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Ecology

We Alone How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It

Western David

ISBN: HB: 9780300251166, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research...

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Anthropology

Ecology

People and the Land through Time Linking Ecology and History (Second Edition)

W. B. Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780300225808, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.

"People and the Land through Time", first published in 1997, remains the only introduction to the field of historical ecology from the perspective of ecology and ecosystem processes. Widely praised for its emphasis on the integration of historical in...

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Ecology

Thirst for Power Energy, Water, and Human Survival

Webber Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240245, Yale University Press, August 2018
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world's two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted book offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy a...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Stormwater A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226365008, ISBN: HB: 9780226364957, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 277 halftones

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm – from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston – come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In "Stormwater", William G. Wilson brings us t...

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Nature

Ecology

Our Once and Future Planet Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century

Woodworth Paddy

ISBN: PB: 9780226333403, ISBN: HB: 9780226907390, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it's hard not to focus on the...

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Nature

Ecology

Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates

Wallace Alfred Russel

ISBN: PB: 9780226045030, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones

Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological divers...

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Nature

Disconnected Rivers Linking Rivers to Landscapes

Wohl Ellen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194708, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems....

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Ecology

World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Wohl Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226007601, ISBN: HB: 9780226904788, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 64 halftones, 1 line illus.

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage say...

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Ecology

After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park

Wallace Linda L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184181, Yale University Press, November 2011
402 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The ravaging fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988 caused grave concern among scientists about the possible short- and longterm repercussions. This book provides the first comprehensive scientific summary of the actual response of the Yellowston...

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Ecology

Virtual Rivers Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range

Wohl Ellen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183108, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually have been impaired as a...

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