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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: Paperback
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Author: Thomas J. McEvoy
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.92
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Publication Date: 2004-05-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Positive Impact Forestry is a primer for private woodland owners and their managers on managing their land and forests to protect both ecological and economic vitality. Moving beyond the concept of "low impact forestry," Thom McEvoy brings together the latest scientific understanding and insights to describe an approach to managing forests that meets the needs of landowners while at the same time maintaining the integrity of forest ecosystems. "Positive impact forestry" emphasizes forestry's potential to achieve sustainable benefits both now and into the future, with long-term investment superseding short-term gain, and the needs of families -- especially future generations -- exceeding those of individuals. Thom McEvoy offers a thorough discussion of silvicultural basics, synthesizing and explaining the current state of forestry science on topics such as forest soils, tree roots, form and function in trees, and the effects of different harvesting methods on trees, soil organisms, and sites. He also offers invaluable advice on financial, legal, and management issues, ranging from finding the right forestry professionals to managing for products other than timber to passing forest lands and management legacies on to future generations. Positive Impact Forestry helps readers understand the impacts of deliberate human activities on forests and offers viable strategies that provide benefits without damaging ecosystems. It speaks directly to private forest owners and their advisers and represents an innovative guide for anyone concerned with protecting forest ecosystems, timber production, land management, and the long-term health of forests. Named the "Best Forestry Book for2004" by the National Woodlands Owners Association
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Shoemaker & Hoard
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.1
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Publication Date: 2004-08-05
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are 15 essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, David Orr, and others. The Essential Agrarian Reader calls us to celebrate the gifts of the earth, through honest work and respect for the land.
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Price: $169.95
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Sale: $60.14
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Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: G. Tyler Miller
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Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Edition: 15
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2007-12-06
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Reading Level: 628
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Description: G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line--enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students will actually want to read their assignments. The Fifteenth Edition's engaging, streamlined coverage includes over 4,000 updates and new topics; hundreds of new "Thinking About" exercises that engage students in critical thinking about environmental science topics; "Core Case Studies" that reinforce chapter concepts; 127 new photos; and superb, integrated coverage of sustainability! New to this edition for instructors is PowerLecture, a one-stop shop for lecture prep that includes everything you need to create dynamic lectures all in one place.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wade Davis
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Publisher: Broadway
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1999-10-12
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Renowned anthropologist Wade Davis shows us how preserving the diversity of the world's cultures and spiritual beliefs is just as important as preserving our endangered plants, insects, and animals. In this collection of personal essays, Davis tells of dramatic personal adventures during which he visits and often lives with indigenous communities in the remote regions of the world. He offers reports of toad-smoking shamanistic journeys in the Amazon forests, tracking an elusive cloud leopard in the mountains of Tibet, and a soulful lament for the lost American buffalo. Although he has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones, Davis has far more integrity. His stories are not in service to self-glorification, but rather to one resounding theme: If there is one lesson I have drawn from my travels, it is that cultural and biological diversity are far more than the foundation of stability; they are an article of faith, a fundamental truth that indicates the way things are supposed to be.... There is a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills, and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important challenge of our times. --Gail Hudson
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.25
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Tougias
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.65
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Publication Date: 2007-11-27
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Since we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect. Many of nature's most lethal residents have combative skills that have been honed by millions of years of adaptive survival, and it takes only a second for an otherwise evolved individual to become a helpless victim. WHEN MAN IS THE PREY is a one-of-a-kind collection of real-life encounters between man and beast that explores the uneasy relationship that humanity has with its native habitat. From bears, boars, and black dogs to swimming with sharks and dancing with wolves, the stories in WHEN MAN IS THE PREY offer a fascinating, frightening, and enlightening look at the natural world and its many creatures.
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Price: $92.95
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Thomson Brooks/Cole
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: G. Tyler Miller
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Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
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Edition: 8 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
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Publication Date: 2000-02
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 11th Edition, boasts an unparalleled coverage of sustainability, basic science, and bias-free comparisons, within a flexible chapter organization and supported by the strongest media tools and illustration program available. New media to this edition includes: "How Would You Vote?" found at http://biology.brookscole.com/miller11. This is an application of 68 provocative environmental issues covered in the text. Students investigate the issues in a structured manner, and then cast their votes on the Web where the results are tallied; Environmental ScienceNow, a learning tool that helps students assess their study needs through pretests, post-test, personalized learning plans and "How Do I Prepare," which aides students in basic math, chemistry and graphing review; and InfoTrac College Edition, a library of full text articles; PowerLecture for Miller's Environmental Science, 11th Edition. This one-stop PowerPoint Tool contains robust, preloaded PowerPoint lecture images organized by every chapter. PowerLecture contains: animations that bring key topics and concepts to life; a slide-sorting view for each chapter that lets you select, copy and paste slides into your PowerPoint lecture; the ability to select a piece of a figure and enlarge it; labels in text boxes that you can edit, remove, or present one label at a time; quick access to animations and videos--if a PowerPoint slide contains a green button, just click on it to show a related animation; Instructor's Manual and associated chapter outlines; and Test Bank--a complete electronic file of test items.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael D'orso
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.28
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Publication Date: 2003-11-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Mention the Galápagos Islands to almost anyone, and the first things that spring to mind are iguanas, tortoises, volcanic beaches, and, of course, Charles Darwin. But there are people living there, too -- nearly 20,000 of them. A wild stew of nomads and grifters, dreamers and hermits, wealthy tour operators and desperately poor South American refugees, these inhabitants have brought crime, crowding, poaching, and pollution to the once-idyllic islands. In Plundering Paradise, Michael D'Orso explores the conflicts on land and at sea that now threaten to destroy this fabled "Eden of Evolution."
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $16.98
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul F. Knitter
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.172
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Publication Date: 1995-11
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Reading Level: 218
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $9.40
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Manufacturer: University of Nevada Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David J. Strohmaier
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Publisher: University of Nevada Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.96180978
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Fire is a powerful constant in the American West, Everyone who lives in the West confronts fire intimately or frighteningly at some time. As author David J. Strohmaier notes, "Whether we have tended a campfire along Oregon's Deschutes River in March, engaged the advancing front of a Great Basin wildfire in the torrid heat of August, or watched fire settle into the subdued, smoldering leaf piles of October, all of our lives, to one degree or another, are bracketed by fire." In The Seasons of Fire, Strohmaier effectively blends nature writing, personal essay, and philosophical analysis as he deliberately crosses disciplinary boundaries. He discusses the "moral" dimensions of fire - not only whether fires are good, bad, or indifferent phenomena, but also how fire, more generally understood, shapes meaning for human life. The consequences of discussing the moral side of fire speak directly to the contours of the human soul, and to our sense of our place on the land. Strohmaier, a long-term firefighter himself, includes accurate and vivid descriptions of the firefighter's experience, including the philosophical wanderings and the downright boredom that may dominate between direct confrontations with the searing, terrifying flames.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.98
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Shepard
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1998-04-01
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Reading Level: 204
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Description: Does any species other than the human befoul its nest, destroy the habitat on which it depends? Strangely, yes; such shortsightedness happens in the natural world all the time. But no species does so with as much conscious awareness, a matter that fascinated the philosopher Paul Shepard. In Nature and Madness he examines the human animal in relation to the natural environment, showing the kinds of psychic disjunctions and troubles that have developed over the generations that humans have been seeking to distance themselves from the world. Shepard locates the source of much of those troubles in the invention of agriculture, an act that gave humans the false idea that nature can be controlled and micromanaged in every detail--an idea that has found modern fruit in such things as dam-building and genetic engineering. Environmental destruction, writes Shepard, is a "mutilation of personal maturity," a failure of emotional development; continuing the metaphor, he adds that "the only society more frightful than one run by children ... might be one run by childish adults." Shepard calls on his readers to establish a meaningful, mature connection with the earth, to cultivate a sense of stewardship and responsibility. It is a welcome call. --Gregory McNamee
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