A Year In The Southwest

Author : William deBuys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199779109

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A Great Aridness by William deBuys Pdf

With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.

Author : Flannery Burke
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816528417

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A Land Apart by Flannery Burke Pdf

"A new kind of history of the Southwest (mainly New Mexico and Arizona) that foregrounds the stories of Latino and Indigenous peoples who made the Southwest matter to the nation in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lonely Planet,Amy C. Balfour,Michael Benanav,Sarah Chandler,Lisa Dunford,Carolyn McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 1741794668

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Southwest USA by Lonely Planet,Amy C. Balfour,Michael Benanav,Sarah Chandler,Lisa Dunford,Carolyn McCarthy Pdf

The Southwest is America's playground, luring adventurers and artists with the promise of red rock landscapes, the legends of shoot-'em-up cowboys and the kicky delights of a green chile stew.

Author : Sylvester Baxter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816516189

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The Southwest in the American Imagination by Sylvester Baxter Pdf

In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway sponsored an archaeological expedition to the American Southwest. Directed by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, the Hemenway Expedition sought to trace the ancestors of the Zu–is with an eye toward establishing a museum for the study of American Indians. In the third year of fieldwork, Hemenway's overseeing board fired Cushing based on doubts concerning his physical health and mental stability, and much of the expedition's work went unpublished. Today, however, it is recognized as a critical base for research into all of southwestern prehistory. Drawing on materials housed in half a dozen institutions and now brought together for the first time, this projected seven-volume work presents a cultural history of the Hemenway Expedition and early anthropology in the American Southwest, told in the voices of its participants and interpreted by contemporary scholars. Taken as a whole, the series comprises a thorough study and presentation of the cultural, historical, literary, and archaeological significance of the expedition, with each volume posing distinct themes and problems through a set of original writings such as letters, reports, and diaries. Accompanying essays guide readers to a coherent understanding of the history of the expedition and discuss the cultural and scientific significance of these data in modern debates. This first volume, The Southwest in the American Imagination, presents the writings of Sylvester Baxter, a journalist who became Cushing's friend and publicist in the early 1880s and who traveled to the Southwest and wrote accounts of the expedition. Included are Baxter's early writings about Cushing and the Southwest, from 1881 to 1883, which reported enthusiastically on the anthropologist's work and lifestyle at Zu–i before the expedition. Also included are published accounts of the Hemenway Expedition and its scientific promise, from 1888 to 1889, drawing on Baxter's central role in expedition affairs as secretary-treasurer of the advisory board. Series co-editor Curtis Hinsley provides an introductory essay that reviews Baxter's relationship with Cushing and his career as a journalist and civic activist in Boston, and a closing essay that inquires further into the lasting implications of the "invention of the Southwest," arguing that this aesthetic was central to the emergence and development of southwestern archaeology. Seen a century later, the Hemenway Expedition provides unusual insights into such themes as the formation of a Southwestern identity, the roots of museum anthropology, gender relations and social reform in the late nineteenth century, and the grounding of American nationhood in prehistoric cultures. It also conveys an intellectual struggle, ongoing today, to understand cultures that are different from the dominant culture and to come to grips with questions concerning America's meaning and destiny.

Author : Lorraine Grubbs-West
Publisher : CornerStone Leadership Inst
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0976252856

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Lessons in Loyalty by Lorraine Grubbs-West Pdf

Southwest Airlines has a secret sauce, namely its incredible workforce of leaders at all levels. Lessons in Loyalty is an insider's clear, concise and energizing teachable point of view on how to build such a winning team.

Author : Kevin Freiberg,Jackie Freiberg
Publisher : Currency
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780767901840

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Nuts! by Kevin Freiberg,Jackie Freiberg Pdf

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of humor," and in-flight meals are never served--just sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering," "total quality management," and other management philosophies and employing its own brand of business success, Kelleher's airline has turned a profit for twenty-four consecutive years and seen its stock soar 300 percent since 1990. Today, Southwest is the safest airline in the world and ranks number one in the industry for service, on-time performance, and lowest employee turnover rate; and Fortune magazine has twice ranked Southwest one of the ten best companies to work for in America. How do they do it? With unlimited access to the people and inside documents of Southwest Airlines, authors Kevin and Jackie Freiberg share the secrets behind the greatest success story in commercial aviation. Read it and discover how to transfer the Southwest inspiration to your own business and personal life.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044278419

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Pacific Southwest Water Plan by United States. Bureau of Reclamation Pdf

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Droughts
ISBN : PSU:000018228168

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Drought in the Southwest, 1942-56 by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Jody Hoffer Gittell
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071428972

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The Southwest Airlines Way by Jody Hoffer Gittell Pdf

"If you look at Southwest Airlines, and I admire what they do, they've been the most successful airline in the industry." --Gerard Arpey, CEO, American Airlines "Through extensive research Jody Hoffer Gittell gets to the bottom of what has sustained Southwest Airlines' positive employee relations and high performance through good and bad times." --Thomas A. Kochan, professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Global Airline Industry Program In an industry with losses in the billions, Southwest Airlines has an unbroken string of 31 consecutive years of profitability. The Southwest Airlines Way examines how the company uses high-performance relationships to create enormous competitive advantage in motivation, teamwork, and coordination among employees. It then goes further to show how any company can foster these powerful cooperative relationships and explains how to: Lead with credibility and caring Invest in frontline leaders Hire and train for relational competence Use conflicts to build relationships Make unions its partners, not its adversaries Build relationships with its suppliers

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781837582440

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Lonely Planet Southwest USA by Lonely Planet Pdf

Author : Elma S. Moulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Cotton growing
ISBN : UCAL:$B70714

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Cotton Production and Distribution in the Gulf Southwest by Elma S. Moulton Pdf

Author : Aldo Leopold
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0826315801

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Aldo Leopold's Southwest by Aldo Leopold Pdf

Gathers the pre-Sand Country Almanac writings of Aldo Leopold, showing that he was not born an ecologist, but evolved over time through experimentation and thought.

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602231627

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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska by Ann Fienup-Riordan Pdf

Mission of Change is an oral history describing various types of change—political, social, cultural, and religious—as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup’ik people. Their stories are framed by the an analytic history of regional changes, together with current anthropological theory on the nature of cultural change and the formation of cultural identity. The book presents a subtle and emotionally moving account of the region and the roles of two men, both of whom view issues from a Catholic perspective yet are closely attuned to and involved with changes in the Yup’ik community.

Author : Jacqueline Soule
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781610589895

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Southwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening by Jacqueline Soule Pdf

DIVMaster the art of edible gardening in the beautiful southwestern United States./divDIV/divDIVSouthwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening is written exclusively for gardeners who want to grow edibles in Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada. Co-authors Katie Elzer-Peters and Jacqueline Soule share their bountiful knowledge of edibles in general and the Southwest region in particular, equipping you with all the information you need to design your edible garden, tend the soil, maintain your plants throughout their life cycles, and—most importantly—harvest the delicious foods they produce. So whether you live in the Tucson suburbs, the New Mexico Bootheel, the Mojave Desert, or anywhere else in the southwestern tri-state area, you’ll discover the best fruit and vegetable plants for your garden in this beautiful step-by-step how-to guide . . . and they’ll be on your table before you know it./div

Author : Tim Hull
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781640490079

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Moon Southwest Road Trip by Tim Hull Pdf

Wind-carved red rocks, brightly-painted adobe houses, and miles of open desert road: explore the beauty of the Southwest with Moon Southwest Road Trip. Maps and Driving Tools: More than 30 easy-to-use maps keep you oriented on and off the highway, along with site-to-site mileage, driving times, detailed directions for the entire route, and full-color photos throughout Eat, Sleep, Stop and Explore: With lists of the best hikes, views, and more, you can revel in the glitz of Las Vegas, shop the markets of Santa Fe, and savor flavorful Tex-Mex cuisine. Marvel at the sandstone spires of Monument Valley and the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park, or go mountain biking in Moab or swimming in Havasu Falls Flexible Itineraries: Drive the entire two-week road trip, or follow strategic routes like a Route 66 road trip or a week-long tour of the national parks, as well as suggestions for spending time in Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce, Arches and Canyonlands, Santa Fe, and Taos Local Expertise: Road warrior and Arizona local Tim Hull shares his love of the Southwest How to Plan Your Trip: Know when and where to get gas and how to avoid traffic, plus tips for driving in different road and weather conditions and tips for seniors, road-trippers with kids, and disability access Moon Southwest Road Trip covers: New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada With Moon Southwest Road Trip's practical tips, flexible itineraries, and local know-how, you're ready to fill up the tank and hit the road. Looking to explore more of America on wheels? Try Moon California Road Trip. Spending more time in the Southwest? Check out Moon Arizona & the Grand Canyon, Moon New Mexico, or Moon Utah.