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  • 1
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    Comparative Analysis of Microfinance Policy Frameworks and Legislation of Selected Countries (2010)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048267537
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Financial Sector Study
    Content: This comparative study seeks to contribute to the ongoing dialogue and development of policy frameworks specifically in Azerbaijan and Central Asia. Given the IFC's current transformation work in this area, the countries that have been included in this study are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Tajikistan. To incorporate the experience of countries outside this region, the study includes Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and Morocco. All of these countries have a legal system and policy framework that incorporates microfinance. In most cases, these countries have adopted specialized legislation that creates a new legal window for MFIs that is distinct from existing and traditional types of financial institutions. Despite these similarities there are some notable differences among the policy frameworks that are explored in the sections that follow. This study is divided into four sections with three annexes. The first section explores microfinance in Azerbaijan and the Central Asian contexts. The second section analyzes and compares the structure and nature of the various policy frameworks and approaches to regulation and supervision. The third section compares permitted activities and restrictions among the different institutional types. The fourth section looks at ownership requirements and issues related to MFI transformation. Macroeconomic and microfinance specific data for each of the countries has been compiled in tables in annex one. Annex two contains legislative profiles of each of the countries organized under various categories. Annex three lists the primary legislation for microfinance for each of the countries. Finally, the body of work reviewed in preparation of this study is noted in the section entitled resource materials
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/26560
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    EUV Frankfurt
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  • 2
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    O'odham : NU79 (2011)
    New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, Inc
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    UID:
    gbv_736430709
    Format: Online-Ressource
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
    Content: The O'odham collection consists of sixteen English language documents covering the Spanish period from 1687 to 1821; the Mexican period from 1821 to 1848, the American period from 1848 to approximately 1981, and interspersed, on occasion, with bits of information on the prehistory of the general region. Although many historians and anthropologists have treated the Pima and Papago as two separate peoples, by the early twenty-first century, the cultural similarity between the two, has led us to combine them in this collection under the new designation "O'odham". Cultural history and general ethnography are the major topics in many of the documents in this collection, notably by: Underhill; Fontana; Ezell; Bahr; and the history of Christianity among the Pima-Papago in Bahr. Other ethnographic topics discussed in this collection are: the life history of a Papago woman in Underhill; regional geography in Castetter; and Fontana; cultural adaptation in Fontana, Hackenberg, and Castetter. Personalilty development and child-rearing practices are major topics of discussion in Joseph. Finally, shamanism, theories of disease, and curing are all described in Bahr, while food and diet in comparison to disease factors, form a significant topic of discussion in Fazzino
    Note: - Pima and Papago social organization - Donald M. Bahr - 1983 -- - Pima and Papago medicine and philosophy - Donald M. Bahr - 1983 -- - Contemporary Pima - Sally Giff Pablo - 1983 -- - Pima-Papago Christianity - Donald M. Bahr - 1988 -- - Piman Shamanism and staying sickness (Ka':cim Mu'mkidag) - Donald M. Bahr, anthropologist ; Juan Gregorio, shaman ; David I. Lopez, interpreter ; Albert Alvarez, editor - [1974] -- - Continuity and change in Tohono O'odham food systems: implications for dietary interventions - David Fazzino - 2008 , Culture summary: O'odham - by Donald M. Bahr and David L. Kozak - 2011 -- - Papago Indian religion - Ruth Murray Underhill - 1946 -- - Social organization of the Papago Indians - by Ruth Murray Underhill - 1939 -- - The autobiography of a Papago woman - by Ruth Underhill - 1936 -- - The desert people: a study of the Papago Indians - by Alice Joseph, Rosamond B. Spicer, [and] Jane Chesky - 1949 -- - Pima and Papago Indian agriculture - Edward F. Castetter and Willis H. Bell - 1942 -- - Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest: II: the ethnobiology of the Papago Indians - Edward F. Castetter and Ruth M. Underhill - 1935 -- - Pima and Papago: Introduction - Bernard L. Fontana - 1983 -- - History of the Papago - Bernard L. Fontana - 1983 -- - History of the Pima - Paul H. Ezell - 1983 -- - Pima and papago ecological adaptations - Robert A. Hackenberg - 1983 --
    Language: English
    Subjects: Ethnology
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    LB 24615
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  • 3
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    Identity, Belonging and Migration (2011)
    Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
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    gbv_1658020987
