Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland (Development of Western Resources)

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Near the end of the nineteenth century, the cities of Boston and Oakland each faced environmental crise of water contamination and shortages that existing regional agencies could not solve. How these two cities resolved their water problems is the basis of a comparative history that provides valuable insights into urban development and explores the political implications and environmental impacts of regionalism.

Water defined the limits to growth of these bay cities and, as Sarah Elkind demonstrates, water supply and sewage disposal were two aspects of a single problem. Each city opted to abandon municipal water and sewer networks for metropolitan systems that crossed county lines and were administered by regional agencies. These agencies increased the cities' access to water resources, but, as Elkind shows, urban expansion and adoption of regionalism also decreased voter control over utilities and policies, and spread the environmental costs of urbanization far beyond city limits.

Combining insights from urban, western, and environmental history, Elkind examines the ways that people's reactions to their natural surroundings drive both demand for improved public services and political reform. She traces public works development in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to explain how these programs united each city with its suburban neighbors, creating new political entities and allowing Boston and Oakland to appropriate rural resources and thus overcome the environmental limits to their continued growth and prosperity. She also shows how, when the power of regionalism is turned to urban development, environmental and social costs are sometimes overlooked.

Bay Cities and Water Politics provides a comprehensive view of the transformation of cities, their natural surroundings, and their politics. Elkind applies urban history to environmental concerns, as well as environmental history to urban problems and human needs. The book offers new insights into the importance of metropolitan special districts and their role in urban expansion, and it sounds a warning regarding the ability of regional water systems to maintain a balance between continued urban growth and delicate ecosystems.

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trees trees and more trees

One of the Best ID Books on Trees

Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide To Eastern North America
Michael D. Williams
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Shrub Identification Book: The Visual Method for the Practical Identification of Shrubs, Including Woody Vines and Ground Covers

ASIN: 0811733602

Book Description

Unique identification guide is effective, filled with color photos, and easy to use in winter, spring, summer, and fall

Field-tested by forestry experts

Identify trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf. This field-tested guide features color photos showing bark; branching patterns; fruits, flowers, or nuts; and overall appearance; as well as leaf color and shape--all chosen specifically to illustrate trees in spring, summer, winter, and fall. Accompanying text describes common locations and identifying characteristics. Created for in-the-field or at-home use, this guide includes an easy-to-use key that will help you put a name to any tree by flipping only a few pages. Covers every common tree in eastern North America.

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trees trees and more trees.......2007-09-14

Great book for beginners, like myself to learn about the tall green wonders around us.

One of the Best ID Books on Trees.......2007-05-18

I am a forester in TN and have several tree ID books. This is one of the better Tree ID books dealing with SE US trees. And it is a bargin.

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Wonderful book!

Tree For All Seasons
Bernard
Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0792266749
Release Date: 2001-09-01

Book Description

Observing a maple tree over time, children get a clear picture of what trees do and how seasons change. In summer, the tree is shown sunbathing and brimming with animal life. With autumn comes the flowing sap that makes maple syrup for pancakes. As winter approaches, the tree's leaves begin to fall, and it becomes nearly dormant. The beautiful photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the wonders of each season and encourage them to look closer at the natural world around them.

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Wonderful book!.......2002-02-11

Exceptional photoes and easy decodable accompanying text.looking at this maple and at all the live bustling around it helps children realize how everything change as seasons pass by. I would recommend it to any child aged 2 to 8!

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And Flowers for All Seasons
Katy Bell
Manufacturer: Brewin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Flowers for All Seasons: A Guide to Colorful Trees, Shrubs and Vines

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Flowers for All Seasons: A Guide to Colorful Trees, Shrubs and Vines
Jeff Cox , and Marilyn Cox
Manufacturer: Rodale Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0878577262

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A Lesson About What's Important!
Whimsical delight

The Money Tree
Sarah Stewart
Manufacturer: Live Oak Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1430100427

Book Description

Miss McGillicuddy's simple country routine continues through-out the year in spite of a very unusual tree growing in her yard.

