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Displaying records 141 through 150 of 883 |
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Price: $170.00
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Sale: $124.10
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.788
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Publication Date: 2003-09-08
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Reading Level: 370
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Description: The core message of this study is that key insights emerge from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of the approach will make ecology a more predictive science. What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? Despite great progress in the twentieth century, much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers to these classic questions in ecology. This book takes an original approach by describing and deploying progressive research methods.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $0.45
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tucker Coombe
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.91716
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Publication Date: 1996-06-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: This handbook explains in brief what is happening to the ecology of the beaches of the United States and Canada, what has been done to help them, what laws are in effect, and what has--and has not--proven effective at the local, national, and international levels. Includes lists of organizatons, publications, and other essential data to put the reader directly into the network of the countless thousands of people who care about the degradation of our beaches.
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599.4045
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Publication Date: 1982-10-31
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Reading Level: 450
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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: James Lazell
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.975941
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Publication Date: 1989-07-01
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Reading Level: 254
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Description: Dr. James Draper Lazell, Jr., aka 'Skip', is a field biologist, ecologist, herpetologist, mammologist, island biogeographer and explorer. His work on this book was made possible through a grant from The Conservation Agency.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Robert Kirkman
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.201
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Publication Date: 2002-05-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: In Skeptical Environmentalism, Robert Kirkman raises doubts about the speculative tendencies of environmental thought that have been elaborated in recent environmental movements, such as environmental ethics, deep ecology, social ecology, post-modern ecology, eco-feminism, and environmental pragmatism. Drawing on sceptical principles introduced in the work of David Hume, Kirkman takes issue with the central tenets of speculative environmentalism - that the natural world is fundamentally relational, that humans have a moral obligation to protect the order of nature, and that understanding the relationship between nature and humankind holds the key to solving the environmental crisis. Engaging the work of Kant, Hegel, Descartes, Rousseau, and Heidegger, among others, Kirkman's critical gaze reveals the relational worldview as an unreliable basis for knowledge and truth claims, and more dangerously, as a view that often does violence to the intellectual sources from which it takes inspiration. Exploring themes such as how knowledge about nature is formulated, what characterises an ecological worldview, how environmental worldviews become established, how we find our place in nature, how we create an environmental ethic, and how we bring about change in our environment, Skeptical Environmentalism advocates a shift away from the philosopher's privileged position as truth seeker toward more practical thinking that aims to balance values and worldviews that have come into conflict.
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Sale: $107.50
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Raymond F. Dasmann
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Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.5
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Publication Date: 1981-01-05
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Brings together the principles of ecology, population biology, wildlife conservation and management. Examines wildlife in the context of ecosystems and the factors which determine population levels. Considers the problems of conservation and management from national and international points of view. Shows why single-species approaches often fail.
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Price: $24.60
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Sale: $21.95
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leila M. Porter
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599.85
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Publication Date: 2006-10-21
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Part of Prentice Hall's Primate Field Studies series. The Behavioral Ecology of Callimicos and Tamarins in Northwestern Bolivia offers readers a scholary and relevant study of these rainforest dwellers.
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Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vincent Carruthers
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Publisher: Struik Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 590
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Publication Date: 2005-05-25
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: This guide embraces over 2000 carefully selected plants and animals, large and small, that are likely to be encountered during a visit to any part of the region. It is ideal for all nature lovers, with over 1200 species illustrated and many more identifiable from the text by reference to similar species. Each chapter has been written by a leading expert in the field, most of whom have published major works in their own right.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $37.96
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Manufacturer: Univ of British Columbia Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert Butler
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Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598.34
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Publication Date: 1997-10
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Reading Level: 167
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Description: With its striking plumage, the great blue heron is one of the most widely recognized wading birds in North America. Poised motionless on the water's edge on a misty morning or nesting in the limbs of old-growth forests, this stately bird is a familiar sight on the coast of British Columbia. In this work, Robert Butler follows the great blue heron through a year on this coast. He draws on more than ten year's work to throw light on its adaptability to adapt to a temporate climate, its diet and foraging habits, breeding, biology, dispersal and demography, habitat use and conservation.
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Price: $32.00
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Sale: $28.80
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rachel Kaplan::Stephen Kaplan::Robert Ryan
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.78215
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Publication Date: 1998-03-01
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Reading Level: 239
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Description: Some parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments."With People in Mind" explores how to design and manage areas of "everyday nature" -- parks and open spaces, corporate grounds, vacant lots and backyard gardens, fields and forests -- in ways that are beneficial to and appreciated by humans. Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, leading researchers in the field of environmental psychology, along with Robert Ryan, a landscape architect and urban planner, provide a conceptual framework for considering the human dimensions of natural areas and offer a fresh perspective on the subject. The authors examine.physical aspects of natural settings that enhance preference and reduce fear ways to facilitate way-finding how to create restorative settings that allow people to recover from the stress of daily demands landscape elements that are particularly important to human needs techniques for obtaining useful public input
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