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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned scientists, brings us inspiring news about the future of the... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams Publisher Comments In "The Hitchhiker's Trilogy" and the bestselling "Dirk Gently" novels, Douglas Adams has taken his millions of fans on wild excursions through time and space. Last Chance to See continues the trip--but this time the place is Earth, the date is today... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia: Global Crime Syndicates Profit from a New Contraband by Ben Davies Synopsis From the Russian Mafia in Siberia to freelance poachers in Thailand, Black Market is an unforgettable journey inside the grisly Endangered Species Trade, where unsanctioned global trafficking of rhino horn, tiger bone, ivory and rare birds has become a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.24 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Atlas of Endangered Species (Atlas Of...) by Richard Mackay Publisher Comments With twenty percent of the earth's species facing extinction by 2030, this striking atlas brings up to date the data on those that have been lost already, those that are threatened, and those that are surviving today. Vividly illustrated with full-color... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments Ellis, one of the world's foremost experts in wildlife extinction, brings his alarm that trade in animal parts for traditional Chinese medicine is a leading cause of species endangerment in Asia, and poaching is increasing at an alarming rate. He... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History by Joseph Cone Publisher Comments In this acclaimed volume, knowledgeable observers of salmon history select and comment on the documents that they feel most clearly reveal the causes of today's crisis. The eighty documents span a period of 140 years and address such issues as habitat... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Swift as a Shadow by Rosamond Purcell Publisher Comments In the early nineteenth century there were so many passenger pigeons that the sky darkened when they flew overhead; it took three days for flocks to pass. They were killed by hunters or disappeared when their oak and beech habitats were destroyed. The... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Bk: Extinction Crisis Face to Face by Amie Brautigam Synopsis Drawing on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the worlds most objective and authoritative inventory of species at risk of extinction, this publication combines awe-inspiring imagery with solid science and factual accounts. The result of... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger Synopsis Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award-winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue by William Stolzenburg Publisher Comments Rat Island, midway between Alaska and Siberia, was once a sanctuary for seabirds, before shipwrecked rats came ashore and savaged them. Its a familiar scenario repeating across the oceans of the world: innocent island species under attack by foreign... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned scientists, brings us inspiring news about the future of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fate of the Wild: The Endangered Species Act and the Future of Biodiversity by Bonnie B Burgess Publisher Comments Given widespread concern over the worldwide loss of biodiversity and popular crusades to "save" endangered species and habitats, why has the Endangered Species Act remained unauthorized since October 1992? In Fate of the Wild Bonnie B. Burgess... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Endangered: Biodiversity on the Brink by Mitch Tobin Publisher Comments Urban sprawl, wasteful water use, increasingly ferocious wildfires, changing weather patterns, chronic political infighting. These are but a few of the problems facing animal and plant species throughout the United States and the world. One law, the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction by Steve Nash Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The End of the Wild (Boston Review Books) by Stephen M Meyer Publisher Comments With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped by Colin Tudge Publisher Comments In Last Animals at theZoo, Colin Tudge argues that zoos have become an essential part of modernconservation strategy, and that the only real hope for saving many endangeredspecies is through creative use of zoos in combination with restoration ofnatural... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy Publisher Comments Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act by Joe Roman Publisher Comments The first listed species to make headlines after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 was the snail darter, a three-inch fish that stood in the way of a massive dam on the Little Tennessee River. When the Supreme Court sided with the darter... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed by Alan Rabinowitz Publisher Comments Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect natures great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild... (read more) List Price $45.25 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature by H H Shugart Publisher Comments A noted ecologist presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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