The View From Bald Hill

Author : Carl E. Bock,Jane H. Bock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520221840

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The View from Bald Hill by Carl E. Bock,Jane H. Bock Pdf

"This book brings together nearly every aspect of grassland research in the American Southwest and is written to appeal to both academics and the general public. It refutes conventional myths about some causes of grassland change, tests hypotheses in restoration ecology, and offers new perspectives on the recovery of ecosystems free from livestock grazing. It is a book that every naturalist or ecologist should read."—Conrad Bahre, author of A Legacy of Change "I expected another nature book. What I found was, to my surprise, a love story. Carl and Jane Bock visited the Research Ranch in the early 1970s and fell in love--with the Sonoita Plains, the plants and animals there, and the people who called it home. Like all good love stories, this one is full of passion and joy, excitement and disappointment, and sadness and humor. . . . With their successful blend of storytelling and scientific reporting, the Bocks share the most intimate details of their love affair and make the reader curious to learn more about this little-known land."—H. Ronald Pulliam, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia "Jane and Carl Bock write precisely as well as lovingly of the dynamics of the distinctive grasslands near the U.S./Mexico border in Arizona. They also bring 25 years of first-rate science to bear on their topic. Their seasoned view of ecological and perceptual changes in this community are unique and will go a long way toward healing and restoring the remaining fragments of this biome in southeastern Arizona."—Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Cultures of Habitat

Author : Carl E. Bock,Jane H. Bock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520924260

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The View from Bald Hill by Carl E. Bock,Jane H. Bock Pdf

In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in the high desert of southeastern Arizona is an 8,000-acre sanctuary where grazing has been banned since 1968. In this spirited account of thirty years of research at the ranch, Carl and Jane Bock summarize the results of their fieldwork, which was aimed at understanding the dynamics of grasslands in the absence of livestock. The View from Bald Hill provides an intimate look at the natural history of this unique site and illuminates many issues pertaining to the protection and restoration of our nation's grasslands.

Author : Jane H.;Bock Bock (Carl E.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1395604066

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The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland by Jane H.;Bock Bock (Carl E.) Pdf

Author : Sheila M. Puffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317467472

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International Management by Sheila M. Puffer Pdf

Exploring topics covered in international management courses, this book pairs business articles and fictional short stories to provide practical guidelines and concrete examples and convey cultural subtleties and shades of meaning.

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367648

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Collected Stories by Peter Carey Pdf

For the first time, Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's dazzling stories are gathered in one volume. Bound together with his critically acclaimed collection, The Fat Man in History, are seventeen fantastic and disturbing tales previously unpublished in Canada. In each one Carey reveals the surreal within the ordinary. A man begins peeling off his girlfriend's clothes and then layers of her skin to discover another person underneath. A lone soldier who is guarding a fence that runs across the desert forgets which side is which. A mild-mannered architect, fearing that his lover will leave him because he is too ordinary, plots to steal a drug-dealer's secret cache. Collected Stories is a testament to Carey's remarkable imagination and his exceptional achievements in the short-story form.

Author : Julie Jeffery Manwarren
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467106894

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Floyd Ingraham's Springwater: A Finger Lakes Hamlet by Julie Jeffery Manwarren Pdf

Over a century ago, amateur photographer Floyd Ingraham took hundreds of images of a western Finger Lakes hamlet in New York. Ingraham's lens captured the landscape, buildings, and people of Springwater, New York, and neighboring communities. This previously unpublished collection gives one photographer's view of early-20th-century life in a small, rural community in the Finger Lakes. Ingraham's photographs give context to the region's historical narrative and have captured forever the time in which he lived, the people that he knew, and the place he dearly loved.

Author : Phyllis Fahrie Edelson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307775481

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Australian Literature by Phyllis Fahrie Edelson Pdf

Spanning more than a century, Australian Literature crystallizes a spirit, style, and ethos found nowhere else in world literature. These captivating selections in Australian Literature come from major voices, both famous and lesser known, and encompass short stories, memoirs, novels and aboriginal writings. Resonant or wryly witty, charming or disturbing, they explore themes deeply rooted in the Australian experience—shaping the land, the legacies of the convict past, the displacement of the aborigine, the search for a national identity, sex, love, and commitment. Including these stories: “The Drover’s Wife” by Henry Lawson “The Chosen Vessel” by Barbara Baynton “The Loaded Dog” by Henry Lawson From The Tree of Man by Patrick White “The Night We Watched for Wallabies” by Steele Rudd “A Gentleman’s Agreement” by Elizabeth Jolley “Northern Belle” by Thea Astley “The Cooboo” by Katharine Susannah Prichard From Dr. Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Colin Johnson “Going Home” by Archie Weller From Wanamurraganya: The Story of Jack McPhee by Sally Morgan “Breaking a Man’s Spirit” by Marcus Clarke “Absalom Day’s Promotion” by Price Warung “The First Days” by A. B. Facey “In the Trenches” by A. B. Facey From The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow “The Kyogle Line” by David Malouf “American Dreams” by Peter Carey “Willy-wagtails by Moonlight” by Patrick White “A Good Marriage” by Olga Masters “Civilization and Its Discontents” by Helen Garner “The Train Will Shortly Arrive” by Frank Moorhouse “Two Hanged Women” by Henry Handel Richardson “Brown Seaweed and Old Fish Nets” by Christina Stead “The Woman at the Window” by Marian Eldridge “A Woman with Black Hair” by Beverley Farmer “Blood and Water” by Tim Winton

