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AIDS And the Ecology of Povertyby Eileen StillwaggonISBN 0195169271 (0-19-516927-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fireby Marybeth LorbieckiISBN 0195129660 (0-19-512966-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Aquatic Food Webs: An Ecosystem Approachby Andrea Belgrano, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Jennifer Dunne, Ursula M. ScharlerISBN 019856483X (0-19-856483-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Armadillo from Amarilloby Lynne CherryISBN 0152019553 (0-15-201955-3)
Softcover, Voyager Books
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Bats: Biology and Behaviourby John Altringham, Tom McOwat, Lucy HammondISBN 0198503229 (0-19-850322-9)
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Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Economyby Jim MacNeill, Pieter Winsemius, Taizo YakushijiISBN 0195071263 (0-19-507126-3)
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The Biology of Batsby Gerhard Neuweiler, Ellen CoveyISBN 0195099516 (0-19-509951-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biology of Bats'Book summary:Well adapted to numerous habitats, bats comprise almost one quarter of all species of mammals. This book is a comprehensive introduction to their biology. Suitable as a textbook for undergraduates and written by one of the world's leading researchers, the book offers an accessible summary of the extensive body of research on bats. The book takes a broad physiological perspective and devotes separate chapters to specific physiological systems as well as to bat ecology and phylogeny. It features a thorough discussion of echolocation, which continues to be the subject of intense research, and describes many European and neotropical bats, as well as North American species. Biology of Bats is an important resource both for students and researchers. [via]
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The Biology Of Lakes And Pondsby Christer Bronmark, Lars-Anders HanssonISBN 0198516126 (0-19-851612-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biology Of Lakes And Ponds'Book summary:This concise yet comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and ponds) combines traditional limnology with current ecological and evolutionary theory. It integrates the effects of abiotic constraints and biotic interactions at both the population and community level, allowing the reader to understand how the distribution and success of different organisms in this freshwater habitat can be explained and predicted. The book is focused on temperate lakes and ponds, drawing on examples from polar and tropical systems to provide a broader context.
The Biology of Lakes and Ponds, now in its second edition, will be a valuable text for university tuition. However, its lucid explanations and descriptions of adaptation, dominance, dispersal, and succession of organisms, as well as the effects of abiotic factors, predation, and competition, ensure its relevance and use to a broad audience of biologists and naturalists with an interest in freshwater ecology. [via]More editions of The Biology Of Lakes And Ponds:
Birds Of Delhiby Ranjit LalISBN 0195659694 (0-19-565969-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Birds Of Western Ghats, Kokan, And Malabar: Including Birds Of Goaby Satish PandeISBN 0195668782 (0-19-566878-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Blue Pasturesby Mary Oliver, John RadziewiczISBN 0156002159 (0-15-600215-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Pastures'Book summary:With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude.[via]More editions of Blue Pastures:
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The Book of Indian Treesby K. C. Sahni, Bombay Natural History SocietyISBN 0195645898 (0-19-564589-8)
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Brother Eagle, Sister Skyby Susan Jeffers, SeattleISBN 0142301329 (0-14-230132-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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By the Open Seaby August StrindbergISBN 0140444882 (0-14-044488-2)
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A Citizen's Guide to Ecologyby Lawrence B. SlobodkinISBN 0195095960 (0-19-509596-0)
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Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sinsby Konrad LorenzISBN 015118061X (0-15-118061-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ecologyby Michael AllabyISBN 0192861603 (0-19-286160-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agriculturalby Wendell BerryISBN 0156225751 (0-15-622575-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural'Book summary:Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and poet, may look like a Southern gentleman of conservative bearing, but in truth he stands among the foremost radical writers of our time: opposed to the dominant order, but, more important, radical in the primary sense, one who advocates a return to the source, the root, the old ways, in this case, of farming and living on the land. In The Unsettling of America and its companion volumes A Continuous Harmony and The Gift of Good Land, Berry discusses how rural communities can be made and maintained, how an ethic of wise land use can replace the dominant thinking of our present food-as-commodity economics. Berry has been accused of being an impractical romantic, but after reading his books you're likely to think that his ideas are well worth a try. [via]
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The Cult of the Tigerby Valmik ThaparISBN 0195660366 (0-19-566036-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fateby Marc ReisnerISBN 0142003832 (0-14-200383-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate'Book summary:[via]Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through Californias improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the success of this last great desert civilization hinges on Californias denial of its own inescapable fate: Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, a mere prologue to a future cataclysm that will result in immense destruction. Concluding with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of what such a disaster would look like, A Dangerous Place mixes science, history, and cultural commentary in a haunting work of profound importance.
