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  • Our Common Seas

    Coasts in Crisis

    by Don Hinrichsen ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned development, all of which are busily ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Coastal Waters of the World

    Trends, Threats, and Strategies

    by Don Hinrichsen ...
    Nearly 60% of the world's population lives and works within 100 miles of a coast, and even those who don't are connected to the world's oceans through an intricate drainage of rivers and streams. Ultimately the whole of humankind is coastal.Coastal Waters of the World is a comprehensive reference source on the state of the world's coastal areas. It focuses on the tremendous pressures facing ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez

    by John Steinbeck ...
    A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Galapagos

    A Natural History

    by Henry Nicholls ...
    Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galágos is the most pristine archipelago to be found anywhere in the tropics. It is so remote, so untouched, that the act of wading ashore can make you feel like you are the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Never Out of Season

    How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future

    by Rob Dunn ...
    The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out.That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Landing Native Fisheries

    Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

    by Douglas C. Harris ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the connections between the colonial land policy and the law ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Whales and Dolphins for Kids : Oceans of The World in Color

    Marine Life and Oceanography for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Oceanography Books
    Make basic oceanology fun and easy to understand with the help of this graphic educational book. Composed of wonderful images of the buzzing marine life, accompanied by important descriptive texts, this book will definitely be a joy to have. Your child can use this book to complement the school textbooks on the oceans. Secure a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Whales - Let's Meet Mr. Big Fins

    Whales Kids Book

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Fish & Marine Life Books
    This is Mr. Big Fins, and heÕs ready to teach you a lesson or two. Whales are amazing giants that periodically surface to show you how amazing they are! Turn the pages of this picture book to learn about them, and what you can do to make they continue to exist. Buy your copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Witness to Extinction

    How we Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin

    by Samuel Turvey ...
    The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many Chinese legends and folk tales. The Goddess of the Yangtze, as it was known, was also the lone representative of an entire and ancient branch of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sea Turtles : 101 Super Fun Facts And Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 6 Sea Turtles)

    by Janet Evans ...
    SEA TURTLES: 101 SUPER FUN FACTS AND AMAZING PICTURES ( FEATURING THE WORLD's TOP 6 SEA TURTLES) This book depicts the wonder of the world of Sea Turtles. Children are given a well-rounded understanding of this beautiful creature: its anatomy, feeding habits and behavior. The following Sea Turtles are featured: Green Sea Turtle Hawksbill Sea Turtle Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Loggerhead Sea Turtle ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Lyster's International Wildlife Law

    by Michael Bowman, Peter Davies, Catherine Redgwell ...
    The development of international wildlife law has been one of the most significant exercises in international law-making during the last fifty years. This second edition of Lyster's International Wildlife Law coincides with both the UN Year of Biological Diversity and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Simon Lyster's first edition. The risk of wildlife depletion and species extinction has become even ... Read more

    $57.39 USD