Christopher Norment (41 results)

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hardcover. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerised by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored. Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, and experience?what might be called a ?cartographical psychology? or ?cartographical history.? Interweaving a personal narrative structured around a variety of maps with stories about maps as told by scholars, poets, and fiction writers, this book provides a dazzlingly rich personal and intellectual account of what many of us take for granted. A dialogue between desire and the maps of his life, an exploration of the pleasures, utilitarian purposes, benefits, and character of maps, this rich and powerful personal narrative is the matrix in which Norment embeds an exploration of how maps function in all our lives. Page by page, readers will confront the aesthetics, mystery, function, power, and shortcomings of maps, causing them to reconsider the role that maps play in their lives.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerised by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored. Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, and experience?what might be called a ?cartographical psychology? or ?cartographical history.? Interweaving a personal narrative structured around a variety of maps with stories about maps as told by scholars, poets, and fiction writers, this book provides a dazzlingly rich personal and intellectual account of what many of us take for granted. A dialogue between desire and the maps of his life, an exploration of the pleasures, utilitarian purposes, benefits, and character of maps, this rich and powerful personal narrative is the matrix in which Norment embeds an exploration of how maps function in all our lives. Page by page, readers will confront the aesthetics, mystery, function, power, and shortcomings of maps, causing them to reconsider the role that maps play in their lives.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Hardcover. Good in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy with firm binding, with highlighting and pen and pencil marks to some pages. Octavo, 234 pages, with maps. Issued as part of the Sightline Books series. "Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows" blends memoir, natural history, and philosophy as Christopher Norment reflects on fieldwork and the emotional and intellectual pursuit of ornithology. Norment is a professor of environmental science and ecology at SUNY Brockport and the author of several acclaimed works of natural history. This is his second book. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 234 p. Contains: Maps. Sightline Books. Audience: General/trade. Fine in fine dust jacket. like new in like new jacket, first printing.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 110, pp. 769-777, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. University of Iowa Press hardcover in dust jacket, 2008, 1st edition/1st printing, unused and carefully stored, No remainder marks/tears or other defects; (as New/as New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 94, pp. 955-975, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, then Recased in Orig Journal Covers, VG.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. solid hardcover first edition cover shows light wear overall good a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. As brand new.

Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Full number line. The book is bound in fine red cloth with titling in silver on the spine. Pages are clean, crisp , smooth and unmarked. The binding is tight. The dust jacket has a thin line of age-toning along the top edges of the panels. It is unclipped with no original price indicated. Five men paddleing the Macmillan River to Hudson Bay in Canada's Northwest Territory. Illustrated with photographs of the journey in color.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence - for as much as ten million years - amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence - for as much as ten million years - amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This copy with dust jacket is clean and unmarked in very good condition. 248 pages.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.12x0.64 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. An account of fourteen months spent in the wilderness of northern Canada--of a canoe trip from the Yukon to Hudson Bay and a winter of isolation deep within the Barren Grounds, 250 miles from the nearest settlement. Descriptions of the beauty in the harshness and emptiness, the joys of running sled dogs punctuated by friendship, conflict and connecting with the land. xii, Epilogue, Bibliography, 248 pp. CONDITION: Red hardboards, title on spine. Text free of writing. Wormholes last two pages. Shaded endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket, slight wear. Near fine copy. Full refund if not satisfied. Author Inscription.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Larger 8vo pp. 248. book.

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Excellent study of relict populations in the American West. pp271. DW in archival sleeve.