Richard R Tucker

Step Right Up!: Classic American Target and Arcade Forms

Explore the naive art of late 19th and early 20th century shooting gallery targets, whole galleries, and arcade forms. Commonly seen on early midways and carnivals, as well as in saloons and other public places of amusement, here, in a presentation of compelling color photographs, are the rarest and...

Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward An Environmental History of War

Contributors to this volume explore the dynamic between war and the physical environment from a variety of provocative viewpoints. The subjects of their essays range from conflicts in colonial India and South Africa to the U.S. Civil War and twentieth-century wars in Japan, Finland, and the Pacific ...

Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings

Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings is a collection of classic articles that have helped define the field of sociolinguistics and provide the foundation for future research, paired with more recent articles which indicate the direction the field has taken. * Offers a collection of classic artic...

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (Exploring World History)

Now in a concise edition created expressly for students and general readers, this widely hailed study traces the transformation of the tropics in modern times. Exploring the central role of the United States in the ongoing devastation of tropical lands, Richard P. Tucker shows how, in the late 1800s...

Richard Tucker: A Biography

Biography of the noted opera star. 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. E P Dutton and Co., Inc. (ISBN 0525241949).

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic...

A Forest History of India

This collection of articles by noted environmental historian Richard P Tucker is an attempt to trace Indian forest history from the colonial era to its post-Independence legacy. It is a study of the evolution of forest policy at the national level, in counterpoint with management at the provincial a...

Case in the Clinic

When a man drops dead in his garden during the early days of WWII it seems to be a simple case of heart failure, even though he was in fine physical shape. But once Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is brought in, British mystery readers know they're in for a wild ride. Now American readers can j...

Maria Callas

…[27] Bing and Callas later reconciled their differences, and she returned to the house in 1965 to sing the title role in two performances as Tosca opposite Franco Corelli as Cavaradossi for one performance (March 19, 1965) and Richard Tucker (March 25, 1965) with Tito Gobbi as Scarpia for he...

Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913 January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor. Contents. 1 Early life; 2 Operatic career; 3 Legacy; 4 Audio examples...

Automation and Robotics in Construction X: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction

Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation

Compendium of Construction Project Management

Human and Environmental Risks of Chlorinated Dioxins and Related Compounds

Ranade and the Roots of Indian Nationalism

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy