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Ecology

Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Kusserow Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...

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Ecology

Phylogenetic Ecology A History, Critique, and Remodeling

Swenson Nathan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671505, ISBN: HB: 9780226671475, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 10 tables

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field's power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecolo...

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Cultural Studies

Ecology

Pure Adulteration Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 halftones

In the late nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to t...

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Anthropology

Ecology

People and the Land through Time Linking Ecology and History (Second Edition)

W. B. Emily

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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Ecology

Permaculture Design Companion A Practical Workbook For Integrating People & Places

Dale Jasmine

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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Ecology

Poisonous Skies Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

Rothschild Rachel Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780226634715, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth's changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through th...

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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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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

Peru: Ere-Campuya-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 25

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780982841938, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2014
380 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates

In October 2012, an international and multidisciplinary team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Ere, Campuya, and Algodon watersheds of northern Amazonian Peru. Team members working on the social inventory studied the...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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