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Ecology

Theory of Ecology

Scheiner Samuel M., Willig Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226736860, ISBN: HB: 9780226736853, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
416 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 tables, 30 halftones, 26 line illus.

Despite claims to the contrary, the science of ecology has a long history of building theories. Many ecological theories are mathematical, computational, or statistical, though, and rarely have attempts been made to organize or extrapolate these mode...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Economics of Climate Change Adaptations Past and Present

Libecap Gary D., Steckel Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479880, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 47 tables, 3 halftones, 86 line illus.

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which econo...

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Ecology

Lomborg Deception Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

Friel Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780300171280, Yale University Press, May 2011
272 pp., 20.2x13.4 cm

In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim that global warming is 'no catastrophe' by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial account...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ecology

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark

Burney David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172096, ISBN: HB: 9780300150940, Yale University Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x14.8 cm, 39 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its histor...

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Ecology

Capturing Carbon The New Weapon in the War Against Climate Change

Mills Robin M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849040341, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A new weapon is emerging to help us fight climate change. It is becoming feasible to take carbon dioxide from power stations and industry, and lock it away safely before it can enter the atmosphere. In the next few years, major...

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Ecology

Knowing Nature Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies

Goldman Mara J., Nadasdy Paul, Turner Matthew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226301419, ISBN: HB: 9780226301402, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 tables, 22 halftones, 8 line illus.

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives – one focusing on the politics of resource access and the o...

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Mammals

Ecology

Amboseli Elephants A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal

Moss Cynthia J., Croze Harvey, Lee Phyllis C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226542232, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 119 line drawings, 50 tables, 88 halftones

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant "Nature's greatest masterpiece... The only harmless great thing". Their ivory has been sought after an...

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Ecology

Constructed Climates A Primer on Urban Environments

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226901466, ISBN: HB: 9780226901459, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
288 pp., 20.3x15.5 cm, 56 tables, 31 halftones

As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it's difficu...

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Ecology

Art of Ecology Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Skelly David K., Post David M., Smith Melinda D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300154498, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 11 black&white illus.

During the twentieth century, ecology evolved from a collection of natural history facts to a rigorous, analytical discipline with a rich body of theory. No single person is more responsible for this change than G. Evelyn Hutchinson. This collection...

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Biography & Memoires

Ecology

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Slack Nancy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...

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