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Price: $225.00
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Sale: $41.14
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Manufacturer: Garland Science
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: D. Atkinson
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Publisher: Garland Science
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2001-12-15
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: Environment and Animal Development is the first book to focus specifically on the interactions between the environment and developmental mechanisms with particular emphasis given to the consequences for animal populations. The underlying premise of the book is that the study of physiological mechanisms alongside the analysis of adaptive values will enable rapid advancements in our knowledge of this important field. With contributions from well-known experts, the book will be invaluable for all graduate students and researchers in this area.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $1.95
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Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brian Payton
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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599.78
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Publication Date: 2006-07-11
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Around the world in pursuit of the beast we fear, revere, abuse, and adore.
We’ve been meeting bears in the wilderness, and in our dreams, since the dawn of human history. Celebrated in art and myth since we began drawing on the walls of caves, they cast a long shadow over our collective subconscious. Wherever bears endure, they are an indicator of the health of their ecosystem. Their decline—some to the edge of extinction—foretells a bigger story: that of our planet’s peril.
In a series of remarkable journeys, Brian Payton travels the world in search of the eight remaining bear species. Along the way, he confronts poachers in the jungles of Cambodia, witnesses the cruelty of the bear bile trade in China, and delves into the politics of panda sex. From the reclusive spectacled bears of Peru to the man-eating sloth bears of India, Payton captures the power and beauty of these fascinating creatures while exploring their unique place within very different cultures. Vivid characters, exotic landscapes, and deft storytelling make for an unforgettable trek down the braided path of bear and human history.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $4.00
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Manufacturer: Judson Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cindy Ubben Causey
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Publisher: Judson Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.8362
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Publication Date: 1996-10
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Reading Level: 150
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $104.02
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Avner De-Shalit
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
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Publication Date: 1995-04-24
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Reading Level: 172
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Description: For many years the environment has been treated as a free commodity, but it has become clear that we cannot continue to exploit the environment without incurring great costs for our as well as future generations. Why Posterity Matters is the first comprehensive philosophical examination that explores our duties to future generations. It raises moral questions about intergenerational distribution or the relations between people who live in different times.
Why Posterity Matters argues that our obligations to our progency are a matter of justice and that we must consider them when we make decisions which effect their environment. The arguement extends from a `communitarian' theory which states that the concept of a transgenerational community--one which extends from the past to the future--is not only morally desirable but justifys a belief in our obligations to future generations. In Why Posterity Matters Dr. de-Shalit sets forward the idea that the theory of intergenerational justice is not only a possibility, but that it must serve as the moral basis for our environmental policies.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $9.92
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Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bill Devall
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Publisher: Gibbs Smith
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.716
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Publication Date: 1988-10
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Reading Level: 232
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Price: $27.00
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Sale: $26.93
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mahesh Rangarajan
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634
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Publication Date: 1996-08-15
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: Fencing the Forest: Conservation and Ecological Change in India's Central Provinces 1860-1914 draws on archival and printed sources to shed new light on the ecological dimensions of the colonial impact on South Asia. The changing responses of rural forest users and the fortunes of the land they lived on are the key themes of this study. It will be useful to historians of modern India, the environment and wildlife, and anyone interested in ecological issues.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frederick Steiner
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 2002-10-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Human ecology is an emerging discipline that studies the interrelationships between humans and their environment, drawing on insights from biology, sociology, anthropology, geography, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and conservation. This volume synthesizes the work of diverse, sometimes divergent, scholars to illustrate how human interactions can be understood as ecological relationships, using hierarchy as an organizing device. Frederick Steiner builds on the work of leading thinkers including Christopher Alexander, William Cronon, Clifford Geertz, James Lovelock, Eugene Odum, Paul Shepard, Anne Whiston Spirn, E.O. Wilson, Gerald Young, and others to present a historical and analytical examination of how humans interact with each other as well as with other organisms and their surroundings. The first two chapters summarize the development of this "new ecology" and the theory of human ecology. The remainder of the book provides an introduction to the major elements of human ecological theory including language, culture, and technology; structure, function, and change; edges and boundaries; interaction, integration, and institution; diversity; and adaptation. The chapters are organized hierarchically from the smallest scale to the largest with each chapter addressing a specific level as an ecosystem. The final chapter probes some of the ethical implications of this new field. The book brings together scholarship from the social and natural sciences as well as the environmental design arts to offer an overview of the field of human ecology and to show how the field may help us to envision our futures. While the approach is largely theoretical, it has broad policy and practical implications, and represents an important new work for anyone concerned with interactions between humans and the environment.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: Mercury House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Mercury House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 1993-09-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.89
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Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gregory McNamee
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Publisher: Johnson Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.90954
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Publication Date: 1997-01
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Reading Level: 166
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Description: Following the model of the medieval Latin bestiaries, Gregory McNamee has written a book at once naturalistic, folkloristic, and literary, made up of short essays on forty-three animals of the world’s deserts. These essays discuss the creatures as they are and as they are imagined, and bring their natural lives and histories vividly to the page.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: The philosophy of deep ecology originated in the 1970s with the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess and has since spread around the world. Its basic premises are a belief in the intrinsic value of nonhuman nature, a belief that ecological principles should dictate human actions and moral evaluations, an emphasis on noninterference into natural processes, and a critique of materialism and technological progress.
This book approaches deep ecology as a philosophy, not as a political, social, or environmental movement. In part I, the authors compare deep ecology's philosophical ideas with other positions and debates in environmental philosophy and to other schools of thought such as social ecology, ecofeminism, and moral pluralism. In part II, they investigate the connections between deep ecology and other contemporary world views, such as continental philosophy, postmodernism, and non-Western philosophical traditions. The first anthology on deep ecology that is not primarily the work of the movement's followers, Beneath the Surface offers a rigorous assessment of deep ecology's strengths and weaknesses as a philosophical position.
Contributors:
John Clark, Deane Curtin, Arran Gare, William Grey, Mathew Humphrey, Knut Jacobsen, Eric Katz, Andrew Light, Jonathan Maskit, Val Plumwood, David Rothenberg, Ariel Salleh, Bron Taylor, Michael Zimmerman.
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