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Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of
the precarious future of America's public lands: our national
parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses.
Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground
reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how
accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and
vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the
national landscape. In addition, a growing political movement, well
financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these
federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control.
That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which
are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would
devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands. To
safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to
consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over
mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale
provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological
challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how
to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the
U.S. today.
A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of
the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated
American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular
figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he created
abstract paintings that combined landscape influence, aerial
perspective, and a deeply personal calligraphic language. Then, in
late 1955, he began working in a representational mode (landscapes,
figure studies, and still lifes) and was associated with the Bay
Area figurative movement. Diebenkorn later abandoned figurative
references in the 1960s and embarked on monumental abstract,
geometrical compositions, including his celebrated Ocean Park
works. This four-volume catalogue raisonne is the definitive
resource on Diebenkorn's unique works, including his paintings,
works on paper, and three-dimensional objects. The first volume
gives an overview of the artist's career, featuring essays by noted
scholars John Elderfield, Ruth E. Fine, Jane Livingston, Steven
Nash, and Gerald Nordland, as well as an illustrated chronology,
list of exhibitions, bibliography, and selection of studio notes.
The second volume spans his student and early abstract works; the
third volume features his representational works during the
Berkeley period; and the fourth volume covers his later periods, as
well as his sketchbooks and other little-known private drawings.
Many of the more than five thousand works illustrated in this
catalogue are being published for the first time, and with new
color photography that showcases his work like never before.
Published in association with the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation and
the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording
many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own
backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an
increasingly acute and serious nature. In Virginia Climate Fever,
environmental journalist Stephen Nash brings home the threat of
climate change to the state of Virginia. Weaving together a
compelling mix of data and conversations with both respected
scientists and Virginians most immediately at risk from global
warming's effects, the author details how Virginia's climate has
already begun to change. In engaging prose and layman's terms, Nash
argues that alteration in the environment will affect not only the
state's cities but also hundreds of square miles of urban and
natural coastal areas, the 60 percent of the state that is
forested, the Chesapeake Bay, and the near Atlantic, with
accompanying threats such as the potential spread of infectious
disease. The narrative offers striking descriptions of the
vulnerabilities of the state's many beautiful natural areas, around
which much of its tourism industry is built. While remaining
respectful of the controversy around global warming, Nash allows
the research to speak for itself. In doing so, he offers a
practical approach to and urgent warning about the impending impact
of climate change in Virginia.
A selection of poems written by Stephen Nash. Photography by
Stephen Nash.
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