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Crown Jewels Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face
ISBN: PB: 9781933253732, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, May 2013
220 pp., 22.9x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. But national parks...
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£35,00
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Essay on the Geography of Plants
ISBN: PB: 9780226054735, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
296 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 7 tables, poster inside book, 9 halftones
The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth centu...
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£22,50
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Disconnected Rivers Linking Rivers to Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300194708, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems....
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£21,00
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Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth
ISBN: HB: 9780226775609, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
184 pp., 25x20 cm, 2 tables, 91 colour illus.
"It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago". That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Paci...
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£32,00
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World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity
ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.
Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...
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£34,00
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Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu Region, Southwestern Suriname
ISBN: PB: 9781934151501, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, October 2012
156 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 44 colour illus.
This report contains the findings from a Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu region of southwestern Suriname. Focusing particularly on the plant and animal species important to the indigenous Trio people, this survey establishes baseline...
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£15,00
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Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602231818, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2012
311 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 620 colour illus.
This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the...
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£22,50
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Floating Gold A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
ISBN: HB: 9780226430362, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
232 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 21 halftones, 12 colour illus.
"Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre...
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£17,00
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Peru: Yaguas-Cotuhe
ISBN: PB: 9780982841914, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, April 2012
378 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour illus.
In October 2010, a team of experts from Peru, Colombia, and the United States conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and the lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern Peru. The social team assessed the strengths and...
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Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...
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£52,00
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