Bøger af John D. Wirth

Provides an analysis of the development of a North American institutional response to continental air pollution. The text chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how efforts to protect the environment evolved.

Twenty-five years before the Manhattan Project created the town of Los Alamos, the Pajarito Plateau was home to an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. Drawing on oral accounts, memoirs, and archival documents, as well as firsthand knowledge and family lore, the authors situate the school within the educational trends of the day and New Mexico's cultural milieu.

One of three independent but coordinated studies on Brazilian regionalism, this book examines the complex dynamics of state-level and political structures in the politically important state of Minas Gerais.