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Death of Grassby John ChristopherISBN 0194242323 (0-19-424232-3)
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A Dictionary of Earth Sciencesby Ailsa Allaby, Michael AllabyISBN 0192800795 (0-19-280079-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dirty, Rotten, Deadby Jerry Emory, T. Taylor BruceISBN 0152006958 (0-15-200695-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American Historyby Ted SteinbergISBN 0195140109 (0-19-514010-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930sby Donald WorsterISBN 0195174887 (0-19-517488-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Earth and Iby Frank AschISBN 0152004432 (0-15-200443-2)
Hardcover, Gulliver Books
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Ecological Dynamicsby W.S.C. Gurney, Roger M. NisbetISBN 0195104439 (0-19-510443-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Economics and the Environmentby Allen V. KneeseISBN 0140809023 (0-14-080902-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Encountering the World: Toward an Ecological Psychologyby Edward ReedISBN 0195073010 (0-19-507301-0)
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The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edgeby Paul Bahn, John FlenleyISBN 0192803409 (0-19-280340-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge'Book summary:Easter Island, an unimaginably remote volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood prehistoric cultures, a people who vanished but left behind the giant statues known around the world. Who were these people and where did they come from? Why, and equally intriguingly, how did they erect the giant stone statues found all over the island?
Paul Bahn and John Flenley tackle these and a host of other questions, introducing us, along the way, to the bizarre birdman cult found in the island's art, and the only recently deciphered Rongorongo script engraved on wooden panels. The Enigmas of Easter Island combines a wealth of new archaeological evidence, intriguing folk memories and the records of Captain Cook and other early explorers, to reveal how the island's decline may stem from ecological catastrophe. The result is a fascinating portrait of a civilization that still retains many of its mysteries. This book provides a wealth of new material, including much information only recently discovered and not available in any other book for general readers.
One of the most mysterious places on the planet, Easter Island has been an object of intense fascination since rediscovered by European explorers. Attractively illustrated with numerous photographs throughout the book, The Enigmas of Easter Island is the finest volume ever written on this inscrutable and tantalizing isle, the latest word on one of the world's great conundrums. [via]More editions of The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge:
Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Worksby David Schmidtz, Elizabeth WillottISBN 0195139097 (0-19-513909-7)
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Extinct Birdsby Errol FullerISBN 0198508379 (0-19-850837-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Field Guide To Getting Lostby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0143037242 (0-14-303724-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Flower Gardenby Eve Bunting, Kathryn HewittISBN 0152023720 (0-15-202372-0)
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A Friend of the Earthby T. C. BoyleISBN 0141002050 (0-14-100205-0)
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Frightful's Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0141312351 (0-14-131235-1)
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Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Speciesby Menno SchilthuizenISBN 0198503938 (0-19-850393-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Species'Book summary:The earth is home to a wild proliferation of species, millions of life-forms that come in a spectacular--and often bizarre--array of sizes, shapes, and colors. But what triggers this fantastic explosion of life? How does one species split into another? Even Charles Darwin was baffled before such questions, calling them "The Mystery of Mysteries."
