Conservation Books


Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Best Price: $50.60 Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science...	Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History; With a New Preface and Epilogue Best Price: $24.57 This book traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and...	Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong Best Price: $30.56 In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature...	Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Best Price: $22.44 "Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and...	Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution Best Price: $153.45 "Here is the English translation of Les Avatars du gene, originally published by...



Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ocean Ecosystem Best Price: $29.78 Although the ocean-and the resources within-seem limitless, there is clear evidence that human...	Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities Best Price: $33.50 For over a decade the Army has been carrying out a program aimed at the destruction of...	Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research Best Price: $6.00 In order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country,...	Risk and Decisions About Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste Best Price: $20.26 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) manages dozens of sites across the nation that focus on...	Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities Best Price: $20.52 In the United States, destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile began in 1990, when Congress...



Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems Best Price: $22.48 Each chapter focuses on how these eco-pioneers turned visions of sustainable development into...	Wetlands: Exploration of the Lost Wilderness of East Anglia One of Britain's best-loved holiday areas, the Norfolk Broads, is currently under threat by...	The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography Best Price: $3.98 Photography, cinema, and video have irrevocably changed the ways in which we view and interpret...	The Vacationer's Guide to Bat Watching Best Price: $10.95 More than seventy parks, zoos, and other sites are listed in this new BCI book, which shows...	The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem (Corrie Herring Hooks Series, Number Forty-nine) Best Price: $61.25 Though small among its woodpecker relatives, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker poses a huge dilemma...

Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon Best Price: $22.56 A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between...	Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin Best Price: $31.12 As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010,...	Killing the Hidden Waters Best Price: $14.95 Although Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" is the most encyclopedic book...	Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America Best Price: $6.00 Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America...	Aransas: A Naturalist's Guide Best Price: $62.21 Widely known as the wintering grounds of the world's largest wild flock of endangered...

Conifers, Two-Volume Set: Resource Physiology of Conifers: Acquisition, Allocation, and Utilization (Physiological Ecology) Best Price: $110.17 Coniferous forests are among the most important of ecosystems. These forests are widespread and...	Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues (3rd Edition) Best Price: $30.00 For courses in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Conservation, as well as in Sociology,...	Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems Best Price: $12.99 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Out...	Lifetime Conversation Guide Best Price: $0.26 An impeccable summary of ideas that everyone already knows about conversation and courtesy to...	Full Circle Best Price: $20.11 Dave Varty was a cricket-playing schoolboy of 15 when his father died. Less than two years later...

How the Tiger Lost Its Stripes: An Exploration into the Endangerment of a Species Best Price: $5.00 Mr. Meacham offers a pragmatic, fact-filled presentation and I have to agree with everything he...	Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Protection of Environment, Pt. 190-259, Revised as of July 1, 2005 The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published...	Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants Best Price: $59.00	An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy Best Price: $23.00 Product was in good condition. Some minor pen writings. Overall good product for an excellent price.	A Magic Web: The Forest of Barro Colorado Island Best Price: $109.74 The pictures are really extrodinary and the text is very readable and understandable. I...

Keepers of the Wolves: The Early Years of Wolf Recovery in Wisconsin Best Price: $12.88 I grew up in Wisconsin and can relate to Richard P Thiel's accurate and colorful...	Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom Best Price: $74.90 Either Frederick or Fran Hamerstrom would be the suitable recipient of a major biography. But...	The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson Best Price: $15.58 On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It...	Green Travel Guide to Southern Wisconsin: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Travel Best Price: $7.80 Southern Wisconsin has always had a lot to offer the day-tripper, weekender, and vacationer. The...	The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West Best Price: $35.88 _The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West_, published in...

The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale Historical Publications Series) Best Price: $48.00 A well-written and insightful book by an up-and-coming star in the field of the history of the...	Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town Best Price: $15.70 In Reclaiming the Commons, Brian Donahue has given us a remarkable portrait of a thriving...	The Policy Process: A Practical Guide for Natural Resources Professionals This useful book is designed to teach natural resources professionals how to be more effective...	The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China Best Price: $195.75 Mark Elvin's book is not really about elephants. The elephants are a symbol for the retreat...	Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage Best Price: $4.00 I have read and praised Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution , The...

The Balance of Nature?: Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities Best Price: $18.00 Well, at least influential for me. Stuart Pimm's "Balance of Nature" is...	Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics Best Price: $35.57 Serengeti National Park is one of the world?s most diverse ecosystems, a natural laboratory for...	Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming Best Price: $6.45 Climate change can seem like a huge and abstract subject, a topic for politicians and...	Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire, and the Journey of an American President Best Price: $28.00 Throughout Theodore Roosevelt's well-chronicled life, we see a man on a quest to make a...	Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors Best Price: $14.17 OK, I was ready for exciting personal experiences and details about veterinary treatment of zoo...

Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber: Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management Best Price: $47.30 Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community...	Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment Best Price: $12.80 Most of the natural systems that humans rely on for survival are in jeopardy. The earth's...	Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies Best Price: $105.00	Arid Lands Management: TOWARD ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY Best Price: $57.62 'As living systems change, so research priorities and decisions about resource management...	Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental (Studies in Continental Thought) Best Price: $19.74 Force of Imagination The Sense of the Elemental John Sallis A bold and original investigation...

