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Manufacturer: Random House, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Berry
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Publisher: Random House, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 215
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Publication Date: 1988-09-12
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Reading Level: 247
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Description: This acclaimed inaugural volume of the Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library considers our ecological fate from a species perspective, the way The Fate of the Earth viewed our prospects for nuclear annihilation. Thomas Berry's seminal thesis proposes a universal "biocratic" criterion to evaluate human history, development, and activity. He contends that the validity of any human enterprise is the degree to which it enhances the universal life force.
Berry builds his case on a comprehensive review of the history of ideas, and he points toward a transformation of consciousness that is needed if we and the planet are to survive. The Dream of the Earth provides the insights, inspiration, and ethical guidance we need to move beyond exploitation or disengagement toward a transcendent vision of a restorative, creative relationship with the natural world.
Drawing upon the wisdom of thinkers from Buddha and Plato to Teilhard de Chardin and E. F. Schumacher, from ancient Chinese philosophy and Native American shamanism to contemporary astrophysics, Berry forges a balanced, deeply felt declaration of planetary independence from the sociological, psychological, and intellectual conditioning that threatens the death of nature, offering a path that will avert ecological catastrophe and move our traumatized planet toward health.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $2.21
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marlene Zuk
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 579
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Publication Date: 2008-05-12
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: We treat disease as our enemy. Germs and infections are things we battle. But what if we’ve been giving them a bum rap?
From the earliest days of life on earth, disease has evolved alongside us. And its presence isn't just natural but is also essential to our health. Drawing on the latest research, Zuk answers a fascinating range of questions about disease: Why do men die younger than women? Why are we attracted to our mates? Why does the average male bird not have a penis? Why do we--as well as insects, birds, pigs, cows, goats, and even plants--get STDs? Why do we have sex at all, rather than simply splitting off copies of ourselves like certain geckos? And how is our obsession with cleanliness making us sicker?
In this witty, engaging book, evolutionary biologist Zuk makes us rethink our instincts as she argues that disease is our partner, not our foe. Reconsider the fearsome parasite!
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Price: $126.00
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Sale: $75.99
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Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Eric G. Bolen::William Robinson
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Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 639.9
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Publication Date: 2002-07-20
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Reading Level: 634
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Description: This exceptionally comprehensive, single-source introduction to the art, science, theories, practices, and issues of wildlife management is ideal for the novice in the subject. Features full-chapters on predators, urban wildlife, policy, water, soil, diseases, conservation biology. New, up-to-date issues covered include the removal of dams, global warming, emerging diseases among elk and deer, adaptive harvest management, animal rights groups, women hunters, population data, migratory animals and more. For anyone interested in an exceptionally comprehensive introduction to wildlife management and conservation.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $3.67
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Manufacturer: Tarcher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jay Griffiths
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Publisher: Tarcher
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 2006-12-28
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: In Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands-the wilderness of the mind-and Griffiths beautifully explores the language and symbolism that shape our experience of our own wildness.
Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author.
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Price: $69.95
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Sale: $49.75
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 2001-11-22
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: Featuring sixty-two accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works addresses both of the principal areas of inquiry in the field: the exploration of morality from an environmental perspective and the analysis of the current state of our environment. Aiming to determine what issues really matter, the first section of the book responds to such questions as: What is value? What types of things have value? Is the value of a human being fundamentally different from the kind of value we find elsewhere in nature? What role do consumer goods and services play in a good life? and Is there room for environmental consciousness in a good life? The second section turns to the question of what it would take to solve our environmental problems. It strives to go beyond the "hype" to present informed perspectives on the true nature of those problems and investigates important questions like: What is causing or exacerbating these problems? and What solutions have been tried? The selections present philosophical, biological, and social scientific approaches to the major issues. Environmental Ethics features first-hand descriptions from people who have actually been involved in such projects as wildlife management in Africa, ecofeminist initiatives in India, and radical activism on the high seas. It also provides up-to-date data on population issues and community-based wildlife initiatives. Ideal for undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, environmental issues, and applied ethics, this unique text will also be a helpful resource for graduate students and professors, as it retains most of the footnotes from the original articles.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $23.70
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Manufacturer: University Press Of Kansas
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Arnold Berleant
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Publisher: University Press Of Kansas
