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Coming to Miami:
A Social History
By Melanie Shell-Weiss (Author)
"Miami deserves a total urban history, and Melanie Shell-Weiss
is clearly the scholar the city has been waiting for. Coming to
Miami is, by far, the best book ever written on the social
history of Miami, still a very poorly understood and
under-researched major metropolis."--Alex Lichtenstein,
Rice University
"Bringing together the stories of Jewish immigrant pioneers,
African American migrants, Bahamian immigrants, Cuban refugees,
Haitian immigrants, and others, Shell-Weiss has given us not
only a glimpse of Miami's past, but also of America's
future."--Elizabeth Clifford,
Towson University
Miami is the fifth largest urban area in the United States, yet
it is a city barely one hundred years old. Originally a small
southern town, its population and character have been
transformed by successive waves of immigrants.
Beginning with the West Indian and Jewish populations who
arrived shortly after the city's founding through the Bahamian,
Cuban, Haitian, and other Latino groups who immigrated en masse
in the second half of the century, Melanie Shell-Weiss
skillfully interweaves the experiences of Miami's diverse
communities into a compelling whole. She not only examines
issues of gender, race, and cultural identity but also pays
close attention to labor, economics, and working-class
organization and activism, all of which played a role in shaping
and reshaping the city into America's premier polyglot.
From pineapple groves to Cuban exiles to South Beach nightclubs,
this impeccably researched and lucidly written book reveals much
about the Magic City's multicultural diversity.
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Down to the Waterline
Boundaries, Nature, and
the Law in Florida
by Sara Warner (Author)
Do our rights
end—or begin—at the water's edge?
In most states the boundary separating public waters from private
uplands-the ordinary high water line (OHWL)-is a flashpoint between
proponents of either property rights or public-trust protection of
our water. Using Florida as a case study, Down to the Waterline is
the first book-length analysis of the OHWL doctrine and its legal,
technical, and cultural underpinnings. Sara Warner not only covers
the historical function of the OHWL but tells how advances in
science and our environmental attitudes have led us to a more
complex encounter with this ancient boundary.
Florida sees a steady influx of new
residents who crowd along its extensive coasts and interior
shorelines-yet who also demand pristine water resources. The OHWL
establishes public access and private ownership limits on some of
the state's most valuable land: in economic terms, waterfront real
estate; in ecological terms, marshes and wetlands. Sara Warner
brings to life many of the courtroom battles fought over the OHWL
through the perspectives of ranchers, outdoors enthusiasts,
developers, surveyors, scientists, and policymakers.
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Ecosystems of Florida
by Ronald L. Myers (Author), John
J. Ewel (Editor)
In this first comprehensive guide to the
state’s natural resources in sixty years, thirty top scholars
describe the character, relationships, and importance of Florida’s
ecosystems, the organisms that inhabit them, the forces that
maintain them, and the agents that threaten them. From pine
flatwoods to coral reef, Ecosystems of Florida provides a
detailed, comprehensive, authoritative account of the peninsular
state’s complex, fragile environments.
In straightforward text, charts, maps, and illustrations, Ecosystems of Florida
offers broad vision and detailed expertise
to naturalists, wildlife managers, land use planners, foresters, and
other professional and general readers interested in Florida’s
environmental resources. For the foreseeable future, it will serve
as the authoritative guide to the state’s environment and to those
who would work with it.
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Florida's Best Native Landscape Plants
200 Readily Available
Species for Homeowners and Professionals
by
GIL NELSON (Author), DAVID CHIAPPINI (Editor)
"This beautifully illustrated book is loaded with practical
information that professionals and homeowners will find very
useful."—Jeffrey G. Norcini, University of Florida
"Gil Nelson's book provides a very good selective overview of native
plants readily available in the nursery trade that can be used in
landscaping and the best ways to utilize them."—Richard P. Wunderlin,
author of Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida and Flora of
Florida, Volume 1
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Florida Bird Songs
by Donald J Borror, Maurice L Giltz
A cassette edition of the songs and
calls of 59 birds commonly occurring
in Florida, arranged by principal
habitat from shores and salt marshes
to pinelands and prairies. With
64pp. book describing and
illustrating each bird and
presenting 81 sonograms of songs and
calls. 59 illustrations.
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Florida's Paved Bike Trails
by JEFF KUNERTH
(Author), GRETCHEN KUNERTH (Author)
Florida’s Paved Bike Trails offers the most comprehensive guide available to more than 40 paved
bicycle trails stretching from Pensacola Beach to the Florida Keys,
with information on projects in progress or in the planning stages.
