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  • Shepherding Nature

    The Challenge of Conservation Reliance

    by J. Michael Scott, John A. Wiens, Beatrice Van Horne, Dale D. Goble ...
    Globally, more and more species are at risk of extinction as the environment and climate change. Many of these species require long-term management to persist - they are conservation-reliant. The magnitude of this challenge requires a rethinking of how conservation priorities are determined and a broader societal commitment to conservation. Choices need to be made about which species will be ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity

    by J. Michael Scott, Michael E. Soulé, Keith Hay, Blair Csuti, Larry Harris, Ben Brown, Hal Salwasser, Felice Pace, Gary Barrett, Lisa Osborn, Don Waller, Reed F. Noss, Douglas Chadwick, Defenders of Wildlife ...
    In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the most diverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Endangered Species Act at Thirty

    Vol. 1: Renewing the Conservation Promise

    Edited by Dale D. Goble, J. Michael Scott, Frank W. Davis ...
    The Endangered Species Act at Thirty is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of issues surrounding the Endangered Species Act, with a specific focus on the act's actual implementation record over the past thirty years. The result of a unique, multi-year collaboration among stakeholder groups from across the political spectrum, the two volumes offer a dispassionate consideration of a highly ... Read more

    $46.09 USD

  • The Endangered Species Act at Thirty

    Vol. 2: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes

    Edited by J. Michael Scott, Dale D. Goble, Frank W. Davis ...
    A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, this book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversity in the United States by revisiting some basic questions in conservation: What are we trying to protect and why? What are the limits of species-based conservation? Can we develop new conservation strategies that are more ... Read more

    $46.09 USD

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  • Being a Beast

    Adventures Across the Species Divide

    by Charles Foster ...
    In this "tour de force of modern nature writing," a passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal—by living like them ( The Guardian, UK).In Being a Beast, Charles Foster tests the limits of our ability to walk in another's footsteps. He lives alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Jack London: The Complete Novels

    by Jack London ...
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    by Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Horses Never Lie about Love

    The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World around Her

    by Jana Harris ...
    The heartwarming true story of a woman and the horse who changed her life.Jana Harris had always dreamed of having a horse farm, and she knew the horse on whom she could build her dreams the moment she saw her on a ranch in the Eastern Mountains of Washington State, where a herd had been corralled to be sold: a beautiful, deep dark red-colored mare standing about sixteen hands, with a white star ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Wildlife Spectacles

    Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors

    by Vladimir Dinets ...
    Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book!People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you’ll discover the migration ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wolverine Way

    by Douglas H. Chadwick ...
    Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The African Adventurers

    A Return to the Silent Places

    by Peter Hathaway Capstick ...
    Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway Capstick "can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors' ( Sports Illustrated). This long-awaited sequel to Death in the Silent Places brings to life four turn-of-the-century adventurers and the savage frontiers they braved.* Frederick Selous, a British hunter, naturalist, and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Green Mansions

    by William Henry Hudson ...
    First published in 1904, William Henry Hudson’s “Green Mansions” is an exotic and romantic tale set in the wild jungles of Venezuela. Hudson was born in Argentina to American ex-patriots and spent most of his adult life in England, where he wrote books on ornithology, the English countryside, and several works of fiction. “Green Mansions” is his most popular and enduring novel and many of his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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