Gold: Nature and Culture (Earth) 9781780236131, 1780236131

For millennia, across the globe, this gleaming and incorruptible element has beguiled humankind, attracting treasure see

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Gold: Nature and Culture (Earth)
9781780236131, 1780236131

Long before a rocket hit the Man in the Moon in the eye in Georges Méliès’s early film Le Voyage dans la Lune, the earth

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Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century―from French colon

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Demonstrates how Beowulf?s symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, an

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Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elemen

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People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombi

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The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered int

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Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic explor

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Why do people hunt? What possesses humans to kill their fellow creatures? In Bloodties, naturalist Ted Kerasote explores

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Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, arti

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Comets are different from anything else seen in the sky. They can appear anywhere, they move against the background of s

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