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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

by David Abram

Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain...


Unlearn, Rewild: Earth Skills, Ideas and Inspiration for the Future Primitive

by Miles Olson

Wild by nature - radical sustainability skills and ideas for a post-industrial future


Indians, Markets, and Rainforests: Theoretical, Comparative, and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics

by Ricardo Godoy

This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy help or hurt indigenous peoples and how does it affect the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna?...


America's Water and Wastewater Crisis: The Role of Private Enterprise

by Lewis D. Solomon

"In this distinctive book . . . [Lewis D. Solomon] discusses the historical development and regulation of U.S. water resources and provides a comprehensive overview of current challenges, such as aging...


A Love Letter To The Planet

by Thich Nhat Hanh

A passionate appeal for ecological mindfulness and strengthening our relationship to the Earth. Based on the best selling The World We Have.


The Cutting Edge: Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests

by Robert A. Fimbel, John Robinson & Alejandro Grajal

Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting...


Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction

by Elizabeth Gehrman

The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinction

 

Rare Birds is a tale of obsession, of hope, of fighting for redemption against...


Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber: Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

by Nicholas K. Menzies

Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around...


The Story of the Fly: ..and How It Could Save the World

by Jason Drew & Justine Joseph

The story of the fly and how it could save the world will take you behind the pesky reputation and inside the brain and body of the much misunderstood fly. It investigates the insect as a pest and how man has...


Evidence-based Conservation: Lessons from the Lower Mekong

by Terry C. H. Sunderland, Jeffrey Sayer & Minh-Ha Hoang

There is a considerable gap between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. Science is often failing to inform the practice of conservation,...


Life Rules: Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse

by Ellen LaConte

Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it.


A Region of Astonishing Beauty: The Botanical Exploration of the Rocky Mountains

by Roger L. Williams

As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the...


Tapping the Green Market: Management and Certification of Non-timber Forest Products

by Abraham Guillen, Sarah A Laird & Alan R Pierce

There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However,...


Tourism and National Parks: International Perspectives on Development, Histories and Change

by Warwick Frost & C. Michael Hall

In 1872 Yellowstone was established as a National Park. The name caught the public's imagination and by the close of the century, other National Parks had been declared, not only in the USA, but also in Australia,...


People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation

by Charles Zerner

In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and...


Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: Concepts and Applications

by Ajith H. Perera, Lisa J. Buse & Michael G. Weber

What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Representing...


The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear

by Kieran Mulvaney

An up-close look at virtually everything interesting, important, or culturally relevant about the birth, life, and death of the polar bear.


Bayshore Summer: Finding Eden in a Most Unlikely Place

by Pete Dunne

Second in a four-book series about humans' relationship to nature.


Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook

by David M. Carroll

The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminates the ecology and life histories of his "mud people"—the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, and the increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been tracking...


The Bee Garden: How to create or adapt a garden to attract and nurture bees

by Maureen Little

Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining...