Books written by Michael Woods

Air Disasters

Amazingly, the crash killed only thirty-five passengers and one person Radio announcer Herbert Morrison reported on the Hindenburg's arrival. “Here it comes, ladies and on the ground. After the disaster, people were afraid to ride in ...
Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

London : Pearson . pp . 263–282 . ... NCES ( National Center for Education Statistics ) ( 1997 ) Statistical Analysis Report : Characteristics of Small and Rural School Districts . Washington , DC : NCES . Nelson , M.K. ( 1999 ) Between ...
Newcastle 900 Railways: A Celebration of the 900th Anniversary of Newcastle Upon Tyne Promoted by the City Council

Newcastle 900 Railways: A Celebration of the 900th Anniversary of Newcastle Upon Tyne Promoted by the City Council
An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics

In fact there are two questions hidden within this conundrum (see Duncan and Savage 1991). First, what importance can be given to locality in conducting research on political and economic geography? Duncan (1989) argued that localities ...
Earthquakes

George Heinrich Crist, describing an earthquake in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1812 — George Heinrich Crist, describing an earthquake in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1812 ' Earthquakes are difficult to predict. One minute, everything is normal ...
Earthquakes

Describes what earthquakes are and explains what causes them and tells what happened during and after major earthquakes that have occurred in the past two hundred and fifty years.
An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics

Rob Shields (1991: 182–99), for instance, has focused on the importance of the Canadian North for the constitution of Canadian nationalism. In one context, the Canadian North can be viewed in much the same way as Gruffudd and Johnson ...
An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics

Lee, R. (1995) Look after the pounds and the people will look after themselves: social reproduction, regulation, ... Lovell, G. (2005) Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands of ...
An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics

Kasperson , R. and Minghi , J. ( eds ) ( 1969 ) The Structure Krätke , S. ( 1999 ) ' A regulationist approach to regional of ... N. Lewis and J. Malone , London : tion , civic stratification and citizenship ' , Political Junius .
Seven Natural Wonders of the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Oceans

Ellis, Richard. ... Baker, Beth. Sylvia Earle. Minneapolis: Twenty-first Century Books, 2001. At a time when women didn't usually work in science, Sylvia Earle became a marine biologist and one of the foremost defenders of the sea and ...
Men's Health 190: Learning Guide

Men's Health 190: Learning Guide
Contesting Rurality: Politics in the British Countryside

... vestry as the absolute power of the lord declined (Eastwood, 1994; Webb and Webb, 1963). At a county level, increasing centralization saw the creation of the offices of sheriff (11th century), justice of the peace (14th century) and ...
Seven Wonders of Ancient Africa

Nobody knows when or how the beard broke off. Egyptian pyramids are limestone tombs for Egyptian kings. The pyramids have four triangular sides, which meet at the top to form a point. The most famous Egyptian pyramids are in Giza.
Ancient Transportation Technology: From Oars to Elephants

How did maps of the world improve over time? And how did ancient transportation set the stage for our own modern transportation technology? Learn more in Ancient Transportation Technology.
Droughts

Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods. “ It's as bad as it was in the Dust Bowl. It's as bad as it was in the Dust Bowl. ” ” —Mike Johanns, Nebraska governor, describing that state's drought in the early 2000s —Mike Johanns, Nebraska governor, ...
Cultivating Soil and Soul: Twentieth-Century Catholic Agrarians Embrace the Liturgical Movement

Even before Vatican Council II, individuals like Virgil Michel and Catholic social movements like the National Catholic Rural Life Conference attempted to promote greater social justice by reconnecting rural life...
The Tomb of King Tutankhamen

A royal treasure buried for 3,000 years .
Rural

Panelli, R., Allen, D., Ellison, B., Kelly, A., John, A. and Tipa, G. (2008) Beyond Bluff oysters? Place identity and ethnicity in a peripheral coastal setting, Journal of Rural Studies, 24: 41–55. Panelli, R., Nairn, K. and McCormack, ...
Blizzards

Robertson recalled a school bus that stopped to let a group of children off near their homes just before the blizzard started. “Some of them never made it home,” he said. “There was no visibility, and the storm seems to have struck out ...
Conditionals

Said of a visibly blue bird, I argue that it is not a canary. Said of a visibly yellow bird, I present a reason for thinking I. 7 See Anderson, 'A Note on Subjunctive and Counterfactual Conditionals'. 8 Dudman gives a quite different ...