A Great Deserted Landscape

📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Electric Literature

A master of the short story, Kjell Askildsen’s unadorned style is not so much concerned with the manipulation of plotlines as with the manipulation of the reader’s feelings and allegiances, with the presentation of characters as people, real people, people so like us that it’s creepy, uncanny," writ

A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding L

📁 A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape

✍ Michael A. Mares 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

For most of us the word "desert" conjures up images of barren wasteland, vast, dry stretches inimical to life. But for a great array of creatures, perhaps even more plentiful than those who inhabit tropical rainforests, the desert is a haven and a home. Travel with Michael Mares into the deserts o

A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding L

📁 A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape

✍ Michael A. Mares; Stephen Jay Gould 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

For most of us the word "desert" conjures up images of barren wasteland, vast, dry stretches inimical to life. But for a great array of creatures, the desert is a haven and a home. Travel with Mares into the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest to encounter a rich and mem

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscap

📁 Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes

✍ Steve Morton 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 CSIRO Publishing 🌐 English

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscap

📁 Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes

✍ Steve Morton 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 CSIRO Publishing 🌐 English

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how

The Great Society Subway: A History of t

📁 The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (Creating the North American Landscape)

✍ Zachary M. Schrag 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 The Johns Hopkins University Press 🌐 English

Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you'