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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Kusserow Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Volume 1

Kotchen Matthew J., Stock James H., Wolfram Catherine D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711171, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Ecology

Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation

Klein David R.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones

This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...

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Ecology

Free the Beaches The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

Kahrl Andrew W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215144, Yale University Press, March 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of C...

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Mammals

Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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Ecology

America

Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

Kelly Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...

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Ecology

Wild Soundscapes Discovering the Voice of the Natural World

Krause Bernie, Payne Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780300218190, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats. Wild Soundscapes, first published in 2002, inspires readers to follow in Krause's footsteps. The book enchantingl...

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Birds

Ecology

Snowbird Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Ketterson Ellen D., Atwell Jonathan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226330778, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making t...

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Ecology

Why Ecology Matters

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226318158, ISBN: HB: 9780226318011, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones, 12 line drawings, 3 tables

Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world's smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America – but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible,...

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Nature

Ecology

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Kappelle Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226278933, ISBN: HB: 9780226121505, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
744 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 244 colour plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic "Costa Rican Natural History", research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a species-le...

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