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  • DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism

    Classic Texts

    by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
    No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides in general through a variety of sources: excerpts from scientific studies and government reports, advertisements from industry journals, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Faith in Nature

    Environmentalism as Religious Quest

    by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Saving America's Wildlife

    Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990

    by Thomas R. Dunlap ...
    Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • In the Field, Among the Feathered

    A History of Birders and Their Guides

    by Thomas R. Dunlap ...
    America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to the present, relating changes in the guides to shifts in science, the craft of field identification, ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • In the Field, Among the Feathered

    A History of Birders and Their Guides

    by Thomas R. Dunlap ...
    America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to the present, relating changes in the guides to shifts in science, the craft of field identification, ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • An Anthropology of Images

    Picture, Medium, Body

    by Hans Belting ...
    Translated by Thomas R. Dunlap ...
    A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    You're It

    by Cleo White ...
    Narrated by Savannah Thomas, Ryan Lee Dunlap ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    I am a walking, talking disaster.Sometimes it feels like every step I take leads to a mistake that is painful or embarrassing, or painful and embarrassing, and it's pretty remarkable that natural selection hasn't taken me out yet.The point is, I have a lot of experience in cleaning up my own messes. Even with all that practice, though, inheriting my dad's failing laser tag business might be a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Law under the Swastika

    Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany

    by Michael Stolleis ...
    Translated by Thomas Dunlap ...
    In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges and administrators from the Nazi era. According to Stolleis, they were reluctant to investigate ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Master Pongo

    A Gorilla Conquers Europe

    by Mustafa Haikal ...
    Translated by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Animalibus
    In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as “the most gigantic ape known to zoology.” Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories of evolution only increased the public’s desire to see this “monster with human features.” However, when he arrived, the so-called monster turned ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Philosophical Temperaments

    From Plato to Foucault

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    In Kent With Charles Dickens (Unabridged)

    by THOMAS FROST ...
    Narrated by Teresa Dunlap ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of this book to boost sales. Frost tells a good tale, and the book is not only of interest to enthusiasts of Dickens and the county of Kent.He includes some of Dickens' own descriptions of locations, as well as regaling us with anecdotes about towns and villages ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Mark of Cain

    Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators

    by Katharina von Kellenbach ...
    The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after World War II. These documents provide ... Read more

    $62.09 USD