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Ecology

Wildness Relations of People and Place

Van Horn Gavin, Hausdoerffer John

ISBN: PB: 9780226444833, ISBN: HB: 9780226444666, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that na...

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Ecology

Meeting of Land and Sea Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard

Foster David R., Hall Brian R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214178, Yale University Press, March 2017
352 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 314 colour illus.

An eminent ecologist shows how an iconic New England island has been shaped by nature and human history, and how its beloved landscape can be protected. Full of surprises, bedecked with gorgeous photographs and maps, and supported by unprecedented h...

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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

Evolution

Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour

Hanski Ilkka

ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...

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Ecology

Politics of Scale A History of Rangeland Science

Sayre Nathan F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226083254, ISBN: HB: 9780226083117, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production –...

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Imagining Extinction The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

Heise Ursula K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226358161, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 13 halftones, 2 tables

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim – the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention th...

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Mammals

Biography & Memoires

In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears

Fair Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps

For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...

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Mammals

Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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Ecology

Good That Transcends How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform

Freyfogle Eric T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326115, ISBN: HB: 9780226326085, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance t...

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