Author: Drisdelle, Rosemary Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us-and inside us. Yet, despite their unsavory characteristics, as we find in this compulsively readable book, parasites have played an enorm...
Author: Forshaw, Joseph M. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, eas...
Author: Jones, Ronald Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive account of the native and naturalized ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of Kentucky. Ronald L. Jones has compiled detailed identification keys ...
Author: Ross, John E. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the rush of modern life, we measure our lives by the clock, the calendar, the timetable. But there are older rhythms in nature: the call of chickadees before the first hint of spring, the golden fa...
Author: Belton, Mr. Thomas Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Protecting New Jersey's Environment, critical environmental concerns translate into real human interest stories about people and their surroundings in the state -- a critical site for the growth ...
Author: Dodds, Joseph Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contrib...
Author: Dodds, Joseph Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contrib...
Author: Pavlick, Leon and Ann Publisher: FriesenPress Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Red Pines on the Ridge is the first in the On the Ridge series. Foxes on the Ridge and Aspens on the Ridge will follow in the near future. The book is the story of a red pine tree that lives on a low ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the debates surrounding land and agrarian reform in South Africa and explores how these reforms, and particular those that make access easier, have created new options for and broad...
Author: Gold, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Offers an introductory guide to the represntations of the environment found in everyday life, in nature, culture, landscape, art and in the media. These provide an important means of understanding env...
Author: Taylor, Paul W. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science ...
Author: Varley, Len Publisher: Balboa Press International Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 2009, a documentary movie called The Cove focused the spotlight of world attention on the tiny coastal village of Taiji, Japan. Lauded as the birthplace of Japanese whaling, present day Taiji hosts...
Author: Planck, Max Publisher: Kensington Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in this ...
Author: Duane, Timothy P. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource comm...
Author: Palmer, Chris Publisher: Sierra Club/Counterpoint Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wildlife and nature films are a hugely popular entertainment genre: networks such as Animal Planet and Discovery are stars in the cable television universe, viewers flock to IMAX theaters to see jaw-d...
Author: Lefranc, Norbert Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Shrikes are a charismatic group of small- to medium-sized birds with striking raptor-hooked bills and a face mask that gives them the look of small, fierce highwaymen.. This book is the first complete...
Author: Jameson, Conor Mark Publisher: A&C Black Format: Adobe PDF
Description: American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without bir...
Description: It's Not About Politics. It's About Caring--And What Every Family Can Do! Written by a passionately concerned couple--David Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay...
Author: Newton, Ian Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book should be of value to anyone interested in bird evolution and taxonomy, biogeography, distributional history, dispersal and migration patterns. It provides an up-to-date synthesis of current...
Author: Gracie, Carol Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This exquisitely illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at spring-blooming wildflowers of the Northeast, from old favorites to lesser-known species. Featuring more than 500 full-color photos in ...
Author: Chantler, Phil Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This work collates late-1990s research findings from the field of ornithology to provide a thoroughly modern overview of swift identification and distribution. This edition has revised artwork and map...
Author: Howard, Jacquelyn M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This volume of stories celebrates the incredible and indelible ways in which birds touch us, intrinsically as well as extrinsically. I hope it will encourage a greater awareness of and appreciation f...
Author: Fournier, Paul Publisher: Islandport Press, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Paul Fournier lived and breathed Maine's Great North Woods for decades, from his summers working at a boys' camp as a teenager, to his adventures as a registered Maine Guide, bush pilot, and sporting ...
Author: ˜gren, Gˆran I. / Andersson, Folke O. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Human activities impact the environment and modify the cycles of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen from local to global scales. In order to maintain long-term and sustainable use of the w...
Author: Dauvergne, Peter Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Environmentalism involves hundreds of international environmental groups, thousands of national groups, and tens of thousands of local ones. It also includes hundreds of international agreements, hund...
Author: Thompson, Paul B. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth...
Description: Imagine a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees. Or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. With The Backyard Hom...
Author: Vagelli, Alejandro A. Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, is a fascinating species that possesses a series of remarkable biological characteristics making it unique among coral reef fishes. It has been the focus...
Author: Burch, David Publisher: Starpath Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The barometer remains the most important tool for evaluating and predicting the weather. This book explains why knowing accurate values of the atmospheric pressure can improve this process and benefit...
Author: Davies, Alan / Miller, Ruth Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Most people dream of packing in their humdrum city life, selling up andheading off into the unknown for a life of adventure. For Ruth Millerand Alan Davies this dream became a reality, albeit with a t...
Author: Gwent Ornithological society Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The County Avifauna series provides detailed information on the range and status of bird species at county level. Areas covered so far include Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset, the Shetland Islands and the Is...
Author: Fray, Rob / Davies, Roger Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The County Avifaunas are a growing series of books, each of which gives detailsof the status and range of every species on the county list, with a detailed breakdown of rarityrecords. Each has introdu...
Author: Boyle, William J. , Jr. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: New Jersey provides some of the most varied and exciting birding in North America, and more than 450 species have been recorded in the state. Yet there has been no comprehensive and readily available ...
Author: Wells, David R. Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This well-illustrated volume covers the passerines of Singapore, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and the tip of Tenasserim (Burma) with their associated island archipelagos. David Wells’ h...
Author: Kirwan, Guy / Demirci, Barbaros Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Turkey is a popular destination forbirders and tourists, and although there has been much published on itsbirds over the past 40 years, there has never been a comprehensive avifauna. The Birds of Turk...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with 'biopiracy,' for ex...
Description: Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with 'biopiracy,' for ex...
Author: Weis, Monica Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our L...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: " WITH A FOREWORD BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER A compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply foc...
Author: Campbell, Sue Ellen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains-volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests-to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's marvelous la...
Author: Saylan, Charles / Blumstein, Daniel T. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education-along with a new vision for the ...
Author: Garone, Philip Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California's Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migrato...
Author: Neely, Wayne Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every year, hurricanes seem to be increasingly severe and unpredictable, ensuring that they remain one of the most frequent topics of conversation in our everyday lives. The Great Bahamian Hurricanes ...
Author: Grayson, Donald K. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams f...
Author: Hostetler, Mark E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Written for anyone interested in green development-including policy makers, architects, developers, builders, and homeowners-this practical guide focuses on the central question of how to conserve bio...
Author: Hastings, Robert W. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make ...
Author: Jacobsen, Rowan Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine cre...
Author: Roudette, Vonnie Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Vonnie Roudette has created a seminal work of Caribbean Nature writings revealing creative messages for community transformation through daily observation. Compiled largely from five-minute weekly rad...
Description: The Peregrine's Journey vividly describes one of the most remarkable feats in the animal kingdom. Beginning in Alaska and ending two months later in Argentina, the peregrine falcon's annual migration ...
Author: Paul, Gregory S. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This lavishly illustrated volume is the first authoritative dinosaur book in the style of a field guide. World-renowned dinosaur illustrator and researcher Gregory Paul provides comprehensive visual a...
