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  • Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise

    An Account of the Caribbean Amblyomma Programme

    by Rupert Pegram ...
    After leading a regional office in Africa that studied ticks and tick-borne diseases, Rupert Pegram received a call in 1994 that changed his life. His higher ups wanted him to lead a new program in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Amblyomma Program, known as the CAP, sought to eliminate the Amblyomma tick from the Caribbean region. The stakes were high because ticks transmit terrible diseases. Today, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

    by Alan Weisman ...
    A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Reshaping Environments

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World

    Edited by Helena Bender ...
    Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment. This interdisciplinary approach presents multifaceted responses for complex environmental ... Read more

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  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    by James Gustave Speth ...
    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

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  • Grasshoppers and Crickets

    by Ted Benton ...
    Series Book 120 - Collins New Naturalist Library
    For the first time ever, a DVD featuring exclusive video and audio material accompanies the latest New Naturalist volume, a multimedia first for the series.Ted Benton offers a comprehensive account of the appearance, variations, behaviour, habitat, life-cycles and distribution of all the native British species of bush-crickets, crickets, groundhoppers and grasshoppers. Many details from direct ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • Healing the Herds

    Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine

    Edited by Karen Brown, Daniel Gilfoyle ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Veterinary Forensics

    Animal Cruelty Investigations

    Edited by Melinda Merck ...
    Veterinary Forensics, Second Edition is a practical reference on applying veterinary forensic findings in animal cruelty cases. Now providing a greater focus on findings in animals, the second edition continues to offer guidance with more detailed information on crime scene investigation, forensic testing and findings, handling evidence, and testifying in court. Key changes to the new edition ... Read more

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  • Where Honeybees Thrive

    Stories from the Field

    by Heather Swan ...
    Series series Animalibus
    Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction—these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to—and understand the sources of—the plight of honeybees.Through a lyrical combination of creative ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior

    Edited by Elena Choleris, Donald W. Pfaff, Martin Kavaliers ...
    The mammalian neurohypophyseal peptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin act to mediate human social behavior - they affect trust and social relationships and have an influence on avoidance responses. Describing the evolutionary roots of the effects that these neuropeptides have on behavior, this book examines remarkable parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals. The chapters are ... Read more

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  • Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

    Case Studies in Client Communication, Morbidity and Mortality

    by Lisa Powell, Elizabeth A. Rozanski, John E. Rush ...
    Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care: Case Studies in Client Communication, Morbidity and Mortality provides a unique opportunity to learn from real-life case examples. Presented as a collection of short case studies, the book examines a wide range of situations likely to arise in emergency practice.The approach is modeled on the Morbidity and Mortality Conferences which were first established ... Read more

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  • Down Along the Haw

    The History of a North Carolina River

    by Anne Melyn Cassebaum ...
    North Carolina's Haw River has a rich geographic, ecological and cultural history, tracked here from its source to its confluence with the Atlantic Ocean. From grinding mills to algae science, this popular history features interviews with mill owners and workers, archaeologists, environmentalists, farmers, water treatment managers and many others whose lives have been connected to this river. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Growing Resistance

    Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat

    by Emily Eaton ...
    In 2004 Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anit-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto's genetically modified wheat. Canadian farmers' strong opposition to GM wheat marked a stark contrast to previous producer acceptance of other genetically modified crops. By 2005, for example, GM canola accounted for 78 percent of all canola grown nationally ... Read more

    $17.99 USD