Robert m bachman (4 resultados)

Tapa dura. Condición: Bien. Círculo de lectores, 1989. Salud. Divulgación. Medicinas naturales. Especialidades. 95 páginas. 22 x 16. Tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Perfecto estado de conservación. ISBN: 8422630117. Libro.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, red spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Robert D. Kaplan; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Hart Crane, "To Brooklyn Bridge" 1930; Invocation; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Some Works Relevant to the Text; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with preliminary page map and black-and-white photograph. "At a time when there is little consensus about who we are and what we should be doing with our power overseas, a return to the elemental truths of the American landscape is urgently needed. From Robert D. Kaplan, one of the world's most influential geopolitical thinkers and the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts, comes an incisive portrait of the continent from the thinly soiled Great Plains to the river system of the Midwest. Earning the Rockies shows how geography will always determine America's role in the world. As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. There was a specific phrase from Kaplan's childhood that captured this perspective: A westward traveler must "earn the Rockies" by driving - not flying - across the flat Midwest and Great Plains. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Traveling west, in the same direction as the pioneers, Kaplan traverses a rich and varied landscape that remains the primary source of American power. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline - increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing - and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light - as a story not just of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain, a frontier experience that bent our national character toward pragmatism. Kaplan shows how the great midcentury works of geography and geopolitics by Bernard DeVoto, Walter Prescott Webb, and Wallace Stegner are more relevant today than ever before. Concluding his journey at Naval Base San Diego, Kaplan looks out across the Pacific Ocean to the next frontier: China, India, and the emerging nations of Asia. And in the final chapter, he provides a gripping description of an anarchic world and explains why America's foreign policy response ought to be rooted in its own geographical situation. In this short, intense meditation on the American landscape, Robert D. Kaplan reminds us of an overlooked source of American strength: the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once. Earning the Rockies is a reminder of how a nation's geography still foreshadows its future, and how we must reexamine our own landscape in order to confront the challenges that lie before us." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bordwin, Gabrielle (jacket design); Bachman, Barbara M. (book design) (ilustrador). …

Tapa Dura. Condición: Como Nuevo. Colecc. 'Medicina Natural'. Cartoné. Precintado. Como nuevo.

1989, Barcelona, Circulos de lectores, 22x17, 96 paginas con dibujos, tapa dura ilustrada, 350 gramos, buen estado.