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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century

The Hierarchy of Energy

By: Howard Thomas Odum

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century

The Hierarchy of Energy

By: Howard Thomas Odum

Through this method Odum reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. In the process, we discover that our survival and prosperity are regulated as much by the laws of energetics as are systems of the physical and chemical world. Also includes information on agriculture, animals, available energy, biomass, capitalism, civilization, consumption, cycles, diversity, earth, economy, ecosystems, empower, alternative energy, environment, evolution, fossil fuels, fuels, growth, information, kinetic energy, energy laws, matter, metabolism, microcosm, models of energy systems, nations, nature, organic matter, organization, overgrowth, oxygen, photosynthesis, power, production, pulses, ratios, respiration, self organization, society, solar energy, storage, structure, sustainability, systems networks, transpiration, waste, work, yields, etc.

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Columbia University Press

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0231128878

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9780231128872

Rainbow Round My Shoulder

The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses

By: Howard Washington Odum

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Rainbow Round My Shoulder

The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses

By: Howard Washington Odum

A new edition of the first volume in Howard Odum's famous tale of Black Ulysses

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Indiana University Press

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0253218543

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century

The Hierarchy of Energy

By: Howard Thomas Odum

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The Hierarchy of Energy

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Wings on My Feet

Black Ulysses at the Wars

By: Howard Washington Odum

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Wings on My Feet

Black Ulysses at the Wars

By: Howard Washington Odum

The second novel in Howard W. Odums Black Ulysses trilogy

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Indiana University Press

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025321923X

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9780253219237

The American West at Risk

Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery

By: Howard G. Wilshire,Jane E. Nielson,Richard W. Hazlett

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The American West at Risk

Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery

By: Howard G. Wilshire,Jane E. Nielson,Richard W. Hazlett

The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.

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Oxford University Press

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0199881669

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9780199881666

Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia

By: Mrs. Howard H. McCall,Ettie Tidwell McCall

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Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia

By: Mrs. Howard H. McCall,Ettie Tidwell McCall

Mrs. McCall's roster of Georgia soldiers in the Revolution was compiled over many years. The work as a whole is cumulative, with only slight, albeit significant, differences in the kinds of information which may be found in one volume versus another. This volume (Volume III) is the longest of the work and contains records of officers and soldiers. The majority of the entries are for Georgia officers and soldiers, although some material relates to other states. Clearfield Company also publishes Volumes I and II of this monumental work. Volume I ocontains the records of hundreds of Revolutionary War soldiers and officers of Georgia, with genealogies of their families, and lists of soldiers buried in Georgia whose graves have been located. The arrangement of Volume II is similar; however, it contains records of officers and soldiers not only from Georgia but also from other states, many of whose descendants later came to Georgia because of liberal land grants. This is an extremely rich work, covering several thousand Revolutionary soldiers and referring to as many as 20,000 persons overall, each of whom is easily found in the name index at the back of each volume.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806302216

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9780806302218

Ecological Microcosms

By: Robert J. Beyers,Howard T. Odum

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Ecological Microcosms

By: Robert J. Beyers,Howard T. Odum

Ecological Microcosms is a seminal work which reviews the expanding field of enclosed ecosystem research, and relates the results and models of microcosm studies to general concepts in ecology. Microcosms are miniaturized pieces of our biosphere, ranging from streams and lakes to terraria, agroecosystems, and waste systems. The study of these simplified ecosystems is providing provocative insights into ecological principles as well as issues of environmental management and global stability. The authors have used the well-known thermodynamic approach of H.T. Odum and numerous computer simulations. The book also includes an evaluation of alternative mesocosm approaches for the support of humans in space, as well as appendices to aid in the teaching of environmental concepts using student-created microcosms. Ecological Microcosms will be of interest to ecologists, environmental engineers, policy makers and environmental managers, space scientists, and educators. Robert J. Beyers is a Professor of Biology at the University of South Alabama. Howard T. Odum is Graduate Research Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida, and was awarded, with Eugene Odum, the 1987 Crafoord Prize in the Biosciences.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461393442

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9781461393443

A Prosperous Way Down

By: Howard T. Odum,Elisabeth C. Odum

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A Prosperous Way Down

By: Howard T. Odum,Elisabeth C. Odum

A Prosperous Way Down, the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy. It considers ways in which a future with less fossil fuel could be peaceful and prosperous. Although history records the collapse of countless civilizations, some societies and ecosystems have managed to descend in orderly stages, reducing demands and selecting and saving what is most important. The authors make recommendations for a more equitable and cooperative world society, with specific suggestions based on their evaluations of trends in global population, wealth distribution, energy sources, conservation, urban development, capitalism and international trade, information technology, and education. Available for the first time in paperback, this thoughtful, provocative book forces us to confront assumptions about our world 's future and provides both a steadying hand and a call to action with its pragmatic analysis of a global transition.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457109824

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9781457109829

Robots in Space

Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel

By: Roger D. Launius,Howard E. McCurdy

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Robots in Space

Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel

By: Roger D. Launius,Howard E. McCurdy

2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take? In Robots in Space, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these seemingly fanciful questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature—fictional as well as academic studies; outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations; and assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven't spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies. Their discussion is as entertaining as it is edifying and their assertions are as sound as they are fantastical. Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve.

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JHU Press

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0801887089

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9780801887086

Race and Rumors of Race

The American South in the Early Forties

By: Howard W. Odum

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Race and Rumors of Race

The American South in the Early Forties

By: Howard W. Odum

In the early 1940s, all sorts of rumors about impending and presently occurring race wars were circulating throughout the South among white Southerners. Chapel Hill sociologist Howard W. Odum was so alarmed--and fascinated--by these rumors that he set out to collect and catalog them. First published in 1943 RACE AND RUMORS OF RACE documents Odum's findings.

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0801857570

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9780801857577

This Species of Property

Slave Life and Culture in the Old South

By: Leslie Howard Owens

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This Species of Property

Slave Life and Culture in the Old South

By: Leslie Howard Owens

Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195022459

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century

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Rainbow Round My Shoulder

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century

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Wings on My Feet

Wings on My Feet

The American West at Risk

The American West at Risk

Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia

Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia

Ecological Microcosms

Ecological Microcosms

A Prosperous Way Down

A Prosperous Way Down

Robots in Space

Robots in Space

Race and Rumors of Race

Race and Rumors of Race

This Species of Property

This Species of Property

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