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  • Forests and Global Change

    Edited by David A. Coomes, David F. R. P. Burslem, William D. Simonson ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms, and regulates the delivery of ecosystem services, including carbon storage. Presenting recent research across temperate and tropical ecosystems, this volume ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

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  • A Sand County Almanac:With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

    With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

    by Aldo Leopold ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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 Anthrobscene

    by Jussi Parikka ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Animate Planet

    Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

    by Kath Weston ...
    Series series ANIMA
    In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ecology of Sulawesi

    by Tony Whitten, Greg S. Henderson ...
    Series series Ecology Of Indonesia Series
    The Ecology of Sulawesi is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's least populated and most diverse islands.It is hoped that it will prove useful to resource managers, ecologists, environmental scientists and local government personnel, and be enlightening to Sulawesi's inhabitants and visitors.Sulawesi is one of the least-known islands of Indonesia, and wise environmental ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nature's Civil War

    Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

    by Kathryn J. Shively ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions — strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat — which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Urban Ecology

    Edited by Kevin J. Gaston ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    This is the urban century in which, for the first time, the majority of people live in towns and cities. Understanding how people influence, and are influenced by, the 'green' component of these environments is therefore of enormous significance. Providing an overview of the essentials of urban ecology, the book begins by covering the vital background concepts of the urbanisation process and the ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability

    Edited by Jiří Jaromír Klemeš ...
    Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability answers the question “what are the available methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a product, system or process? Multiple well-known authors share their expertise in order to give a broad perspective of this issue from a chemical and environmental engineering perspective. This mathematical, quantitative book ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Serpentine

    The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System

    Edited by Susan Harrison, Nishanta Rajakaruna ...
    Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned about major questions in earth history, evolution, ecology, conservation, and restoration from the study of serpentine areas, especially in California. Results from molecular studies offer insight ... Read more

    $76.49 USD