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367662

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The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey Pdf

If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back? If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people would choose ugliness? If two gun-toting thugs decided to take over a business -- and run it through sheer terror -- how far would their methods take them? These are the questions that Peter Carey, author of The Tax Inspector and Oscar and Lucinda, brilliantly explores in this collection of stories. Exquisitely written and thoroughly envisioned, the tales in The Fat Man in History reach beyond their arresting premises to utter deep and often frightening truths about our brightest and darkest selves.

Author : A.H.F. Robertson
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786204301

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Paleozoic–Mesozoic Geology of South Island, New Zealand Subduction-related Processes Adjacent to SE Gondwana by A.H.F. Robertson Pdf

This volume presents a set of research papers that provide new data and interpretations of the Permian–Triassic terranes of SE Gondwana, now exposed in South Island, New Zealand. Following an introduction for general readers, a historical summary and a review of biostratigraphy, the individual papers primarily focus on the Permian magmatic arc of the Brook Street Terrane, the classic Permian Dun Mountain ophiolite and the Permian–Triassic Maitai Group sedimentary succession. The new results emphasize the role of subduction and terrane displacement adjacent to the Permo-Triassic Gondwana margin, and present fundamental insights into three crustal processes: subduction initiation, supra-subduction zone oceanic crust genesis and forearc basin evolution. The volume concludes with a wide-ranging summary and synthesis of the regional Cambrian to Early Cretaceous tectonostratigraphy of New Zealand’s South Island in relation to the wider areas of Zealandia, East Australia and West Antarctica. The volume will interest geoscientists, including stratigraphers, sedimentologists, palaeontologists, igneous petrologists, geochemists, geochronologists and economic geologists, and is aimed at professional geologists and advanced students of geology.

Author : Dorothy Gilman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593356463

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Thale's Folly by Dorothy Gilman Pdf

A New Yorker becomes ensnared by the eerie drama unfolding at a derelict New England family home in this charming mystery from the author of the Mrs. Pollifax novels. “Delightful . . . a suspenseful romp . . . highly recommended.”—Booklist At the request of his father, New York City novelist Andrew Thale tackles an odd assignment—to check out an old family property in Massachusetts, neglected since Aunt Harriet Thale’s death years ago. But far from being deserted, Thale’s Folly, as Andrew discovers, is fully inhabited—by a quartet of charming squatters, former “guests” of kindhearted Harriet. There is elegant Miss L’Hommedieu, Gussie the witch, Leo the bibliophile, and beautiful Tarragon, who is unlike any girl Andrew has ever met in Manhattan. Andrew is entranced by these unworldly creatures and their simple life. Yet all is not well in Thale’s Folly. A thief breaks into the farmhouse, an old friend of the “family” disappears, and Andrew and Tarragon are drawn into mysteries they cannot fathom. . . .

Author : Shandos Cleaver
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781761442537

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Off the Leash in Australia by Shandos Cleaver Pdf

Off the Leash in Australia is a guidebook to the best dog-friendly travel options in Australia. It includes practical advice from travel blogger Shandos Cleaver (@travelnuity), who has travelled around the country extensively with her Miniature Dachshund, Schnitzel, in tow. Planning on travel with your dog can be very stressful; whether you've already taken a few trips with your dog or you're looking for the best place to begin, this book will provide information on the top destinations in each state, with recommended pet-friendly accommodation, sightseeing, nature experiences and bucket list trips you can do with your pooch. With a sleek design and heaps of practical information and helpful overview maps, Off the Leash in Australia will help you find inspiration for daytrips or longer adventures that will make for lasting memories with your favourite furry family member.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030994172

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Baldhill Dam and Reservoir, Lake Ashtabula, Sheyenne River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary Fallesen
Publisher : Footprint Press, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0965697401

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Peak Experiences by Gary Fallesen Pdf

Packed with pictures and maps, this informative guidebook will lead you on a new quest. Bag the highest point in each county of New York - all 62 of them! Some are barely molehills. Others are significant mountain peaks that require a full day's climb. All of them will deliver the exhilaration that comes in making new discoveries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : CHI:81399846

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Proceedings RMRS. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : MINN:31951D02866185N

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Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas by Anonim Pdf