Dispatches From The Gulf

Author : Elizabeth Rush
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319700
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rising written by Elizabeth Rush and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times). Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. A Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book Of 2018 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018

Author : Hal & Marilyn Weiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928964414
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from the Gulf written by Hal & Marilyn Weiner and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Helvarg
Publisher : Helvarg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Frontier written by David Helvarg and published by Helvarg. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2005 hurricane season has made the author's case: public attention is focused as never before on inappropriate coastal development, misuse of wetlands, risks of offshore drilling and oil supply, and global warming impacts. 1/3 of the new edition has been revised. It includes book reports on the findings of two blue-ribbon commissions: Pew Oceans Comm. 2004 and the US Comm. on Ocean Policy 2004. In this compelling book, which Bill McKibben calls the most comprehensive account available of the state of our nation's oceans, and the best reporting on how they got that way, veteran journalist David Helvarg fuses his passion for the sea and his reportorial savvy into a panoramic chronicle of America's maritime history and the challenges that our coastal and marine environments face today.

Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814165
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches written by Michael Herr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Author : Paul Midford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804772177
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security written by Paul Midford and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security argues that Japanese public opinion matters and has acted to prevent overseas military deployments involving combat while increasingly supportive of a more normal military establishment capable of autonomously defending Japanese territory.

Author : Luke O'Neil
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682192156
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Hell World written by Luke O'Neil and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Luke O’Neil isn’t angry, he’s asleep. When he’s awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author’s words, a “fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory.” It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you’re likely to read anywhere.

Author : Rene J. Barendse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317458354
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century written by Rene J. Barendse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabian Seas is a magisterial work on the world political economy (trade, war, power) that explores the intersect of the worlds of Islam (including South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa) and the European world-economy (particularly the seafaring Portuguese, Dutch, and British) on the eve of the modern world system. It is likely to become a classic in its field and one of the pillars of the emerging literature in recent years that has begun to recast our understanding of the "early modern history" of Asia and the world economy, underlining the early and long predominance of Asia in the world economy and showing the long and deep ties between European and Asian economic and military interactions. This work centrally addresses current debates on the nature of the early modern world system and the relative strengths of East and West. There are no competitors for this book, but it may be compared with Braudel's masterful studies of the Mediterranean in the sense that it does for the Arabian Seas (Indian Ocean World) spanning South Asia, the Middle East, and the East African Coast and beyond what Braudel did for the Mediterranean.

Author : Sheila Carapico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935982937
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabia Incognita written by Sheila Carapico and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adam Badeau
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429016191
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military History of Ulysses S. Grant written by Adam Badeau and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Author : Francis Du Pont Samuel Francis Du Pont
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429021063
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Dispatches and Letters written by Francis Du Pont Samuel Francis Du Pont and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: