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Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

by Margo DeMello

Human–animal studies explores human–animal relations and the place of animals within human social and cultural worlds. Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human...


People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America

by Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer & Jose M. V. Fragoso

This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism...


On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring

by William Souder

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement

She loved the ocean and wrote three books about...


The GALILEO Syndrome

by Daniel H Gottlieb

On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, humanity can no longer bring antiquated systems to bear against the climate problems that have been washing over the species for decades. Having inherited a bulwark...


The FIRES Of Home

by Daniel H. Gottlieb

It had once been called the Tipping Point. We didn’t know what it might be, but we were warned that it might be dangerous.

For Winston Doe, the Tipping Point is a memory: A war called the Jazz War. Battling...


The Dialogues of Sancho and Quixote, MYTHICAL Debates on Global Warming: 1997 - 2010

by Daniel H. Gottlieb

Sancho and Quixote Annotation Do you understand the American climate debate? Have you ever wanted to laugh at it? Sancho and Quixote made their debut in 1997. Here is their entire debate, in all its absurdity....


Huck: The Remarkable True Story of How One Lost Puppy Taught a Family--and a Whole Town--About Hope and Happy Endings

by Janet Elder

Huck is a page-turning, unforgettable true story of the tenacity of one small dog, the unexpected, extraordinary kindness of strangers, and a family’s devotion to each other.

 

Michael was four when his relentless...


Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems

by Stuart K. K. Allison

What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored...


Nature Unbound: "Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas"

by Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy & Jim Igoe

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected...


Beautiful Corn: America's Original Grain from Seed to Plate

by Anthony Boutard

From seed to plate – the seasons of a remarkable crop


Ancient Ecologists

by Wence Horak & Keana Texeira

Addicted to rather flawed concept of Darwinism, we tend to think even of climatic changes as slow, gradual processed. Yet the termination of the last Ice Age was fast and furious. It ended about 15,500 years...


Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation

by Anthony B. B. Anderson & Clinton N. N. Jenkins

The fragmenting of habitats is endangering animal populations and degrading or destroying many plant populations throughout the world. To address this problem, conservationists have increasingly turned to biological...


Panda: Back from the Brink

by Zhou Mengqi

A celebration of the iconic giant panda (includes donation to the pandas in the care of Edinburgh Zoo). Despite becoming a symbol of wildlife conservation, having narrowly avoided extinction, there are fewer...


The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

by Andrew Nikiforuk

By the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century...


The Conscious Kitchen: The New Way to Buy and Cook Food - to Protect the Earth, Improve Your Health, and Eat Deliciously

by Alexandra Zissu

Your everyday food choices can change the world—and make meals taste better than ever

 

For anyone who has read The Omnivore’s Dilemma or seen Food, Inc. and longs to effect easy green changes when it comes...


The Men of the Last Frontier

by Grey Owl & James Polk

Part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore, Grey Owl's first book was published in 1931. It is a passionate, compelling appeal for the...


Ecology of Sumatra

by Sengli J. J. Damanik & Tony Whitten

SUMATRA is the focus of a large number of agricultural. social and industrial

developments and yet the possible biological impacts of these are largely only guessed at bv local and foreign scientists working...


Two Billion Trees and Counting: The Legacy of Edmund Zavitz

by John Bacher & Kenneth A. A. Armson

Edmund Zavitz (1875-1968) is recognized as Ontarios "Father of Reforestation." Due his knowledge of forestry, vision, diligence, and perseverance in the face of opposition, Ontario was rescued from the ravages...


Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South

by Randal L. L. Hall

Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer...


Deer Management in the UK

by Dominic Griffith

With 25 years of professional deer management experience, the author shows how to manage deer to their best potential. Whilst much deer management can result in a harassed and pressured deer population, this...