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50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the EarthISBN 059044249X (0-590-44249-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Amateur Naturalistby Lee Durrell, Gerald Malcolm Lee DurrellISBN 0241108411 (0-241-10841-1)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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Amateur Naturalist: A Practical Guide to the Natural Worldby Gerald Durrell, Lee DurrellISBN 0394533909 (0-394-53390-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amateur Naturalist: A Practical Guide to the Natural World'Book summary:Now available in paperback, a practical guide to the natural world which offers advice on observing, monitoring, recording, studying and helping to conserve nature. First published in 1982. [via]
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Arctic Dreamsby Barry Holstun LopezISBN 0375727485 (0-375-72748-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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Arctic Dreams : Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscapeby Barry LopezISBN 0553346644 (0-553-34664-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams : Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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Closing Circleby Barry CommonerISBN 039442350X (0-394-42350-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Communities and Ecosystemsby Robert Harding WhittakerISBN 0024273902 (0-02-427390-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Concepts of Ecologyby Edward John KormondyISBN 0134781163 (0-13-478116-3)
Softcover, Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
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Design and Analysis of Ecological Experimentsby Samuel M. Scheiner, Jessica GurevitchISBN 0195131886 (0-19-513188-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Changeby Victor PapanekISBN 0394470362 (0-394-47036-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Design with Natureby Ian L. McHargISBN 047111460X (0-471-11460-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Design With Nature'Book summary:"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up for us, McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --Lewis Mumford
". . . important to America and all the rest of the world in our struggle to design rational, wholesome, and productive landscapes." --Laurie Olin, Hanna Olin, Ltd.
"This century's most influential landscape architecture book." --Landscape Architecture
". . . an enduring contribution to the technical literature of landscape planning and to that unfortunately small collection of writings which speak with emotional eloquence of the importance of ecological principles in regional planning." --Landscape and Urban Planning
In the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world by storm, Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecological design. It has also left a permanent mark on the ongoing discussion of mankind's place in nature and nature's place in mankind within the physical sciences and humanities. Described by one enthusiastic reviewer as a "user's manual for our world," Design With Nature offers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature. In so doing, it provides nothing less than the scientific, technical, and philosophical foundations for a mature civilization that will, as Lewis Mumford ecstatically put it in his Introduction to the 1969 edition, "replace the polluted, bulldozed, machine-dominated, dehumanized, explosion-threatened world that is even now disintegrating and disappearing before our eyes." [via] -
Diet for a Small Planetby Frances Moore LappeISBN 0345321200 (0-345-32120-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diet for a Small Planet'Book summary:With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics. [via]
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Diet for a Small Planet: 20th Anniversary Editionby Frances Moore Lappe, Marika HahnISBN 0345373669 (0-345-37366-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poorby Tom AthanasiouISBN 0316056359 (0-316-05635-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Ecological Methodologyby Charles J. KrebsISBN 0321021738 (0-321-02173-8)
Hardcover, Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
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Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in Cross-Cultural Perspectiveby David KinsleyISBN 0131385127 (0-13-138512-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Ecology of Java and Baliby Anthony J. Whitten, R. S. Soeriaatmadja, Surya AffifISBN 9625930728 (962-593-072-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazonby Alexander Cockburn, Susanna HechtISBN 0060973226 (0-06-097322-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Managementby Norman MyersISBN 0385426267 (0-385-42626-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gaia Paby Gaia Book Ltd. Staff, Norman MyersISBN 0385190727 (0-385-19072-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Geographical Ecology; Patterns in the Distribution of Speciesby Robert H. MacArthurISBN 0060441526 (0-06-044152-6)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizationsby Clive PontingISBN 0140176608 (0-14-017660-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Greening of Americaby Charles A. ReichISBN 0517886367 (0-517-88636-7)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greening of America'Book summary:The 25th Anniversary of the Groundbreaking Classic. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means."--from the new Preface by Charles A. Reich. [via]
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The Greening of America: How the Youth Revolution Is Trying to Make America Livableby Charles A. ReichISBN 0394427300 (0-394-42730-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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Hayduke Lives!by Edward AbbeyISBN 0316004138 (0-316-00413-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Helliconia Springby Brian W. AldissISBN 0020160909 (0-02-016090-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Heretics Of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441328008 (0-441-32800-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics Of Dune'Book summary:Thousands of years after the death of God Emperor Leto II, the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune, now called Rakis. Book available. [via]
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Heretics of Dune/300842by Frank HerbertISBN 0425076695 (0-425-07669-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics of Dune/300842'Book summary:With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... [via]
