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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work
Henry SavageRichard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
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 ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...
Richard S. NewmanBishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Richard WilsonRichard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third
Alice Ida Perry WoodIn 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
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 ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run
Rob Stone... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery, ...
Richard III
Richard AndersenRichard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life
Donald E. JohnsonDawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature
More editionsB78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:
Bill NielsenDawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...
Richard TorontoRichard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...
Donald E. JohnsonDawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;
Richard WatsonA N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy
Richard WrightAt four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864
Richard Leslie HillsThis is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.
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