The Women's Great Lakes Reader
Author: Victoria Brehm
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative stories and writings by women pioneers, travelers, and working women from the Great Lakes
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Author: Victoria Brehm
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative stories and writings by women pioneers, travelers, and working women from the Great Lakes
Author: Walter Havighurst
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Company
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 478
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of firsthand narratives by people who witnessed the shaping of a great inland maritime empire gathered from stories, diaries, journals and letters, with a running commentary by the editor.
Author: Peter Annin
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2009-08-25
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 159726637X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Author: Dan Egan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0393246442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Author: Charles Ferguson Barker
Publisher: Sky Pony
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781510712102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating—and entertaining—cautionary story about what the Great Lakes would look like without water. What’s down there (garbage, lost sunglasses). And what would happen with no water (boats would tip over and be stranded). Each Great Lake is analyzed, with humorous—yet also serious—solutions to the problem. For example, instead of driving for HOURS to get to the other side of Lake Michigan, without water, you could just drive your car across the now-dry lake. The book also serves as inspiration for readers to take care of these beautiful waters, to make sure they are clean and last forever. The book contains NOAA maps that show the underwater features of the lakes, and pages of facts about each one.
Author: Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781890951351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English-language publication of a major history of the Great Lakes region of Africa. Though the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa--which encompasses Burundi, eastern Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and Uganda--are scarce. Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chr tien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extremely violent wars. This translation brings the work of a leading French historian to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Chr tien retraces the human settlement and the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were "discovered" by European explorers around 1860. He describes these kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes how German, British, and Belgian colonizers not only transformed and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected their own racial categories onto them. Finally, he shows how the independent states of the postcolonial era, in particular Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and precolonial legacies, especially by the racial rewriting of the latter by the former. Today, argues Chr tien, the Great Lakes of Africa is a crucial region for historical research--not only because its history is fascinating but also because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulations of its past.
Author: Wayne Grady
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1553658930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America. In this “beautifully designed, comprehensive gem of a guide to the ecosystem at the heart of Canada” (The Tyee), award-winning science and nature writer Wayne Grady makes scientific concepts accessible as he reveals how human impact has changed this life-giving region. The Great Lakes: A Natural History of a Changing Region is the most authoritative, complete and accessible book to date about the biology and ecology of this vital, ever-changing terrain. Written by one of Canada's best-known science and nature writers, it is intended not only for those who live in the Great Lakes region, but for anyone captivated by the splendor of the natural world and sensitive to the challenges of its preservation. It is both a first-hand tribute and an essential guide to a fascinating ecosystem in eternal flux.
Author: J. B. Mansfield
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 982
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2004-04-13
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780814332269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Author: Gary A. Dunn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996-07-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780472065158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive guide to insects in the Great Lakes region