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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $11.95
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Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Graeme Lofts::Peg Gill
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Publisher: For Dummies
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Dewey Decimal Number: 590
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Publication Date: 2008-04-18
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Reading Level: 346
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Description: Includes first aid tips and what to do in an emergency! Get to know Australia's fiercest, most dangerous and most amazing wildlife. Australia's Dangerous Creatures For Dummies provides a fascinating portrait of unique and deadly animals down-under - including crocodiles, snakes, sharks, spiders and jelly fish. With a detailed description of each creature, its habitat and its typical behaviour, the authors also give you tips on observing them safely - and what to do if you can't! Discover how to: -
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Observe creatures safely in the wild. The Dummies Way. Explanations in plain English. 'Get in, get out' information. Icons and other navigational aids. Tear-out cheat sheet. Top ten lists. A dash of humour and fun. Get Smart! @ www.dummies.com -
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $36.50
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Manufacturer: BBC Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: BBC Books
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Publisher: BBC Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 778
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Publication Date: 2004-10-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: The 14th portfolio from the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is a collectable book for wildlife enthusiasts and fans of world-class photography alike. This new collection represents the best images taken by top nature photographers around the world that have been submitted to the 2004 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Featuring more than 100 unforgettable pictures—covering subjects such as plants, endangered animals, underwater life, and landscapes—that display the beauty of the natural world. Selected from more than 19,000 entries, representing at least 60 countries, these images will comprise the winning and commended pictures from the world's largest and most prestigious wildlife photography competition. |
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $17.89
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Joe Kane
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.309811
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Publication Date: 1995-09-19
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Reading Level: 273
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Description: In this impressive, funny and moving work, Joe Kane tells the story of the Huaorani, a tribe living in the deepest part of the Amazonian rain forest in Ecuador. The Huaorani have only in the last generation been exposed to such items as the wristwatch. But the modern world is reaching them quickly; for better or worse--usually worse--they live astride some of Ecuador's richest oilfields. Oil production in the Amazon has opened the forest to colonization and industrialization, often with alarming results: about 17 million gallons, of raw crude, more than in the Valdez spill in Alaska, were spilled from a Amazon pipeline between 1972 and 1989. Kane, who lived with the Huaorani for months, immaculately reports on the tribes' connections with the old world and its battles with the new one.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $22.45
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.45
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Reading Level: 327
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $1.95
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Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bill McKibben
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Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T)
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.705
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Publication Date: 1995-10
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Reading Level: 226
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Description: The author of the best-seller, The End of Nature, celebrates the recovery of forest and wildlife from the Adirondacks to India, and explains how such advances can be furthered. First serials, Atlantic Monthly & Double Talk. Tour.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $17.95
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alan Weisman
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9861
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Publication Date: 1998-05
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Reading Level: 227
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Description: Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas.In the absence of infrastructure, the first Gaviotans invented wind turbines to convert mild breezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectors efficient enough to heat and even sterilize drinking water under perennially cloudy llano skies. Over time, the Gaviotans’ experimentation has even restored an ecosystem: in the shelter of two million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordial rain forest that once covered the llanos is unexpectedly reestablishing itself.Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari “Inventor of the World.” Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: “Utopia literally means ‘no place.’ We call Gaviotas a topia, because it’s real.”Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the past decade.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $26.66
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Manufacturer: Souvenir Press Ltd
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elaine Morgan
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Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 239
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Publication Date: 2000-09-05
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: When Elaine Morgan wrote The Descent of Woman in 1972, it sent shock waves around the world, and is now widely regarded as a key work on human evolution, and essential to any discussion of women's place in society. Now, with The Scars of Evolution, Morgan offers a pioneering look just where it was our earliest ancestors came from, and the legacy--not always advantageous--that they left us. As she sets out to solve one of the enduring riddles of our origins--to discover the evolutionary path that separated us from the rest of the animals--Morgan shows that many of the theories currently accepted by scientists cannot explain our unique features: they leave too many questions unanswered.
Millions of years ago, something happened to our ape ancestors that did not happen to the forebears of gorillas and chimpanzees, something that made them walk on two legs, lose their fur, sweat, develop larger brains, and learn to speak. While scientists have visited many a dig and studied many a fossil for clues, Elaine Morgan argues that all of the facts about our mysterious origins are right in front of us--in the form of fundamental flaws in the human design. Our propensity to suffer from lower back pain, obesity, varicose veins, acne, even infant death syndrome, is essentially the result of a cataclysmic event in our distant past.
Scientists have long observed that our spines were not made for upright walking. Yet natural selection--the basic tenet of evolutionary theory--dictates that enduring changes to a species occur because of the need to adapt to changes in the environment. While thousands of working hours are lost each year to "bad backs," at some point long ago it must have been an advantage to walk on two legs. The most common theory is that we became bipedal while hunting on the African savannah, needing our arms free for weapons, using an upright stance to see enemies from afar. But as Morgan points out, animals need more speed on the savannah, both for pursuit and flight, than two legs can offer. Her explanation: bipedalism emerged from life in an aquatic environment due to the flooding of the African rift valley millennia ago. The apes that suddenly found themselves stranded in swamp land (a swamp that remained for thousands of years) had to walk upright to keep from drowning. The human tendency toward obesity was once not an unsightly health problem, but rather a lifesaving form of insulation, one present in all aquatic mammals. And as Morgan carefully considers all of our other uniquely human traits--our relative hairlessness, our ability to control our breathing, our inability to maintain proper salt levels--a compelling case emerges for our human origins in a watery environment.
Lively, controversial, and presented with a brilliant logic, The Scars of Evolution will change the way you think about the world--and our place in it.
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Balé::William L. e
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2002-09-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and nonliving elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably in geography and anthropology, efforts to address this human-environment interaction have been criticized as deterministic and mechanistic. Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a more holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change, eighteen specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perspectives on historical ecology. A broad theoretical background on the material factors central to the field is presented, such as anthropogenic fire, soils, and pathogens. A series of regional applications of this knowledge base investigates landscape transformations over time in South America, the Mississippi Delta, the Great Basin, Thailand, and India. The contributors focus on traditional societies where lands are most at risk from the incursions of complex, state-level societies. This book lays the groundwork for a more meaningful understanding of humankind's interaction with its biosphere. Scholars and environmental policymakers alike will appreciate this new critical vocabulary for grasping biocultural phenomena.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $3.00
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Martin Rees
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.490905
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Publication Date: 2003-03
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Reading Level: 228
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Description: Just when you've stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb, along comes Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, with teeming armies of deadly viruses, nanobots, and armed fanatics. Beyond the hazards most of us know about--smallpox, terrorists, global warming--Rees introduces the new threats of the 21st century and the unholy political and scientific alliances that have made them possible. Our Final Hour spells out doomsday scenarios for cosmic collisions, high-energy experiments gone wrong, and self-replicating machines that steadily devour the biosphere. If we can avoid driving ourselves to extinction, he writes, a glorious future awaits; if not, our devices may very well destroy the universe. What happens here on Earth, in this century, could conceivably make the difference between a near eternity filled with ever more complex and subtle forms of life and one filled with nothing but base matter. For many technological debacles, Rees places much of the blame squarely on the shoulders of the scientists who participate in perfecting environmental destruction, biological menaces, and ever-more powerful weapons. So is there any hope for humanity? Rees is vaguely optimistic on this point, offering solutions that would require a level of worldwide cooperation humans have yet to exhibit. If the daily news isn't enough to make you want to crawl under a rock, this book will do the trick. --Therese Littleton
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Price: $79.95
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Sale: $80.76
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Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald Van Deveer::Christine Pierce
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Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 1997-09-15
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: This text and sourcebook crosses disciplinary boundaries and attends seriously to economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues while taking a broad view of questions of ethics. It is appropriate and valuable not only for philosophy and environmental science students but also for students of economics, biology, engineering, and public policy.
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