    Format: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (335 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 9781846314537
    Series Statement: Studies in Social & Political Thought, 17
    Content: Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Migration, Discrimination and Belonging in Europe; I. Theoretical Perspectives on Belonging; 1. Belonging and European Identity; 2. Identity, Belonging and Migration: Beyond Constructing 'Others'; 3. 'Us' and 'Them': Inclusion and Exclusion - Discrimination via Discourse; 4. Dilemmas of Secularism: Europe, Religion and the Problem of Pluralism; II. Institutional Forms of Discrimination; 5. Racism, Anti-Racism and the Western State
    Content: 6. What Space for Migrant Voices in European Anti-Racism?7. Multiculturalization of Societies: The State and Human Rights Issues; 8. Towards a Theory of Structural Discrimination: Cultural, Institutional and Interactional Mechanisms of the 'European Dilemma'; 9. On Institutional and Agentic Discrimination: Migrants and National Labour Markets; 10. Non-Place Identity: Britain's Response to Migration in the Age of Supermodernity; III. Cases of Belonging and Exclusion; 11. Symbolic Violence; 12. Voices of Migrants: Solidarity and Resistance
    Content: 13. Transformations of 'Dutchness': From Happy Multiculturalism to the Crisis of Dutch Liberalism14. Competent vs. Incompetent Students: Polarization and Social Closure in Madrid Schools; Conclusion: Discrimination as a Modern European Legacy; Index
    Content: This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration discourse has been to some extent normalised and 'democratised' in European and national political discourses. Mainstream political parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants today and calls
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781846316890
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    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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    Author information: Wodak, Ruth 1950-
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  • 4
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    Emotions in transmigration : transformation, movement and identity (2012)
    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
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    gbv_728393646
    Format: Online-Ressource (220 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 9780230280564
    Content: The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who are the victims of domestic violence.
    Content: The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who are the victims of domestic violence
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Understanding Emotions in Transmigration in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States; 1 The Significance of Emotions in Contemporary Social Theorizing; 2 Gender, Emotions and Migration in a European Context; 3 Dirty Work, Identity and Emotions: The Polish Experience; 4 The Feminization of Migration and Emotions in Transmigration in Southeast Asia; 5 Agency in the Construction of Emotions in Transmigration in Different Cultural and Work Contexts , 6 'Unseen America': Citizenship and the Politics of Migration in California7 'California Dreamin'': Transformation and Identity in the Experiences of Migrants into the San Francisco Bay Area; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781137284334
    Additional Edition: Print version Emotions in Transmigration Transformation, Movement and Identity
    Language: English
    Keywords: Migration ; Frau ; Einwanderin ; Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Weiblicher Flüchtling ; Gefühl ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung
    URN: 10.1057/9781137284334
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  • 5
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    Black Women Oral History Project, Volume 1 (2013)
    München : Verlag K.G. Saur
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    UID:
    gbv_836586077
    Format: Online-Ressource (5158 p)
    ISBN: 9783598413506
    Content: THE BLACK WOMEN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT -- VOLUME 1 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Jessie Abbott -- Christia Adair -- Frankie V. Adams -- Kathleen Redding Adams -- Frances Mary Albrier -- Index -- VOLUME 2 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Margaret Walker Alexander -- Sadie Alexander -- Elizabeth Barker -- Etta Moten Barnett -- Norma Boyd -- Melnea A. Cass -- May Edward Chinn -- Index -- VOLUME 3 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Juanita Jewel Craft -- Clara Dickson -- Alice Dunnigan -- Alfreda Duster -- Eva B. Dykes -- Mae Massie Eberhardt -- Florence Jacobs Edmonds -- Lena Edwards -- Dorothy Boulding Ferebee -- Index -- VOLUME 4 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Minnie L. Fisher -- Katherine Stewart Flippin -- Virginia Clark Gayton -- Zelma George -- Frances O. Grant -- Index -- VOLUME 5 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Ardie Clark Halyard -- Dorothy I. Height -- Beulah S. Hester -- Index -- VOLUME 6 -- Contents -- Introduction -- May Edwards Hill -- Margaret Holmes -- Clementine Hunter -- Ellen Jackson -- Fidelia Johnson -- Lois Mailou Jones -- Susie Jones -- Index -- VOLUME 7 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Virginia Lacy Jones -- Maida Springer Kemp -- Abna Aggrey Lancaster -- Eunice Laurie -- Catherine Cardozo Lewis -- Inabel Burns Lindsay -- Eliza Champ McCabe -- Miriam Matthews -- Index -- VOLUME 8 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Lucy Miller Mitchell -- Audley Moore -- Annie M. Nipson -- Rosa Parks -- The Rucker Sisters: Lucy Rucker Aiken, Neddie Rucker Harper, Hazel Rucker -- Esther Mae Scott -- Julia Hamilton Smith -- Index -- VOLUME 9 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Muriel S. Snowden -- Olivia Pearl Stokes -- Ann Tanneyhill -- Ruth Janetta Temple -- Constance Allen Thomas -- Era Bell Thompson -- Mary C. Thompson, D.D.S -- Index -- VOLUME 10 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bazoline Usher -- Charleszetta Waddles -- Dorothy West -- Addie Luck Williams.