William T Ashworth

Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England 1640-1845

History of the British Coal Industry 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry

The State in Business: 1945 to the Mid 1980s

Bears : Their Life and Behavior

Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains

The Late Great Lakes: An Environmental History

The Economy of Nature: Rethinking the Connections Between Ecology and Economics

Nor Any Drop to Drink

THE ECONOMY OF NATURE: Rethinking the Connections between Ecology and Economics

Offering a blueprint for a prosperous, greener world, a new approach to ecology and economics declares that humanity cannot have one without the other and must stop viewing environmental destruction as morally wrong and start seeing it as fiscally irresponsible.

Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845

Ashworth traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England. He examines their influence on elements such as state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. If there was a unique pathway of industrialization, it wa...

The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History

The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. With the longest continuous coastline in the United States, they hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply. Author William Ashworth presents a compelling history of the Great Lak...

Penguins, Puffins And Auks: Their Lives and Behavior

A large-format, magnificently illustrated nature book devoted to the black-and-white birds that fly in water and walk like people. With vivid photographs, Art Wolfe portrays penguins, auks, and puffins in their native habitats. William Ashworth's enlightening text points out the similarities and dif...

Bears: Their Life And Behavior: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES

Bears are unique. Although they are the world's largest carnivores, their diet is primarily vegetarian. They combine immense physical power with one of the keenest intelligences in the animal kingdom. They refuse to knuckle under to any kind of human domination. That is why we are tremendously fasci...

Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast (Great Lakes Books Series)

Great Lakes Journey is a follow-up to William Ashworth's earlier book The Late, Great Lakes, published in 1986. Fifteen years after his first trip, Ashworth journeys to many of the same places and talks to many of the same people to examine the changes that have taken place along the Great Lakes sin...

The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness (Northwest Reprints)

Part mountaineering adventure story and part spiritual memoir, The Wallowas recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace that wilderness offers. As a student, William Ashworth discovered the Wallowa Mountains in northeast Oregon and they became an obsession. His weekends and vacat...

Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains

A story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the High Plains. The Ogallala Aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains from Texas to Colorado contains enough water to fill Lake Erie nine times! Every year five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrig...