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Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…Water and the Colorado desert -- Where should the dams be? politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.…”
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Westwater Lost and Found / by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
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Campaign Finance and Political Polarization : When Purists Prevail / by La Raja, Raymond J., 1965-, Schaffner, Brian F. (Brian Frederick)

Table of Contents: “…-- The ideological wellsprings of campaign money -- Who gets campaign money and why rules matter -- Ideological polarization in state legislatures -- The hydraulics of campaign money -- The future of reform: build canals, not dams.…”
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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
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My Voice Is My Weapon : Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance / by McDonald, David A., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Nationalism, belonging, and the performativity of resistance -- Poets, singers, and songs : voices in the resistance movement (1917-1967) -- Al-Naksa and the emergence of political song (1967-1987) -- The Intifada and the generation of the Stones (1987-2000) -- Revivals and new arrivals: the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2010) -- "My songs can reach the whole nation" : Baladna and protest song in Jordan -- Imprisonment and exile : negotiating power and resistance in Palestinian protest song -- New directions and new modalities : Palestinian hip-hop in Israel -- "Carrying words like weapons" : DAM brings hip-hop to the West Bank.…”
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India China : Rethinking Borders and Security / by Ling, L. H. M.

Table of Contents: “…Dialogue across Borders: Dam Projects in Yunnan and Sikkim / Payal Banerjee and Li Bo; Chapter 5. …”
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Interactions with a Violent Past : Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction the "American war," post-conflict landscapes, and violent memories / Oliver Tappe and Vatthana Pholsena -- National memorial sites and personal remembrance : remembering the dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde -- National lieu de memoire vs. multivocal memories : the case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe -- War-martyr bia : commemoration and perdurability in rural Vietnam / Markus Schlecker -- Laos : living with unexploded ordnance : past memories and present realities / Elaine Russell -- War debris in postwar society : managing risk and uncertainty in the DMZ / Christina Schwenkel -- A social reading of a post-conflict landscape : Route 9 in southern Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Redefining Agent Orange, mitigating its impacts / Susan Hammond -- Aesthetic forms of post-conflict memory : inspired vessels of memory in northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk -- Remembering old homelands : the Houay Ho Dam, the resettlement of the Heuny (Nya Heun), memory, and the struggle for places -- Ian G. …”
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Forces of Nature : New Perspectives on Korean Environments /

Table of Contents: “…Park -- A State of Ranches and Forests : The Environmental Legacy of the Mongolian Empire / John S. Lee -- Dammed Fish : Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River / Joseph Seeley -- The Politics of Frugality : Environmental Crisis and Artistic Production in Eighteenth Century Korea / Sooa Im McCormick -- Between Memory and Amnesia : Seoul's Nanjido Landfill, 1978-1993 / Hyojin Pak -- North Korea Caught Between Developmentalism and Humanitarianism / Ewa Eriksson Fortier & Suzy Kim -- Rice Fields, Mountains, and the Invisible Meatification of Korean Agriculture / Anders Riel Muller (Yeonjun Song) -- The "Ecozombies" of South Korean Cinema : Consumerism, Carnivores, and Ecocriticism / Lindsey Jolivette -- Communal Environmentalism in the History of the Organic Farming Movement in South Korea / Yonjae Paik -- Gotjawal : The Promise of Becoming Wild / Jeongsu Shin -- South Korea's Nuclear-Energy Entanglements : Contested 'Long-term Stewardship' and the Ethical Timescales of Ecological Democracy / Nan Kim -- Epilogue : On Everyday Ecologies and Systems of Mediation / Albert L. …”
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American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition / by Daynes, Byron W.

Table of Contents: “…The American political setting and the environment -- American federalism and environmental politics -- Case study : climate change and sea- level rise in South Florida -- Personal profile : Mary Nichols and Carb : environmental champions -- Public opinion, interest groups, and the environment -- Case study : interest groups activism and the place of wolves in the Rocky Mountain regions -- Case study : climate change and public opinion -- Personal profile : Robert F Kennedy Jr -- Congress, the legislative process, and the environment -- Case study : cap and trade : failure to pass a climate bill -- Personal profile : Senator Susan Collins: environmental defender -- The environmental presidency -- Personal profile : FDR and the "golden age" -- Case study : leaving a legacy -- Barack Obama and climate change -- Executive agencies and the environment -- Personal profile : Steven Chu : the scientist in charge -- Case study : EPA regulations and carbon emissions -- The environmental court -- Personal profile : the environment : friend and supporter vs. a "slash-and-burn opponent" -- Case study: the court and those dam fish : TVA vs. Hill -- Case study : climate crisis is real, Mr. …”
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Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes /

Table of Contents: “…Biographies of biotopes / Jan Kolen: Introduction, biotopes -- From the primordial landscape to socialized nature -- Fens and birds -- The 'co-scripting' of biotopes -- From dikes and dams to disasters -- conclusion. 4. Automobile authorship of landscapes / Edward Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson: Introduction -- Engaging with the Highlands -- Establishing authorship -- Machines and morality -- Conservation, authority and authorship -- Concluding remarks. 5. …”
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The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri /

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Empire and Catastrophe : Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 / by Segalla, Spencer D.

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