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If You Love This Planet : A Plan to Heal the Earthby Helen CaldicottISBN 0393308359 (0-393-30835-9)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Immense Journeyby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0394701577 (0-394-70157-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forestsby Timothy WhitmoreISBN 0198501471 (0-19-850147-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests'Book summary:This book provides a complete introduction to the fascinating world of the tropical rain forest. Written for a broad readership, it describes the structure and function of rain-forest ecosystems, their value to us, and the damage we are causing them. A recognized authority in the field, T.C. Whitmore confronts the problems of conserving these ecologically vital regions without sensationalism or distortion. He presents a wealth of vital information in a form accessible to anyone wishing to know more about these luxuriant and diverse regions. [via]
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Just a Dreamby Chris Van AllsburgISBN 0395533082 (0-395-53308-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just a Dream'Book summary:Young Walter litters and refuses to sort trash for recycling, until he dreams of an overcrowded and polluted future which terrifies him into taking care of the earth.[via]More editions of Just a Dream:
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King Solomon's Ringby Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr WilsonISBN 0415267471 (0-415-26747-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Ring'Book summary:King Solomon´s Ring by Konrad Z. Lorenz. New Light on Animal Ways. Illustrated by the autor. Foreword by Julian Huxley. Traslate fron German by Marjorie Kerr Wilson. 202 pages. @1952 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Apollo Edition 1961. [via]
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Life in the Balance: A Companion to the Audubon Television Specialsby David Rains WallaceISBN 0015151611 (0-01-515161-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcherby Lewis ThomasISBN 0140047433 (0-14-004743-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher'Book summary:[via]Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
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Mathematical Biologyby J.D. MurrayISBN 3540194606 (3-540-19460-6)
Hardcover, Springer-Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mathematical Biology'Book summary:The book is a textbook (with many exercises) giving an in-depth account of the practical use of mathematical modelling in the biomedical sciences. The mathematical level required is generally not high and the emphasis is on what is required to solve the real biological problem. The subject matter is drawn, e.g. from population biology, reaction kinetics, biological oscillators and switches, Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction, reaction-diffusion theory, biological wave phenomena, central pattern generators, neural models, spread of epidemics, mechanochemical theory of biological pattern formation and importance in evolution. Most of the models are based on real biological problems and the predictions and explanations offered as a direct result of mathematical analysis of the models are important aspects of the book. The aim is to provide a thorough training in practical mathematical biology and to show how exciting and novel mathematical challenges arise from a genuine interdisciplinary involvement with the biosciences. The book also shows how mathematics can contribute to the science of the next 100 years and how physical scientists must get involved. It presents a broad view of the field of theoretical and mathematical biology and is a good starting place from which to start genuine interdisciplinary research. [via]
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My Ishmaelby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553375407 (0-553-37540-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ishmael'Book summary:Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is a bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Now Quinn presents an extraordinary sequel, a companion novel so startlingly original that even Ishmael's most faithful readers will not predict its outcome....
When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with "an earnest desire to save the world," he does not expect a child to answer him. But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael's reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student. Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax--nor can he hope for the same outcome. But young Julie proves that she is ready to forge her own spiritual path--and arrive at her own destination. And when the time comes to choose a pupil to carry out his greatest mission yet, Ishmael makes a daring decision--a choice that just might change the world. [via]More editions of My Ishmael:
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Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideasby Donald WorsterISBN 0521468345 (0-521-46834-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas'Book summary:This wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. Donald Worster focuses on the dramatic shifts in man's view of the living world that have occurred since the eighteenth century, looking closely at the contributions of such figures as Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, and Thoreau, as well as those of the twentieth-century ecologists Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, and Eugene Odum. The author has written a new preface for this work, which was first published by Sierra Club Books in 1977. [via]
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earthby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 0140194517 (0-14-019451-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'Book summary:[via]In this essay on man Mr. Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces mans intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
Mr. Fuller is optimistic that man will survive and, through research and development and increased industrialization, generate wealth so rapidly that he can do very great things. But, he notes, there must be an enormous educational task successfully accomplished right now to convert mans tendency toward oblivion into a realization of his potential, to a universe-exploring advantage from this Spaceship Earth.
It has been noted that Mr. Fuller spins ideas in clusters, and clusters of his ideas generate still other clusters. The concept spaceship earth is Mr. Fullers, and though used by Barbara Ward as the title of a work of her own the idea was acknowledged by her there as deriving from Mr. Fuller. The brilliant syntheses of some fundamental Fuller principles given here makes of this book a microcosm of the Fuller system.
