American Earth : enviromental writing since Thoreau

Table of Contents: “…White -- How flowers changed the world / Loren Eiseley -- From My wilderness : the Pacific West ; Dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton / William O. Douglas -- From The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs -- From Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The Great Paver / Russell Baker -- The living canyon / Eliot Porter -- From the Wilderness Act of 1964 / Howard Zahniser -- Remarks at the signing of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 / Lyndon B. …”


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Making climate change history : primary sources from global warming's past

Table of Contents: “…Behrens III -- Inadvertent climate modification (1971) / Study of Man's Impact on Climate -- "International Committee questionnaire - Five year plan" (1976) / The Sierra Club -- "Criteria for international campaigns" (1982) / Michael McCloskey -- National Climate Program Act of 1978 -- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Advisory Group on Climate Meeting, May 26,1978 -- "Action flow, U.S. …”


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Business ethics

Table of Contents: “…Nonhuman Rights. Case Study: Sierra Club v. Morton. Should Trees Have Standing? -- Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects / Christopher D. …”


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Native Americans (1451-2017)

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Encyclopedia of religious and spiritual development

Table of Contents: “…Rosicrucianism -- Sacraments -- Sacrifice -- Saints -- Salvation -- Save the Children -- Science and religion -- Search Institute -- Sedona, Arizona -- Self-esteem -- Semiotics -- Service -- Shamanism -- Sierra Club -- Sin -- David Alfaro Siqueiros -- Sistine Chapel -- Soul -- Ethical speech -- Spiritual development of children and youth: Biblical descriptions -- Spirituality, contemporary approaches to defining -- African American spirituals -- St. …”


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America's national park system : the critical documents

Table of Contents: “…The early years, 1864-1918 : Yosemite Act, 1864 ; Olmsted report on management of Yosemite, 1865 ; Yellowstone Act, 1872 ; Protection of Casa Grande Ruin, 1889 ; Chickamauga National Military Park Act, 1890 ; Yellowstone Game Protection Act, 1894 ; Antiquities Act, 1906 ; Auto use in the national parks, 1912 ; Act to establish a National Park Service (Organic Act), 1916 ; Secretary Lane's letter on national park management, 1918 -- Defining the system, 1919-1932 : Amendment to the Federal Power Act, 1921 ; Superintendents' resolution on overdevelopment, 1922 ; Secretary Work's letter on national park policy, 1925 ; Study of potential national battlefields, 1926 ; Act amending concessions policy, 1928 ; Fire prevention plan for the national parks, 1928 ; National park standards : a declaration of policy, 1929 ; National Park Service predator policy, 1931 ; National Park Service forestry policy, 1931 ; Office Order No.228 : park planning, 1931 ; Fauna of the national parks, 1932 -- The New Deal years, 1933-1941 : Act for the Relief of Unemployment (CCC), 1933 ; Organization of executive agencies, 1933 ; Research in the national parks, 1933 ; Preservation of Historic Sites Act, 1935 ; Park, Parkway, and Recreational Area Study Act, 1936 ; Roads in the national parks, 1936 ; Atmosphere in the national parks, 1936 ; Office Order No.323 : Fish Policy, 1936 ; Study of the park and recreation problem, 1941 ; Decision to desegregate national parks in the American South, 1939-1942 -- The poverty years, 1942-1956 : The national parks in wartime, 1943 ; Grand Teton National Park Act, 1950 ; Act to Facilitate Management of the National Park System, 1953 ; Let's close the national parks, 1953 ; Mission 66 proposal to the Eisenhower Cabinet, 1956 -- Questions of resource management, 1957-1963 : Ecological islands as natural laboratories, 1959 ; Sequoia/Kings Canyon back country management plan, 1960 ; Wildlife management in national parks, 1962 ; Outdoor recreation for America/ORRRC report, 1962 ; Advisory Board on Wildlife Management/Leopold Report, 1963 ; Advisory committee report on research in the national parks, 1963 ; Policy on the establishment and administration of recreation areas, 1963 -- The ecological revolution, 1964-1969 : Secretary Udall's letter on national park management, 1964 ; Wilderness Act, 1964 ; Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, 1965 ; Concession Policies Act, 1965 ; National Historic Preservation Act, 1966 ; Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, 1968 ; National Trails System Act, 1968 ; Administrative policies for recreation areas, 1968, Administrative policies for historic areas, 1968 ; Administrative policies for natural areas, 1968 ; Plan for use of fire in ecosystem management, 1968 ; National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 -- Transformation and expansion, 1970-1980 : Act to improve the administration of the National Park System (General Authorities Act), 1970 ; Executive Order No. 11593 : Protection and enhancement of the cultural environment, 1971 ; Gateway National Recreation Area Act, 1972 ; Preservation of park values (Conservation Foundation), 1972 ; Mining in the National Parks Act, 1976 ; Redwood National Park Expansion Act, 1978 ; Archaeological Resources Protection Act, 1979 ; State of the parks report, 1980 -- A system threatened, 1981-1996 : Secretary Watt's letter on national park management, 1981 ; General Accounting Office report on threats to parks, 1987 ; Interagency final report on fire management, 1989 ; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1990 ; Science and the national parks, 1992 ; An act to improve the ability of the Secretary of the Interior to properly manage certain resources of the National Park System (Damage to the Parks Act), 1990-1996 -- Toward a second century, 1997-2015 : The visitor experience and resource protection framework, 1997 ; Act to provide for improved management and increased accountability, 1998 ; Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, 2001 ; Rethinking national parks for the 21st century, 2001 ; Letter opposing radical changes to management policies, 2005 ; Advancing the national park idea : the second century report, 2009 ; Presidential memorandum on scientific integrity, 2009 ; Protecting Americans from violent crime (guns in the parks), 2009 ; Imperiled promise : the state of history, 2011 ; Revisiting Leopold : resource stewardship in the national parks, 2012 -- Appendices: Summaries of lengthy documents : Alaska national monument proclamations, 1978 ; Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, 1980 ; Clean Air Act, 1967 ; Coastal Zone Management Act, 1972 ; Endangered Species Act, 1973 ; Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 1972 -- Significant court rulings and opinion : Sierra Club v. Andrus, 1980 ; National Rifle Association v. …”