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Ms. McGillicuddy's tree grows money, and she witnesses the town's greed first-hand.

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A Lesson About What's Important!.......2007-04-01

This is a great book for putting things in perspective. The main character has a tree in her yard which produces money. She becomes the most popular person in town. Everyone comes to her house to gather it's leaves. By winter she is becoming tired of her greedy neighbors. She cuts the tree down and uses it for something purposeful: to keep warm.

Whimsical delight.......2001-05-08

The enchanting tale of Miss McGillicuddy and the unusual tree that grew in her yard. It has a such a strange shape,and grew so fast. One day she realizes that the leaves are dollar bills, how strange! Miss McGillicuddy seems strangely unaffected by the money in the tree, she goes about her normal life. She is relieved that strangers come to pick the dollars off the branches, saving them from breaking from under the weight of the bills. As the seasons change, people are still trying to find money from the tree, which bemused the woman. As winter comes, she has the tree chopped down for firewood. Miss McGillicuddy is jusy as happy and content as she was before the magical tree grew. This book will spark any child's imagination. A wonderful story by Sarah Stewart, matched with delightful illustrations by David Small.

Plant A Garden In Your Sneaker!: Fun and Outrageous Planting For All Seasons

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Plant A Garden In Your Sneaker!: Fun and Outrageous Planting For All Seasons
Diane L. Burns , and Jill A. Burns
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0070092281

Book Description

A garden shaped like a spaceship? an old sneaker as a planter? Fun designs, containers made from cool castoffs, and easy-to-follow directions will motivate kids to learn about natural sciences as they plant and care for their own unique gardens, indoors and out. Plant life cycles, recycling, the components of soil, and the role of earthworms all come into play as children learn how to sprout seeds and bulbs, make their own compost, and nurture a variety of flowers, begetables, fruit, and other greenery. fun activities and challenging puzzles are sprinkled throughout this one-of-a-kind hands-on resource.

Plants for All Seasons: Beautiful and Versatile Plants That Change Through the Year

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Plants for All Seasons: Beautiful and Versatile Plants That Change Through the Year
Ursula Buchan
Manufacturer: Miller/Mitchell Beazley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1840000511

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Each of the 85 plants pictured in these gorgeous photos has at least two seasons of interest, and many are exceptional year-round. These plants are the antithesis of "low-maintenance gardening" (which is, of course, an oxymoron anyway). They are the opposite of boring, unchanging municipal plantings like juniper and pyramidalis. Seasonal change is celebrated in the turning of leaves, the fluff of seed heads, blooms and berries, and in a wide variety of garden-worthy plantings.

Such plants lure us out into the garden in every season, making all the work of gardening worthwhile. Vines, trees, shrubs, and perennials, carefully chosen with guidance on combinations and cultural conditions, can be put together to make a garden with year-round appeal. Gardeners are always short on space and so will appreciate that each plant comes with a justification for including it in the garden. Oak-leaved hydrangea (H. quercifolia) deserves inclusion for the unusual shape of its lobed leaves, reliable red autumn color, and creamy summer flower heads; Achillea 'Moonshine' for its silvery green fluffy foliage and long-lasting yellow flowers, ideal for drying. --Valerie Easton

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Creating a garden landscape that has color, beauty, and architectural interest in all four seasons is far easier than most gardeners might imagine. The secret is to choose versatile plants, while appreciating that brilliant autumn and winter foliage can be just as striking as spring and summer flowers. In Plants for All Seasons, Ursula Buchan shows how, with a little imagination and planning, your garden can be a place of beauty throughout the year. She opens with an introduction to the principles of planting for more than one season of interest. She also shows how to assess your existing planting schemes to adapt them to a four-season plan. The main part of the book is devoted to more than85 plant profiles--shrubs, climbers, trees, and perennials--each shown in at least two seasons of interest. Buchan reveals the special characteristics of each plant at different times of year, including height and spread, habit, country of origin, flowering season, hardiness, and cultivation. Brimming with gorgeous color photos, this is a book that every gardener will want to own.

