Crossing the Next Meridian : Land, Water, and the Future of the West [1 ed.] 9781597269148, 9781559631495

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Crossing the Next Meridian : Land, Water, and the Future of the West [1 ed.]
9781597269148, 9781559631495

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The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to th

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In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Cong

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Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in

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Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthe

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Where will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? In a provocati

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Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to

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Although a history of protest politics has done so much to define western Canada and to place it outside the Canadian ma

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Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew

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While work-related insecurities and worker vulnerability induced by neoliberal globalisation are undeniably affecting an

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Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index In Wildlands of the West, author Leslie Allen and photographer

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