Environmental Studies

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The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

Natures Past

The Environment and Human History

By Paolo Squatriti
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

A global examination of how human communities have interacted with different kinds of natural environments through their cultural, social and economic activities

Americans and Their Land

The House Built on Abundance

By Anne Mackin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, History, American History

The story of Americans' relation to land, how it has changed in the face of diminishing resources, and what the future may hold

The Land between the Rivers

Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819

By Russell M. Lawson
Subjects: History, American History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

A retelling of Thomas Nuttall's near-death expedition up the Arkansas River in the early years of the nineteenth century

A Greener Vision of Home

Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918

By William H. Rollins
Subjects: German Studies, History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The story of a successful citizens' movement to protect the land and encourage a culture of environmental respect in pre-World War I Germany

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