Author: James Kaiser
Publisher: Destination Press
Keywords: grand, canyon, park, national, complete, guide
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 096789042X
ISBN-13: 9780967890425

With a large number of beautiful, high-quality color photographs, this guide is as browsable as the best coffee table books but also supplies travelers with maps, travel tips, and extensive listings for lodging, camping, and sightseeing. From river rafting to scenic fly-overs, the Grand Canyon offers a plethora of potential activities—but without careful planning, a trip to this popular national park can be overwhelming. This guide divides the attractions into sections—the North Rim, South Rim, Colorado River, and Havasu Falls—with lodging, dining, and camping information given for each.

Author: James Kaiser
Publisher: Destination Press
Keywords: yosemite, park, national, guide, complete
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0967890470
ISBN-13: 9780967890470

From luxury lodges to rugged multi-day backpacks, this handy guide reveals the best of Yosemite National Park through vivid, full-color photography and informed writing. More than 20 hikes, ranging from easy to difficult, are covered in depth, with trail descriptions, elevation charts, maps, and photos. Chapters on history, geology, ecology, and wildlife are included along with essential information on lodging, camping, outdoor adventures, and popular park activities in Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, Wawona, and Hetch Hetchy. From the world-famous views of cliffs, waterfalls, polished gra

Author: James Kaiser
Publisher: Destination Press
Keywords: joshua, tree, park, national, complete, guide
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0967890446
ISBN-13: 9780967890449

With a large number of beautiful, high-quality color photographs, these guides are as browsable as the best coffee table books but also supply travelers with maps, travel tips, and extensive listings for lodging, camping, and sightseeing.Located just two hours east of Los Angeles, Joshua Tree National Park is a desert getaway that boasts some of the most dramatic and unexpected scenery in the Southwest. Stunning photographs showcase the area’s unusual geology, and chapters on history and wildlife describe the delicately balanced ecosystems. A guide to desert wildflowers is also included,

Author: James Kaiser
Publisher: Destination Press
Keywords: joshua, tree, park, national, complete, guide
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0967890462
ISBN-13: 9780967890463

Located just two hours east of Los Angeles, Joshua Tree National Park is a desert getaway that boasts some of the most dramatic and unexpected scenery in the Southwest. Stunning photographs showcase this wondrous landscape, while fascinating chapters discuss the park’s history, geology, and wildlife. A guide to desert wildflowers is also included along with updated trail maps for more than 20 of the best hikes in the park.

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ

Author: Lorae Parry
Publisher: Victoria University Press in association with the Women’s Play Press
Keywords: playscripts, zealand, new, eugenia
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864733046
ISBN-13: 9780864733047