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Ecology

Voices of the Wild Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes

Krause Bernie

ISBN: HB: 9780300206319, Yale University Press, October 2015
184 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat...

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Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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Value of Species

McCord Edward L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176575, Yale University Press, May 2012
184 pp., 21x14 cm

In the face of accelerating extinctions across the globe, what ought we to do? Amid this sea of losses, what is our responsibility? How do we assess the value of nonhuman species? In this clear-spoken, passionate book, naturalist and philosopher Edwa...

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Virtual Rivers Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range

Wohl Ellen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183108, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually have been impaired as a...

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Nature

Vanishing Present Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife

Waller Donald M., Rooney Thomas P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226871738, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
522 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest o...

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