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Great Ages of Discovery

Stephen J. Pyne

For more than 600 years, western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe.

The Pyrocene

Stephen J. Pyne

A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time&;and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it&;s too late.

To the Last Smoke

Stephen J. Pyne

From boreal alaska to subtropical florida, from the chaparral of california to the pitch pine of new jersey, america boasts nearly a billion burnable acres.

Fire

Stephen J. Pyne

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human.

The Northeast

Stephen J. Pyne

Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the northeast has led national developments in fire.

The Interior West

Stephen J. Pyne

Its fires help to give the interior west a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories.

Style and Story

Stephen J. Pyne

There are two basic rules for writing nonfiction, says historian and award-winning author stephen j.

Burning Bush

Stephen J. Pyne

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Florida

Stephen J. Pyne

Take a trip to the sunshine state!

With its scattered mountains and high rims, its dry air and summer lightning, its rising tier of biomes from desert grasses to alpine conifers, and its aggressive exurban sprawl, something in the southwest is ready to burn each year and some high-value as.

California

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California

Stephen J. Pyne

The coastal sage and shrublands of california burn.

Between Two Fires

Stephen J. Pyne

From the author of like water for chocolate comes a richly layered collection of stories, essays, and recipes that delves into affairs of the heart, the spirit, and, of course, the stomach.

Burning Bush

Stephen J. Pyne

Pyne traces the impact of fire in australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by aborigines and european settlers.

Vestal Fire

Stephen J. Pyne

Stephen pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist.

Burning Bush

Stephen J. Pyne

From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the godwana twin of antarctica, australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice.

Fire on Earth

Stephen J. Pyne

Earth is the only planet known to have fire.

World Fire

Stephen J. Pyne

World fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved, like the bonded strands of a dna molecule.

Vestal Fire

Stephen J. Pyne

Stephen pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist.

Voice and Vision

Stephen J. Pyne

It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts.

Voice and Vision

Stephen J. Pyne

It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts.

How the Canyon Became Grand

Stephen J. Pyne

Voyager

Stephen J. Pyne

Voyager

Stephen J. Pyne

Voice and vision

Stephen J. Pyne

It has become commonplace these days to speak of "unpacking" texts.

America's fires

Stephen J. Pyne

Year of the fires

Stephen J. Pyne

In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh northern rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in new england, and deposited soot on the ice in greenland.

Awful Splendour

Stephen J. Pyne

Fire is a defining element in canadian land and life.

Grove Karl Gilbert

Stephen J. Pyne

As stephen pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match grove karl gilbert’s range of talents.

Awful splendour

Stephen J. Pyne

Fire is a defining element in canadian land and life.

Grove Karl Gilbert: a great engine of research

Stephen J. Pyne

As stephen pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match grove karl gilbert’s range of talents.

The Still-Burning Bush

Stephen J. Pyne

The Ice

Stephen J. Pyne

The Ice

Stephen J. Pyne

Smokechasing

Stephen J. Pyne

"painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf—all have their critics and commentators," observes stephen pyne.

Smokechasing

Stephen J. Pyne

Year of the Fires

Stephen J. Pyne

The wildfires of the summer of 1910 scorched millions of acres in the western states, depositing soot as far away as greenland.

Fire

Stephen J. Pyne

"the fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it--the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before.

Year of the fires

Stephen J. Pyne

As wildfires blazed throughout the western united states in the summer of 2000, news organizations from across the country sought the insights of fire expert stephen j.