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  • Guarding Door County

    Lighthouses and Life-saving Stations

    by Stacy Thomas, Virginia Thomas ...
    Series series Images of America
    Jutting out of Wisconsin into the blue waters of Lake Michigan, the scenic peninsula of Door County is endowed with the longest coastline of any county in the nation. Since the mid-1800s, the region has boasted a strong maritime industry, dependent on the constant vigilance and efforts of U.S. Coast Guard units. The county has been home to as many as 12 historic light stations, as well as three ... Read more

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    Birds and Their Nests (Unabridged)

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    by Mary Howitt ...
    Narrated by Donald Morris, Fred Stafford, Virginia Thoma, Adrienne Okeefe ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Have you ever peeked into a robin's nest, all cozy with moss and leaves? Or marveled at the intricate woven home of an oriole? Join Mary Howitt on a delightful journey into the fascinating world of birds and their nests! "Birds and Their Nests" is a charming audiobook filled with wonder. With heartwarming narration, we'll explore the incredible variety of nests birds craft, from the grand woven ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rewilding and Reintroductions in Britain

    Human Interactions with Conservation

    by Virginia Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    This book examines how rewilding and species reintroductions play a crucial role in conservation and ecological restoration in Britain.The book examines how humans think about and interact with our environment and nature, and how competing interests surrounding conservation, land-use (in particular agriculture), and social-cultural issues can be reconciled. Rather than taking a stance which is ... Read more

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  • Geography

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Archaeology of Ancient Australia

    by Peter Hiscock ...
    This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerable experience of teaching at the Australian National University. Lucidly written, it shows the diversity and colourfulness of the history of humanity in the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • 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

    $77.89 USD

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Geography

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Clifford, Dr Sarah L Holloway, Dr Stephen P Rice, Professor Gill Valentine ...
    Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource.Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides - ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • A World in a Shell

    Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

    by Thom van Dooren ...
    Following the trails of Hawai‘i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction.In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai‘i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Biodiversity Conservation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right now but all the evidence suggests that current extinction rates are between a hundred and a thousand times greater than the background rate. To put this in to context, a quarter of all known mammalian ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

    Policy and Governance in a Changing World

    Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe ...
    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

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  • Ignoring Nature No More

    The Case for Compassionate Conservation

    Edited by Marc Bekoff ...
    From the coauthor—with Jane Goodall—of The Ten Trusts , "a must-read for every student of zoology, ecology, environmental ethics, and conservation biology" (Michael Charles Tobias, coauthor of The Metaphysics of Protection ).For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive speci... ... Read more

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