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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Architecture

Ecology

Camp and the City Territories of Extraction

Sordi Jeannette, Valenzuela Luis, Vera Felipe

ISBN: PB: 9788898774753, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, colour illus.

Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...

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Ecology

Cool Cities Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming

Barber Benjamin R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300224207, Yale University Press, June 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm

A pointed argument that cities – not nation-states – can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to coo...

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Ecology

America

Coast Beyond Compare Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661841, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
350 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 183 colour plates, 9 halftones

The southern coast of Alaska stretches over six hundred miles, its sweeping crescent studded with glaciers and beaches that connect temperate rainforest to frozen islands. While its soaring beauty attracts thousands of visitors a year, it also hides...

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Architecture

Ecology

City Riffs Urbanism, Ecology, Place

Plunz Richard

ISBN: PB: 9783037785003, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 30 illus.

City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-...

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Ecology

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris The Effort to Contain Global Warming

Sweet William

ISBN: PB: 9780300209631, Yale University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview o...

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Ecology

Corridors of Power: Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar

Corson Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300212273, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent m...

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Nature

Ecology

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Kappelle Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226278933, ISBN: HB: 9780226121505, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
744 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 244 colour plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic "Costa Rican Natural History", research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a species-le...

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Evolution

Ecology

Coevolution of Life on Hosts Integrating Ecology and History

Clayton Dale H., Bush Sarah E., Johnson Kevin P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302270, ISBN: HB: 9780226302133, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables

For most, the mere mention of lice forces an immediate hand to the head and recollection of childhood experiences with nits, medicated shampoos, and traumatic haircuts. But for a certain breed of biologist, lice make for fascinating scientific fodder...

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Ecology

Climate Cultures Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change

Barnes Jessica, Dove Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198812, Yale University Press, August 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet global solutions have proved elusive. This book draws together cutting-edge anthropological research to uncover new ways of approaching the critical questions that surround climate c...

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