Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter”s Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne”s Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.
21 Ebooks tarafından Stephen J. Pyne
Stephen J. Pyne: Fire
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyn …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Fire
‘The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it�the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before. If …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Vestal Fire
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness ‘composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist.’ At this time in history when many people are tryi …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Fire in America
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Fire on the Rim
In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire m …
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Stephen J. Pyne: The Ice
“The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conveys a view of Antarctica that interweaves …
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Stephen J. Pyne: World Fire
Back in Print World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Burning Bush
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental scien …
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Andrew C. Scott & David M. J. S. Bowman: Fire on Earth
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth …
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Andrew C. Scott & David M. J. S. Bowman: Fire on Earth
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth …
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Pyne Stephen J. Pyne: Fire
For over 400 million years, fire has been an integral force on our planet. It can be as innocent as a bonfire or as destructive and lethal as a wildfire. Human history is rife with fires that have le …
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Stephen J. Pyne: The Pyrocene
A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it’s too late. The Pyrocene tells the story of what happen …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Voice and Vision
It has become commonplace these days to speak of "unpacking" texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art-that …
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Ben A. Minteer & Stephen J. Pyne: After Preservation
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Gen …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Smokechasing
"Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf all have their critics and commentators, " observes Stephen Pyne. "Fire does not." Aside from news reports on fire disas …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Pyrocene Park
Its monumental rocks, etched by glaciers during the last Ice Age, have made Yosemite National Park a crown jewel of the national park system and a world-celebrated destination. Yet, more and more, fi …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Five Suns
A climate defined by wet and dry seasons, a mostly mountainous terrain, a biota prone to disturbances, a human geography characterized by a diversity of peoples all of whom rely on burning in one for …
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Stephen J. Pyne: Grove Karl Gilbert
As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilbert’s range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of …
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