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Oryx and Crakeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385721676 (0-385-72167-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oryx and Crake'Book summary:In Oryx and Crake, a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then.... He generated awe ... in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds--gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humor. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca [via]
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and Civilization in Troubleby Lester R. BrownISBN 0393325237 (0-393-32523-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Radical Ecology: The Search For A Livable Worldby Carolyn MerchantISBN 0415935784 (0-415-93578-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Secret Garden: Dawn to Dusk in the Astonishing Hidden World of the Gardenby David BodanisISBN 0671663534 (0-671-66353-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Secret Garden : Talking Beetles and Signaling Trees: The Hidden Ways Gardens Communicateby David BodanisISBN 0671868616 (0-671-86861-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Species Diversity in Space and Timeby Michael L. RosenzweigISBN 0521499526 (0-521-49952-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Species Diversity in Space and Time'Book summary:Species diversity is marked by some interesting facts--such as larger areas have more species, and diversity is particularly high near the equator. Other factors to consider are what reduces diversity in ecologically productive places and across what scales of space and time diversity patterns hold. This book examines these questions and many others, the author employing both theory and data in his search for answers. Surprisingly, many of the questions have reasonably likely answers. By identifying these, attention can be turned toward life's many still-unexplained diversity patterns. As evolutionary ecologists race to understand biodiversity before it is too late, this book will help set the agenda for diversity research into the next century and will be useful to graduate students and researchers in ecology and evolutionary and conservation biology. [via]
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Statistical Ecology: A Primer on Methods and Computingby James F. Reynolds, John A. LudwigISBN 0471832359 (0-471-83235-9)
Hardcover, Wiley-Interscience
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Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Watersby David J. AllenISBN 0412355302 (0-412-35530-2)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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The Trees in My Forestby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0060929421 (0-06-092942-1)
Softcover, Perennial
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Award of the Fairbanks MuseumIn a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd Heinrich takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the hidden life of a forest. [via]
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Fieldby Terry T. WilliamsISBN 0679432442 (0-679-43244-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Voice of the Planetby Michael TobiasISBN 0553283677 (0-553-28367-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Walk in the Woodsby Bill BrysonISBN 0613225783 (0-613-22578-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods'Book summary:Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked.
When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.
The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) --Colleen Preston [via]
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill BrysonISBN 0307279464 (0-307-27946-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'Book summary:Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked.
When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.
The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) --Colleen Preston [via]
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survivalby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0060957379 (0-06-095737-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival'Book summary:From flying hot-blooded squirrels and diminutive kinglets to sleeping black bears and torpid turtles to frozen insects and frogs, the animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physicallimitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd Heinrich explores his local woods, where he delights in the seemingly infinite feats of animal inventiveness he discovers there.
Because winter drastically affects the mostelemental component of all life -- water -- radical changes in a creature's physiology and behavior must take place to match the demands of the environment. Some creatures survive by developing antifreeze; others must remain in constant motion to maintain their high body temperatures. Even if animals can avoid freezing to death, they must still manage to find food in a time of scarcity, or store it from a time of plenty.
Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author's delicate drawings and infused by his inexhaustible enchantment with nature, Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival awakens thewonders and mysteries by which nature sustains herself through winter's harsh, cruel exigencies.
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The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Speciesby L. David MechISBN 0385086601 (0-385-08660-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species'Book summary:Since the dawn of history, no other living thing (save, possibly, the snake) has been as reviled by humankind as the wolf. Still, wolves and people have been drawn to each other since the beginning. Canis lupus bounds through our folklore, howls in our dreams, and--occasionally--competes with us on the hunt. As one zoologist imagines it: "Through the cold of winter the wolf made music in the mysterious darkness and sometimes, in curiosity, sat just beyond the dwindling circle of firelight and watched." The curiosity was mutual; this is the feared animal, ironically, that gave rise to man's best friend. Yet only recently has science begun to understand these complex social mammals. Enter biologist L. David Mech. Years of research during the 1960s in Michigan's Isle Royale National Park provided Mech with a level of firsthand knowledge shared by few in the field. In 1970 he compiled his findings (updated in 1980) into the preeminent document of its kind. Thomas McNamee, author of The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone, calls the book the "best single source of information on wolf biology," and refers to its author as "the undisputed king of wolf research." When government officials in the early 1990s decided to embark on an ambitious project to reintroduce wolves into their former range of Yellowstone National Park, they called on Mech's expertise. All this is to say that, if you want to learn about wolves, you cannot ignore this seminal work or its author. Chapters cover wolf evolution, range, and physiology; society and pack behavior; reproduction; hunting and predator-prey relationships; and the species' uncertain future. Like any self-respecting scientist, Mech includes all the hard data, but he presents his work in an engaging manner that is accessible to a broader audience, drawing heavily on anecdotes and personal experience.
"Many people strongly dislike the wolf," Mech writes, "others rush to its defense. But no one denies that the animal is strong, powerful, intelligent, keen, and dynamic." While persecution by man has severely restricted its current status, the tide is turning, thanks to education and conservation efforts. After all, a night without a howl echoing somewhere across the landscape would surely be a colder, less alive night. --Langdon Cook [via]
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Woodlandsby Oliver RackhamISBN 000720244X (0-00-720244-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Woodswomanby Anne LabastilleISBN 0140153349 (0-14-015334-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Yellowstone Wolves in the Wildby Halfpenny, James, C.ISBN 1931832269 (1-931832-26-9)
Softcover, Riverbend Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild'Book summary:Spectacular color photos of Yellowstone National Park's wild wolves plus eye-witness stories from park scientists and "wolf watchers." An unprecendented portrait of individual wolves and wolf packs and astonishing new information about how wolves are changing the park's very nature. This book sets a new standard for wolf photography and natural history. [via]
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Casa Capitular Dune/ Chafterhouse Duneby Frank Herbert, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497597702 (84-9759-770-2)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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