Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the gripping story of a large group of Costa Rican and American scientists and volunteers who set out to save the tropical forests in the northwestern section of the country. It was an area badly damaged by the fires of ranchers and small farmers; in many places a few strands of forest strung across a charred landscape. Despite the widely held belief that tropical forests, once lost, are lost forever, the team led by the dynamic Daniel Janzen from the University of Pennsylvania moved relentlessly ahead, taking a broad array of political, ecological, and social steps necessary for restoration. They began with 39 square miles and, by 2000, they had stitched together and revived some 463 square miles of land and another 290 of marine area. Today this region is known as the Guanacaste Conservation Area, a fabulously rich landscape of dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest that gives life to some 235,000 species of plants and animals. It may be the greatest environmental success of our time, a prime example of how extensive devastation can be halted and reversed. This is an inspiring story, and in recounting it, Allen writes with vivid power. He creates lasting images of pristine beaches and dense forest and captures the heroics and skill of the scientific teams, especially the larger-than-life personality of the maverick ecologist Daniel Janzen. It is a book everyone concerned about the environment will want to own.

Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Business & Money

William, Allen

Economics

Oxford University Press

Excerpt from Killing, No Murder: With Some Additions Briefly Discourst in Three Questions; Fit for Publick View; To Deter and Prevent Single Persons, and Councils, From Usurping Supream PowerParliaments cam for lo does that junta me that name to atulate his his happy deliverajrgteg: from that wicked aﬂloody attempt. )bdidesmgis that have m.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Killing, No Murder: With Some Additions Briefly Discourst in Three Questions; Fit for Publick View; To Deter and Prevent Single Persons, and Councils, From Usurping Supream Power (Classic Reprint)

Self-Help

Motivational

Forgotten Books

The Caucasus region, which forms a natural boundary between Asia and Europe, has always been of great strategic importance. Russia's expansion into the region in the late eighteenth century brought conflict with the Ottoman Empire, creating a new area of contention between these two states, and the borderlands remained in a state of intermittent conflict until the end of the First World War. This volume, first published in 1953, discusses the four major conflicts which took place in the region during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on military strategy, the book describes in great detail battles, skirmishes and logistical problems of warfare in a mountainous and remote region. Illustrated with thirty-nine maps, it provides a wealth of information for military historians and remains an authoritative account.

Caucasian Battlefields: A History Of The Wars On The Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921 (European War Series)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Battery Press

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Speech of Hon. William Allen of Ohio on the state of the Union, delivered in the House of Representa

BiblioLife

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Speech of Mr. Allen, of Ohio, on the Bill to separate the government from the banks. Delivered in th

Life of William Allen: with selections from his correspondence

Excerpt from A True, Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics That Suffer for Their Faith Both at Home and Abroad, Against a False, Seditions and Slanderous Libel Entitled, Vol. 1: The Execution of Justice in EnglandMeanwhile political events had obliged Allen, in I 578, to leave Douai and to take refuge at Rheims, and it was there that, in I 584, he wrote the treatise which is now reprinted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

A True, Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics That Suffer for Their Faith Both at Home and Abroad, Against a False, Seditions and Slanderous Libel Entitled, Vol. 1: The Execution of Justice in England (Classic Reprint)

Europe

Aransas: The Life of a Texas Coastal County is a wonderfully researched history of an exciting part of Texas. This is the story of a little place that has played a surprisingly large role in the history of Texas. From the early explorers, Cabeza de Vaca and LaSalle, this is where much of the early history of Texas was born. This book is in three parts and is comprehensive in telling the story of the people, the land and how they helped shaped the great state of Texas. This book takes the reader on a journey through time that spans 1,000 years that will give the reader a better appreciation of this part of Texas and the people who lived the stories.

Aransas: Life of a Texas Coastal County

Sue Hastings Taylor

Americas

Eakin Press

10 Things You Didn't Learn in High School: How They Hurt You, and What You Can Do about It

Page Publishing, Inc.

Elvis

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Parragon Plus.

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