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Ecology

Secrets of the Ice Antarctica's Clues to Climate, the Universe, and the Limits of Life

Meduna Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300187007, Yale University Press, October 2012
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 maps, 158 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Antarctica is the only continent without permanent human habitation, yet it may hold the key to our survival. More than just a frontier for exploration, Antarctica is now understood to be a crucial part of a global climate and environment. Each year...

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Ecology

Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership Redefining Who Leads and How

Gordon John C., Berry Joyce K., Christensen Norman L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300111347, Yale University Press, October 2012
160 pp., 21x14 cm

The important new approach to leadership that John Gordon and Joyce Berry explain in this book is built upon the experiences of environmental and natural resource organizations as they contend with complex, long-term problems. But the lessons learned...

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Ecology

Value of Species

McCord Edward L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176575, Yale University Press, May 2012
184 pp., 21x14 cm

In the face of accelerating extinctions across the globe, what ought we to do? Amid this sea of losses, what is our responsibility? How do we assess the value of nonhuman species? In this clear-spoken, passionate book, naturalist and philosopher Edwa...

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Ecology

Breaking the Logjam Environmental Protection That Will Work

Schoenbrod David, Stewart Richard B., Wyman Katrina M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171488, ISBN: HB: 9780300149609, Yale University Press, March 2012
216 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. David Schoenb...

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Ecology

After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park

Wallace Linda L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184181, Yale University Press, November 2011
402 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The ravaging fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988 caused grave concern among scientists about the possible short- and longterm repercussions. This book provides the first comprehensive scientific summary of the actual response of the Yellowston...

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Ecology

Virtual Rivers Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range

Wohl Ellen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183108, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually have been impaired as a...

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Ecology

Lomborg Deception Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

Friel Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780300171280, Yale University Press, May 2011
272 pp., 20.2x13.4 cm

In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim that global warming is 'no catastrophe' by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial account...

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Ecology

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark

Burney David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172096, ISBN: HB: 9780300150940, Yale University Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x14.8 cm, 39 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its histor...

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Art of Ecology Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Skelly David K., Post David M., Smith Melinda D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300154498, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 11 black&white illus.

During the twentieth century, ecology evolved from a collection of natural history facts to a rigorous, analytical discipline with a rich body of theory. No single person is more responsible for this change than G. Evelyn Hutchinson. This collection...

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Ecology

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Slack Nancy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...

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