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Mapping Nature across the Americas
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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£56,00
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Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves A History of American Environmental Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780300222913, Yale University Press, May 2020
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 34 black&white illus.
In the third edition of this definitive book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect contemporary environmental issues and public policy decisions, and identifying key po...
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£35,00
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Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones
This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...
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£27,00
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Multiscale Convection-Coupled Systems in the Tropics A Tribute to Dr. Michio Yanai
ISBN: HB: 9781944970048, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
50 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps
This monograph was inspired by the life and work of Professor Michio Yanai, a seminal figure and dedicated mentor in tropical meteorology. Conceived initially at the AMS Michio Yanai Symposium as "lessons" organized around the principal research area...
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£75,00
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Make It Rain State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226597928, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 4 tables
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenome...
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£28,00
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Managing the Wild Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests
ISBN: HB: 9780300229332, Yale University Press, April 2018
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters's thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, "Local pe...
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£25,00
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Moral Entanglements Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780226543826, ISBN: HB: 9780226376639, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 line drawing
At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments. Using life history data d...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Meeting of Land and Sea Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard
ISBN: HB: 9780300214178, Yale University Press, March 2017
352 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 314 colour illus.
An eminent ecologist shows how an iconic New England island has been shaped by nature and human history, and how its beloved landscape can be protected. Full of surprises, bedecked with gorgeous photographs and maps, and supported by unprecedented h...
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£30,00
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Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour
ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables
From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...
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£26,00
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£80,00
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Mountains and Plains The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300185928, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 168 colour images, 77 black&white illus.
Many changes – some discouraging, others hopeful – have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce,...
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£35,00
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