The Preservation and Valuation of Biological Resources	Scientific Uncertainty And the Politics of Whaling Best Price: $59.04 In this intriguing study, Michael Heazle examines how International Whaling Commission (IWC)...	Plowed Under: Agriculture & Environment in the Palouse (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Best Price: $27.68 This book covers the history of soil conservation (or lack thereof) in the Palouse, an...	Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Best Price: $42.06 This fascinating environmental history of Japan examines how traditions and practices in several...	A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Best Price: $19.99 The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded...

Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a...	Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests Best Price: $20.22 When initially published more than twenty years ago, Thinking Like a Mountain was the first of a...	Walking With Muir Across Yosemite Best Price: $5.74 Does todays visitor trekking Yosemite National Park find it much different from what John Muir...	Nature and Culture in the Andes Best Price: $106.35 ? Nature and Culture in the Andes provides a suite of graceful, sweeping essays on the...	The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and Commentaries Best Price: $39.99 In The Conference Board's magazine, "Across the Board," in a Nov/Dec 2000...

Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Best Price: $12.00 To prepare today's students to meet growing global environmental challenges, colleges and...	Property Rights and the Environment (Iea Studies on the Environment, 13) Best Price: $6.53	Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective Best Price: $66.39 In this book Robert Brulle draws on a broad range of empirical and theoretical...	Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (Politics, Science, and the Environment) Best Price: $125.81 Winner, 1997 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award given by the International Studies Association (ISA).	Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems Best Price: $4.94 Lerner's 10,000 mile journey around the U.S. to interview people at the cutting edge of new...

Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan Best Price: $217.18 When I first saw this book in my college bookstore as an undergrad in 1987, I picked it up...	The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (Urban and Industrial Environments) Best Price: $2.61 Bill Shutkin's sensitivity to the environment and the human dimension of ecological concerns...	Strategic Planning in Environmental Regulation: A Policy Approach That Works (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) Best Price: $5.90 Strategic Planning in Environmental Regulation introduces an approach to ...	The New Environmental Regulation Best Price: $21.37 Daniel Fiorino is a highly respected expert on public administration, who has focused especially...	American Environmental Policy, 1990-2006: Beyond Gridlock (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) Best Price: $20.00 A survey of major environmental statutes since 1800 shows a post-1980 U.S. environmental policy...

What Is Natural?: Coral Reef Crisis Best Price: $6.36 During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly...	Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study Best Price: $6.60 Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened...	Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America Best Price: $8.55 Have "natural disasters" become more destructive ... or has economic development...	The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya	Asian International Waters: From Ganges-Brahmaputra to Mekong (Water Resources Management Series) Best Price: $38.32 In the twenty-first century, water will be the most critical resource, not oil. In Asia, many...

The Business Environment in Hong Kong An introductory text describing the environment for business and investment in Hong Kong. This...	The West European Party System (Oxford Readings in Politics and Government) Best Price: $27.97 The analysis of party systems in Western Europe has long constituted a major focus of concern in...	The Oystercatcher: From Individuals to Populations (Oxford Ornithology Series) Best Price: $116.05 This book reviews what is known about the behavior and population ecology of the oystercatcher....	The Hawaiian Honeycreepers: Drepanidinae (Bird Families of the World) Best Price: $75.00 This long-awaited book is the definitive study of the extraordinary family of endemic Hawaiian...	The Biology of Streams and Rivers (Biology of Habitats) Best Price: $47.41 This is a very good introductory text on how streams and rivers function. It covers the habitat,...

The Biology of Alpine Habitats (Biology of Habitats) Best Price: $82.76 This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that occur...	Designs for a Global Plant Species Information System (Systematics Association Special Volume) Demand for the conservation of rapidly disappearing plants and ecological communities has...	Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of Techniques (Techniques in Ecology and Conservation) Best Price: $135.00 Invasive alien species are a major and growing threat to biodiversity worldwide. The transport...	Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective Best Price: $161.00 How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human...	Conservation Biology for All (Oxford Biology) Best Price: $52.28 Just thought I'd point out that the book has been made available by the publisher free of...

Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy (Oxford Biology) Best Price: $52.38 Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics...	Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future Best Price: $29.79 An excellent collection of articles concentrating on the origin and maintenance of the high...	Ocean Yearbook, Volume 12 Best Price: $77.00 For more than fifteen years, marine biologists, oceanographers, and specialists in foreign...	Primate Conservation Biology Best Price: $17.00 terrible. the professor even hates it. The book mostly repeats its insightful lines a dozen or...	Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform Best Price: $18.87 In Natural Visions , Finis Dunaway tells the story of how visual imagery?such as wilderness...

Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Best Price: $50.60 Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science...	Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History; With a New Preface and Epilogue Best Price: $24.57 This book traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and...	Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong Best Price: $30.56 In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature...	Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Best Price: $22.44 "Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and...	Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution Best Price: $153.45 "Here is the English translation of Les Avatars du gene, originally published by...

Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ocean Ecosystem Best Price: $29.78 Although the ocean-and the resources within-seem limitless, there is clear evidence that human...	Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities Best Price: $33.50 For over a decade the Army has been carrying out a program aimed at the destruction of...	Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research Best Price: $6.00 In order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country,...	Risk and Decisions About Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste Best Price: $20.26 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) manages dozens of sites across the nation that focus on...	Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities Best Price: $20.52 In the United States, destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile began in 1990, when Congress...

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