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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nancy langston”
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  • Toxic Bodies

    Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

    by Nancy Langston ...
    In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Climate Ghosts

    Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon.Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Where Land and Water Meet

    A Western Landscape Transformed

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sustaining Lake Superior

    An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

    by Nancy Langston ...
    A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares

    The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much management—or not enough—that forced the forests of the inland West to the verge of collapse? Is the solution more logging, or no logging at all? ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Beaver Manifesto

    by Glynnis Hood ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion. These conflicts reflect a dichotomy within our national identity. We place environment and our ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Homeward Wolf

    by Kevin Van Tighem ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Wolves have become a complicated comeback story. Their tracks are once again making trails throughout western Alberta, southern British Columbia and the northwestern United States, and the lonesome howls of the legendary predator are no longer mere echoes from our frontier past: they are prophetic voices emerging from the hills of our contemporary reality.Kevin Van Tighem’s first RMB Manifesto ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great Plains

    by Keith Aune, Glenn Plumb ...
    This history chronicles the 19th century plan to reintroduce wild bison into Western Montana and the rise of Roosevelt's conservation movement.In the late 1800s, the rapid depletion of the American bison population prompted calls for the preservation of wildlife and wild lands in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Desert

    History of a Place

    by Martin Stupich ...
    A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America's last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Searching for Yellowstone

    Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness

    by Paul Schullery ...
    In 1997 Yellowstone celebrated its 125th anniversary as a national park, the keystone in the federal system of reserved and protected places. The celebration was somewhat marred by debates over wolf reintroduction, road improvement, resort building, and "bioprospecting," the search for economically useful plant materials. Paul Schullery, a longtime resident and student of the park, tells us that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Coyote Valley

    Deep History in the High Rockies

    by Thomas G. Andrews ...
    What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over climate change.Large-scale ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Keystone Prairie Dogs, They're a Lot Like People

    But They Can't Shoot Back

    by Jean Williams ...
    The series will highlight the fact that prairie dogs are similar to people in many ways and will use funny pictures, with playful captions and humorous parody to broaden the conversation and reach a more general and varied audience. The books will also include the “serious” message that prairie dogs are in peril in the wild, dispel myths with facts, provide content from wildlife biologists, ... Read more

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