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Earthmasters The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

Hamilton Clive

ISBN: PB: 9780300205213, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 milli...

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Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Gyre The Plastic Ocean

Decker Julie

ISBN: HB: 9781861543554, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, February 2014
200 pp., 21x19.5 cm, fully Illustrated

A flip-flop discarded in Thailand finds its way to Hawaii, and a bottle cast off from Japan's tsunami is soon Alaska's beach litter. With stunning visual impact and an astonishing array of ocean trash, internationally recognized artists create works...

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Peru: Ere-Campuya-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 25

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780982841938, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2014
380 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates

In October 2012, an international and multidisciplinary team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Ere, Campuya, and Algodon watersheds of northern Amazonian Peru. Team members working on the social inventory studied the...

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Nature

All the Trees of the Forest Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300189506, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this insightful and provocative book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands a...

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Future of Nature Documents of Global Change

Robin Libby, Sorlin Sverker, Warde Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300184617, Yale University Press, November 2013
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. T...

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Consumed Food for a Finite Planet

Elton Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226093628, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same tim...

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Mammals

Birds

Zookeeping An Introduction to the Science and Technology

Irwin Mark, Stoner John B., Cobaugh Aaron M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226925318, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
688 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 85 halftones, 55 line drawings, 48 tables

As species extinction, environmental protection, animal rights, and workplace safety issues come to the fore, zoos and aquariums need keepers who have the technical expertise and scientific knowledge to keep animals healthy, educate the public, and c...

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Nature

Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics

Fleming Theodore H., Kress W. John

ISBN: PB: 9780226253411, ISBN: HB: 9780226253404, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 98 colour plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables

The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As "The Ornaments of Life" reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants – toucans, monkeys, leaf-...

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Infinite Nature

Hull R. Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226102221, ISBN: HB: 9780226359441, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressiv...

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