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  • Climate Ghosts

    Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

    par Nancy Langston ...
    Collections series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon.Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Where Land and Water Meet

    A Western Landscape Transformed

    par Nancy Langston ...
    Collections series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Sustaining Lake Superior

    An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

    par Nancy Langston ...
    A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares

    The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West

    par Nancy Langston ...
    Collections series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much management—or not enough—that forced the forests of the inland West to the verge of collapse? Is the solution more logging, or no logging at all? ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Toxic Bodies

    Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

    par Nancy Langston ...
    In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Beaver Manifesto

    par Glynnis Hood ...
    Collections series RMB Manifesto
    Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion. These conflicts reflect a dichotomy within our national identity. We place environment and our ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Homeward Wolf

    par Kevin Van Tighem ...
    Collections series An RMB Manifesto
    Wolves have become a complicated comeback story. Their tracks are once again making trails throughout western Alberta, southern British Columbia and the northwestern United States, and the lonesome howls of the legendary predator are no longer mere echoes from our frontier past: they are prophetic voices emerging from the hills of our contemporary reality.Kevin Van Tighem’s first RMB Manifesto ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great Plains

    par Keith Aune, Glenn Plumb ...
    This history chronicles the 19th century plan to reintroduce wild bison into Western Montana and the rise of Roosevelt's conservation movement.In the late 1800s, the rapid depletion of the American bison population prompted calls for the preservation of wildlife and wild lands in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Red Desert

    History of a Place

    par Martin Stupich ...
    A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America's last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Coyote Valley

    Deep History in the High Rockies

    par Thomas G. Andrews ...
    What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over climate change.Large-scale ... En savoir plus

    $46.19 CAD

  • Keystone Prairie Dogs, They're a Lot Like People

    But They Can't Shoot Back

    par Jean Williams ...
    The series will highlight the fact that prairie dogs are similar to people in many ways and will use funny pictures, with playful captions and humorous parody to broaden the conversation and reach a more general and varied audience. The books will also include the “serious” message that prairie dogs are in peril in the wild, dispel myths with facts, provide content from wildlife biologists, ... En savoir plus

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  • Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

    par Dave Foreman ...
    A book that will set the course for the environmental movement for years to come, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior is an inspiring ecological call to arms by America's foremost and most controversial environmental activist. "Rude and brilliant. Read it and you will see the future".--William Kittredge. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD