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  • The Endocrine System

    Systems of the Body Series

    by Joy P. Hinson Raven, Peter Raven, Shern L. Chew ...
    Series series Systems of the Body
    This is an integrated textbook on the endocrine system, covering the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the system, all presented in a clinically relevant context appropriate for the first two years of the medical student course. - One of the seven volumes in the Systems of the Body series. - Concise text covers the core anatomy, physiology and biochemistry in an integrated manner as required ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Coevolution of Animals and Plants

    Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973

    Edited by Lawrence E. Gilbert, Peter H. Raven ...
    It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Heart of the Wild

    Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future

    by Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Eileen Crist, Martha L. Crump, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog, Emma Marris, Kathleen Dean Moore, Gary Paul Nabhan, Peter H. Raven, Christopher J. Schell, Richard Shine, Kyle Whyte ...
    Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts.These engaging essays present nuanced and often ... Read more

    Was $29.69 CAD Now $21.99 CAD

  • Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity

    Problems and Prospects

    Edited by J. Perry Gustafson, Peter H. Raven, Paul R. Ehrlich ...
    This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Conservation Biology

    Voices from the Tropics

    Edited by Navjot S. Sodhi, Peter H. Raven, Luke Gibson ...
    The late Navjot Sodhi conceived this book as a way of bringing to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics the views of people who were actually working and living there. In its 31 chapters, 55 authors present their views on the conservation problems they face and how they deal with them.Effective long term conservation in the tropics requires the full participation of local ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

  • Biological Extinction

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Partha Dasgupta, Peter Raven, Anna McIvor ...
    The rapidly increasing human pressure on the biosphere is pushing biodiversity into the sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. The organisms being exterminated are integral working parts of our planet's life support system, and their loss is permanent. Like climate change, this irreversible loss has potentially devastating consequences for humanity. As we come to recognise ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Flowering Plants of the Sierra Nevada

    A Photographic Guide to Over 1000 Wildflowers

    by Joanna Clines, Stephen Sharnoff ...
    The most extensive guide to identifying the flowering plants in California's richly diverse Sierra Nevada mountains.This photographic guide to the wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada has been over twenty-five years in the making, drawing together spectacular images by Stephen Sharnoff, the photographer of the acclaimed Lichens of North America, and informative text by botanist Joanna Clines, who has ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Public Garden Management

    A Complete Guide to the Planning and Administration of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta

    by Donald Rakow, Sharon Lee ...
    The complete-and-ready reference for establishing, managing, and running a successful and sustainable, profitable public gardenAs unique museums with living collections of plants, public gardens offer visitors aesthetically beautiful landscapes combined with educational programming and scientific research that promote the value and understanding of plants. In the twenty-first century, public ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

    Edited by Kunio Iwatsuki, Peter H. Raven ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century because of insufficient crop production to support the explosively increasing world popula tion and because of serious pollution of the global environment. Plants should play the major role in alleviating this crisis. Consequently, plant science will ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Restoring Natural Capital

    Science, Business, and Practice

    Edited by James Aronson, Suzanne J. Milton, James N. Blignaut ...
    Series series Science Practice Ecological Restoration
    How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in supply through environmental restoration.Restoring Natural Capital brings together economists and ... Read more

    $74.79 CAD

  • Contemplative Gardening

    by Pamela Dolan ...
    An enchanting guide for turning the art of gardening into opportunities for reflection and meditation.Contemplative Gardening makes the connection between tending to the earth and tending to our own souls, between caring for the planet and caring for one another. Pamela Dolan explores the myriad relationships between all living things that come to light when we dig in the soil. Whether you’re an ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us

    Expanded and Updated

    by Matt Ritter ...
    Now expanded and updated: Californians’ favorite reference book to trees in our everyday lives."Anyone who is curious about trees is sure to find education and inspiration in these pages."—David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Trees and The Sibley Guide to BirdsFor more than ten years, A Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us has taught Californians the what, why, and how of trees ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD