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Item Restricted Mega-dams in world literature: literary responses to twentieth-century dam building(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Ziolkowski, Margaret, author; University of Wyoming Press, publisherMega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in literary works, focusing on the shifting attitudes toward large dams that emerged over the course of the twentieth century. Margaret Ziolkowski covers the enthusiasm for large-dam construction that took place during the mid-twentieth-century heyday of mega-dams, the increasing number of people displaced by dams, the troubling environmental effects they incur, and the types of destruction and protest to which they may be subject.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Big box USA: the environmental impact of America's biggest retail stores(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Elmore, Bart, editor; Gross, Rachel S., editor; Sheu, Sherri, editor; University of Wyoming Press, publisherBig Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book examines the relationships that make up one of the most visible features of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century American life.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The art and life of Merritt Dana Houghton in the Northern Rockies, 1878-1919(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Amundson, Michael A., author; University of Wyoming Press, publisher