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Displaying records 181 through 190 of 4000 |
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Price: $129.95
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Sale: $93.50
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Manufacturer: CRC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert H. Kadlec::Scott Wallace
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Publisher: CRC
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 628.35
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Publication Date: 2008-07-22
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Reading Level: 1048
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Description: Completely revised and updated, Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition is still the most comprehensive resource available for the planning, design, and operation of wetland treatment systems. The book addresses the design, construction, and operation of wetlands for water pollution control. It presents the best current procedures for sizing these systems, and describing the intrinsic processes that combine to quantify performance. The Second Edition covers: · New methods based on the latest research · Wastewater characterization and regulatory framework analyses leading to detailed design and economics · State-of-the-art procedures for analyzing hydraulics, hydrology, substrates and wetlands biogeochemistry · Definition of performance expectations for traditional pollutants such as solids, oxygen demand, nutrients and pathogens, as well as for metals and a wide variety of individual organic and inorganic chemicals · Discussion of methods of configuration, construction, and vegetation establishment and startup considerations · Ancillary benefits of human use and wildlife habitat · Specific examples of numerous applications · Extensive reference base of current information The book provides a complete reference that includes: detailed information on wetland ecology, design for consistent performance, construction guidance and operational control through effective monitoring. Case histories of operational wetland treatment systems illustrate the variety of design approaches presented allowing you to tailor them to the needs of your wetlands treatment projects. The sheer amount of information found in Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition makes it the resource you will turn to again and again.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $10.85
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Manufacturer: New Leaf Distributing Company
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vladimir Megré
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Publisher: New Leaf Distributing Company
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 158
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Publication Date: 2008-06-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: "The Space of Love," the third book of the Ringing Cedars Series, describes author's second visit to Anastasia. Rich with new revelations on natural child-rearing and alternative education, on the spiritual significance of breast-feeding and the meaning of ancient megaliths, it shows how each person's thoughts can influence the destiny of the entire Earth and describes practical ways of putting Anastasia's vision of happiness into practice. Megre shares his new outlook on education and children's real creative potential after a visit to a school where pupils build their own campus and cover the ten-year Russian school programme in just two years. Complete with an account of an armed intrusion into Anastasia's habitat, the book highlights the limitless power of Love and non-violence.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $17.78
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Manufacturer: Struik
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ian Sinclair::Olivier Langrand
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Publisher: Struik
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598
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Publication Date: 2003-01-30
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: Following in the format of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, this guide presents all the birds of Madagascar and the other Indian Ocean islands (Seychelles, Reunion, Mauritius and Mascarenes), a great many species of which are endemic to these islands. In field guide form, this text presents concise descriptions of each species, highlighting diagnostic features for ease of identification. Differences between sexes and plumages are discussed as well as the status of the bird, its habitat and call. Distribution maps accompany each entry. The birds are illustrated in full color and where necessary are depicted in all plumages relevant to identification (male, female and immature). In-flight illustrations present the bird from above and below, providing comprehensive coverage of the birds in the field.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.76
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. E. Lovelock
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: Rev Upd Su
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Dewey Decimal Number: 575.01
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Publication Date: 1995-05
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Reading Level: 255
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Description: Proposes that all living species are components of a single organism and theorizes that the biological processes of the Earth naturally change environmental conditions to enable survival. Lib of Science. Natural Science Bk Club.
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Price: $138.80
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Sale: $65.99
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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: Charles J. Krebs
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Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.8
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Publication Date: 2008-09-28
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Reading Level: 688
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Description: This best-selling majors-level book, by Charles Krebs, approaches ecology as a series of problems, which are best understood by evaluating empirical evidence through data analysis and application of quantitative reasoning. No otherbook presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style for students. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the new edition emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Introduction to the Science of Ecology, Evolution and Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Analyzing Geographic Distributions,Factors That Limit Distributions I: Biotic, Factors That Limit Distributions II: Abiotic, Distribution and Abundance, Population Parameters and Demographic Techniques, Population Growth, Species Interactions I: Competition, Species Interactions II: Predation, Species Interactions III: Herbivory and Mutualism, Species Interactions IV: Disease and Parasitism, Regulation of Population Size, Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations, Applied Problems II: Pest Control, Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology, Community Structure, Community Dynamics I: Biodiversity, Community Dynamics II: Predation and Competition, Community Dynamics III: Nonequilibrium Communities, Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production, Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production, Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles, Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Climates, Ecosystem Health: Human Impacts. Intended for those interested in learning the basics of ecology
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Helen Hoover
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599
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Publication Date: 1998-04
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Reading Level: 210
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Price: $48.50
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Sale: $41.29
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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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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.27
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Publication Date: 2006-10-17
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Reading Level: 608
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Description: Landscape ecology focuses on spatial heterogeneity, or the idea that where things are and where they are in relation to other things can have important consequences for a wide range of phenomena. Landscape ecology integrates humans with natural ecosystems and brings a spatial perspective to such fields as natural resource management, conservation, and urban planning. The thirty-seven papers included in this volume present the origins and development of landscape ecology and encompass a variety of perspectives, approaches, and geographies. The editors begin with articles that illuminate the discipline's diverse scientific foundations, such as L. S. Berg's keystone paper outlining a geoecological analysis based on soil science, physical geography, and geology. Next they include selections exemplifying landscape ecologists' growing awareness of spatial pattern, the different ways they incorporated scale into their work, the progression of landscape ecology from a qualitative to a quantitative discipline, and how concepts from landscape ecology have come to permeate ecological research and influence land-use policy, conservation practices, landscape architecture, and geography. Together, these articles provide a solid introduction to what is now widely recognized as an important area of research and application that encourages new ways of thinking about natural and human-dominated ecosystems.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $16.99
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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: Simon Schama
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.23
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Publication Date: 1995-04-04
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Reading Level: 652
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Description: An extraordinary book that explores how the earth itself has shaped the Western imagination and how, as a result, our interaction with the environment is far richer and more complex than today's doomsayers would have us believe.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $22.12
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dorothy Green
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.6109794
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Publication Date: 2007-10-09
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the current system works (or doesn't work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist Dorothy Green gathers detailed information on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul S. Martin
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 560.1792097
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Publication Date: 2007-05-08
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Reading Level: 270
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Description: As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, Twilight of the Mammoths presents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin's widely discussed and debated "overkill" hypothesis to explain these mysterious megafauna extinctions. Taking us from Rampart Cave in the Grand Canyon, where he finds himself "chest deep in sloth dung," to other important fossil sites in Arizona and Chile, Martin's engaging book, written for a wide audience, uncovers our rich evolutionary legacy and shows why he has come to believe that the earliest Americans literally hunted these animals to death.
As he discusses the discoveries that brought him to this hypothesis, Martin relates many colorful stories and gives a rich overview of the field of paleontology as well as his own fascinating career. He explores the ramifications of the overkill hypothesis for similar extinctions worldwide and examines other explanations for the extinctions, including climate change. Martin's visionary thinking about our missing megafauna offers inspiration and a challenge for today's conservation efforts as he speculates on what we might do to remedy this situation--both in our thinking about what is "natural" and in the natural world itself.
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