Location maps and a geographical and historical description of each
trail are included, as well as access listings of trailside
facilities and parking and information on basic bicycle safety and
bicycle shops. And, unlike other bicycling books, this guide also
provides information about parks, beaches, lakes, recreational
areas, wildlife refuges, historic sites, and museums along the
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Florida
Weather
by
Morton Winsburg
"Weather is a collection of dynamic natural processes and we can
explain its characteristics better today than even a decade ago. In
this second edition of his popular account of Florida weather,
Morton Winsberg provides the latest information on the state's
atmospheric phenomena. His expanded coverage includes the El Nino
Southern Oscillation; weather extremes and long-term climate change;
the rise of urban heat islands; global climatic change and its
possible impact on Florida; and an analysis of Hurricane Andrew, the
most destructive weather event in the history of the United States."
Winsberg explains the forces that control Florida's weather and
climate: latitude, altitude, land and water distribution, ocean
currents, prevailing winds, storms, and pressure systems. He
organizes the book around seasons and reports seasonal variations
throughout the state, with generous maps, photographs, diagrams, and
charts. He also offers advice on dealing with the weather hazards
associated with each season, such as lightning, tornadoes,
hurricanes, droughts, and freezes. A weather planner for outdoor
activities gives probable temperatures and rain chance throughout
the year for a range of geographic locations in Florida.
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Florida
Wildlife Viewing Guide
by
Susan Cerulean and Ann Morrow
From the dazzling beaches of Canaveral National Seashore to the
subtropical sawgrass prairies of world-famous Everglades National
Park, the Florida Wildlife Viewing Guide will lead you to 96 premier
wildlife viewing areas and will better your chances of seeing
wildlife once you get there. Included are detailed descriptions of
each viewing site and its wildlife, maps, and access information,
helpful viewing tips, and more than eighty color photographs
featuring the incredibly diverse wildlife and natural areas of the
Sunshine State.
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Florida's Working-Class
Past:
Current Perspectives on Labor, Race,
and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration
Edited by Prof. Robert Cassanello (Editor), Melanie Shell-Weiss
(Editor)
"Not only a fine collection on Florida itself, but also a model of
what edited state histories of labor might look like in the future.
It is as multiracial (also moving well beyond black and white) and
almost as gendered as the experiences of workers themselves. It
refuses to separate the histories of slavery and of free labor.
Finally it is at times impressively interdisciplinary without any
lapses into disciplinary jargon."--David R. Roediger, University of
Illinois
Florida provides a unique opportunity to explore the history
of working men and women within a constantly changing
environment. Stretching from the Spanish colonial period
through the recent organizing efforts of service and
agricultural workers, this collection showcases a broad
spectrum of working experiences in a region that has been
sorely neglected in many labor histories.
The essays in Florida's Working-Class Past pay
special attention to gender, race, ethnicity,
migration, and social networks. Under the guidance
of editors Robert Cassanello and Melanie
Shell-Weiss, the contributors offer fresh analyses
of labor activism, re-contextualize Indian tribute
and slavery within the context of labor history, and
examine major themes in labor and working-class
history in one place over several centuries.
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Fossiling in Florida
A Guide for Diggers and
Divers
by OLIN MARK RENZ
(Author)
County Edition (Macclenny)
[This] guide...will fill you in on what animals lived here before
man stepped foot in Florida--and after.
County Edition (Macclenny)
A friendly read.
Indian Artifact Magazine
If you like fossils, even a little bit, YOU SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK!
Outdoor Adventure
This very readable book will make a dull subject anything but dull.
Hendry-Glades Sunday News
Renz's book is scientifically accurate, and so much more.
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Frogs and Toads of the Southeast
by Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons (Author)
Review
[An] exquisite book...on the herpetofauna of the southeastern United
States.... [H]igh-quality, clearly written, with an attractive
layout.... [H]as solid introductory information, detailed species
descriptions, excellent range maps and color photographs, line
drawings showing defining features, and a strong conservation
message. There is an explanation as to how to use the species
accounts which will be of value to the lay reader. --Herpetological
Review, Fall 2008 |
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Guide to Sea
Kayaking in Southern Florida
The Best Day Trips and
Tours from St. Petersburg to the Florida Keys
by
Nigel Foster
Let world-renowned sea kayaker Nigel Foster guide you through one of
his favorite kayaking haens. In Guide to Sea Kayaking In Southern
Florida, he leads kayakers of all skill levels on 40 trips, with
many additional route alternatives, in some of the most spectacular
and wildlife-rich marine habitats on the planet.
Designed for beginner, intermediate, and advanced kayakers, this
guide gives detailed descriptions of the routes, including prominent
landmarks and interesting sites along the way. Detailed maps as well
as overviews of Southern Florida’s weather, tide, and current
patterns add to the thorough coverage of paddling this particular
coastline.
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida
by National Audubon
Society (Corporate Author), Peter Alden (Author), Rick Cech (Author)
From the Inside Flap
Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida belongs in the
home of every Florida resident and in the suitcase or backpack of
every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's
wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles,
birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more;
A complete overview of Florida's natural history, covering geology,
wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and
weather patterns and night sky;
An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, beaches,
forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed
descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on
dozens of others.
The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color
images include more than 1,300 photographs, 14 maps, and 16
night-sky charts, as well as 150 drawings explaining everything from
geological processes to the basic features of different plants and
animals.
For everyone who lives or spends time in Florida, there can be no
finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida.
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Native Florida Plants, Revised Edition
Low Maintenance
Landscaping and Gardening
by Robert G. Haehle (Author)
Many counties in Florida now require
that new commercial landscapes contain a percentage of native
plants. Native landscapes are easier to maintain, use less water and
thrive without chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Native
Florida Plants describes every type of regional flora---from
seaside foliage and wildflowers to grassy meadows, shrubs, vines,
and aquatic gardens---in 301 profiles and accompanying color
photographs. |
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Snake in the Grass: An
Everglades Invasion
by Larry Perez (Author)
A plague is spreading throughout the Florida
Everglades. Nonnative Burmese pythons--one of the
largest snakes on the planet--are now known to be
reproducing freely in the shallow waters of the
famed River of Grass. Over the past decade,
thousands of pythons have made themselves at home
across the landscape. And though scientists work
feverishly to learn as much as possible about this
unprecedented invader, methods of control remain
elusive.
Many questions remain in the wake of this troubling
discovery. How far north might the Burmese python
venture from the Everglades wilderness? What might
their presence mean for the countless birds and
mammals--some of them endangered--with which south
Florida has become synonymous? And does history seem
poised to repeat itself as new, large reptiles are
discovered to be thriving in the area's favorable
climate? The story unfolding in the Florida
Everglades provides new opportunities to revisit our
understanding of wilderness and man's place within
it.
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Snakes Of The Southeast
(Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
by
Whit Gibbons (Author), Michael E. Dorcas (Author), J. Whitfield
Gibbons (Author)
Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, GA February 6, 2005
"There aren't many places where you can find all 52 species of
snakes known to inhabit the Southeast."
Weekly Reader August 2005
"Really fascinating."
Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, GA November 20, 2005
"An eye-catching new nature guidebook melding good descriptive
writing, a dapper design and strikingly crisp photographs."
Wildlife Activist Summer 2005
"Each account is illustrated with excellent color photos, range maps
and a wealth of facts."
Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society March 2006
"A treasure to anyone having an interest in becoming a
herpetologist, and any child having an inclination for learning
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Stolen Water
Saving the
Everglades from its Friends, Foes, and Florida
by
W. Hodding Carter
When the Comprehensive Everglades
Restoration Plan went into effect during the
Clinton administration, Florida's great
grassy wilderness garnered a host of
national attention -- and has since become a
breeding ground for environmental dispute.
What does it take to "save" a forest? How
can it be preserved?
Enter W. Hodding Carter. For an Outside
magazine feature he's agreed to paddle the
ninety-nine-mile waterway in Everglades
National Park to examine the landscape from
all angles -- physical, political, cultural,
and very personal -- and get to the
rock-bottom heart of the story. Stolen Water
is the outgrowth of Carter's journey.
Through investigative research, eyewitness
accounts, and interviews with key players in
the conservation controversy, Carter offers
a rare portrait of a national treasure.
Utterly important, and at times downright
hilarious, Stolen Water is a classic
American adventure tale, and an
environmental parable for our time.
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Turtles of the Southeast ( Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
by
Kurt Buhlmann (Author), Tracey Tuberville (Author), Whit Gibbons
(Author)
Review
[An] exquisite book...on the herpetofauna of the southeastern United
States.... High-quality, clearly written, with an attractive
layout.... Has solid introductory information, detailed species
descriptions, excellent range maps and color photographs, line
drawings showing defining features, and a strong conservation
message. There is an explanation as to how to use the species
accounts which will be of value to the lay reader. --Herpetological
Review, Fall 2008
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