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Author : Air University (U.S.). Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Plants, Edible
ISBN : SRLF:A0005088356
Author : Rock Holliwood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481702836
American Tropics is a story of one mans journey from LA toMiamitoKey Westto LA and then to theHawaiian Islandsto visit the most tropical parts ofAmerica. The protagonist, who is a member of Generation X, tells the story about his adventures and the characters that he meets along the way. The book is a journey; reading it you will go on a journey in your imagination to the most southern extremes of theUnited States: to the continental south point close to the Hemingway House inKey West,Florida, and to the south point of theHawaiian Islands. It will take you to celebrate the exuberance and joy of being a member of Generation X while traveling through the most tropical parts of the great experiment in freedom and wealth: America. It is a story of beauty, joy and exhilaration, where the author takes the advice of Thomas Jefferson and travels to the most tropical parts of the states to experience Life,Libertyand the Pursuit of Happiness. American Tropics is the story of one mans generational dream and a call to every member of the generation to take up arms against a sea of dreariness, to have more fun, pursuing happiness in the American Tropics. It is a story for a generation that dislikes its name: Generation X, and a call to this 13th generation of theUnited States to wake up to the immense beauty of modern life and to pick up from where the Summer of Love generation left off. The book is a generational dream from a Generation X author.
Author : Adrian Forsyth,Ken Miyata
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439144749
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1870 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022657550
Author : Maria Cristina Fumagalli,Peter Hulme,Owen Robinson,Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846318900
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Author : Thomas Sanchez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307961389
From the author of Mile Zero come a heart-racing, “power-packed thriller" (San Francisco Chronicle) set in Key West that illuminates a world of dark desires, hidden truths, and colliding destinies at America’s famous southernmost continental point. Key West is being terrorized by a series of bizarre murders committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin. With each new kill, it becomes clearer that the skeleton-clad executioner has an ecological agenda. Everyone dreads becoming the killer’s next victim: the rapacious developers, the ruthless scammers, and the common folk undertaking heroic acts to save their community. As the clock counts down to the end of hurricane season, the town will come together in a final dramatic explosion of fear, rage, and striking revelations.
Author : Megan Raby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469635613
Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : UIUC:30112089514811
Author : Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa,Jennifer S. Powers,Geraldo W. Fernandes,Mauricio Quesada
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466512016
Under threat from natural and human disturbance, tropical dry forests are the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics, yet they rarely receive the scientific or conservation attention they deserve. In a comprehensive overview, Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, and Management examines new approaches for data sampling and analysis using remote sensing technology, discusses new ecological and econometric methods, and critically evaluates the socio-economic pressures that these forest are facing at the continental and national levels. The book includes studies from Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil that provide in-depth knowledge about the function, status, and conservation efforts of these endangered forests. It presents key elements of synthesis from standardized work conducted across all sites. This unique contribution provides new light in terms of these forests compared to each other not only from an ecological perspective but also in terms of the pressures that they are facing, and their respective responses. Written by experts from a diversity of fields, this reference brings together the many facets of function, use, heritage, and future potential of these forests. It presents an important and exciting synthesis of many years of work across countries, disciplines, and cultures. By standardizing approaches for data sampling and analysis, the book gives readers comparison information that cannot be found anywhere else given the high level of disparity that exists in the current literature.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.),Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Incunabula
ISBN : UOM:39015070981462
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Author : James Edward Richardson,R. Toby Pennington
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889450503
In this volume we aimed to assess progress in determining the processes by which current patterns of tropical biodiversity were established and are maintained. Tropical regions are highly species-rich and we present studies that have improved our understanding of the generation of that diversity at local, regional and global scales. We demonstrate how diverse fields from molecular phylogenetics, phylogeography, palaeontology and palaeoecology continue to improve our understanding of the natural history of the tropics.
Author : Christian Parenti
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781568586625
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Author : James A. Kushlan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065489
For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.
Author : Carla Emery
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 2417 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781570618413
From craft culture to survivalists, preppers, homesteaders, urban farmers, and everyone in between there is a desire for a simpler way of life—a healthier, greener, more self-sustaining and holistic approach to modern life. The knowledge you need to survive and thrive off the grid is at your fingertips in The Encyclopedia of Country Living, the best-selling resource for the homesteading movement. With its origins in the back-to-the-land effort of the late 1960s, Carla Emery’s landmark book has grown into a comprehensive guide to building your sustainable country escape haven, while lowering your carbon footprint in the process. The 40th anniversary edition offers up-to-date and detailed information on the fundamentals of topics like homegrown food; raising chickens, goats, and pigs; beekeeping; food preservation; mail-order supply sourcing; foraging; and much, much more (even how to deliver a baby)—everything you need to lead a self-sufficient lifestyle in the 21st century. Basic, thorough, and reliable, this book deserves a place in urban and rural homes alike. Table of Contents 1 Oddments 2 Introduction to Plants 3 Grasses, Grains & Canes 4 Garden Vegetables 5 Herbs & Flavorings 6 Tree, Vine, Bush & Bramble 7 Food Preservation 8 Introduction to Animals 9 Poultry 10 Goats, Cows & Home Dairying 11 Bee, Rabbit, Sheep & Pig 12 Appendix
Author : Jerome Kear Wilcox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Canada
ISBN : PSU:000010920541