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  • Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents

    by Char Miller ...
    In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This decision concluded a decade-long, highly contentious debate over the dam-and-reservoir complex to supply water to post-earthquake San Francisco, a battle that was dramatic, unsettling, and consequential. Hetch Hetchy: A ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Not So Golden State

    Sustainability vs. the California Dream

    by Char Miller ...
    In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums. In this necessary work, Miller asks tough questions as we stand at the edge of a human-induced natural disaster in the region and beyond. He details policy steps and missteps in public land management and examines the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • On the Edge

    Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

    by Char Miller ...
    On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native's eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Deep in the Heart of San Antonio

    Land and Life in South Texas

    by Char Miller ...
    Char Miller's collection of essays provides an insightful survey of San Antonio and South Texas. The essays are grouped into six thematic sections: an overview; natural and environmental history; water issues; urban development; politics; and the city's future. Miller describes the First Friday Art Walks in Southtown, where the promenade reenacts the pedestrian traffic envisioned by the San ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Seeking the Greatest Good

    The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot

    by Char Miller ...
    Series series Regional
    President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946). Pinchot was the first chief of the United States Forest Service, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. During his five-year term, he more than tripled the national forest reserves to 172 million ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

    by Char Miller ...
    Series series Pioneers of Conservation
    Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to provoke controversy.Gifford Pinchot and the Making ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • San Antonio

    A Tricentennial History

    by Char Miller ...
    Series Book 25 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the nation. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from the community’s origins as a tiny Spanish frontier town to its contemporary status as a vital American mega-city. Site of some of the most violent struggles between warring empires and people—historians believe San Antonio may be the most fought ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena

    Edited by Char Miller, Clay S. Jenkinson ...
    Theodore Roosevelt’s scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts of a whole for this driven, charismatic public servant, and Roosevelt approached the natural world with joy and a ... Read more

    Was $27.99 CAD Now $13.79 CAD

  • Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

    by Char Miller ...
    Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller’s literary tour de force that illuminates the historical background of how we got here, what we need to do now, and how we can thrive into the future ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where There's Smoke

    The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles. Even as efforts to legalize marijuana accelerate, such “trespass grows” spread exponentially—as ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • La tragedia de la inundación de San Antonio / The Tragedy of the San Antonio Flood

    Edited by Char Miller ...
    After being lost to history for more than a century, La tragedia de la inundación de San Antonio is widely available for the first time, translated into English to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the San Antonio flood of 1921 and the dozens of lives lost.This short work of twenty sections paints a picture of the city’s segregated population and income disparities before plunging into ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Duchess of Angus

    by Margaret Brown Kilik, Char Miller ...
    Found novel with autobiographical foundation; attic discovery; known secret within family that she wrote; a woman who hid these parts of herselfFeatures themes of sexual assault; sexually promiscuous charactersSnapshot of WW2 American Southwest/ San Antonio/ TexasHighlights sexuality and race dynamics in the 1940sWW2 military side-focus *When twenty-year-old Jane Davis returns home to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD