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Ecology

Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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Ecology

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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Ecology

Dawn of Green Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

Ritvo Harriet

ISBN: PB: 9780226720869, ISBN: HB: 9780226720821, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natur...

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Ecology

Wasted World How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet

Hengeveld Rob

ISBN: HB: 9780226326993, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 line illus.

All systems produce waste as part of a cycle – bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled – though never completely. In "Wasted World", Rob Hengeve...

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Ecology

Breaking the Logjam Environmental Protection That Will Work

Schoenbrod David, Stewart Richard B., Wyman Katrina M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171488, ISBN: HB: 9780300149609, Yale University Press, March 2012
216 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. David Schoenb...

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