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Essential Atlas of Ecology
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Essential Atlas of Ecology
by Parramon's Editorial Team (edt)

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One of two brand-new titles in Barrons" Essential Atlas" series for Spring 2005, this book combines text with full-color photos and art on every page to examine the planet Earth as the habitat for all known life forms. Following a general introduction...
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Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism
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Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism
by Allen Hershkowitz

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"The Bronx Community Paper Company teaches us that we have the power, if we muster the will, creativity, and cooperation, to recover lost pieces ofAmerica's environment, return them to good health, protect other lands andresources from being destroyed...
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A Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity
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A Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity
by Robert W Adler

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Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in...
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Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States (Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration)
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Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States (Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration)
by Mary Doyle

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Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration presents case studies of five of the most noteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, California Bay Delta, the Platte River Basin, and the Upper Mississippi River...
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How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook
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How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook
by Richard Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger

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Most ecology books and courses focus on the facts and the concepts. While these are essential, many young ecologists need to figure out how to actually do research themselves. How to Do Ecology provides nuts-and-bolts advice on how to develop a...
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A Primer of Ecology
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A Primer of Ecology
by Nicholas J Gotelli

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Third edition of a concise exposition of the most common models in use....
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Ecotourism & Sustainable Development 2ND Edition
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Ecotourism & Sustainable Development 2ND Edition
by Martha Honey

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Ecotourism and Sustainable Development is the most comprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she...
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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America
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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America
by Dana Phillips

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'The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging, polemical appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the new field of ecocriticism from a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores topics as diverse as the history of ecology...
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Third World Political Ecology
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Third World Political Ecology
by Raymond L Bryant

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Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World....
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
by Sandra Steingraber

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Biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and as invaluable as "Silent Spring". "An important, deeply felt book".--"Chicago...
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Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation
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Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation
by Oswald J. Schmitz

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A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, published by Island Press in fall 2005, this new book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversity in the United States by revisiting...
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Water, Weather and the Mountain West (Rmb Alliance)
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Water, Weather and the Mountain West (Rmb Alliance)
by Robert Will Sanford

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Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada's west. Future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water...
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Old Fields: Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland (Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration)
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Old Fields: Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland (Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration)
by Viki Cramer

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Land abandonment is increasing as human influence on the globe intensifies and various ecological, social, and economic factors conspire to force the cessation of agriculture and other forms of land management. The “old fields” that result...
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Dictionary of Ecology 3RD Edition
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Dictionary of Ecology 3RD Edition
by Michael Allaby

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Written in a clear, accessible style, the Oxford Dictionary of Ecology contains over 5,000 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric science,...
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Temperate Forests, Revised Edition (Ecosystem)
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Temperate Forests, Revised Edition (Ecosystem)
by Michael Allaby

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Allaby, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Association of British Science Writers, describes the geology, geography, biology, ecology, biodiversity, economics, management, and health of the Earth's temperate forests. This revised...
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The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living (Culture, Place, and Nature)
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The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living (Culture, Place, and Nature)
by Nancy J Turner

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New in Paperback--A thought-provoking look at indigenous stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably....
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Environmental Science
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Environmental Science
by Mcgraw Hill

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THE LANGUAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, this vital reference offers a wealth of essential information in a portable...
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Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
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Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
by F Herbert Bormann

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In this highly readable book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relationships-the interconnected...
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Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
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Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
by Steve Nash

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Nash reports on the controversies over genetically modified pines and poplars - "science fiction trees" - and how fears of their escape into wild forests has prompted some environments [illegible] to go so far as to sabotage corporate laboratories. The...
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An Island Called California: an Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities, Second Edition
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An Island Called California: an Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities, Second Edition
by Elna S Bakker

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Bakker's classic of ecological science now includes three new chapters on Southern California which make the book more useful than ever. Striking new photographs illustrate the diversity of life, climate, and geological formation....
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