Norment christopher (16 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerised by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored. Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, and experience?what might be called a ?cartographical psychology? or ?cartographical history.? Interweaving a personal narrative structured around a variety of maps with stories about maps as told by scholars, poets, and fiction writers, this book provides a dazzlingly rich personal and intellectual account of what many of us take for granted. A dialogue between desire and the maps of his life, an exploration of the pleasures, utilitarian purposes, benefits, and character of maps, this rich and powerful personal narrative is the matrix in which Norment embeds an exploration of how maps function in all our lives. Page by page, readers will confront the aesthetics, mystery, function, power, and shortcomings of maps, causing them to reconsider the role that maps play in their lives.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Hardcover. Good in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy with firm binding, with highlighting and pen and pencil marks to some pages. Octavo, 234 pages, with maps. Issued as part of the Sightline Books series. "Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows" blends memoir, natural history, and philosophy as Christopher Norment reflects on fieldwork and the emotional and intellectual pursuit of ornithology. Norment is a professor of environmental science and ecology at SUNY Brockport and the author of several acclaimed works of natural history. This is his second book. …

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 215 pp., Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. solid hardcover first edition cover shows light wear overall good a nice copy.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence - for as much as ten million years - amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.12x0.64 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. Excellent study of relict populations in the American West. pp271. DW in archival sleeve.