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Opportunity, Montana

Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

By: Brad Tyer

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Opportunity, Montana

Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

By: Brad Tyer

A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. What he found instead was a century’s worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the electric growth of twentieth-century America and building some of the nation’s most outlandish fortunes. The toxic by-product of those fortunes—what didn’t spill into the river—was dumped in Opportunity. In the twenty-first century, Montana’s draw is no longer metal but landscape: the blue-ribbon trout streams and unspoiled wilderness of the nation’s “last best place.” To match reality to the myth, affluent exurbanites and well-meaning environmentalists are trying to restore the Clark Fork River to its “natural state.” In the process, millions of tons of toxic soils are being removed and dumped—once again—in Opportunity. As Tyer investigates Opportunity’s history, he wrestles with questions of environmental justice and the ethics of burdening one community with an entire region’s waste. Stalled at the intersection of a fading extractive economy and a fledgling restoration boom, Opportunity’s story is a secret history of the American Dream and a key to understanding the country’s—and increasingly the globe’s—demand for modern convenience. As Tyer explores the degradations of the landscape, he also probes the parallel emotional geography of familial estrangement. Part personal history and part reportorial narrative, Opportunity, Montana is a story of progress and its price: of copper and water, of father and son, and of our attempts to redeem the mistakes of the past.

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Beacon Press

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0807003301

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9780807003305

Mapping Trophy Bucks

Using Topographic Maps to Find Deer

By: Brad Herndon

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Mapping Trophy Bucks

Using Topographic Maps to Find Deer

By: Brad Herndon

Using Topographic Maps to Find Deer Topographic maps and aerial photos can lead you right to the biggest bucks you've ever seen. You just have to know how to use them. Brad Herndon takes the mystery out of finding deer with maps. Through years of dedicated hunting and careful study of maps and photos, Herndon has perfected the use of maps to find the routes deer travel. And once you know where the deer will be headed you can establish the perfect ambush site. Maps are often the forgotten link in scouting prime deer habitat. Yet because they show you all the hills, gullies, rivers and ridges, you can learn the lay of the land without walking mile after unproductive mile. Maps won't eliminate the need to get in the woods, but they will tell the best places to start your search for the buck of your dreams. Herndon also shows hunters how to use the latest Internet and computer technology to personalize any map. Mark your stand locations, the locations of deer sign, even note the best possible wind direction to make your hunt a success. If you hunt deer, let Mapping Trophy Bucks lead you right to where the big boys hide. The rest is up to you.

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193

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Penguin

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0873495039

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9780873495035

Sports Media

Planning, Production, and Reporting

By: Brad Schultz

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Sports Media

Planning, Production, and Reporting

By: Brad Schultz

Emphasizing the skills required to be successful in sports journalism, this text offers descriptions into the role of the sports reporter's function, as well as offering historical and background information into the evolution of the sports industry.

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304

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Taylor & Francis

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0240807316

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9780240807317

Overcoming Barriers to Progress in Psychotherapy

A Clinician's Guide

By: Brad Bowins

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Overcoming Barriers to Progress in Psychotherapy

A Clinician's Guide

By: Brad Bowins

This accessible guide comprehensively addresses why psychotherapy of diverse forms often falters and provides effective strategies to succeed. Psychotherapy on occasion does not progress as both the client and therapist would like it to, and affecting deep-lasting change can be difficult and elusive. By addressing the spectrum of reasons for this occurrence inclusive of client, therapist, and interactive influences, barriers to psychotherapy progress can be managed, optimizing outcomes for the wellbeing of clients and success of psychotherapists. Given that the client, therapist, and interaction between both parties is integral to psychotherapy, coverage is provided in three sections: client influences, therapist influences, and interactive influences. Within each chapter, relevant literature is reviewed, key sources of the barrier to psychotherapy presented, and strategies for addressing the problem provided, with several case examples and vignettes. This book is essential for psychotherapists of all backgrounds, including students of psychotherapy.

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242

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Taylor & Francis

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100089469X

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9781000894691

On the Cains

Atlantic Salmon and Sea-Run Brook Trout on the Miramichi's Greatest Tributary

By: Brad Burns

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On the Cains

Atlantic Salmon and Sea-Run Brook Trout on the Miramichi's Greatest Tributary

By: Brad Burns

A historical look at and current guide to the Cains River in New Brunswick. There is almost a mystical aura surrounding the Cains and its Atlantic salmon and brook trout fishery. Only about a third of it was ever settled and then lightly, and by the middle of the twentieth century settlers had all given up and the river reverted to completely wild, which it still is today. The book also explores the Cains’s relationship with the Miramichi River, in particular the Black Brook, the biggest and most productive pool on the river. In low water, a substantial portion of the Cains’s fall run of fish stacks up there waiting for rain.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811768155

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9780811768153

Opportunity, Montana

Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

By: Brad Tyer

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Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

By: Brad Tyer

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0807003298

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Opportunity, Montana

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Overcoming Barriers to Progress in Psychotherapy

On the Cains

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Opportunity, Montana

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