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The environment A to Z by Hosansky, David

Table of Contents: “…Radon -- Rangelands -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reasonable certainty of no harm -- Recycling -- Reformulated gasoline -- Regional fishery management councils -- Regulatory impact analysis -- Regulatory relief -- Renewable energy -- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Retroactive liability -- Risk assessment -- Roadless areas -- Roosevelt, Theodore -- Ruckelshaus, William -- Safe Drinking Water Act -- Safe harbor -- Salmon -- Salvage logging -- Secondary treatment -- Section 404 -- Sediment pollution -- Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee -- Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- Sierra Club -- Sikes Act -- Silent Spring -- Sludge -- Smith, Robert -- Smog -- Snail darter -- Solid Waster Disposal Act -- Sound science -- Species recovery plans -- Sport utility vehicles -- State implementation plans -- Stationary sources -- Sugar price supports -- Superfund -- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act -- Sustainable Fisheries Act -- Sustainable use -- Swampbuster -- Three-Mile Island -- Tier 2 standards -- Tongass National Forest -- Total maximum daily loads -- Toxic Substances Control Act -- Toxics Release Inventory -- Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Authorization Act -- Transboundary pollution -- Tropical rain forests-- Turtle excluder devices -- Underground injection wells -- Underground storage tanks -- U.N. …”


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Environmental ethics : readings in theory and application

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Courts, judges, and politics : an introduction to the judicial process

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Gaming the vote : why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it) by Poundstone, William

Table of Contents: “…The way democracy will be -- Unhappiness -- The Center for Voting and Democracy -- Rob Richie -- George Hallett -- Cynthia Terrell -- Cincinnati -- John Anderson -- Lani Guinier -- Cumulative voting -- David Gergen -- George Soros -- The Muppets -- Alienation -- Howard Dean -- Barack Obama -- USA Today -- The Sierra Club -- Spirochetes -- Penicillin -- Jesse Jackson, Jr. -- The Prius of voting systems -- Heretics -- Zealots -- A one-word answer no one understands -- Regret in Peru -- A car with Kennedy and Nixon bumper stickers -- Minimal coalitions -- Third parties -- Nursery effect -- Moderates -- The universal political fantasy -- A mission from God -- 17. …”


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Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

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