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61. Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2004-11-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Political ecology and ecologists are sure to benefit from this splendid array of rigorous, richly contextualized, and far-reaching accounts that injects a masterful blend of political analysis and attention to the lifeworlds of diverse peoples worldwide into environmental studies."—Karl Zimmerer, professor and chair, department of geography andInstitute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison "An ingenious mix of genealogy and the unfolding future of political ecology, bringing fresh insights to the dynamics of place, power, and people across the globe."—Dianne Rocheleau, coeditor of Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences As environmental issues become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the intersection of political economy and cultural ecology. This volume provides a toolkit of vital concepts and a set of research models and analytic frameworks for researchers at all levels. Pointing to the entangled relationship between humans, politics, economies, and environments at the dawn of the twenty-first century, opening chapters trace rich traditions of thought and practice that inform current approaches to political ecology. The twelve case studies that follow explore sites located around the world as they describe uses of and conflicts over resources including land, water, soil, trees, biodiversity, money, knowledge, and information. Contributors include Mette J. Brodgen, William Derman, Michael R. Dove, Arturo Escobar, Anne Ferguson, Andrew Gardner, Lisa Gezon, James B. Greenberg, Josiah McC. Heyman, Alf Hornborg, Fiona D. Mackenzie, Susan Paulson, Charles J. Stevens, Hanne Svarstad, and Michael Watts. Customer Reviews (1)
An engaging analysis of social/environmental problems |
62. Molecular Ecology by Joanna Freeland | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2006-01-18)
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Good for Classroom
Well Rounded Introductory Book. |
63. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research by Kevin McGarigal, Sam Cushman, Susan Stafford | |
Paperback: 283
Pages
(2000-06-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description The book is specifically targeted for upper-division and graduate students in wildlife biology, forestry, and ecology, and for professional wildlife scientists and natural resource managers, but it will be valuable to researchers in any of the biological sciences. Kevin McGarigal is Assistant Professor and Sam Cushman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management at the University of Massachusetts. Susan Stafford is Head of the Forest Science Department at Colorado State University. Customer Reviews (4)
Applied, don't need a PhD to understand; lacks theory
Invaluable for a grad student!
A good introduction to multivariate statistics
grad students |
64. An Illustrated Guide to Theoretical Ecology by Ted J. Case | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1999-10-14)
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Valuable text
School book
Not worth it. |
65. Ecology of a Changing Planet (3rd Edition) by Mark B. Bush | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(2002-03-21)
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66. Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean by Julia Whitty | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2010-07-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description At the center of Deep Blue Home is Julia Whitty’s penetrating exploration of the World Ocean as a single body of water connected by a vast and powerful threedimensional current encircling the globe. This undivided body of water profoundly controls and is controlled by Earth’s climate; its fate determines our own. Whitty’s career—first in science, later as a documentary filmmaker, and always as a writer and diver—has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of “extremophile” life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of “whale falls,” or what happens in the afterlife of a behemoth. No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortés to Newfoundland to the Galápagos. Her book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home. A Q&A with Julia Whitty, Author of Deep Blue Home Q: Where did Deep Blue Home come from? A: I made nature documentaries about the oceans for years and my second book, The Fragile Edge, was a love letter to the coral reefs of the world. But in this book I wanted to circulate to the ocean's farthest fetch and depth and bring its stories and science ashore, so that people in the landlocked hearts of our continents would see how this water world gives us life. Q: What did it take to write this book? A: I've been traveling on and under the oceans since my teenage days, first in science, later in documentary filmmaking, and since 2000 as a writer. I've been fortunate to visit some of Earth's most wondrous wet places and meet the people working there, the biologists, oceanographers, fishermen, wilderness guides, and locals. The book is called "an intimate ecology" because it's a very personal story of a life spent adrift on currents of curiosity and adventure. Q: What kind of adventures have you had? A: In my early science work, I was anchored to a tiny, remote, uninhabited island in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, home to half a million seabirds and nothing else. Filmmaking adventures took me all over the world, from diving with sperm whales off the Galapagos to diving on Arctic icebergs to experiencing the extremophile communities living below the reach of sunlight on the deep sea floor. Writing adventures have swept me out to sea in wild weather with scientists sampling the living pulse of the ocean as a way to measure changes underway from climate change. Q: What inspires you about the ocean? A: The seashore is a place of inspiration and introspection for many. Offshore the wonders only multiply. What we're learning today about the remote and deep ocean is bigger, deeper, darker, colder, farther, older than anything we could have imagined even 25 years ago. Technology combined with a growing lineage of scientific knowledge allows us to explore what we previously couldn't even imagine. We visit communities of life thriving thousands of feet below Antarctic ice. We follow pairs of mated seabirds flying 44,000-mile figure-eight loops around the Pacific between their nesting seasons. We magnify ocean water and find bacterial species in excess of 10 million. Q: Do you have a favorite place in the ocean? A: The beauty of the ocean is that it's profoundly connected by its constantly moving waters. Most ocean life is nomadic, at least for some stage of its development. Jellyfish drift through their adulthood yet are anchored to the seafloor when they're young. The opposite is true for many fish that inhabit a small corner of the seafloor in adulthood yet drift as plankton in their larval stages. The majority of sea life follows temperature gradients the way we follow roads and highways. Which means that a changing climate carries marine life with it. The ocean defies all our anchors. Q: Do you consider the ocean your home? A: The deep blue home is home to all of us no matter our address. We feel the gravitational pull of its tides and the spiritual lift of its infinite horizon. Today we understand that it's also the single most powerful arbiter of well-being for the seven billion human beings living on a small planet misnamed Earth. In my career on the water, I’ve witnessed some of the ocean's many miracles, absorbed its punishments, felt my way along the edges of its unexplored frontiers, dived with its musclemen and its ballerinas, sailed with its swashbucklers and exiles. Working beside scientists, I’ve learned to translate a word of two of the ocean’s native tongues. The time I’ve spent at sea has also proven a brief yet decisive window into changes underway: oceanic problems, once local, now gone pandemic to compromise the equilibrium allowing us to flourish. Yet nature is beneficent too. For every reprimand from the deep blue home, we are offered a dozen forgivenesses. When we listen, we can hear its song of sustainability. (Photo © Sharon Urquhart) Customer Reviews (17)
Homage to the Sea
General libraries need this!
A Companion to Places of Wonder
TRANSPORTING AND VIVID COLLECTION!
Stream of Conscious writings on Nature |
67. The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians by Kentwood D. Wells | |
Hardcover: 1400
Pages
(2007-11-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Consisting of more than six thousand species, amphibians are more diverse than mammals and are found on every continent save Antarctica. Despite the abundance and diversity of these animals, many aspects of the biology of amphibians remain unstudied or misunderstood. The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians aims to fill this gap in the literature on this remarkable taxon. It is a celebration of the diversity of amphibian life and the ecological and behavioral adaptations that have made it a successful component of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Customer Reviews (6)
Not Your Average Book on Amphibian Ecology or Behavior
Its value is worth more than its weight in gold (~5lbs)
the ecology and behavior of amphibians
a hobbyist's perspective
A definitive treatment of amphibian ecology |
68. Elements of Mathematical Ecology by Mark Kot | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(2001-08-06)
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69. Design For The Real World: HUMAN ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE by Victor Papanek PAPANEK | |
Paperback: 394
Pages
(2005-08-30)
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Way Better Than All the Modern Design Thinking "Guides"
The Classic Social Model Approach
Politicizing design
An inspiring book on environmental design Having read the more recent books on ecological design by Sim Van Der Ryn and William McDonough, I was surprised to see that neither mentioned Papanek, who prefigured many of the ideas they present in their current books.Papanek long ago advocated the lease/use principle, which makes much more sense in a rapidly changing technological world than does the buy/own principle that continues to dominate our social thinking.Papanek notes the many cultural and psychological blocks we have created for ourselves when it comes to ecological design, but also illustrates how we can overcome these blocks with methods such as bisociation, first proposed by Arthur Koestler.But, what really makes this book stand out are the great number of illustrations that Papanek uses to demonstrate his ideas.This is one of the most practical books written on environmental design. While Papanek was an industrial designer, his ideas are equally germaine to the field of architecture and biology.He advocated a multi-disciplinary approach, feeling that our universities had become too compartimentalized and were stifling creativity, which needs cross-pollination in order to thrive.The book is as inpiring as his lectures.Papanek challenges the reader to explore new avenues, not continue to follow the status quo, which only results in creative dead-ends.
