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  • Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America

    Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction

    by Christopher J. Ellis, Melissa I. Pardi, Christopher C. Widga, Ryan M. Parish, Scott Eckford, D. Bryan Deller, William Fox, Adrian Burke, Peter L. Storck, Peter J. Barnett, L. Denis Delorme, Stephen Monckton, John Tomenchuk, Peter H. von Bitter, Bern Feenstra, Frank Crist Jr., Dan Long, Alan Morgan, Jonathan C. Lothrop, Susan Winchell-Sweeney, Kevin Smith, Mark F. Seeman, Edward W. Herrmann, Mackenzie J. Cory, Thomas LaDuke, Danial S. Amick, Thomas J. Loebel, Marvin Kay, Brooke M. Morgan, Matthew G. Hill, John M. Lambert, Steven L. Boles, Joseph A.M. Gingerich ...
    Series series Peopling of the Americas Publications
    Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction brings together a broad array of case studies from the United States and Canada that offers fresh perspectives on how early populations utilized ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Ancient Mines and Quarries

    A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

    by Adrian Burke, David Field ...
    Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction sites, including ethnography, geochemical signatures, the application of neutron activation analysis, exploitation of erratics, excavation, survey and conservation. Topics include quernstone extraction, use of hammers, stages of extraction, geographical and social contexts, changing social regimes, the ritualised nature ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson, Richard T.T. Forman ...
    Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that ... Read more

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  • Nature's Temples

    A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests Revised and Expanded

    by Joan Maloof ...
    An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservationStanding in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature’s Temples explores the science and alchemy of old-growth forests and makes a compelling case for their ... Read more

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  • Wetland Ecology

    Principles and Conservation

    by Paul A. Keddy ...
    Richly illustrated and packed with numerous examples, this unique global perspective introduces wetland ecology from basic principles to advanced applications. Thoroughly revised and reorganised, this new edition of this prize-winning textbook begins with underlying causal factors, before moving on to more advanced concepts that add depth and context. Each chapter begins with an explanation of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs

    Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

    by Donald R. Prothero ...
    Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark style and wit to an increasingly relevant subject of concern, Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 million years to their effects on plants and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • First Peoples in a New World

    Populating Ice Age America

    by David J. Meltzer ...
    Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich in plants and animals, but also a world still shivering itself out of the coldest depths of the Ice Age. The movement of those first Americans was one of the greatest journeys undertaken by ancient peoples. In this book, David Meltzer explores the world ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

    Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments

    by Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Janet Blakey, Luc Bouchet, James A. Burns, Grant M. Clarke, Gloria J. Fedirchuk, Timothy G. Fisher, Duane G. Froese, Eugene M. Gryba, John W. Ives, Raymond J. Le Blanc, Murray Lobb, Thomas V. Lowell, Brian O. K. Reeves, Elizabeth C. Robertson, Laura Roskowski, Nancy Saxberg, Jennifer C. Tischer, Stephen A. Wolfe, Robin J. Woywitka, Robert R. Young, Angela M. Younie ...
    Series series Recovering the Past
    Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flood ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Redwood Forest

    History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods

    by Save-the-Redwoods League ...
    Evidence is mounting that redwood forests, like many other ecosystems, cannot survive as small, isolated fragments in human-altered landscapes. Such fragments lose their diversity over time and, in the case of redwoods, may even lose the ability to grow new, giant trees.The Redwood Forest, written in support of Save-the-Redwood League's master plan, provides scientific guidance for saving the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology

    Examining Technology through Production and Use

    Edited by Jeffrey R. Ferguson ...
    Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology is a guide for the design of archaeological experiments for both students and scholars. Experimental archaeology provides a unique opportunity to corroborate conclusions with multiple trials of repeatable experiments and can provide data otherwise unavailable to archaeologists without damaging sites, remains, or artifacts.Each chapter addresses a ... Read more

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  • Hemlock

    A Forest Giant on the Edge

    by Anthony D'Amato, Benjamin Baiser, Aaron M. Ellison, David Orwig, Wyatt Oswald, Audrey Barker Plotkin, Jonathan Thompson ...
    Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnold’s ... Read more

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  • Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences

    by David B. Lindenmayer, Philip J. Burton, Jerry F. Franklin ...
    Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as a wildfire or hurricane—is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged areas should be logged so as to avoid “wasting” resources, while many forest ecologists contend that removing trees following a disturbance is harmful to a ... Read more

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