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1997-01-23
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Arnold Berleant explores new ways of thinking about how we live-and might live-in the landscapes that enfold us. Through the concepts of "aesthetic engagement" and "environmental continuity," he proposes a new paradigm that offers a holistic approach to the meaning of place and places of meaning in our lives. Although environmental aesthetics is linked in the popular mind to dramatic vistas and monumental landscapes-the Grand Canyon, for example-Berleant is much more concerned with the commonplace settings of everyday life. He argues that our active appreciation of (or "aesthetic engagement" with) the prosaic landscapes of home, work, local travel, and recreation plays a vital role in our discovery of hidden continuities, as well as pleasure and meaning, in the places we inhabit. Berleant begins with a general introduction to environmental aesthetics, identifying the kinds of experience, meanings, and values it involves, and describing its historical sources and the issues with which it is concerned. In the rest of the book, he spotlights new directions in the field-as they relate to education, community, creativity, and the sacred-and provides an insightful analysis of "negative environmental aesthetics." Throughout, he is both thoughtful and entertaining, as evidenced in his extended critique of the pop post-modern environment of Disney World. Berleant addresses issues commonly associated with the environmental movement-e.g., preservation, pollution control, and quality of life. But his study draws from a wide range of disciplines and for that reason should also appeal to scholars and students interested in art and aesthetics, landscape architecture and planning, urban andenvironmental design, and cultural geography, as well as environmental studies.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $26.60
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Manufacturer: UPNE
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard M. DeGraaf::Mariko Yamasaki
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Publisher: UPNE
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.974
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Publication Date: 2000-11-01
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: New England Wildlife presents the natural histories and distributions of 338 inland wildlife species in New England. It also details the habitat relationships of all New England terrestrial and aquatic species, presented in sections on amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. Each species account includes an illustration and range map, along with information on distribution in the region, status, habitat, special habitat requirements, details of breeding biology, home range and movements, and food habits, each fully documented from the pertinent literature. The introduction includes a brief land-use history of the region, descriptions of forest types and nonforest habitats, and wildlife responses to landscape change.
A necessity for all land managers and naturalists as well as birders, walkers, nature lovers, residents, and visitors to New England, the book includes the most recent information on natural history and distribution, and matrices relating all species to standard classifications of forest cover - types and nonforest habitats.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $4.45
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Gluckman::Mark Hanson
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 613.015765
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Publication Date: 2008-04-07
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Our bodies evolved to allow our ancestors the best chance of survival as hunter-gatherers in the Savannah. Our brains, on the other hand, have allowed us to develop complex societies, cultures, and lifestyles, far removed from those of our ancestors. As a result, write Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson in Mismatch, we have created a modern, artificial world that is painfully out of tune with our evolved bodies.
In a compelling narrative that begins with the Sherpa in Nepal, Gluckman and Hanson, both leading medical scientists, draw on the latest research, bringing together concepts from evolutionary biology, developmental science, medicine, anthropology and ecology to describe the nature of this mismatch, its consequences, and how we may counter it. The authors reveal that this mismatch has led to the current deadly explosion in "lifestyle" diseases such as diabetes and obesity, and it may well lead to increasingly frequent epidemics. There are broader consequences too for societies, such as the falling age of puberty, with its attendant mismatch with psychological maturity, and at the other end of life, the implications of increasing longevity. Is there any way out? Yes, say the authors. They propose that intervention in early human development, alongside a better focus on the health of potential mothers, can make future generations better suited to the modern world.
In this remarkable and lucidly written book, Gluckman and Hanson identify a profound and growing problem that we ignore at our peril.
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Price: $39.50
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Sale: $17.94
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Bodanis
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.5264
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Publication Date: 1992-11-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Expert science writing and state-of-the-art microphotography describe how most of the mysteries and natural laws of the universe can be witnessed in the microcosm of the garden. 40,000 first printing.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $4.94
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John McPhee
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1989-08-16
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Master how-it-works writer John McPhee has instructed his readers in the arcana of how oranges are commercially graded, how mountains form, how canoes are built and oceans crossed. In The Control of Nature he turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unrealized plan to divert the flow of the Mississippi River into a tributary, the Atchafalaya, for flood control; in another, he looks at the ingenious ways in which an Icelandic engineer saved a southern harbor on that island from being destroyed by a lava flow; in a third, he examines a complex scheme to protect Los Angeles from boulders ejected from mountains by compression and tectonic movement. As always, McPhee combines a deep knowledge of his subject with a narrative approach that is wholly accessible; you may not have thought you were interested in earthquakes and flood control, but he gently leads you to take a passionate concern in such matters.
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