In this fascinating, witty, and vividly written book, Menno Schilthuizen illuminates these questions, showing how biologists and zoologists over the last two centuries have responded to them, assessing our current knowledge of species, and proposing his own solution to Darwin's mystery. Using the sometimes-vicious academic debates and the powerful personalities of scientists as background, Schilthuizen explores the meandering path of species research and sets it out in the clearest possible terms. From looking at how we define a species, to exploring how geographical isolation and sexual selection contribute to making new species, to showing how species may appear gradually or instantaneously, Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions offers a comprehensive account of this evolutionary drama. Along the way, we get to know a remarkable cast of characters from the plant and animal kingdoms, from the copper-loving monkey flower to sockeye salmon, fire-bellied toads, lyrebirds, apple maggot flies, and many others. Most important, we get a clear picture of all the conditions necessary for one species to give birth to another.
Written with engaging panache, and illuminating an area of study intensely relevant to any assessment of the earth's biodiversity, Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions will appeal to everyone--scientist and layperson alike--curious about nature and animal behavior. [via]More editions of Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: Speciation-The Evolution of New Species:
Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairieby Alan K. KnappISBN 0195114868 (0-19-511486-8)
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Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Ricaby William AllenISBN 0195161777 (0-19-516177-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica'Book summary:Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory.
In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the gripping story of a large group of Costa Rican and American scientists and volunteers who set out to save the tropical forests in the northwestern section of the country. It was an area badly damaged by the fires of ranchers and small farmers; in many places a few strands of forest strung across a charred landscape. Despite the widely held belief that tropical forests, once lost, are lost forever, the team led by the dynamic Daniel Janzen from the University of Pennsylvania moved relentlessly ahead, taking a broad array of political, ecological, and social steps necessary for restoration. They began with 39 square miles and, by 2000, they had stitched together and revived some 463 square miles of land and another 290 of marine area. Today this region is known as the Guanacaste Conservation Area, a fabulously rich landscape of dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest that gives life to some 235,000 species of plants and animals. It may be the greatest environmental success of our time, a prime example of how extensive devastation can be halted and reversed.
This is an inspiring story, and in recounting it, Allen writes with vivid power. He creates lasting images of pristine beaches and dense forest and captures the heroics and skill of the scientific teams, especially the larger-than-life personality of the maverick ecologist Daniel Janzen. It is a book everyone concerned about the environment will want to own. [via]More editions of Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica:
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Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientistby James LovelockISBN 0198604297 (0-19-860429-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist'Book summary:James Lovelock is the British scientist who gave birth to the concept of Gaia--the idea that "...the Earth regulates its climate and composition..." that neither "...we, or any living thing, [can] evolve without changing the state of the Earth". But as we find in Homage to Gaia: the Life of an Independent Scientist, there is much more to James Lovelock. His life has been more like that of the pioneer natural philosophers of the Renaissance who studied "science" before the word "scientist" was invented in the 19th century. As we discover in this fascinating autobiography, Lovelock learned the nuts and bolts of his science in a very old-fashioned way by what he calls "the long apprenticeship". On leaving school he had, like many bright but poor youths in Britain until the 1950s, to start work as an apprentice chemical analyst in London and study in the evenings at Birkbeck College. For any would-be scientist Lovelock's early career is an object lesson in application, persistence and inspiration. He managed to work his way into a remarkable variety of scientific research posts in chemistry, medicine and space science in both Britain and America. Along the way he invented the electron capture detector, which revolutionised the study of environmental chemistry and discovered that CFCs are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere and damaging the ozone layer. And then there is Gaia, "...part of science...not an alternative to religion but a complement", according to Lovelock. Much of Lovelock's work has been carried out independently of universities, research institutes or business organisations, financed by the success of his inventions. His story of the struggle to make ends meet, to develop new ideas and to try to come to terms with what it means to be a responsible "child" of Earth, Gaia is essential if at times uncomfortable reading for anyone interested in the interaction between science and the environment. Be prepared to have your preconceptions of Lovelock shaken up. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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In the Deserts of This Earthby Uwe GeorgeISBN 0156444356 (0-15-644435-6)
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessmanby Yvon ChouinardISBN 0143037838 (0-14-303783-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman'Book summary:Like the carefully engineered dies which created his company's first products--steel pitons and carabiners which climbing enthusiasts would recognize as primitive forerunners of today's sleeker gear--Yvon Chouinard is if nothing else an original. How many other shy French-Canadian boys become surf-and-climbing bums, then blacksmiths forging their own play tools, and eventually founders of world-renowned sports equipment and apparel companies like Patagonia? How many other heads of multi-million dollar enterprises open their memoirs by stating bluntly, "The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welches of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values. I wanted to be a fur trapper when I grew up." The proverbial mold from which Chouinard was cast got broken.
In Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, readers get a fascinating look inside the history and philosophy of both Patagonia and its irascible, opinionated founder. From its beginning, the book shares a sense of Chouinard's strong-willed personality and his love of the outdoors. He recounts a mostly happy childhood spent in a still-unspoiled southern California, climbing, diving, fishing, and surfing. The narrative soon moves into Chouinard's early entrepreneurial efforts, which were less focused on market-share domination than on earning a basic living to finance his own sporting habits. As his company's first catalog noted, delivery could be slow in the summer months, when Chouinard typically left the "office"--a dilapidated shack converted into an ironworks--for climbing adventures across the American West.
Eventually, though, the story settles into a pattern familiar to business audiences: Patagonia grows rapidly, takes on more employees and product lines to sustain hungry demand from customers, but overreaches with over-ambitious expansion plans and suffers a hiccup in its adolescence. This make-or-break juncture of a business's development often contains the most interesting material, and here Chouinard and his beloved company are no exception. He describes a series of wrenching decisions through which he and Patagonia management team navigated in 1991, as sales growth stalled while capital and operational expenses sprinted ahead. From this crisis emerged Patagonia's first-ever layoffs, affecting a hefty 20% of the workforce, and a serious re-examination of the business's core principles and methods.
The historical part of Chouinard's book largely ends at this point, and gives way to an exposition of philosophies which emerged at Patagonia during its dark moments in the early 1990s. The rest of the book serves as a kind of primer to business, the Patagonia way: one chapter each on product design philosophy, production philosophy, distribution philosophy, image philosophy, financial philosophy, human resource philosophy, and so on. Fans of Patagonia can revel in the company's working details, as can those who support or want to build businesses with self-consciously cultivated soulfulness. Readers who enjoyed Gary Erickson's story about Clif Bar, for example, should definitely find this a welcome addition to their bookshelves. --Peter Han [via]
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Life As We Knew Itby Susan Beth PfefferISBN 0152058265 (0-15-205826-5)
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradiseby Alfred Russel WallaceISBN 019588955X (0-19-588955-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Marine Ecosystems And Climate Variation: The North Atlantic a Comparative Perspectiveby Nils Chr Stenseth, James W. Hurrell, Geir Ottersen, Andrea BelgranoISBN 0198507496 (0-19-850749-6)
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Metapopulation Ecologyby Iikka HanskiISBN 0198540655 (0-19-854065-5)
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The Most Beautiful Roof in the Worldby Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. KnightISBN 0152008977 (0-15-200897-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Most Beautiful Roof in the World'Book summary:Journey along with Dr. Meg Lowman, a scientist who, with the help of slings, suspended walkways, and mountain-climbing equipment, has managed to ascend into one of our planets least accessible and most fascinating ecosystems--the rain-forest canopy. Fresh in outlook and intriguing in details, this book will strengthen any library collection on the rainforest. --Booklist[via]More editions of The Most Beautiful Roof in the World:
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The Most Beautiful Roof in the World : Exploring the Rainforest Canopyby Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. KnightISBN 0152008934 (0-15-200893-4)
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The Mountains of Californiaby John MuirISBN 0140390383 (0-14-039038-3)
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My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0141312424 (0-14-131242-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Side of the Mountain'Book summary:Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.
Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Natural History of Selborneby Gilbert White, Richard Mabey, Anthony PyeISBN 0140431128 (0-14-043112-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Natural History of Selborne'Book summary:The Natural History of Selborne (1789) is the distillation of a lifetime of observing nature, and ranges far beyond White's immediate neighborhood noted in the title. Written during a turbulent time in world history, it is a celebration of the endeavors of both human beings and animals to survive. White's main aims were to induce readers to pay more attention to the wonders around them, and to advance their knowledge of the variety of life: his success has made this book a classic, and has made his name one of the most revered among British naturalists. [via]
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Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challengesby George C. WilliamsISBN 0195069331 (0-19-506933-1)
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On Aggressionby Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie K. WilsonISBN 0156687410 (0-15-668741-0)
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grewby Samuel FromartzISBN 0156032422 (0-15-603242-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew'Book summary:[via]Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food had shot up about 20 percent per year since 1990, reaching $11 billion by 2003 . . . Whole Foods managed to sidestep that fray by focusing on, well, people like me.
Organic food has become a juggernaut in an otherwise sluggish food industry, growing at 20 percent a year as products like organic ketchup and corn chips vie for shelf space with conventional comestibles. But what is organic food? Is it really better for you? Where did it come from, and why are so many of us buying it?
Business writer Samuel Fromartz set out to get the story behind this surprising success after he noticed that his own food choices were changing with the times. In Organic, Inc., Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew beyond their wildest expectations. In the process he captures how the industry came to risk betraying the very ideals that drove its success in a classically complex case of free-market triumph.More editions of Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew:
The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopiaby Garrett HardinISBN 0195122747 (0-19-512274-7)
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The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Ageby Norman WirzbaISBN 0195157168 (0-19-515716-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Parkby Alston ChaseISBN 0156720361 (0-15-672036-1)
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Quantitative Ecology and the Brown Troutby J.M. ElliottISBN 0198540906 (0-19-854090-6)
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Reading the Landscape: Writing a Worldby Peter ValentiISBN 0155014323 (0-15-501432-3)
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Readings in Ecologyby James F. Kitchell, Stephen R. Carpenter, Stanley I. Dodson, Anthony R. Ives, Robert L. Jeanne, Nancy E. Langston, Monica G. Turner, Kandis Elliot, Timothy F. H. AllenISBN 0195133099 (0-19-513309-9)
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River Ran Wild: An Environmental Historyby Lynne CherryISBN 0152163727 (0-15-216372-7)
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The Selfish Geneby Richard DawkinsISBN 0192860925 (0-19-286092-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selfish Gene'Book summary:Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviourby Kevin N. Laland, Gillian R. BrownISBN 0198508840 (0-19-850884-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour'Book summary:Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to help us understand human behavior. Nevertheless, the legitimacy of this exercise is at the center of a heated controversy that has raged for over a century. Many evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists have taken these evolutionary principles and tried using them to explain a wide range of human characteristics, such as homicide, religion and sex differences in behavior. Others, however, are sceptical of these interpretations. Moreover, researchers disagree as to the best ways to use evolution to explore humanity, and a number of schools have emerged.