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , ""THE BLACK WOMEN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT""; ""VOLUME 1""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction ""; ""Jessie Abbott""; ""Christia Adair""; ""Frankie V. Adams""; ""Kathleen Redding Adams""; ""Frances Mary Albrier""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 2""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Margaret Walker Alexander""; ""Sadie Alexander""; ""Elizabeth Barker""; ""Etta Moten Barnett""; ""Norma Boyd""; ""Melnea A. Cass""; ""May Edward Chinn""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 3""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Juanita Jewel Craft""; ""Clara Dickson""; ""Alice Dunnigan""; ""Alfreda Duster""; ""Eva B. Dykes"" , ""Mae Massie Eberhardt""""Florence Jacobs Edmonds""; ""Lena Edwards""; ""Dorothy Boulding Ferebee""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 4""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Minnie L. Fisher""; ""Katherine Stewart Flippin""; ""Virginia Clark Gayton""; ""Zelma George""; ""Frances O. Grant""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 5""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Ardie Clark Halyard""; ""Dorothy I. Height""; ""Beulah S. Hester""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 6""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""May Edwards Hill""; ""Margaret Holmes""; ""Clementine Hunter""; ""Ellen Jackson""; ""Fidelia Johnson""; ""Lois Mailou Jones"" , ""Susie Jones""""Index""; ""VOLUME 7 ""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Virginia Lacy Jones""; ""Maida Springer Kemp""; ""Abna Aggrey Lancaster""; ""Eunice Laurie""; ""Catherine Cardozo Lewis""; ""Inabel Burns Lindsay""; ""Eliza Champ McCabe""; ""Miriam Matthews""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 8""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Lucy Miller Mitchell""; ""Audley Moore""; ""Annie M. Nipson""; ""Rosa Parks""; ""The Rucker Sisters: Lucy Rucker Aiken, Neddie Rucker Harper, Hazel Rucker""; ""Esther Mae Scott""; ""Julia Hamilton Smith""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 9""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction"" , ""Muriel S. Snowden""""Olivia Pearl Stokes""; ""Ann Tanneyhill""; ""Ruth Janetta Temple""; ""Constance Allen Thomas""; ""Era Bell Thompson""; ""Mary C. Thompson, D.D.S""; ""Index""; ""VOLUME 10""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Bazoline Usher""; ""Charleszetta Waddles""; ""Dorothy West""; ""Addie Luck Williams""; ""Frances H. Williams""; ""Ozeline Wise""; ""Deborah Wolfe""; ""Arline J. Yarbrough""; ""Index""; ""Guide to the Transcripts ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface: Origins and History of the Black Women Oral History Project""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on the Guide"" , ""List of Abbreviations""""Jessie Harriet (Scott) Abbott""; ""Christia V. (Daniels) Adair""; ""Frankie V. Adams""; ""Kathleen (Redding) Adams""; ""Frances Mary (Redgrey) Albrier""; ""Margaret Abigail (Walker) Alexander""; ""Sadie Tanner (Mossell) Alexander""; ""Elizabeth (Cardozo) Barker""; ""Etta Moten Barnett""; ""Norma Boyd""; ""Melnea Agnes (Jones) Cass""; ""May Edward Chinn, M.D""; ""Juanita Jewel Craft""; ""Clara (Miles) Peters Dickson""; ""Alice (Allison) Dunnigan""; ""Alfreda M. (Barnett) Duster""; ""Eva Beatrice Dykes""; ""Mae (Graves) Brown Massie Eberhardt"" , ""Florence Lewis (Jacobs) Edmonds""
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110973914
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783598413506
    Additional Edition: Print version Black Women Oral History Project, Volume 1
    Language: English
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    Philippe de Commynes : Memory, Betrayal, Text (2013)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press
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    gbv_868337129
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    ISBN: 9781442645622
    Content: This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781442663237
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781442645622
    Additional Edition: Print version Kleiman, Irit Ruth Philippe de Commynes : Memory, Betrayal, Text Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2013 ISBN 9781442645622
    Language: English
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    The Return of Feminist Liberalism (2014)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    gbv_799572217
    Format: Online-Ressource (337 p)
    ISBN: 9781844652693
    Content: While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism''s association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism. This book examines why, and in what ways, each of these theorists believes that liberali
