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  • Narrating Nature

    Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing

    by Mara Jill Goldman ...
    Series series Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives
    The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

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    The Global Ocean in Crisis

    by Alanna Mitchell ...
    All life — whether on land or in the sea — depends on the oceans for two things:• Oxygen. Most of Earth’s oxygen is produced by phytoplankton in the sea. These humble, one-celled organisms, rather than the spectacular rain forests, are the true lungs of the planet.• Climate control. Our climate is regulated by the ocean’s currents, winds, and water-cycle activity.Sea Sick is the first book to ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Silence Of The Songbirds

    How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them

    by Bridget Stutchbury ...
    Migratory songbirds are disappearing at a frightening rate. By some estimates, we may have already lost almost half the songbirds that filled the skies only 40 years ago. Following the birds on their 10,000-kilometre migratory journey, Bridget Stutchbury looks at the most threatening factors in their extinction, from pesticides, still a major concern decades after Rachel Carson first raised the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Statues that Walked

    Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

    by Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo ...
    T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Demon Fish

    Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks

    by Juliet Eilperin ...
    Agroup of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species can survive.In this eye-opening adventure that spans the globe, Juliet Eilperin investigates ... Read more

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  • The View from Lazy Point

    A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

    by Carl Safina ...
    An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl SafinaBeginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Wild Hope

    On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

    by Andrew Balmford ...
    Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford in Wild Hope, and he offers several powerful stories of successful conservation ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tigers of the World

    The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris

    Edited by Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus ...
    Series series Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
    Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The End of the Wild

    by Stephen M. Meyer ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the weedy species—from ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Overfishing

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Ray Hilborn ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine conservation, as well as the sustainable and ethical consumption of fish. But are fisheries in danger of collapse? Will we soon need to find ways to ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island

    by Joan Marshall ...
    Grand Manan Island a 200-year old fishing village in the Bay of Fundy has been overwhelmed by globalization technology and changing government policies. Changes on the island call into question the myth of the rural idyll and point to an urgent need for reconsideration of urban-rural divides. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD