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Into the Arctic Ice The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time

Horvath Esther

ISBN: HB: 9783791386706, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 160 colour illus.

Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have united in a common mission known as MOSAiC – the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate – whose mission is to chart conditions in the Arctic for on...

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Birds

Ecology

In Search of Meadowlarks Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land

Marzluff John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237146, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

With predictions of a human population of more than nine billion by the middle of this century and eleven billion by 2100, we stand at a crossroads in our agricultural evolution. In this clear and engaging yet scientifically rigorous book, wildlife b...

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Into Wild Mongolia

Schaller George B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246179, Yale University Press, April 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 16 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

Mongolia became a satellite of the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, and for nearly seven decades effectively closed its doors to the outside world. Biologist George Schaller initially visited the country in 1989, and was one of the first Western scient...

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Earth Sciences

Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation Measurement and Modeling Challenges

Baumgardner Darrel, McFarquhar Greg M., Heymsfield Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970260, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

Background and Overview Chapter 1. Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles – Zamin A. Kanji, Luis A. Ladino, Heike Wex, Yvonne Boose, Monika Burkert-Kohn, Daniel J. Cziczo, and Martina Krنmer Chapter 2. Cirrus Clouds – Andrew J. Heymsfield, Martina Krنm...

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Imagining Extinction The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

Heise Ursula K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226358161, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 13 halftones, 2 tables

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim – the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention th...

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Mammals

Biography & Memoires

In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears

Fair Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps

For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...

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Invasive Species in a Globalized World Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy

Keller Reuben P., Cadotte Marc W., Sandiford Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780226166186, ISBN: HB: 9780226166049, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 34 halftones, 15 line drawings, 13 tables

Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separate...

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Ecology

Irreplaceable Woodlands Some Practical Steps to Restoring Our Wildlife Heritage

Flower Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781906506537, GMC Group, Papadakis, September 2014
240 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.

This book is not only a beautiful record of the ancient woodlands that, thanks to good management, have continued to thrive, it also constitutes a practical manual and provides inspiration for those working to preserve our existing ancient woodlands,...

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Ecology

Infinite Nature

Hull R. Bruce

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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Ecology

Ignoring Nature No More The Case for Compassionate Conservation

Bekoff Marc

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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