The Design Bible, Even for Architects |
70. Ecology and Field Biology: Hands-On Field Package (6th Edition) by Robert L. Smith, Thomas M. Smith | |
Hardcover: 720
Pages
(2001-12-07)
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Great book for class, but...
Ecology Text
A Very Useful Book
Did not receive it, but got money back
Great Deal |
71. Community Ecology: Processes, Models, and Applications (Oxford Biology) | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2010-02-01)
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disappointing book
Great resource
Disappointing |
72. Biophysical Ecology by David M. Gates | |
Paperback: 635
Pages
(2003-07-29)
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Biophysical Ecology
A fascinating book |
73. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash | |
Paperback: 346
Pages
(2007-01-05)
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74. Learning Landscape Ecology | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(2001-11-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description About the Included CD: Many of the labs use only Excel (.xls) files or Adobe (.pdf) files (or no files at all) and as such are compatible with computers running on either Mac or Windows platforms, as long as the computers have Excel and/or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed.Chapters 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18 and part of 7 fall into this category. Several other programs require a PC running Windows: Markov, HarvestLite, Rule, Fragstats, ReserveDesign and Folio are DOS executables; ArcExplorer and Bachmap must be installed on a Windows PC. These programs require a Windows emulator for use on a Macintosh platform. Customer Reviews (1)
Interesting book |
75. Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering by T. E. Graedel, Braden R. Allenby | |
Hardcover: 352
Pages
(2009-10-03)
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76. The Ecology of Marine Fishes: California and Adjacent Waters by Larry G. Allen | |
Hardcover: 670
Pages
(2006-02-15)
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77. Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology | |
Paperback: 268
Pages
(1990-04-21)
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A wide range of views for not just Buddhists
for every thinking person and those who wish to be
Fabulous, it will expand your mind
Well written, insightful, thought provoking
An excellent and original read |
78. Wildlife Ecology, Conservation and Management by Anthony R. E. Sinclair, John M. Fryxell, Graeme Caughley | |
Paperback: 488
Pages
(2006-01-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description The unique feature of this book is that general ecology is explained first, allowing those students who do not have an ecology background to get to grips quickly with applications to real world situations. This said, the book is appropriate to both undergraduate and graduate classes in applied ecology, conservation, and natural resource management. The book will also be valuable to professional wildlife biologists in developing their research and management. This edition includes new chapters on foraging and on community and ecosystem ecology. Recent developments in the use of computer modelling are explored in several of the chapters and an overview of how to choose between different models is provided in a separate new chapter. An accompanying CD with worked examples allows students to develop skills in computer modelling and practical problem solving. Customer Reviews (4)
School Book Purchase- Satisfaction Gurantee
Good deal for a Textbook!
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
An excellent text |
79. The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess by Arne Naess | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2010-06-15)
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Wisdom and Joy (and a Stupid Introduction) |
80. Community Ecology by P. Morin | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2010-11-03)
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Poorly written and organized but full of terrific examples and information
Classic reference
Community Ecology Review
Great book!!! |
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