A Tree for All Seasons (Earth Science: The World Outside)

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A Tree for All Seasons (Earth Science: The World Outside)
Dhanna Emerson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0618597867

Trees every child should know: Easy tree studies for all seasons of the year

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Trees every child should know: Easy tree studies for all seasons of the year
Julia Ellen Rogers
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Trees That Every Child Should Know (Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year)

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Trees That Every Child Should Know (Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year)
Julia Ellen, Illustrated By Forty-Seven P Rogers
Manufacturer: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LVMNM6

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A comprehensive guide to the wonders of one of the world's most pristine -- and accessible -- natural areas, Footprint's eagerly awaited Western Canada Handbook covers British Columbia (including Vancouver and Vancouver Island), the Canadian Rockies, Alberta, and the Yukon, ideal destinations for lovers of the outdoors. Travel writers Matthew Gardner and Alison Biggs, who both live in British Columbia, map out routes that leave the well-worn paths, allowing travelers to discover the secret areas that locals usually keep to themselves, from breathtaking viewpoints to free hot springs and special beaches. This travel guide covers eco-tourism, sports-based holidays, and wildlife viewing, all areas in which Western Canada has been a leader; contains current information on accommodations, with emphasis on fun hotels, inviting bed-and-breakfasts, and campgrounds; and features detailed descriptions of outdoor activities including the best hiking trails, canoe routes, skill hills, rock climbs, and mountain biking. Full-color maps cross-referenced with the text aid readers in deciding where to stay, eat, and take in the local culture, while evocative full-color photographs depict the highlights of the region.

Vancouver (Footprint Pocket Handbook Vancouver)

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Vancouver (Footprint Pocket Handbook Vancouver)
Matthew Gardner
Manufacturer: Footprint Handbooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1903471656

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Smart, contemporary and compact guide helping travellers discover more from their city visit. Covers main attractions but also gives the freedom to escape the tourist trail.

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Available on two audiocassettes or two CDs, World Music: Cultural Traditions offers music selections from 10 world regions including the United States and Canada; Latin America; Russia and the Eurasian Republics; North Africa and Southwest Asia; sub-Saharan Africa; South, East and Southeast Asia; and Australia and Oceania.

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This collection of essays is the first major work in more than a decade to discuss the critical issue of wildlife contraception and the first ever to take up contraception-both theory and practice-for wild animals in captivity.

The authors, leading international experts on the subject, analyze the use of wildlife contraception for various animal populations, including nonhuman primates, ungulates, pinnipeds, cetaceans, and other mammals. The chapters examine and critique types of contraception, and their effects, and explore the best method for each situation.

Using the most recent data and findings, this comprehensive collection addresses problems related to unrestricted population growth, the ethics of wildlife contraception, and regulatory issues for wildlife managers, animal rights organizations, zoos worldwide, and anyone interested in the humane control of animal populations.

ZOO AND AQUARIUM BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION SERIESMichael Hutchins, Series EditorThis series publishes innovative works in the field of zoo and aquarium biology, conservation, and philosophy. Books in the series cover a wide range of topics, including zoo- and aquarium-based field conservation, animal management science, public education, philosophy, and ethics.

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Amazing job.......2007-01-03

This book represents an amazing job... it is a compendium with a kind of narrative that helps reading it like a novel.

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The field of semiconducting polymers has attracted many researchers from a diversity of disciplines. Printed circuitry, flexible electronics and displays are already migrating from laboratory successes to commercial applications, but even now fundamental knowledge is deficient concerning some of the basic phenomena that so markedly influence a device's usefulness and competitiveness. This two-volume handbook describes the various approaches to doped and undoped semiconducting polymers taken with the aim to provide vital understanding of how to control the properties of these fascinating organic materials. Prominent researchers from the fields of synthetic chemistry, physical chemistry, engineering, computational chemistry, theoretical physics, and applied physics cover all aspects from compounds to devices.
Since the first edition was published in 2000, significant findings and successes have been achieved in the field, and especially handheld electronic gadgets have become billion-dollar markets that promise a fertile application ground for flexible, lighter and disposable alternatives to classic silicon circuitry. The second edition brings readers up-to-date on cutting edge research in this field.