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the return of feminist liberalism; 1. The feminist critique of liberalism; I The feminist liberalism of Susan Moller Okin; 2. Injustices, gender, families; 3. Defining Okin's liberalism; 4. He said, she said: the Okin-Rawls debate; 5. When liberal meanings are not shared; 6. Going global; II The feminist liberalism of Jean Hampton; 7. Contracting for feminism; 8. Kantian feminism; III The feminist liberalism of Martha Nussbaum; 9. An original position; 10. What women want , 11. Capabilities for careIV Contemporary feminist liberalism; 12. In the company of critics: feminist liberalism meets feminist critics of liberalism; 13. Persuasive universalism and political liberalism; 14. Transformative liberalisms; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781317547952
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781844652693
    Additional Edition: Print version The Return of Feminist Liberalism
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    In Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health : Nature, Norms, and Human Biology (2008)
    Abingdon : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
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    UID:
    gbv_1696414687
    Format: 1 online resource (254 pages)
    ISBN: 9780754687214
    Series Statement: Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics
    Content: One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. This debate has fueled many of the, often very acrimonious, disputations arising from the claims of health, disease and disability activists and charities and the public policy responses to them. In responding to this debate, Ananth both surveys the existing literature, with special focus on the work of Christopher Boorse, and argues that a naturalistic concept of health, drawing on evolutionary considerations associated with biological function, homeostasis, and species-design, is defensible without jettisoning norms in their entirety.
    Content: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to the Concept of Health: Topic of Study: The Importance and Priority of a Concept of Health -- 2 Boorse's Critique of Naturalist Concepts of Health -- 3 Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health -- 4 The Function Debate and the Emergence of Boorse's Concept of Function -- 5 Boorse's Concept of Health -- 6 Boorse and His Critics -- 7 An Evolutionary Concept of Health -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780754658528
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    Additional Edition: Print version In Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health : Nature, Norms, and Human Biology
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    Latinos in American Society : Families and Communities in Transition (2011)
    Ithaca : Cornell University Press
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    UID:
    gbv_1696351952
    Format: 1 online resource (311 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9780801461040
    Content: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Why Study Latino Families? -- 2. Demographic Trends: Past, Present, and Future -- 3. How Have Latinos Been Studied? -- 4. The Importance of Education -- 5. Girlhood to Womanhood -- 6. Boyhood to Manhood -- 7. Physical and Mental Well-Being through Adulthood -- 8. Public Service Systems as Sites of the Reproduction of Inequality -- 9. Persistent Images and Changing Perceptions in the Twenty-First Century -- 10. Capturing the Lives of Latinos in the United States: Advancing the Production of Critical Social Science Knowledge -- References -- Index.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801449383
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    Language: English
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    Napa valley historical ecology atlas : exploring a hidden landscape of transformation and resilience (2012)
    Berkeley, Calif : University of California Press
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    gbv_807346977
    Format: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xi, 223 p.)) , ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 9781283373562 , 9780520951723 , 1283373564
    Series Statement: A Stephen Bechtel fund book in ecology and the environment
    Content: How has California's landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? What can the past teach us about designing future landscapes? The Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas explores these questions by taking readers on a dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley from the early 1800s onward--a forgotten land of brilliant wildflower fields, lush wetlands, and grand oak savannas. Robin Grossinger weaves together rarely-seen historical maps, travelers's accounts, photographs, and paintings to reconstruct early Napa Valley and document its physical transformation over the past two centuries. The Atlas provides a fascinating new perspective on this iconic landscape, showing the natural heritage that has enabled the agricultural success of the region today. The innovative research of Grossinger and his historical ecology team allows us to visualize the past in unprecedented detail, improving our understanding of the living landscapes we inhabit and suggesting strategies to increase their health and resilience in the future.
    Content: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Exploring The Napa Valley Through Time -- 2. Oak Savannas and Wildflower Fields -- 3. Creeks -- 4. Valley Wetlands -- 5. Napa River -- 6. Tidal Marshlands -- 7. Landscape Transformation and Resilience -- 8. Landscape Tours -- Common and Scientific Names of Species -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 0520269101
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780520269101
    Additional Edition: Druckausg. ISBN 978-0-520-26910-1
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