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Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

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A portrait of the iconic nineteenth-century law officer separates fact from fiction while exploring Earp's role in creating his own myths, revealing his lesser-known activities as a thief, gambler, and confidence man.

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Macmillan

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0809095009

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9780809095001

Mining California

An Ecological History

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

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Mining California

An Ecological History

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374707200

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9780374707200

The Destruction of the Bison

An Environmental History, 1750-1920

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

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The Destruction of the Bison

An Environmental History, 1750-1920

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

This study, first published in 2000, examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521003482

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9780521003483

The Republican Reversal

Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump

By: James Morton Turner,Andrew C. Isenberg

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The Republican Reversal

Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump

By: James Morton Turner,Andrew C. Isenberg

Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party’s tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened? In The Republican Reversal, James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg show that the party’s transformation began in the late 1970s, with the emergence of a new alliance of pro-business, libertarian, and anti-federalist voters. This coalition came about through a concerted effort by politicians and business leaders, abetted by intellectuals and policy experts, to link the commercial interests of big corporate donors with states’-rights activism and Main Street regulatory distrust. Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man’s God-given dominion of the Earth. As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP’s modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party’s distinguishing characteristics.

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Harvard University Press

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0674979974

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9780674979970

Protein Moonlighting in Biology and Medicine

By: Brian Henderson,Mario A. Fares,Andrew C. R. Martin

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Protein Moonlighting in Biology and Medicine

By: Brian Henderson,Mario A. Fares,Andrew C. R. Martin

The past 25 years has seen the emergence of a wealth of data suggesting that novel biological functions of known proteins play important roles in biology and medicine. This ability of proteins to exhibit more than one unique biological activity is known as protein moonlighting. Moonlighting proteins can exhibit novel biological functions, thus extending the function of the proteome, and are also implicated in the pathology of a growing number of idiopathic and infectious diseases. This book, written by a cell biologist, protein evolutionary biologist and protein bioinformatician, brings together the latest information on the structure, evolution and biological function of the growing numbers of moonlighting proteins that have been identified, and their roles in human health and disease. This information is revealing the enormous importance protein moonlighting plays in the maintenance of human health and in the induction of disease pathology. Protein Moonlighting in Biology and Medicine will be of interest to a general readership in the biological and biomedical research community.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111895209X

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9781118952092

Mining California

An Ecological History

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

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An Ecological History

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The Destruction of the Bison

An Environmental History, 1750-1920

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

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The Destruction of the Bison

An Environmental History, 1750-1920

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

This study, first published in 2000, examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.

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Cambridge University Press

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Wyatt Earp

A Vigilante Life

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

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Wyatt Earp

A Vigilante Life

By: Andrew C. Isenberg

Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001). Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction—one created by none other than Earp himself. The lawman played on-screen by Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster is stubbornly duty-bound; in actuality, Earp led a life of impulsive lawbreaking and shifting identities. When he wasn't wearing a badge, he was variously a thief, a brothel bouncer, a gambler, and a confidence man. As Isenberg writes, "He donned and shucked off roles readily, whipsawing between lawman and lawbreaker, and pursued his changing ambitions recklessly, with little thought to the cost to himself, and still less thought to the cost, even the deadly cost, to others." By 1900, Earp's misdeeds had caught up with him: his involvement as a referee in a fixed heavyweight prizefight brought him national notoriety as a scoundrel. Stung by the press, Earp set out to rebuild his reputation. He spent his last decades in Los Angeles, where he befriended Western silent film actors and directors. Having tried and failed over the course of his life to invent a better future for himself, in the end he invented a better past. Isenberg argues that even though Earp, who died in 1929, did not live to see it, Hollywood's embrace of him as a paragon of law and order was his greatest confidence game of all. A searching account of the man and his enduring legend, and a book about our national fascination with extrajudicial violence, Wyatt Earp: AVigilante Life is a resounding biography of a singular American figure.

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1429945478

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The Republican Reversal

Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump

By: James Morton Turner,Andrew C. Isenberg

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The Republican Reversal

Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump

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Book's by Andrew C. Isenberg

Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life

Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life

Mining California

Mining California

The Destruction of the Bison

The Destruction of the Bison

The Republican Reversal

The Republican Reversal

Protein Moonlighting in Biology and Medicine

Protein Moonlighting in Biology and Medicine

Mining California

Mining California

The Destruction of the Bison

The Destruction of the Bison

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

The Republican Reversal

The Republican Reversal

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