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Butterflies Of West Virginia and their Caterpillars, The

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780822956570
Pub Date: 13 Nov 1997
Description:
The Butterflies of West Virginia and Their Caterpillars describes 128 species of butterflies found in the state, along with their caterpillars and pupae. Each species account provides a description and information on distribution, habitat, life history, nectar sources, and larval host plants. Butterflies, their caterpillars and pupae are featured in hundreds of color illustrations, as well as detailed drawings and maps.
The Symbolic Earth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780813108834
Pub Date: 29 Aug 1996
Description:
The core dilemma in environmental advocacy may be illustrated by the question, "When we communicate about the world, should we stress what we know or what we feel?" The contributors to The Symbolic Earth argue that it is more important to decide how we should talk about what we know and feel. In their view, the environment is larely a product of how we talk about the world.

Urban-Rural Connections

Perspectives from Environmental Archaeology
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780946897810
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1995
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology
Illustrations: with fig & illus.
Description:
The potential of environmental evidence in the archaeological record for investigating the links between towns and their rural hinterlands is the focus of this volume. Most papers use evidence from Roman and Medieval Britain but there are also case studies from Paris, medieval Holland, and Oslo. Essential reading for specialists, this book also amply demonstrates the relevance of environmental evidence to central theoretical debates in historic archaeology.
Appalachian Autumn Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780822955344
Pub Date: 28 Jul 1994
Description:
Like her popular Appalachian Spring, Marcia Bonta's new book offers a day-by-day account of the changing world of nature in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. This time she chronicles the beauties of the autumn months as she walks the familiar roads and trails of her 500-acre mountain-top farm, noting the minute transformations of the season as well as the more dramatic ones. But her quiet sojourn in the natural world is shattered by the intrusion of a lumberman who insists upon clear-cutting a neighboring property.
An Archaeobotanical Guide to Root & Tuber Identification Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 154
ISBN: 9780946897551
Pub Date: 30 Jun 1993
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: JRPS
Illustrations: 590 pls
Description:
A visual index of photographs for identifying charred remains of roots and tubers from archaeological sites in Europe and the Near East. Although often present in archaeological deposits the charred remains of vegetative organs, roots, tubers, rhizomes and corns are rarely, or erratically, identified. This manual covers Europe and the Near East.
Appalachian Spring Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 202
ISBN: 9780822954422
Pub Date: 14 Mar 1991
Description:
Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived on a 500-acre mountain-top farm in central Pennsylvania for twenty years. Appalachian Spring is her personal account of that glorious spectacle - the coming of the spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia.
Environmental Evidence from the Colonia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9780906780909
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1990
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This report deals with biological evidence from two sites within the area of the Roman civil town or colonia close to the River Ouse and the probable Roman river crossing. Both sites were extensively sampled and the material has provided the first opportunity in York to examine richly organic waterlogged Roman deposits formed on surfaces rather than as the fills of wells or other subsurface features.
RRP: £18.00
Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvania Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780822953937
Pub Date: 11 Sep 1987
Description:
From the tiny shrew to the black bear, Pennsylvania's hills and valleys are teeming with sixty-three species of wild mammals. Many of these animals are rarely seen except when pursued by an interested biologist, mammologist, or nature photographer. Now, with the publication of this book, student, scholar, and nature lover alike will have a ready reference to distinguish between a deer mouse and a white-footed mouse, to identify raccoon tracks, and to learn about Pennsylvania's other inhabitants.
Coal In Appalachia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813115771
Pub Date: 02 Oct 1986
Illustrations: tables
Description:
Coal, the nation's most abundant fossil fuel and the only one that is exported, represents one of our most valuable natural resources. This study undertakes a thorough review of the economics of the Appalachian coal industry. It establishes, first of all, the international framework within which the American and the Appalachian coal industry function.
Energy From Alcohol Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780813114798
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1983
Description:
Both strategic and economic considerations make desirable the development of alternatives to petroleum as a source of energy and chemicals. Alcohol is one such alternative, and the experience of Brazil, a world leader in its production, provides a unique contribution to industrial policy for other nations. This book will be a valuable reference for all those concerned with energy sources for the future.
American Ideology of National Science, 1919-1930, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 278
ISBN: 9780822984344
Pub Date: 15 Oct 1971
Description:
Ronald C. Tobey provides a provocative analysis of the movement to establish a national science program in the early twentieth century. Led by several influential scientists, who had participated in centralized scientific enterprises during World War I, the new effort to conjoin science and society was an attempt to return to earlier progressive values with the hope of producing science for society's benefit.