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  • Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
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    Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love

    How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her...
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  • World in their Hands
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    World in their Hands

    Earth visionaries. Climate drivers. Believers. The World in their Hands tells the stories of those who saw the importance of our natural world and dedicated their lives to its conservation,...
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  • Sustainability
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    Sustainability

    A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the...
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  • Toxic Communities
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    Toxic Communities

    Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset...
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  • Water
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    Water

    An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of...
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  • Cloning Wild Life
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    Cloning Wild Life

    The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same...
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  • Stay Cool
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    Stay Cool

    How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming We've all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing...
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  • The Creative Lives of Animals
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    The Creative Lives of Animals

    The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that...
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  • All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental
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    All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

    Species acclimatization-the organized introduction of organisms to a new region-is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to...
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  • Making Machu Picchu
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    Making Machu Picchu

    Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the ""lost city"" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu ""is...
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  • Geographical Psychology
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    Geographical Psychology

    The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. These conditions affect how people from different regions behave...
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  • Global Climate Change
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    Global Climate Change

    Earth has changed much over history, some periods faster than others due to many factors that humans did not observe. In today's high-tech landscape and with ground-breaking processes for measuring...
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  • The Conversation on Extreme Weather
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    The Conversation on Extreme Weather

    From contributors to The Conversation, a timely collection of essays on how extreme weather events will impact the environment-and our lives. As extreme weather events grow in frequency and...
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  • Restoring the Balance
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    Restoring the Balance

    Wolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life. For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose...
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  • After the Flood
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    After the Flood

    How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe. Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of...
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  • Human-Wildlife Conflict Management
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    Human-Wildlife Conflict Management

    The latest edition of this classic guide details how to understand and resolve a broad array of human-wildlife conflicts. This new edition of Human-Wildlife Conflict Management updates our...
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  • Science for a Green New Deal
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    Science for a Green New Deal

    Science, not politics, can take us beyond the hype and headlines to forge a realistic green new deal. Since it was first proposed in the US House of Representatives, the Green New Deal has been hotly...
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  • Wildlife Management and Conservation
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    Wildlife Management and Conservation

    The definitive textbook for students of wildlife management, now updated to cover the latest techniques, tools, and topics. Wildlife Management and Conservation presents a clear overview of the...
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  • Bird Migration
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    Bird Migration

    A fascinating and nuanced exploration of why, how, and which birds migrate. How do birds travel over thousands of miles? When do birds decide it's time to migrate? Why do some birds migrate, while...
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  • Restoring the Balance
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    Restoring the Balance

    For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale National Park, an island in the...
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  • The Environment
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    The Environment

    Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less...
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  • Saving Endangered Species
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    Saving Endangered Species

    Wildlife conservation is at a critical juncture. While large, charismatic mammals may be the first animals that come to mind'the mere 3,000 wild tigers still in existence, the giraffes declared...
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  • The Extractive Zone
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    The Extractive Zone

    In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gomez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous...
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  • Exile and Pride
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    Exile and Pride

    First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled...
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  • Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters
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    Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters

    Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but...
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  • America's Bountiful Waters
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    America's Bountiful Waters

    Fish and Aquatic Conservation (FAC) in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is the direct descendant of the U.S. Fish Commission, founded in 1871. In 2021, FAC marks its 150th anniversary, the oldest...
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  • How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach
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    How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach

    Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a...
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  • Engineering Nature
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    Engineering Nature

    Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and...
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  • To Save the Wild Bison
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    To Save the Wild Bison

    Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only place in the United States...
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  • grace
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    grace

    Grace is a form of resilience. It is love in action. It holds us as we encounter difficulties and trauma. In recent years Australia has faced flood, drought, fire and the COVID-19 pandemic and these...
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  • My World Is Melting
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    My World Is Melting

    In 2015, a massive avalanche descended on the small Arctic Norwegian city of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, leveling eleven houses and killing a two-year-old girl and a young father. It was a tragic natural...
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  • An Inconvenient Apocalypse
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    An Inconvenient Apocalypse

    Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by...
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  • Shark Biology and Conservation
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    Shark Biology and Conservation

    Feed your fascination with sharks! This complete resource enlightens readers on the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks with approachable explanations and more than 250 stunning color...
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  • Traffication
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    Traffication

    Traffication develops a bold new idea: that the trillions of miles of driving we do each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat...
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  • Kin
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    Kin

    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and...
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  • Social Ecology
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    Social Ecology

    Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. It provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interrelationships...
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  • Unsustainable
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    Unsustainable

    A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainability In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about...
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  • No Matter What
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    No Matter What

    A collection of essays that outline the recent work on ecology, political theology, religion, and philosophy by one of the leading theologians of our age As we face relentless ecological destruction...
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  • The Planet You Inherit
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    The Planet You Inherit

    For the first time in history, letters from one geological epoch to another. Our children's and grandchildren's generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass...
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  • The Robbery of Nature
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    The Robbery of Nature

    Bridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism's relation to...
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  • The Robbery of Nature
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    The Robbery of Nature

    Bridges the gap between social and environmental critiques of capitalism In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism's relation to...
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  • Children of a Modest Star
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    Children of a Modest Star

    A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences. Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful...
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  • Ethics for a Full World
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    Ethics for a Full World

    The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet -climate change, biodiversity meltdown, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation and more - are symptoms of a common problem: the...
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  • Queen of the Sun
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    Queen of the Sun

    In Autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative...
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