Organic semiconducting polymers, (Monographs in macromolecular chemistry)

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Organic semiconducting polymers, (Monographs in macromolecular chemistry)
J. E Katon
Manufacturer: M. Dekker
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Semiconducting Polymers: Applications, Properties, and Synthesis (Acs Symposium Series)

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Semiconducting Polymers: Applications, Properties, and Synthesis (Acs Symposium Series)

Manufacturer: An American Chemical Society Publication
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0841236127

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Once thought to be a likely replacement for copper wires, electronic conductive polymers are beginning to find applications in a variety of electronic devices. Applications under development include plastic displays, transistors, photodiodes, plastic fuel cells, light-emitting printable plastic inks, and chemical and biological sensors. This book examines the most recent developments in electronic conductive polymers and includes work from many of the leaders in the field. A comprehensive volume, it covers properties, applications, synthesis, processing and device fabrication for semiconducting polymers. It includes a number of chapters on ionic and carbon-filled conductive polymers with important industrial uses. It concludes with a look at future developments and suggestions for future research.

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Professor Peter Hilton is one of the best known mathematicians of his generation. He has published almost 300 books and papers on various aspects of topology and algebra. The present volume is to celebrate the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It begins with a bibliography of his work, followed by reviews of his contributions to topology and algebra. These are followed by eleven research papers concerned with various topics of current interest in algebra and topology. The articles are contributed by some of the many mathematicians with whom he has worked at one time or another. This book will be of interest to both topologists and algebraists, particularly those concerned with homotopy theory.

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In these five stories, Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty, suffering, and courage, as Ralph Ellison's Harlem or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.

STORIES INCLUDE:

A Long Day in November

The Sky Is Gray

Three Men

Bloodline

Just Like a Tree

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One of the best.......2005-10-05

I was going for a Ph.D. in philosophy and wanted to be a professor until I read this book. I dropped out of the graduate program and started to write fiction.

This book of short fiction is dark and haunting. The first two stories are the best (A Long Day in November and The Sky is Gray). The stories are simple with a lot of social commentaries of rural Louisiana life. Both deal with black kids trying to make it in a white world.

This is a fine collection of stories by a young writer crafting his voice. The writing is simple--one can see the influence of Hemingway--yet there are a lot of social commentaries and subtle psychological insights that Gaines would later hone to perfection. Buy this book. The first two stories are classics and should be read by all people.

Also recommended: The Gospel of Arnie

Great Short Story Collection.......2000-11-25

Bloodline is an excellent collection of 5 short stories that describe interesting plantation life in rural Louisana. As usual,Mr. Gaines, brings dignity , respect, and admiration to the ordianry African American characters. None of the characters are victims who are wise, who understand the system that has been designe to keep them oprreseed. In the genius understanding, they weave the situation sot hat they are clearly the winners even though the oppressors never recognize it. Above all, Mr. Gaines portrays African American males as real men inspite of the odds they encounter. This is a wonderful read and is a must. I have read Catherine Carmier(love it) and Lessons Before Dyinng. Plan to read The Gathering of Old Men and Of Love snd Dust next.

Familiar places.......2000-05-22

Mr. Gaines writes aboout places and people who my family readily recognizes. We are first generation Californians and our family base is in Louisiana. All the places,faces and social situations are so familiar that in my lit class I was able to answer questions from other students. This book is wonderful reading. If you want a sense of Louisiana without the travel time, read anything written by Ernest Gaines.

A collection of stories characteristic of southern lifestyle.......1998-08-23

Although Ernest Gaines manipulates the subjects of his former novels into this novel, it accurately portrays a side of southern life which extends beyond the general theme of racism. In addition to depicting honorable morals, Gaines portrays the black race as a generally honorable people. Despite shortcomings and tribulation, the main characters of the novel produce an honorable aura about man and his accepted levels of change.

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