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Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
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"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDJoin bestselling aut
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A Neotropical Companion : An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics
John C. Kricher, Mark Plotkin
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Current:
9.6 |
A second revised edition of John Kricher's well-received 1989 text, A Neotropical Companion distills whole libraries of information on the Americas' tropics. Kricher explores the workings of a rainforest with admirable clarity, discu
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One River : Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
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Current:
9.6 |
Best known for The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wade Davis is an ethnobotanist interested in the native uses of plants, especially psychotropics. He finds many such plants in the travels he rec
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Hope, Human and Wild : True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
Bill McKibben
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Current:
9.5 |
In lyrical, penetrating essays, Bill McKibben offers an optimistic response to his bestselling The End of Nature, focusing on successful community ventures to preserve the wilderness and reverse environmental damage. From his home in the Ad
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The Condor's Shadow : The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America
David S. Wilcove, Edward O. Wilson (Foreword)
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Current:
9.4 |
"More than 85 percent of the virgin forests of the United States have been logged, 90 percent of the tallgrass prairies have been plowed or paved, and 98 percent of the rivers and streams have been dammed, diverted, or developed." In the fa
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Ecological Imperialism : The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
Alfred W. Crosby
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Current:
9.3 |
Focusing on ecological aspects, this study reveals how Europeans were able to conquer the people of temperate lands through the successful environmental adaptation of the plants, animals and germs that they brought with them. more]
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Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems : An Introductory Analysis With Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (Complex A)
John H. Holland
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Current:
9.3 |
John Holland's Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems is one of the classics in the field of complex adaptive systems. Holland is known as the father of genetic algorithms and classifier systems and in this tome he describes th
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The Cartoon Guide to the Environment
Larry Gonick, Alice Outwater
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Current:
9.3 |
Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an online restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the
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Adaptation and Natural Selection : A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (Princeton Science Library)
George C. Williams
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Current:
9.2 |
Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatene
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Global Warming : The Complete Briefing
J. T. Houghton
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Current:
9.2 |
Global Warming and the resulting climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world community. Simply put, Global Warming: the Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available to the science and the
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Experiments in Ecology : Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance
A. J. Underwood
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Current:
9.0 |
Experiments in ecology require careful planning to produce data that can be used correctly in statistical tests. Analysis of variance is an important set of tests which allow attention to be focussed on details of experimental design, such
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The Great Work : Our Way into the Future
Thomas Berry
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Current:
9.0 |
The future can exist only if humans understand how to commune with the natural world rather than exploit it, explains author and renowned ecologist Thomas Berry (The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story). "Already the planet
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The Geography of Nowhere : The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler
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Current:
9.0 |
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The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
Shepard Krech III
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Current:
9.0 |
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Clean and Green : The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping
Annie Berthold-Bond, Annie Berhold Bond
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Current:
8.9 |
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Changes in the Land Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon
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Current:
8.8 |
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The Diversity of Life
Edward O. Wilson
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Current:
8.8 |
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Noah's Garden : Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards
Sara Stein
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Current:
8.8 |
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Tropical Nature
Adrian Forsyth
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Current:
8.7 |
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Earth in Mind : On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
David W. Orr
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Current:
8.6 |
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The Future Eaters : An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
Tim F. Flannery, Timothy Fridtjof Flannery
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8.6 |
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The Ecological Detective : Confronting Models With Data (Monographs in Population Biology (Paper), No 28)
Ray Hilborn, Marc Mangel
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Current:
8.5 |
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Spatial Ecology : The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions (Monographs in Population Biology (Paper), No 30)
David Tilman, Peter Kareiva
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Current:
8.5 |
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Holistic Management : A New Framework for Decision Making
Allan Savory, Jody Butterfield
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Current:
8.4 |
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Our Ecological Footprint : Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Williams E. Rees
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Current:
8.4 |
Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the resources
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