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Ecology

Burn Out The Endgame for Fossil Fuels

Helm Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780300234480, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change. Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how...

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Free the Beaches The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

Kahrl Andrew W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215144, Yale University Press, March 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of C...

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Entangled People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

Sigman Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9781602233485, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 4 halftones

Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon – in Alaska'...

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Nature

Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...

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Future of Conservation in America A Chart for Rough Water

Machlis Gary E., Jarvis Jonathan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226542058, ISBN: HB: 9780226541860, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 7 halftones

This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenge...

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Evolution

Hierarchy Perspectives for Ecological Complexity

Allen T. F. H., Starr Thomas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226489681, ISBN: HB: 9780226489544, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals...

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Earth Sciences

Thirty-Eight The Hurricane That Transformed New England

Long Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230673, ISBN: HB: 9780300209518, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New England's Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Isl...

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Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

Burch William R., Machlis Gary E., Force Jo Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300137033, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. "The Human Ecosystem Model" described in this landmark book provides an innovative res...

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Ecology

Camp and the City Territories of Extraction

Sordi Jeannette, Valenzuela Luis, Vera Felipe

ISBN: PB: 9788898774753, Bookport, ListLab, September 2017
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, colour illus.

Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...

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Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Ghosh Amitav

ISBN: PB: 9780226526812, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land",...

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