American Ornithology

History

Alexander Wilson

Americas

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Wilson's American Ornithology

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Arno & New York Times

Alexander Wilson, expatriate Scotsman, poet, & reformer, has been called ''the Father of American Ornithology.'' This collection of his letters, many of them new & many complete for the first time, captures a splendid & stimulating time in American history. Wilson was a confidant of William Bartram, a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, a sensitive personality who set out as he said to make ''a collection of all our finest birds.'' In pursuit of this goal he traveled through much of the eastern part of the U.S., often on foot. His letters well document the joy he felt at each new discovery as well as the terrible physical hardships he endured. Though later overshadowed by J.J. Audubon, Wilson deserves much credit for being one of the pioneers in American ornithology. Includes an intro. by Clark Hunter, ed. of the letters.

Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 154) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The American Philosophical Society Press

In this celebrated work, Alexander Wilson examines environments built over the past fifty years, as humans have continued to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and sometimes re-enchant a natural world in convulsion. Extensively illustrated.

The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Between the Lines

Excerpt from American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. 2: Illustrated With Plates Engraved From Drawings From Nature Columba mvyratoria, Passenger Pigeon, C'arolinensis, Carolina Pigeon, or Turtle Dove, passerv'na, Ground Dove. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. 2: Illustrated With Plates Engraved From Drawings From Nature (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

The Mystery of Tunnel 51 Large Print Edition Paperback Alexander Wilson

This is the first of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of EFMD. Through an open-ended interview research process, it seeks to explore the perspectives and views of a wide range of experts drawn not only from the European environment but also from the United States and other global players in the management education field. Understanding the relations and interactions between the various actors in management education is fundamental to any rich analysis of the roles, value and purposes of management education as well as the unfulfilled promises in its evolution. The focus in this first volume is on the challenges, issues, themes and lessons learned in the 40 years of EFMD's evolution. The second volume will concentrate on the future of management education.

Promises Fulfilled and Unfulfilled in Management Education (Reflections on the Role, Impact and Future of Management Education: EFMD, 1)

Business & Money

HOWARD, Thomas

Lynn, Thomas

Management & Leadership

Emerald Publishing

This is the second of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th anniversary of EFMD. Drawing on interviews conducted with leaders in the world of management education, the first volume took a retrospective view, focusing on the evolution of management education and providing the context that led management education to where it stands today. It also synthesized respondents' views on the strengths and weaknesses of the field, the challenges it faces, as well as lessons learned and not learned from the past. This second volume similarly draws on the very rich data provided by the same respondents, but is future-oriented and takes on the theme of change. It provides the reader with a sense of the challenges on the horizon, potential blind spots, and new realities of an increasingly competitive environment. It discusses a range of alternative future scenarios for management education, and urges the field to resist the lures of the dominant paradigm and to develop new models instead. The authors contend that, given the challenges ahead, it is only through transformations and innovations that the future of the field can be secured.

Securing the Future of Management Education: Competitive Destruction or Constructive Innovation? (Reflections on the Role, Impact and Future of Management Education: EFMD, 2)

Michelle Lee

Lynne Thomas

Latin America: Management Education's Growth and Future Pathways

Latin American business schools have grown in scale and quality in recent decades, yet they have received a relatively low level of attention globally when compared to schools from other parts of the world. This book seeks to address this dearth of attention and provide an in-depth examination of management education in the region. The book examines the main historical, cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of the Latin American continent and describes the evolutionary path of business education in the region until its current state. It analyzes and interprets the major events, key issues, impact of different actors, main changes, and 'blind spots' in the evolution of management education in Latin America over the last 10 years. It then identifies the biggest on-going challenges confronting business education on the continent and discusses whether a Latin American model for management education is a realistic proposition. Finally, the book explores how the competitive environment of business education in the region will evolve over the next 10 years, and how these changes will influence the critical issues facing Latin American management education.

Gabriela Alvarado

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