1999): 203–11 at 205 (“technical accomplishment”); Jessica teisch, “'home Is Not so Very Far away': Californian engineers in south africa, 1868–1915,” Australian Economic History Review 45 (July 2005): 139–60.
Southeastern Geographer: Spring 2013 Issue

Southeastern Geographer: Spring 2013 Issue

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—Douglas Sackman, editor of A Companion to American Environmental History 288 pages $45.00 cloth ENGINEERING NATURE Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise jessica b. teisch “This is the  ...
Encyclopedia of 20th-century technology

Encyclopedia of 20th-century technology

Colin Hempstead

See also Concrete Shells; Irrigation Systems; Hydroelectric Power Generation Jessica B. Teisch Further Reading Dentistry In the early twentieth century a visit to the. Downing, T. and McGuire G., Eds. Irrigation's Impact on Society. University of ...
The road to Ludlow: work, environment, and ...

The road to Ludlow: work, environment, and ...

Thomas G. Andrews

Finally, see Arthur F. McEvoy, "Law, Public Policy, and Industrialization in the California Fisheries, 1900-1925," Business History Review 57 (1983), 494-521 ; Jessica B. Teisch, "Great Western Power, 'White Coal,' and Industrial Capitalism in ...
Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

James Eli Adams

ERNIE TEAGARDEN Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota Thomas Alva Edison; Prisons JESSICA B. TEISCH University of California, Berkeley Horatio Alger; John James Audubon; William Dean Howells; Frederic Law Olmsted; ...
Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global ...

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global ...

Jessica B. Teisch

Jacqueline Jaffe, “John Hays Hammond,” in Carruthers, Jameson Raid, 211–26. J. H. Hammond, Autobiography, 1:334, 343; N. H. Hammond, Woman's Part, 11; Macnab, Gold, 58. Jaffe, “John Hays Hammond,” 214. Hall, “The South African ...
Jessica

Jessica

Kevin Henkes

Nobody could see Jessica -- except Ruthie. When it came time for Ruthie to go to school, Jessica went with her. Her parents hoped Ruthie would find a friend at school who would replace Jessica. They were in for a (happy) surprise!
Jessica

Jessica

Bryce Courtenay

Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm.
Reclamation Managing Water in the West, The Bureau of ...

Reclamation Managing Water in the West, The Bureau of ...

United States. Bureau of Reclamation

65 Steen, The U.S. Forest Service; Jessica B. Teisch, "Great Western Power, ' White Coal,' and Industrial Capitalism in the West," Pacific Historical Review 70 ( May 2001 ) credits Lewis Mumford for the term "White Coal," 222. 66 Pelz, Federal ...
I-287: Environmental Impact Statement

I-287: Environmental Impact Statement

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... to give further input. Thank you very much. THE HEARING OFFICER: Thank you. Jessica Bacal, Chair of the Land Use/SEQRA Committee of the Westchester County Environmental Management Council. Ms. JESSICA BACAL: I'm Jessica ...
Judy Moody Saves the World!

Judy Moody Saves the World!

Megan McDonald

"Plant trees!" "Don't be litterbugs," said Jessica Finch. "I wasn't littering," said Judy , picking up the note. She crossed out the Finch in Jessica's name and changed it to Jessica Fink. Sheesh. Sometimes Jessica Fink Finch gave her the jitterbugs.
Jessica Rules the Dark Side

Jessica Rules the Dark Side

Beth Fantaskey

A sequel to Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side finds newlywed Jessica Packwood struggling with her initial responsibilities as a royal vampire until Lucius is wrongly condemned for the murder of a powerful elder. 75,000 first ...
A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's ...

A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's ...

Scott Reynolds Nelson

Jessica Lcpler has pointed out to me that the seven houses were also involved in the Pacific tradc.Jessica Lcpler, personal conversation, May 23, 2011. Jessica Lepler explained to me the significance of the sight bill versus the older bill ...
The Judy Moody Star-Studded Collection: Books 1-3

The Judy Moody Star-Studded Collection: Books 1-3

Megan McDonald

... said Judy, picking up the note. She crossed out the Finch in Jessica's name and changed it to Jessica Fink. Sheesh. Sometimes Jessica Fink Finch gave her the jitterbugs. “Great!” said Mr. Todd. “These are all good ideas. Look. Page 16.
The Extortionist and his Dolls: A Jessica March Mystery

The Extortionist and his Dolls: A Jessica March Mystery

Mary Ann Scott

Jessica March is back, sleuthing in Parkdale.
Leading Creative Teams: Management Career Paths for ...

Leading Creative Teams: Management Career Paths for ...

Eleazar Hernández

Jessica Walsh Jessica Walsh Designer + Art Director New York: Sagmeister & Walsh www.sagmeisterwalsh.com Jessica Walsh is a designer and art director working in New York City. She is a partner at the New York–based design studio  ...
Shadows On The Shore: Book Two

Shadows On The Shore: Book Two

Jessica Stirling

In this compelling novel, sequel to Lantern for the Dark, author Jessica Stirling weaves a poignant tale of passion and deceit.

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