Dirt
-
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
By William Bryant Logan" John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work, taking their place next to the dung beetle, the compost heap, dowsing, historical farming, and the microscopic biota that till the ...
-
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By David R. MontgomeryMan and the Earth. New York: Fox, Duffield. Swift, J. 1977. Sahelian pastoralists: Underdevelopment, desertification, and famine. Annual Review of Anthropology 6:457-78. Syvitski, J. P. M., C. J. Vörösmarty, A. J. Kettner, and P. Green.
-
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By David R. MontgomeryRanging from ancient times to modern-day environmental threats, a natural and cultural history of soil explains how an elimination of protective vegetation and an exposure to wind and rain causes severe erosion of cultivated soils, how the ...
-
Dirt: Adventures, With Family, in the Kitchens of Lyon, Looking for the Origins of French Cooking
By Bill BufordFrom the author of the best-selling, widely acclaimed Heat--a new hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of the author's adventures, this time, in the world of French haute cuisine Bill Buford turns his inimitable attention ...
-
Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking
By Bill BufordSo begins Bill Buford's vivid, hilarious, intimate account of his five-year odyssey in French cuisine. After realising that a stage in France was the necessary first step, he moves with his young family to Lyon.
-
Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination
By Rosie Cox, Ben CampkinDirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt.
-
Dirt
By Tony DorisDuring a chance night shift on the cops beat, newsroom assistant Madeleine Harrington stumbles on the corruption story of a lifetime – a plot that would reshape the entire city.
-
Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful
By Mary MarantzBecause God does his best work in the muddy, messy, and broken--if we'll only learn to dig in. This story is a reconciliation with the roots that grew her. And it always started with dirt.
-
Dirt: The Scoop on Soil
By Natalie M. RosinskyDiscusses the nature, uses, and importance of soil and the many forms of life that it supports.
-
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
By Bill BufordThis is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France.
-
Dirt
By Steve TomecekBrief text explores how soil is formed, its layers, and its importance as a natural resource that living things need to survive.
-
Dirt
By Denise Gosliner OrensteinThings are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door. Dirt has problems of his own.
-
Dirt: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House
By Mindy LewisSome of us have just thought about it more than others. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about who we are, our roots, relationships, and even our outlook on life. Everyone can relate to DIRT.
-
Dirt
By Stuart WoodsThe second novel in the thrilling Stone Barrington Series by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Stuart Woods "Blackmail, murder, suspense, love—what else could you want in a book?" –Cosmopolitan Feared and loathed for her poison pen ...
-
Dirt
By Steve TomecekBrief text explores how soil is formed, its layers, and its importance as a natural resource that living things need to survive, in an addition to an early science discovery series which combines important scientific information with kid ...
-
Dirt
By Jack RedwingInside the flaps, you'll find fun facts about items in the artwork. 12 chunky flaps with peek-through holes, easy for little hands to open and close Lifting flaps encourage the use of fine motor skills and the content-rich text builds ...
-
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By David R. MontgomeryRanging from ancient times to modern-day environmental threats, a natural and cultural history of soil explains how an elimination of protective vegetation and an exposure to wind and rain causes severe erosion of cultivated soils, how the ...
-
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By David R. Montgomeryground—turning our dirt into soil. Recycling organic matter literally put life back in our yard. Adjusted for scale, the same principles could work for farms. About the same time that mechanization transformed conventional ag- riculture ...
-
DIRT
By Helene Furján, Megan Born, Lily JencksThe chapters predict and report on city waterfronts revamped by climate change, the reinvention of suburbia, and cityscapes of ruins; dish the dirt with yet-to-be proven facts; make such unexpected linkages as ornament to weed growth and ...
-
Dirt: A Love Story
By Barbara RichardsonCommunity farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt.