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Manufacturer: Pluto Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Yrjo Haila::Richard Levins
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Publisher: Pluto Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.501
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Publication Date: 1992-03
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Reading Level: 270
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Manufacturer: Mouton De Gruyter
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Torsten Malmberg
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Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1984-06
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Price: $192.00
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Sale: $166.14
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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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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 590
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Publication Date: 2001-11-19
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: This book brings together international experts to examine interactions between the biology of wildlife and the divergent goals of people involved in hunting, fishing, gathering, and culling wildlife. Reviews of theory show how sustainable exploitation is tied to the study of population dynamics, with direct links to reproductive rates, life histories, behavior, and ecology. As such theory is rarely put into practice to achieve sustainable use and effective conservation, Conservation of Exploited Species explores the many reasons for this failure and considers remedies to tackle them.
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ann Mcelroy::Patricia K Townsend
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Edition: 4 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.461
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Publication Date: 2003-08-14
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: The newest edition of the premier teaching text in medical anthropology is thoroughly revised to reflect new developments in the field. Widespread awareness of emerging infectious diseases and global environmental change makes the ecological perspective of the McElroy-Townsend text even more relevant to students than when it was first published. Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective integrates biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health. Research by human biologists and paleopathologists illuminates the history and prehistory of disease, while the work of cultural and applied anthropologists engages with contemporary health issues. The Fourth Edition includes increased coverage of emerging diseases, evolutionary medicine, the homeless, health disparities, and forensic anthropology. New chapters treat reproduction and careers in applied medical anthropology. New “Profiles” (case studies) on stress and toxic chemicals have been added and other profiles have been updated, further augmenting the classroom-friendly features the book is noted for.
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Price: $231.00
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Sale: $215.66
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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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Dewey Decimal Number: 597.04
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Publication Date: 1995-10-31
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Ecomorphology is the comparative study of the influence of morphology on ecological relationships and the evolutionary impact of ecological factors on morphology in different life intervals, populations, species, communities, and evolutionary lineages. The book reviews early attempts at qualitative descriptions of ecomorphological patterns in fishes, especially those of the Russian school. More recent, quantitative studies are emphasised, including multivariate approaches to ecomorphological analysis, the selection of functionally important ecological and morphological variables to analyze, an experimental approach using performance tests to examine specific hypotheses derived from functional morphology, and the evolutionary interpretations of ecomorphological patterns. Six major areas of fish biology are focused on: feeding, sensory systems, locomotion, respiration, reproduction, and phylogenetic relationships. The 18 papers in the volume document: (1) how the morphology of bony fishes constrains ecological patterns and the use of resources; (2) whether ecological constraints can narrow the niche beyond the limits imposed by morphology (fundamental vs. realized niche); (3) how communities of fishes are organized with respect to ecomorphological patterns; and (4) the degree to which evolutionary pressures have produced convergent or divergent morphologies in fishes. A concluding paper summarizes ecomorphological research in fishes and points out taxa that are underrepresented or are especially promising for future research.
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.20994
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Publication Date: 1995-02-09
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: This book explores past interactions between humans and the Australian environment - 'more a new planet than a new continent', as Eric Rolls says in his contribution - and offers insights into current environmental debates. Environmental history asks two simple questions: how did our present landscapes become what they are today, and what can we learn from this history? It draws on many disciplines and ways of investigating the world: ecology, history, geography, political science, philosophy, and others. Three overview essays explore the nature of Australian landscapes, the ways in which we have used and abused them, and our attitudes and perceptions about them. Seven case studies then explore, in further detail, human-environment interaction across a variety of scales of time (decades, centuries, millennia) and space. Included are analyses of small districts, large regions, and national resource centers, from the Reef and the Brigalow domain, through the high country and the arid center. The conclusion argues that the critical question facing us does not concern sustainable development, but rather how much damage the environment can sustain and still survive.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $20.00
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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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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
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Publication Date: 1993-03-18
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: At a time when concern for the environment is rapidly growing, there is also a need for informed analysis that cuts through the confusion and rhetoric surrounding discussions of environmental issues. This work does not simply focus on crises, but the management of the environment and the exploration of the issues from many angles. This work explores the connection between human activities and the environment, assessing environmental problems and how they can and are being addressed. It clearly relates the interaction of the natural world and human society. Following an introductory section, the work takes a regional approach. It examines key issues related to resources, pollution, land degradation, and ecosystems, as well as possible solutions to problems with prospects for research and international cooperation. With an informative and colorful assortment of over 270 photographs, maps, and diagrams, this reference will provide a clear understanding of how pollution and other environmental problems occur, as well as possible solutions.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $66.70
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Manufacturer: ASTM International
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: ASTM International
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.5097983
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Publication Date: 1996-02
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Reading Level: 955
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $7.56
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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: Juan de Onis
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7309811
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Publication Date: 1992-06-02
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: When the first Iberian adventurers discovered the Amazon and the native Indian and tribal peoples living along its banks, they believed they had stumbled upon what one traveler later called "the unfinished last page of Genesis." Legends sprang up of El Dorado, the gilded man, and a golden city hidden along the river which would bring limitless wealth to its discoverer. Today the tropical rain forests of the Amazon have no less a hold on the world's imagination--environmentalists plead for the last great wilderness, a fragile Eden whose fate is intimately linked with the fate of the earth, while landless peasants and the garimpeiros, or wildcat miners, stream to what they perceive as the last frontier, rich in untapped resources and possibilities. The tension between the needs of the delicate and irreplaceable ecosystem and the no-less-compelling needs of the population seemed inevitable, and perhaps insolvable.
In The Green Cathedral, Juan de Onis offers a set of proposals for the economic and ecological survival of this vital region, arguing that it is not possible to save the trees of Amazonia without also saving its people. A former foreign correspondent for the New York Times who has known Amazonia since the early sixties, de Onis undertook an intensive two year study of the region in 1988, travelling over 36,000 kilometers by land, water and air to interview the homesteaders, garimpeiros, cattle ranchers, bureaucrats, peasant organizers, Indians, and activists who together will decide the future of the vast forests. Avoiding the doomsday tone of many experts, de Onis not only draws a vivid portrait of the greenest part of the earth and the rawness of life on the frontier, but also argues that Amazonia is not yet ecologically ruined nor economically crippled. Indeed, he uncovers heartening evidence that the peoples and governments of Amazonia are learning from the past, finding ways of preserving and profiting from their environment. For instance, the farmers and ranchers notorious for slashing and burning the rain forest during the eighties' "decade of destruction" are finding that Amazonia's best yields are rubber, timber, cellulose, and genetic resources, the very renewable products that require careful cultivation and reforestation. This more balanced approach, argues de Onis, offers the most realistic hope for the region's teeming flora and fauna and for the world's burgeoning human population as well.
Published on the eve of the international environmental conference to be held in Brazil in June, 1992, The Green Cathedral will be welcomed as an inspiring, pragmatic call to action. It is essential reading for anyone interested in seeing the Amazon and its people steer from certain destruction towards a new era of discovery.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $10.48
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Manufacturer: Broadview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Broadview Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 180
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Publication Date: 1997-04-07
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Reading Level: 245
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Description: Human concern over the urgency of current environmental issues increasingly entails wide-ranging discussions of how we may rethink the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world. In order to provide a context for such discussions this anthology provides a selection of some of the most important, interesting and influential readings on the subject from classical times through to the late nineteenth century. Included are such figures as Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Hildegard of Binge, St. Francis of Assisi, Bacon, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Emerson and Thoreau. As the collection as a whole amply demonstrates, the history of western philosophical accounts of nature can help us to better understand current attitudes and problems. 'Human Life and the Natural World' may also be of interest to a broad range of philosophers and students of philosophy, and more generally to those with a concern for the environment that engages the intellect as well as the heart.
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Displaying records 871 through 880 of 883
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