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Fate of the Forest Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (Updated Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226322728, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
408 pp., 21.3x14 cm, 7 maps, 6 halftones
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To under...
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£22,50
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Ecology of Place Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding
ISBN: PB: 9780226050430, ISBN: HB: 9780226050423, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 8 tables, 42 halftones, 32 line illus.
Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change....
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£47,00
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£112,00
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Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9780226306803, ISBN: HB: 9780226306797, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 5 tables, 69 halftones
The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a com...
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£42,00
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£103,00
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Green Intelligence Creating Environments That Protect Human Health
ISBN: PB: 9780300167900, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
<p>We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80...
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£33,00
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Mind of the Chimpanzee Ecological and Experimental Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226492797, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
464 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 31 line drawings, 19 tables, 144 halftones
Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave".The Mind of the Chimpanzee" brings tog...
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£51,00
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Powers That Be Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780226535005, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones
Thirty years ago, our global energy landscape did not look remarkably different from what it does today. Three or four decades from now, it certainly will: dwindling oil reserves will clash with skyrocketing demand, as developing nations around the w...
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£28,00
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Regulating from Nowhere Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity
ISBN: PB: 9780300120011, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers...
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£42,00
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Nature Crime How We're Getting Conservation Wrong
ISBN: HB: 9780300154344, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.
In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory and ultimately very damaging. Analysing the workings...
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£25,00
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Law's Environment How the Law Shapes the Places We Live
ISBN: HB: 9780300126297, Yale University Press, May 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
In this insightful book, John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Adak Island far off the coast of western Alaska; the Sus...
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£30,00
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Ecologica
ISBN: PB: 9780857425751, Seagull Books, May 2010
186 pp., 21x13.4 cm
Writing in 2007, French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008: "The real economy is becoming an appendage of the speculative bubbles sustained by the finance indust...
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£12,99
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