Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands along the Gulf Coast. In this definitive book on "swamp rats," Manno vividly recounts western expansion and the explosion of the American fur industry. Then he details an apocalyptic turn-to replace an overhunted beaver population in North America, humans introduced nutria. With an eclectic re...
Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits
by Missouri Geological Survey
Sapiens. De animales a dioses / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
El libro de no ficción del AÑO Un best seller internacional con más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. Lúcido e iluminador: la historia de la humanidad en un solo volumen. Este es el fascinante relato de nuestra extraordinaria historia: de simios sin importancia a amos del mundo. ¿Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? ¿Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? ¿Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en naciones o en los derecho...
Traite Theorique Et Pratique de L'Impression Des Tissus, Volume 4
by Jean Persoz
The Chicago Juvenile Court, Issues 101-110
by Helen Rankin Jeter and Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
Die Unterscheidung Der Verl Bnisse Im Kanonischen Recht
by Emil Sehling
Written by one of America's most innovative and articulate feminists, this book illustrates how childhood experience, gender and sexuality, private aspirations, and public personae all assume undeniable roles in the causes and effects of war.
An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)
by Shawn William Miller
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to mor...
The Life of Nelson: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History, Volume 2)
by Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer, considered one of the most important naval strategists of the nineteenth century. In 1885 he was appointed Lecturer in Naval History and Tactics at the US Naval War College, and served as President of the institution between 1886 and 1889. In this highly influential two-volume biography, first published in 1897, Mahan focuses on Nelson's professional life and provides a detailed historical and tactical analysis of his naval career b...
A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut Volume 2
by Samuel Orcutt
Walking served as an occasion for the display of power and status in ancient Rome, where great men paraded with their entourages through city streets and elite villa owners strolled with friends in private colonnades and gardens. In this book-length treatment of the culture of walking in ancient Rome, Timothy O'Sullivan explores the careful attention which Romans paid to the way they moved through their society. He employs a wide range of literary, artistic and architectural evidence to reveal t...