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  • Withrow and MacEwen's Small Animal Clinical Oncology - E-Book

    by Stephen J. Withrow, David M. Vail, Rodney Page ...
    - Thoroughly UPDATED chapters cover the most recent changes in the clinical management of melanoma, mast cell tumors, tumors of the skeletal system, tumors of the endocrine system, tumors of the mammary gland, urinary cancers, nervous system cancers, lymphoma, and histiocytic diseases. - NEW Clinical Trials and Developmental Therapeutics chapter discusses the various phases of clinical trials as ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Chemical Lands

    Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945

    by David D. Vail ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment.The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals—their long-term ecological harm versus food production benefits—were sparked and clarified by biologist Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962). This seminal ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites

    Edited by Debra A. Reid, Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, David D. Vail ...
    Series series Interpreting History
    Ask not what science can do for you, but what public history can do for science!Interpreting Science in Museums and Historic Sites stresses the untapped potential of historical artifacts to inform our understanding of scientific topics. It argues that science gains ground when contextualized in museums and historic sites. Engaging audiences in conversations about hot topics such as health and ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland

    Applied Studies in Communication Theory

    by William Barnes, Keeler Brynteson, Priya Kapoor, Jennette Lovejoy, erin daina mcclellan, Majia Holmer Nadesan, Doug Tewksbury ...
    Given the centrality of economics and communication in the Occupy movement, Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland uses economic insights and contemporary theories of communication to better understand the movement at this current juncture in history. This collection is organized by complementary theoretical and methodological perspectives: the global—critical cultural and economic ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites

    by Debra A. Reid, David D. Vail ...
    Series series Interpreting History
    Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone who wants to better understand the environment that surrounds us and sustains us, who wants to become a better steward of that environment, and who wants to share lessons learned with others. The process starts by focusing attention on the environment – the physical space that constitutes the largest three-dimensional object ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inconspicuous Consumption

    The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

    by Tatiana Schlossberg ...
    *First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--VogueFrom a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action will empower you to stand ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Patch

    The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands

    by Chris Turner ...
    Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the many ways the oilsands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?In its heyday, the oilsands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Soil Will Save Us

    How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

    by Kristin Ohlson ...
    Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Empire of the Beetle

    How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ripple Effect

    The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century

    by Alex Prud'homme ...
    AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Growing a Revolution

    Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

    by David R. Montgomery ...
    **Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"A call to action that underscores a common goal: to change the world from the ground up." —Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate**For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster for ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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