1.

Record Nr.

UNICASTO00047128

Autore

Mueller, Dennis C.

Titolo

Public choice 2 : a revised edition of Public choice / Dennis C. Mueller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, c1989

ISBN

0521370833

0521379520

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 518 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

302.13

Soggetti

Politica sociale

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791677103321

Autore

Krutch Joseph Wood <1893-1970.>

Titolo

The desert year [[electronic resource] /] / Joseph Wood Krutch ; decorations by Rudolf Freund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2010

ISBN

1-58729-947-X

Edizione

[1st University of Iowa Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Sightline books

Disciplina

508.79

Soggetti

Natural history - Southwest, New

Desert ecology - Southwest, New

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : W. Sloane Associates, c1952.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Why I Came; What It Looks Like; How to See It; How Some Others Live There; Desert Rain; What the Desert Is Good For; The Contemplative Toad; From a Mountaintop; The Individual and the Species; In Search of an Autumn; Tour of Inspection; The Metaphor of



the Grasslands; Spring; A Bird in the Bush; Undiscovered Country; Postscript

Sommario/riassunto

Now back in print, Joseph Wood Krutch's Burroughs Award-winning The Desert Year is as beautiful as it is philosophically profound. Although Krutch-often called the Cactus Walden-came to the desert relatively late in his life, his curiosity and delight in his surroundings abound throughout The Desert Year, whether he is marveling at the majesty of the endless dry sea, at flowers carpeting the desert floor, or at the unexpected appearance of an army of frogs after a heavy rain. Krutch's trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environm