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Ecology

Back to the Garden Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present

McGregor James H. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197464, Yale University Press, February 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden und...

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Diplomacy on Ice Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic

Pincus Rebecca, Ali Saleem H., Speth James Gustave

ISBN: HB: 9780300205169, Yale University Press, February 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centred on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the A...

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Mountains and Plains The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes

Knight Dennis H., Jones George P., Reiners William A., Romme William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185928, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 168 colour images, 77 black&white illus.

Many changes – some discouraging, others hopeful – have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce,...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification

Auld Graeme

ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...

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Ecology

Banned A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

Davis Frederick Rowe

ISBN: HB: 9780300205176, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Rachel Carson's seminal book Silent Spring, published in 1962, stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Powerful and eloquent, the book exposed the dangers of indiscriminate chemical pesticide use. It also inspired importan...

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Ecology

Question of Balance Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies

Nordhaus William

ISBN: PB: 9780300209396, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken centre stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues...

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Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River

Plater Zygmunt J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...

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Invasive Species in a Globalized World Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy

Keller Reuben P., Cadotte Marc W., Sandiford Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780226166186, ISBN: HB: 9780226166049, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 34 halftones, 15 line drawings, 13 tables

Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separate...

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Wild Hope On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

Balmford Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226036014, ISBN: HB: 9780226035970, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any goo...

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Nature

Ecology

Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past

Goodman Steven M., Jungers William L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...

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