In 1869, Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell and nine other men undertook a hazardous three-month excursion down the unmapped Colorado River. Three of them survived famine, Indian attacks, mutiny, and dangerous rapids, and Powell told their harrowing story in this 1874 account.
If someone understands, accepts, and puts into practice the wisdom proposed in these twenty-five guidelines for good communication, then personal happiness and growth will be the inevitable result.
John Wesley Powell's arid lands report was the first to argue that the American West could not support a conventional system of agriculture and that its lands could not sustain unlimited development. He recognized that water was a more precious resource than land, that rainfall could never support agriculture in the region, and that controlled ...
The political journal of John Wodehouse, first Earl of Kimberley (1862-1902) is one of the finest political diaries of the last half of the nineteenth century. Born into an old Tory family, Kimberley followed his forebears in attending Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, but shocked his neighbours by adopting Liberal principles. As Lord Clarendon's ...
Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than 200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing money to campaigns is part of a broader ...
What main factors affect mammalian home-range and dynamics? To what extent do constraints on home range characteristics vary between the sexes? This book aims to address these issues by concentrating the authors' expertise and experience in studies of home ranges in general and focusing on their studies of the black bears of the Pisgah Forest, ...
Anarchy is a fast-paced combat game that requires the use of strategy as well as skill at using the game's weapons. This book shows readers how to strategize as well as run and gun. It covers how to use new force feedback joysticks effectively with the game and gives online and multiplayer strategies.
"This is a superb selection of the most important writings of the great American explorer, scientist, and conservationist. Powell's name has often been evoked over the past century, but few people have had access to the full range of his vigorous prose. Now deBuys has given us an exceptionally good introduction to the man, his ideas, and his ...
The studies in this work demonstrate that term limits had been less effect on state legislatures than proponents predicted. This book is based on a survey of nearly 3000 legislators from 50 states along with interviews with legislative leaders.'
When geologist Powell and his party of explorers first assayed the Colorado in 1869, it was North America's longest stretch of uncharted river. This is the story of that three-month, thousand-mile excursion, told in the words of the men who negotiated and mapped the river, through their journals, accounts, and letters. Black-and-white ...
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 ...
Focusing on the issue of campus security and safety procedures as a specialty in itself, this book offers recent information concerning the relationship between campus security and issues of campus diversity and liability. It provides an information base for directors of security or deans and financial officers seeking new ideas or counsel. The ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II OF ARTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS The statement of my change of heart with regard to Browning, when I came to look upon him as first of all an artist and only ...
The authors examine relationships within the "Chrysoxena" group of the tortricid tribe Euliini. They define 54 species among six genera: "Chrysoxena" Meyrick; "Vulpoxena" Brown, new genus; "Thoridia" Brown, new genus; "Dorithia" Powell; "Cuproxena" Powell and Brown, new genus; and "Bidorpitia" Brown, new genus. Using cladistic methods, the authors ...
Covering the ecology and behaviour of North American black bears, this volume discusses such topics as: home ranges and home range estimators; predicting habitat quality and use of home ranges; food abundance and variation in home range size; and territories and home ranges.
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