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41. The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time) by T. H. Watkins | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(2000-03-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description As a collection of geological and climatic phenomena, the earth is a scarred, bent, cracked, and agitated wreck of a place. Nowhere is this more evident than in Utah's redrock canyon country, which is among the most spectacular terrain not only in America but in the world. These extraordinary lands lie at the heart of the Colorado Plateau -- 130,000 square miles of uplifted rock sitting like a huge island in an earthly continental sea, surrounded on all sides by the remnants of once-active volcanoes. Although the Colorado Plateau includes portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, in no other part of any other state are its complexity and time-constructed beauty illuminated more brilliantly than in southern Utah. Tourists and outdoor enthusiasts by the millions visit and revisit the area because there is no place else on earth quite like it. In The Redrock Chronicles, T. H. Watkins, one of America's best-known and award-winning writers on the environment and history, focuses on southern Utah's unprotected lands in a loving testament to its warps and tangles of rock and sky. Combining history, geography, and photography, the author reports the full story of the region -- from its violent geologic beginnings to the coming (and going) of pre-Puebloan peoples whose drawings still adorn rocks and caves there, from the Mormon settlement of the 1840s and 1850s to the great uranium boom of the 1950s, from the beginning of tourism and parkland protection in the 1930s to today's controversial movement to preserve millions of acres of wild Utah land in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Indeed, the account of that revolutionary movement is told here in all its color and complexity for the first time. Writing from his own personal experience and extensive research, an appreciative Watkins takes readers on a tour of the Grand Staircase of plateaus, moving from the utterly wild triangle of Kaiparowits Plateau, with its erosion-sculptured mesas, tablelands, benchlands, and canyons, to a more welcoming kind of verdant wilderness that sits northeast, across the rolling desert scrubland of Harris Wash, in the red-walled canyon of the Escalante River. The author has spent much time hiking and camping here among the isolated buttes and mesas, and he draws a vivid portrait of the area's highlights: Comb Ridge, a 90-mile wall of 600-foot cliffs; Waterpocket Fold, an even more spectacular monocline to the northeast of the Escalante River, stretching a hundred miles; the Henry Mountains; Hump of Bull Mountain; Cataract Canyon; and the San Rafael Swell, an enormous oval some 2,200 square miles which rises just north of Capitol Reef National Park. But The Redrock Chronicles is not simply a celebration. Watkins concludes with a spirited call for the preservation of the unprotected wilderness that gives the land its character and color. He offers the legislative device of wilderness designation as the necessary means of saving this plateau country that is not marked by one or two or even three or four scenic marvels but by an enormous kaleidoscope of geological diversity whose impact on the senses can set the mind to reeling with every turn. Customer Reviews (3)
War In The West
A chronicle of hope
Feeling the West |
42. Earth Sheltered Community Design: Energy-Efficient Residential Development by Underground Space Center | |
Paperback: 270
Pages
(1989-11)
list price: US$14.95 Isbn: 0442285582 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
43. Emergency Medical Care by International Conference on Remote Emergency Medical Services (1975 : Texas Tech University) | |
Hardcover: 197
Pages
(1977-11)
list price: US$21.95 Isbn: 0669013641 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
44. Compressed Gas Handbook by John S. etc. editors, John F. Kennedy Space Center Kunkle | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1969-01-01)
Asin: B001KUY19K Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
45. The Mission Possible Mystery at Space Center Houston (Real Kids Real Places) by Carole Marsh | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2009-09)
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46. The Scientific Impact of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, (Astronomical ... Society of the Pacific Conference Series) | |
Hardcover: 445
Pages
(1998-01)
list price: US$52.00 Isbn: 1886733635 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
47. Communications Satellites: Message Centers in Space by Bernice Kohn Hunt | |
Library Binding: 58
Pages
(1975-04)
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48. Science with the Ngst: Meeting Held at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 7-9 April 1997 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series) | |
Hardcover: 290
Pages
(1998-01)
Isbn: 1886733538 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
49. 50 Years of Rockets and Spacecraft: NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center Commemorative History by Ed Buckbee | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(2009)
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50. Neurolab Spacelab Mission: Neuroscience Research in Space, Results From the STS-90, Neurolab Spacelab Mission | |
Hardcover: 333
Pages
(2003-05-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book shows the complex –and sometimes surprising-- changes inthe brain and nervous system that allow astronauts to adapt toweightlessness. The results suggest that the developing nervous systemmay need gravity to develop normally; also, some concept of howgravity works may be "built in" to the brain. All the results from the mission’s experiments – and colorillustrations to help interpret the results – are presented in thissingle volume. The book’s commentary and summaries are designed to beaccessible to general scientific readers, but the chapters alsoinclude detailed descriptions and references, which offer researchersopportunities for further study. The book’s editors, Jay C. Buckey, M.D., a scientist who flew as a payload specialist aboard Neurolab, and Jerry L. Homick, Ph.D. the Neurolab mission scientist, offer commentary and explanatory notes about the Neurolab experiments. The 26 individual investigator teams provide detailed scientific reports on their results. Also included are technical reports on noteworthy procedures or equipment developed for the flight. These reports show how some experiments advanced technology to accomplish scientific goals. The book organizes the experiments into five research areas: the balance system, sensory integration and navigation, nervous system development in weightlessness, blood pressure control, and circadian rhythms and sleep. Each area is described in a brief introduction, with detailed color illustrations by William Scavone of Kestrel Illustrations. Abstracts and introductions to the individual reports provide a general scientific reader with a summary of each project and why it was done. Reference lists guide readers to the published papers from experiments. Customer Reviews (1)
Highly Technical |
51. Art Guide Texas: Museums, Art Centers, Alternative Spaces, andNonprofit Galleries by Rebecca S. Cohen | |
Paperback: 478
Pages
(2004-10-01)
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Awesome!! |
52. Art Spaces: Walker Art Center - hc by Cathy Madison | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(2006-07-24)
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53. 2001 A Spacetime Odyssey: Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Michigan, Usa, 21-25 May 2001 by Michael J. Duff, James T. Liu | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2003-01)
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54. Earth Sheltered Homes: Plans and Designs: Underground Space Center, University of Minnesota by Donna Ahrens, Tom Ellison, Ray Sterling | |
Paperback: 125
Pages
(1981-07)
list price: US$19.95 -- used & new: US$141.50 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0442286767 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
55. It Happened on Washington Square (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time) by Ms. Emily Kies Folpe | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(2002-10-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Farmed by New Amsterdam's freed African slaves in the seventeenth century, the park was usedas a potter's field and dueling ground in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War and thenconverted into a parade ground for the city's volunteer militia in 1826.Since the 1830s, when itformed the nucleus of an upscale community, Washington Square has been an incubator forAmerican art and a haven for writers, painters, sculptors, and architects.At the beginning of thetwentieth century, the area began to attract the artists and political radicals--from John Reed tothe Beats--who gave the Square a counter-cultural aura it still possesses. In recent decades, theSquare's residents have united against such threats to their neighborhood as the urbanredevelopment proposed by Robert Moses and the expansion of New York University. Illustrated with a remarkable selection of historic images, It Happened on WashingtonSquare explains why the survival of this unique public space is so important. Customer Reviews (3)
It Happened on Washington Square
lively history
a wonderful history |
56. John F. Kennedy Space Center Souvenir Book: In Beautiful Natural Color | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1969)
Asin: B000LZ3600 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
57. A Land Between: Owens Valley, California (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time) by Rebecca Fish Ewan | |
Paperback: 248
Pages
(2000-11-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Owens Valley is a land between, a place tucked behind high mountains, arid yet soaked in water history, draped in desert vegetation yet remembered for its verdant farms, sparsely dotted with towns -- some no more than dreams on a map. It exists between stories, between vitality and decline, between granite mountains." -- from the Introduction A unique landscape history, A Land Between explores the central idea of how people's preconceptions and perceptions of a place -- in this case, Owens Valley -- influence their interventions on the land. Rebecca Fish Ewan draws on primary sources, oral histories, and conversations, offering a story that reaches beyond the oft-told tale of water wars with Los Angeles. Ewan's gentle and poetic essays, illustrated with historical images and her own photographs of the region, provide a complex, multifaceted perspective on the land, the history, and the people of Owens Valley. Beginning with the land itself, the book's introduction describes the physical setting of Owens Valley and examines first impressions of the land -- including accounts from Numu myth, observations by nineteenth-century settlers, and excerpts from the author's journal of her own travels on horseback from the valley into the Sierra Nevada. The first essay explores the valley's natural history, focusing on the water, mountains, and plants to show a connection between the ecology of place and human use. The second essay chronicles the major periods of human occupation, beginning with the Numu (also referred to as Owens Valley Paiute in many sources) and ending in 1913, when the Department of Water and Power first diverted Owens River into the Los Angeles aqueduct. The third essay considers the valley after the diversion of water, from 1913 to the present -- including its use as a World War II Japanese internment camp and as a scenic locale for movies, especially westerns. Owens Valley is renowned for its unique topography and its striking contrasts in elevation -- rising from the below-sea-level depths of Death Valley to the 14,496-foot peak of Mt. Whitney. To search for the natural and cultural history embedded in Owens Valley, the author hiked to the top of that mountain, traveled on horseback across the meadows of the Kern Plateau, ventured on every forgotten dirt road in the valley that her truck could negotiate, and rambled on foot over the ancient stones of the Alabama Hills. A Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land. Customer Reviews (2)
Owens Valley book
Engaging, informative, scholarly, and highly recommended |
58. The NASA/National Space Science Data Center: Trapped Radiation Environment Model program (1964-1991) by James I. Vette | |
Paperback: 56
Pages
(1991-01-01)
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59. Historical overview: Space & Missile Systems Center, 1954-1995 by Timothy C. Hanley | |
Paperback: 52
Pages
(1995-01-01)
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60. Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples, and References by Underground Space Center, Minnesota Energy Agency | |
Paperback: 318
Pages
(1979-06)
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Customer Reviews (6)
The best reference for planning your new earth sheltered home
Perfect, 'exactly what it said on the tin'!!!!!
Green, Green, Green
Good basic beginner idea book
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