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Emergence of Ecosocialism Collected Essays by Joel Kovel
ISBN: PB: 9781940939957, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Emergence of Ecosocialism" is the first book by the author, activist and scholar Joel Kovel. Kovel led an expansive political and intellectual life from the mid-1960s until his death in the spring of 2018: in addition to being a foundational eco...
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£17,00
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Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps
Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...
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£36,00
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Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region
ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone
The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...
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£24,00
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People and the Land through Time Linking Ecology and History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300225808, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
"People and the Land through Time", first published in 1997, remains the only introduction to the field of historical ecology from the perspective of ecology and ecosystem processes. Widely praised for its emphasis on the integration of historical in...
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£30,00
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Contesting Leviathan Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226657400, ISBN: HB: 9780226657370, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...
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£68,00
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Permaculture Design Companion A Practical Workbook For Integrating People & Places
ISBN: PB: 9781856233293, Bookport, Permanent Publications, September 2019
194 pp., 30.4x21.5 cm, illus.
A practical workbook to apply permaculture to any project from start to finish, this is a step-by-step guide for integrating places and people, buildings and ecosystems. Permaculture is a holistic design approach to meeting basic human needs in harm...
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£19,95
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Towards Zero Waste How to Live a Circular Life
ISBN: PB: 9781856233286, Bookport, Permanent Publications, September 2019
176 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Is recycling really the answer to household waste? How do we eliminate microplastics from our wastewater? How do we avoid consumer goods that are designed to break? How do we stop the oceans being trashed? "Towards Zero Waste" offers practical tools...
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£9,95
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Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America
ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones
When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...
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£68,00
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Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones
This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...
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£27,00
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Wading Right In Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
ISBN: PB: 9780226554358, ISBN: HB: 9780226554211, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 line drawings
Where can you find mosses that change landscapes, salamanders with algae in their skin, and carnivorous plants containing whole ecosystems in their furled leaves? Where can you find swamp-trompers, wildlife watchers, marsh managers, and mud-mad scien...
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£23,00
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