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  • Africa's Threatened Rhinos

    A History of Exploitation and Conservation

    by Keith Somerville ...
    Africa’s surviving rhinos are under serious threat. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by ‘sports’ hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to the edge. This book considers human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals – charting hunting for food and hides, and then ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Ivory

    Power and Poaching in Africa

    by Keith Somerville ...
    Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade. The huge rise in poaching and ivory smuggling in the new millennium has destroyed the hope that the 1989 ivory trade ban had capped ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Humans and Hyenas

    Monster or Misunderstood

    by Keith Somerville ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic picture of the hyena and its interactions with people. The hyena is one of the most maligned, misrepresented and defamed mammals. It is still, despite decades of research-led knowledge, seen as a skulking, cowardly scavenger rather than a successful hunter with complex ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Jackals, Golden Wolves, and Honey Badgers

    Cunning, Courage, and Conflict with Humans

    by Keith Somerville ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    This book explores the fascinating and complex lives of the honey badger, the African jackals (black-backed and side-striped), African golden wolves, and Eurasian golden jackals. In recent years, interest in these creatures has grown exponentially, through wildlife documentaries and media clips showing the aggressive, fearless, and tenacious behaviour of the honey badger, with jackals often ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Humans and Lions

    Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence

    by Keith Somerville ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    This book places lion conservation and the relationship between people and lions both in historical context and in the context of the contemporary politics of conservation in Africa. The killing of Cecil the Lion in July 2015 brought such issues to the public’s attention. Were lions threatened in the wild and what was the best form of conservation? How best can lions be saved from extinction in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    by Clive Finlayson ...
    Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Incredible Human Journey

    by Alice Roberts ...
    Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Something New Under the Sun

    by J. R. McNeill ...
    Series series The Global Century Series
    The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World

    by Stephen Oppenheimer ...
    In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Feral

    Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life

    by George Monbiot ...
    An optimistic approach to environmentalism that focuses on the wonders of rewilding, not just the terrifying consequences of climate change.To be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending science and acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But let's be honest: hedging has never inspired anyone. So what ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Endangered

    by Tim Flach ...
    The acclaimed wildlife photographer presents "a powerful visual record of threatened animals and ecosystems facing the harshest of challenges" ( The Guardian, UK).In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened species, acclaimed photographer Tim Flach explores one of the most pressing issues of our time. Traveling around the world—to settings ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus