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Ecology

Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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Ecology

Value of Species

McCord Edward L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176575, Yale University Press, May 2012
184 pp., 21x14 cm

In the face of accelerating extinctions across the globe, what ought we to do? Amid this sea of losses, what is our responsibility? How do we assess the value of nonhuman species? In this clear-spoken, passionate book, naturalist and philosopher Edwa...

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Ecology

Dawn of Green Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

Ritvo Harriet

ISBN: PB: 9780226720869, ISBN: HB: 9780226720821, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natur...

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Ecology

Wasted World How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet

Hengeveld Rob

ISBN: HB: 9780226326993, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 line illus.

All systems produce waste as part of a cycle – bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled – though never completely. In "Wasted World", Rob Hengeve...

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Ecology

Breaking the Logjam Environmental Protection That Will Work

Schoenbrod David, Stewart Richard B., Wyman Katrina M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171488, ISBN: HB: 9780300149609, Yale University Press, March 2012
216 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. David Schoenb...

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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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Culture Studies

Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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History

Earth Sciences

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Golinski Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780226302034, ISBN: HB: 9780226302058, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions".British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the...

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America

Ecology

Boll Weevil Blues Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

Giesen James C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226292878, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 22x15 cm, 4 maps, 10 figures, 7 tables, 5 halftones

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisi...

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