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Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America
ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones
When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones
This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...
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£27,00
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Wading Right In Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
ISBN: PB: 9780226554358, ISBN: HB: 9780226554211, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 line drawings
Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scien...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...
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£23,00
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Natural Encounters Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons
ISBN: HB: 9780300243482, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 28 black&white illus.
In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons", lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year?long journey through the seasons as he describes the...
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£22,00
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Stockholm Paradigm Climate Change and Emerging Disease
ISBN: PB: 9780226632445, ISBN: HB: 9780226632308, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 40 line drawings
The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and era...
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£30,00
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£90,00
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Poisonous Skies Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution
ISBN: HB: 9780226634715, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth's changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through th...
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£34,00
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Breakpoint Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises
ISBN: PB: 9780300244397, ISBN: HB: 9780300179392, Yale University Press, June 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.
Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems rava...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Sustaining Lake Superior An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
ISBN: PB: 9780300244519, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.
Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery an...
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£20,00
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Wild Sea A History of the Southern Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9780226622385, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 maps
"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessi...
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£21,00
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