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Ecology

Brosnan Kathleen A., Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables

Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...

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Anthropology

General

Brief Natural History of Civilization Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity

Bertness Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300245912, Yale University Press, June 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.

Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...

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Ecology

Surroundings A History of Environments and Environmentalisms

Benson Etienne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706290, ISBN: HB: 9780226706153, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it's easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings, we learn that the environmental past is mu...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Contesting Leviathan Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict

Beldo Les

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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America

Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

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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Ecology

Birds

Natural Encounters Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons

Beehler Bruce M., Anderton John C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243482, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 28 black&white illus.

In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons", lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year?long journey through the seasons as he describes the...

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Ecology

Stockholm Paradigm Climate Change and Emerging Disease

Brooks Daniel R., Hoberg Eric P., Boeger Walter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226632445, ISBN: HB: 9780226632308, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 40 line drawings

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and era...

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Ecology

Water Paradox Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management

Barbier Ed

ISBN: HB: 9780300224436, Yale University Press, January 2019
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 34 figures

Water is essential to life, yet humankind's relationship with water is complex. For millennia, we have perceived it as abundant and easily accessible. But water shortages are fast becoming a persistent reality for all nations, rich and poor. With dem...

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Ecology

Extreme Conservation Life at the Edges of the World

Berger Joel

ISBN: HB: 9780226366265, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 31 halftones

On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns h...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Fishing Lessons Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226307459, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 9 line drawings

Fish bones in the caves of East Timor reveal that humans have systematically fished the seas for at least 42,000 years. But in recent centuries, our ancient, vital relationship with the oceans has changed faster than the tides. As boats and fishing t...

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