Review | We Are the Land: A History of Native California
We Are the Land: A History of Native California recounts the perspective of the California Indians.
We Are the Land: A History of Native California recounts the perspective of the California Indians.
This book is a collaborative effort to investigate the successes and failures of the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park
When you finish this delight of a book, you feel that the history of the mapping of Rome can stand as the very paradigm of the history of pre-digital cartography itself.
Time in Maps is a sumptuously-illustrated large-sized book that serves as a celebration of the development of GIS.
Travel writing as it should be – we are invited to learn from the setting of lessons by the learned and the observant.
A millennium and a half ago, or so, if you wanted to break away from the western Roman Empire, you simply called in the barbarians.
Barry Siegel’s “Dreamers and Schemers” features William May Garland who propelled LA’s early development into a major metropolis through his ‘irresistible life force’ of salesmanship.
The 99% Invisible City explains the small mysteries in our everyday urban geography.
For nearly four centuries, Britain was Roman Britannia. This period of imperial rule was a largely peaceful and prosperous time. It was also a period of the Christianization … Read more
A survey of the geospatial technological advances which have enabled today’s archaeologists to map the ancient world.
This is a self-help book about how each of us, both personally and together, can deal with the angst of confronting this seemingly intractable problem of climate change.
Rivers shape the surface of our planet and play a role in human history. Review of Rivers of Power by G.T. Dempsey.
G.T. Dempsey reviews Ellen Prager’s Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More.
In this book, Dirk Liesener provides the life-stories of islands, some thirty of them, which though thought to exist in some cases for many centuries turned out to either not be an island or to have never existed to start with.