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“robert burley”

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  • An Enduring Wilderness

    Toronto’s Natural Parklands

    by Robert Burley ...
    Featuring tributes from award-winning writersIn a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Volume II: Ringing Cedars Of Russia

    by Vladimir Megre ...
    Our civilization will be the first in the entire history of the planet to unite the opposites: the technocratic world and the achievements of the divine creations. This is not a fantasy, it is the great future. We can sense it already, today.  Tens of thousands of Russian citizens have already begun to materialize it. They are doing so without support from governments and states. Millions are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Sweetness of a Simple Life

    Tips for Healthier, Happier and Kinder Living Gleaned from the Wisdom and Science of Nature

    by Diana Beresford-Kroeger ...
    The author of The Global Forest--an international bestseller and a classic upon publication, beloved by readers around the world--gives us her tips and advice for achieving better health and peace of mind, with frugality, simplicity and pleasure not far behind.In The Sweetness of a Simple Life, Diana Beresford-Kroeger mixes science with storytelling, wonderment, magic, myth and plenty of common ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • American Canopy

    Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

    by Eric Rutkow ...
    This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet the history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself—from the majestic white pines of New England, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dynamic Forest

    Man Versus Nature in the Boreal Forest

    by Malcolm F. Squires ...
    Series Book 7 - Point of View
    Nearing the end of a lifetime in the boreal forest, a retired forester writes a passionate plea for rational, science-based forest management.The boreal forest is constantly changing, often dramatically. We like to picture it as a stable, balanced system. Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic.For over sixty years, forester Malcolm F. Squires has seen mature forests within ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mnemonic

    A Book of Trees

    by Theresa Kishkan ...
    Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction AwardWarm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defining moments in the life of novelist and essayist Theresa Kishkan. For Kishkan, trees are memory markers of life, and in this book she explores the presence of trees in nature, in culture and in her personal history. Naming each chapter for a particular ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Heritage Apples

    A New Sensation

    by Susan Lundy ...
    Heritage Apples travels far beyond the grocery store of today to savor the apples of the past. These are the apple varieties—the Gravensteins, the Kings, the red-fleshed Pink Pearl—that link us to history, but through food movements and taste preferences are remerging as the fruit of the future. Heritage apples evoke memories and passion for some; for others they offer delicious, unexplored ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Trees, Woods and Forests

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Charles Watkins ...
    Forests and woods have always been central to the development of human technology and culture and our expansion as a species. Trees, Woods and Forests shows how for thousands of years, woodland has been managed by humans using ancient practices such as coppicing and pollarding trees for fuel and as fodder for animals. In the early Middle Ages royal forests were established across Europe as the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ionic Liquids

    Edited by Zhen Fang, Richard L. Smith, Jr., Xinhua Qi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The application of ionic liquids to biomass for producing biofuels and chemicals will be one of the hot research areas during the next decade due to the fascinating properties of these versatile group of solvents that allow them to dissolve lignocellulosic materials. The present text provides up-to-date fundamentals, state-of-the-art reviews, current assessments and prospects in this area, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Biology, Productivity and Bioenergy of Timber-Yielding Plants

    An Experimental Technology

    by Maginot Ngangyo Heya, Ratikanta Maiti, Rahim Foroughbakhch Pournavab, Artemio Carrillo-Parra ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Face to the current global energy crisis, there is an urgent necessity of searching for alternatives to fossil fuels, and this book shows how timber is a promising resource for sustainable energy production. Northeast Mexico represents an important forest resource to satisfy the needs of the population in these areas. In order to harness these forest resources, technology for exploring these ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Dendroclimatology

    Progress and Prospects

    Edited by Malcolm K. Hughes, Thomas W. Swetnam, Henry F. Diaz ...
    Series Book 11 - Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research
    A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it is important to obtain estimates of long past climate variations spanning multiple centuries and millennia. These longer time perspectives are ... Read more

    $143.99 USD