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Author : Nancy Olmsted
Release : 1986
Genre : Mission Bay (San Francisco, Calif.)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 215/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vanished Waters by : Nancy Olmsted
Download or read book Vanished Waters written by Nancy Olmsted. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorrik Stow
Release : 2012-03-29
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vanished Ocean by : Dorrik Stow
Download or read book Vanished Ocean written by Dorrik Stow. This book was released on 2012-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, the ocean of Tethys stretched across the world. It vanished just before Man appeared on Earth. Dorrik Stow tells of the powerful forces that created and destroyed a great ocean, its marine life, its extinctions, its impact on climate, and the many clues by which scientists have put together its story, stretching back 250 million years.
Author : Tina Dirmann
Release : 2008-01-02
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 970/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vanished at Sea by : Tina Dirmann
Download or read book Vanished at Sea written by Tina Dirmann. This book was released on 2008-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirmann tells the true story of Skylar Deleon, a former child actor on the TV series "Power Rangers," who was charged of the 2004 double murder of a wealthy retired couple in Long Beach, California. photos. Original.
Author : Jonathan Franklin
Release : 2015-11-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 290/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 438 Days by : Jonathan Franklin
Download or read book 438 Days written by Jonathan Franklin. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
Author : Marc Reisner
Release : 1993-06-01
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 822/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cadillac Desert by : Marc Reisner
Download or read book Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner. This book was released on 1993-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.
