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Ecology

Learning Science The Value of Crafting Engagement in Science Environments

Schneider Barbara, Krajcik Joseph, Lavonen Jari, Salmela-Aro Katariina, Geller Margaret J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300227383, Yale University Press, April 2020
200 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This book tells the story of a $3.6 million research project funded by the National Science Foundation aimed at increasing scientific literacy and addressing global concerns of declining science engagement. Studying dozens of classrooms across the Un...

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Ecology

Surroundings A History of Environments and Environmentalisms

Benson Etienne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706290, ISBN: HB: 9780226706153, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it's easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings, we learn that the environmental past is mu...

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Fashion

Ecology

Shoddy From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

Shell Hanna Rose

ISBN: HB: 9780226377759, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 65 halftones

You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material m...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More

Prager Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...

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Political Science

Ecology

Climate Change from the Streets How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement

Mendez Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300232158, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Volume 1

Kotchen Matthew J., Stock James H., Wolfram Catherine D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711171, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Architecture

Ecology

Return to the Source New Energy Landscapes from the Land Art Generator Initiative Abu Dhabi

Monoian Elizabeth, Ferry Robert

ISBN: HB: 9783791359380, Prestel Publishing, January 2020
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Land Art Generator Initiative is one of the world's most exciting design competitions and for its 2019 challenge, entrants from around the world were asked to create a renewable energy-producing artwork for the UAE's Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. The...

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Architecture

Ecology

Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Pickett Steward T. A., Cadenasso Mary L., Grove J. Morgan, Irwin Elena G., Rosi Emma J., Swan Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...

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Sea Life

Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Ecology

Phylogenetic Ecology A History, Critique, and Remodeling

Swenson Nathan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671505, ISBN: HB: 9780226671475, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 10 tables

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field's power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecolo...

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