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Sea Life

Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

Stone Gregory S., Obura David

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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Ecology

World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

Liittschwager David

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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Ecology

World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Wohl Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226007601, ISBN: HB: 9780226904788, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 64 halftones, 1 line illus.

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage say...

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Nature

Ecology

Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu Region, Southwestern Suriname

O'Shea Brian J., Alonso Leeanne E., Larsen Trond H.

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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Ecology

Nature All Around Us A Guide to Urban Ecology

Beisner Beatrix, Messier Christian, Giraldeau Luc-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226922751, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 78 line illus.

It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, a...

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Ecology

Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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Ecology

Dawn of Green Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

Ritvo Harriet

ISBN: PB: 9780226720869, ISBN: HB: 9780226720821, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natur...

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Ecology

Wasted World How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet

Hengeveld Rob

ISBN: HB: 9780226326993, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 line illus.

All systems produce waste as part of a cycle – bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled – though never completely. In "Wasted World", Rob Hengeve...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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History

Earth Sciences

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Golinski Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780226302034, ISBN: HB: 9780226302058, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions".British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the...

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