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Ecology

Climate Casino Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

Nordhaus William

ISBN: PB: 9780300212648, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still tim...

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Ecology

After Preservation Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans

Minteer Ben A., Pyne Stephen J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226259963, ISBN: HB: 9780226259826, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing

From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos – to encir...

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Ecology

Serengeti IV Sustaining Biodiversity in a Coupled Human-Natural System

Sinclair Anthony R. E., Metzger Kristine L., Mduma Simon A. R., Fryxell John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226196169, ISBN: HB: 9780226195834, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
832 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 100 line drawings, 66 tables

The vast savannas and great migrations of the Serengeti conjure impressions of a harmonious and balanced ecosystem. But in reality, the history of the Serengeti is rife with battles between human and non-human nature. In the 1890s and several times s...

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Ecology

Walden Warming Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

Primack Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272290, ISBN: HB: 9780226682686, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Western Flyer Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116761, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 31 halftones

In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed...

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Ecology

Back to the Garden Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present

McGregor James H. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197464, Yale University Press, February 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden und...

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Ecology

Diplomacy on Ice Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic

Pincus Rebecca, Ali Saleem H., Speth James Gustave

ISBN: HB: 9780300205169, Yale University Press, February 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centred on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the A...

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