Topical/Ecology
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
$22.95 Read moreBetween 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees,
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209043
- Language: English
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Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water
$24.95 Add to cartFor generations the R o Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors. From this unique perspective Arellano explores the ways people use water i
- Series: Querencias
- Author: Arellano, Juan Estevan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0826355072
- Language: English
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Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
$26.95 Add to cart“This book,” writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, “is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Sherr, Evelyn B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351407
- Language: English
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Blueprint for Going Green: How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation
$85.00 Add to cartHow one organization took on industrial pollution–and the lessons for our new century
In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster–the poisoning of the James River by Allied Che- Author: McCarthy, Gerald P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0813950724
- Language: English
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
$20.99 Add to cartA heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a Hollywood hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients.
Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummi
- Author: Masear, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705378
- Language: English
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The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance
$29.95 Add to cart“Few can rival what Rolf Peterson has accomplished on Isle Royale. His study, a true classic, offers lessons and examples to us all who hope to do the same. This book reveals some of the secrets and d
- Author: Peterson, Rolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0472032615
- Language: English
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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
$29.95 Add to cartThis biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United
- Author: Meine, Curt D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0299249042
- Language: English
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Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award Foundation Award for Design and Artistic Merit
This book is a work of art from every possible angle – from the exquisite photographs, to the book’s design, to
- Author: Hall, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0295994886
- Language: English
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Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life
$28.95 Add to cartWhy are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to thi
- Series: Complexity in Ecological Systems
- Author: Rosen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0231075650
- Language: English
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
$19.99 Add to cartThe coelacanth (see-lo-canth) is no ordinary fish. Five feet long, with luminescent eyes and limb like fins, this bizarre creature, presumed to be extinct, was discovered in 1938 by an amateur icthyol
- Author: Weinberg, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0060932856
- Language: English
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Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World
$19.99 Add to cartWhat do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmenta
- Author: Simpson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497837
- Language: English
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Conserving America’s Wildlands: The Vision of Ted Turner
$55.00 Read moreOver a lifetime, CNN founder Ted Turner has dedicated two million private acres to a globally unparalleled project to reintroduce and restore the species that once roamed freely there.
Ted Turner was- Author: Turner, Rhett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0847872319
- Language: English
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Magnificent Majestic Mono Lake
$19.95 Add to cartMagnificent Majestic Mono Lake is an entertaining introduction to the eastern Sierra’s Mono Lake and its basin, perfect for visitors and residents alike who want to quickly acquaint themselves with Mo
- Author: Smith, Andrew T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1954000308
- Language: English
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Meander: Making Room for Rivers
$19.95 Add to cartDraws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Wooster, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1438484682
- Language: English
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry: A People’s History
$28.00 Add to cartThe seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers–oftentimes folks who were either already acquainted with maritime livelihoods or those who quickly… [more below]
- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Stephens, Deanne Love
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1496833503
- Language: English
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Sharks in the Shallows: Attacks on the Carolina Coast
$19.99 Read moreA detailed account of over one hundred shark-related incidents on the coast of the Carolinas from a shark-bite investigator
Powerful and mysterious, sharks inspire both fascination and fear. Worldwide,
- Author: Creswell, W. Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1643361805
- Language: English
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Mississippi River Mayhem: Disasters, Tragedy, and Murder on Ol’ Man River
$19.95 Add to cartIn this book, author and Mississippi River historian Dean Klinkenberg explores the many disastrous events to have occurred on and along the river in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries–from steamb
- Author: Klinkenberg, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493060724
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
$31.18 Add to cartWinner of the Sustainability Science Award 2020, Ecological Society of America
Winner of the PROSE Award (Biological Sciences category) 2020, Association of American PublishersThere is a growing cris
- Author: Harvell, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 520382986
- Language: English
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The Modern Crisis
$16.00 Read moreSix incisive essays from the father of social ecology.
Murray Bookchin’s frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmental… [more below]
- Author: Bookchin, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354464
- Language: English
