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All the Trees of the Forest Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9780300189506, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
In this insightful and provocative book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands a...
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£65,00
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Future of Nature Documents of Global Change
ISBN: PB: 9780300184617, Yale University Press, November 2013
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.
This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. T...
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£27,00
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Consumed Food for a Finite Planet
ISBN: HB: 9780226093628, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same tim...
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£19,00
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Zookeeping An Introduction to the Science and Technology
ISBN: HB: 9780226925318, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
688 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 85 halftones, 55 line drawings, 48 tables
As species extinction, environmental protection, animal rights, and workplace safety issues come to the fore, zoos and aquariums need keepers who have the technical expertise and scientific knowledge to keep animals healthy, educate the public, and c...
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£76,50
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Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics
ISBN: PB: 9780226253411, ISBN: HB: 9780226253404, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 98 colour plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables
The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As "The Ornaments of Life" reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants – toucans, monkeys, leaf-...
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£44,00
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£100,50
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Infinite Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226102221, ISBN: HB: 9780226359441, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressiv...
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£13,00
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£26,50
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Ignoring Nature No More The Case for Compassionate Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9780226925356, ISBN: HB: 9780226925332, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
456 pp., 23x15 cm
For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is impor...
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£35,00
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£88,50
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Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
ISBN: PB: 9780226045030, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones
Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological divers...
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£26,00
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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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Rapid Biological Assessment of the Mont Panie Range and Roches de la Ouaieme, North Province, New Caledonia
ISBN: PB: 9781934151549, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, April 2013
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
This report contains the findings from rapid biological assessments around Mont Panie, the tallest mountain in New Caledonia, southwest Pacific. The purpose of the survey was to gather baseline data on biodiversity, analyze local climate trends, asse...
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£15,00
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