'Sense and Nonsense' provides an introduction to the ideas, methods, and findings of five such schools, namely, sociobiology, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, memetics, and gene-culture co-evolution. Carefully guiding the reader through the mire of confusing terminology, claim and counter-claim, and polemical statements, Laland and Brown provide a balanced, rigorous analysis that scrutinizes both the evolutionary arguments and the allegations of the critics. This is a book that will be make fascinating reading for popular science readers, undergraduate and postgraduate students (for example, in psychology, anthropology and zoology), and to experts on one approach who would like to know more about the other perspectives. Having completed this book the reader will feel better placed to assess the legitimacy of claims made about human behavior under the name of evolution, and to make judgements as to what is sense and what is nonsense. [via]More editions of Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour:
Sign of the Seahorseby Graeme BaseISBN 0140563873 (0-14-056387-3)
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Sometimes a Great Notionby Ken Kesey, Charles BowdenISBN 0143039865 (0-14-303986-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sometimes a Great Notion'Book summary:The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[via]
Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.More editions of Sometimes a Great Notion:
Standard Soil Methods for Long-Term Ecological Researchby David C. Coleman, Phillip Sollins, G. P. Robertson, Caroline S. BledsoeISBN 0195120833 (0-19-512083-3)
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The Use and Abuse of Nature: This Fissured Land an Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equityby Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra GuhaISBN 0195649273 (0-19-564927-3)
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researchesby Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Janet Browne, E. J. BrowneISBN 014043268X (0-14-043268-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches'Book summary:"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species". This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed "The Voyage of the Beagle", you might enjoy Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel PeckISBN 0140434429 (0-14-043442-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers'Book summary:A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an account of a boat trip Thoreau took in 1839, is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Alternating between observation and reflection, Thoreau interweaves day-by-day descriptions of natural phenomenon, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritan histories of New England, the Bhagavad-Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects.
An invaluable companion to Walden, it stands alone as one of the most remarkable literary achievements of the nineteenth century. [via]
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What Is Ecology?by Dennis OwenISBN 0192891405 (0-19-289140-5)
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Wild Tigers of Ranthamboreby Valmik Thapar, Fateh Singh RatoreISBN 0195677935 (0-19-567793-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Tigers of Ranthambore'Book summary:Through photographs by Fateh Singh Rathore and Valmik Thapar, this book illustrates the fate of the tiger from the early days of the Ranthambore Sanctuary and Project Tiger, through to the present, taking a look into the future of the tiger in the new millennium. An essay by Thapar evokes the first few years of the sanctuary and goes on to discuss the difficulties of tiger conservation in an economically backward and overpopulated country like India. It brings alive the fascination of observing the secret life of this predominantly nocturnal animal.
This lavishly produced book contains 125 excellent photographs which will make this a delight for those interested in the fate of this magnificent animal.
In this new edition, the author has added an epilogue in which he discusses the current plight of the dwindling tiger population and how to upgrade the conservation methods to protect the endangered species. [via]More editions of Wild Tigers of Ranthambore:
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Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterpriseby Michael L. RosenzweigISBN 0195156048 (0-19-515604-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise'Book summary:As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries?
In this book, ecologist Michael Rosenzweig finds that ecological science actually rejects such polarization. Instead it suggests that, to be successful, conservation must discover how we can blend a rich natural world into the world of economic activity. This revolutionary, common ground between development and conservation is called reconciliation ecology: creating and maintaining species-friendly habitats in the very places where people live, work, or play.
The book offers many inspiring examples of the good results already achieved. The Nature Conservancy, for instance, has a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense, with more than 200 conservation projects taking place on more than 170 bases in 41 states. In places such as Elgin Air Force Base, the human uses-testing munitions, profitable timbering and recreation--continue, but populations of several threatened species on the base, such as the long-leaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker, have been greatly improved. The Safe Harbor strategy of the Fish & Wildlife Service encourages private landowners to improve their property for endangered species, thus overcoming the unintended negative aspects of the Endangered Species Act. And Golden Gate Park, which began as a system of sand dunes, has become, through human effort, a world of ponds and shrubs, waterfowl and trees.
Rosenzweig shows that reconciliation ecology is the missing tool of conservation, the practical, scientifically based approach that, when added to the rest, will solve the problem of preserving Earth's species. [via]More editions of Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise:
Windowby Jeannie BakerISBN 0140548300 (0-14-054830-0)
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Mi Rincon En LA Montana / My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead George, Carmen Gomez De AgueroISBN 0140381813 (0-14-038181-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mi Rincon En LA Montana / My Side of the Mountain'Book summary:The adventures of teenager Sam Gribley, living alone in the vast wilderness of the Catskill Mountains with his falcon, Faithful, have thrilled and inspired readers since 1959. A Newbery Honor book. ALA Notable Children's Books. [via]
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