Applied ecology Books
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Fundamentals of Ecology Laboratory Manual
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£75.56
Basic Books The Social Lives of Animals
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£24.00
Basic Books A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of
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£24.00
Basic Books The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be
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£22.50
Harbour Publishing Raven Walks Around the World: Life of a Wandering
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£22.23
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory
Book SynopsisDeep ecology, a term coined by noted Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, is a worldwide grassroots environmental movement that seeks to redress the shallow and piecemeal approache of technology-based ecology. Its followers share a profund respect for the earth's interrelated natural systems and a sense of urgency about the need to make profound cultural and social changes in order to respore and sustain the long-term health of the planet. This comprehensive introduction to the Deep Ecology movement brings tgether Naess' groundbreaking work with essays by environmental thinkers and activists responding to and expanding on its philosophical and practical aspects.Contributors include George Sessions, Gary Snyder, Alan Drengson, Dll Devall, Freya Matthews, Warwick Fox, David Rothenberg, Michael E. Zimmerman, Patsy Hallen, Dolores LaChapelle, Pat Fleming, Joanna Macy, John Rodman, and Andrew Mclaughlin. The Authrs offer diverse viewpoints- from ecofeminist, scientific, and purely philosophical approaches to Christian, Buddhist, and Gandhian-based principles. Their essays show how social, technological, psychological, philosophical, and institutional issues are aall fundamentally related to our attitudes and values toward the natural world.
£16.19
Island Press Ecology and Design: Frameworks For Learning
Book SynopsisEcology and Design: Frameworks for Learning explains why design professors (primarlly in the landscape architecture field) should teach ecology as a standard part of their courses and provides exampies from professors who already teach ecology and design in this way. More academics are beginning to understand the need to teach students about ecology in the design fields, but materials to facillitate that teaching are lacking. Some professors give up due to lack of support from academic institution, resistance from students, and/or lack of materials. Although academics are beginning to see the importance of this approach, there are few books available on this subject. In addition, the contributors are some of the most respected and well-recognised names in the field.
£68.40
Island Press Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology,
Book SynopsisThis title presents a disciplinary approach to conducting large-scale watershed and ecosystem management projects. It focuses on the semi-arid Great Basin area of the US, which is highly sensitive to both climate change processes and natural and human disturbance.
£24.70
Rowman & Littlefield Beaches in Space and Time: A Global Look at the
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£17.06
Temple University Press,U.S. Upstream/Downstream – Issues in Environmental
Book SynopsisThese original essays explore non-reciprocated relationships with regard to the environment. The contributing philosophers who are known for their writing on environmental concerns discuss moral issues that arise when decisions by individuals, corporations, or governments cause changes in the environment that affect those who do not participate in the decisions. Among the topics addressed are population expansion, accumulation of toxic wastes, pollution of air and water, as well as the effects of actions by the "upstream," current generation on "downstream," future generations. Donald Scherer is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.Trade Review"This book contains admirable examples of applied philosophy with solid conceptual analysis of critical social and legal issues... The articles are accessible to an educated layman [and]...suitable for use in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental philosophy, law, political theory, and --to a lesser degree--economics and history. Select essays can be read profitably by those with interests in environmental policy making, consulting, interpretation, and enforcement." --Environmental History Review "The essays in Donald Scherer's Upstream/Downstream offer serious readers more to get their teeth into... [Scherer] deserves congratulation for welding his authors' pieces into a stimulating and satisfying whole...written in accessible, reasonably non-technical language." --Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Molding of Norms and Environments Donald Scherer 2. On the Rights of Future Generations Ernest Partridge 3. Managing the Future: Public Policy, Scientific Uncertainty, and Global Warming Dale Jamieson 4. Models, Scientific Method, and Environmental Ethics Kristine Shader-Frechette 5. Can Today's International System Handle Transboundary Environmental Problems? Daniel Barstow Magraw and James W. Nickel 6. Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment Murk Sagoff 7. The Consequences of My Action, Your Action, and the Company's Action Burt Gruzalski 8. Two Types of Cost-Benefit Analysis Alan Gewirth About the Contributors Index
£26.99
Chicago Review Press Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the
Book SynopsisWe tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digsbelow the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating people who try to manage them. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails that are invading Miami, the boars that roam Berlin, and the monkey gangs of Cape Town. From feral chickens and carpet-roaming bugs to coyotes hanging out in sandwich shops and birds crashing into skyscrapers, Feral Cities takes readers on a journey through streets and neighborhoods that are far more alive than we often realize, shows how animals are adjusting to urban living, and asks what messages the wildlife in our metropolises have for us.Trade Review"An entertaining jaunt through city wildlife." Kirkus Reviews"Donovan not only shows readers how territorial boundaries between humans and wild animals constantly shift, but also how such encounters with birds, coyotes, and snakes should come as no great surprise." Publishers Weekly"Surprising, entertaining, sometimes frightening, Donovan's worldwide exploration of urban wildlife will be enjoyed by all types of readers including young adults, animal lovers, and those interested in ecology." Library Journal"In Feral Cities , journalist Tristan Donovan explores the conflict zone of cities and wild animals, and he seems to have a good time doing it." Science News"Donovan entertainingly exposes ecological experiments gone hopelessly awry and offers thoughtful input on how such tipping points can be avoided in the future." Booklist"Even those of us who have intensely studied urban wildlife for decades can learn a bit from some of Donovan's many sources, and Donovan can be praised for drawing out nuggets of information and perspective from sources who by reputation tend to be reticent." Animals 24-7" This interdisciplinary understanding of the issue is certainly apparent in the excellent Feral Cities . Although not an analytical, scientific text, the book provides a unique look into the lives of both urban wildlife and its human counterpart. For anyone interested in any of the many aspects of urban wildlife, Feral Cities will be a vastly entertaining read." The Nature of Cities"Wild creatures are having a people problem these days, and Donovan takes us on a global frolic to find all sorts of untamed critters and de-natured people cohabiting badly." Jim Sterba, author of Nature Wars and Frankie's Place
£14.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology,
Book SynopsisAs in past installments of “The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology” series, this year’s volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews in conservation biology and scientific, policy, and management implications, including reviews in the following areas: The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: Status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals; translocation of imperiled species under changing climates; ecology and conservation of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in a changing world; risks to biodiversity from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica Shales; species-area relationships and extinction forecasts; and Bounded Ranges of Variation as a framework for future conservation and fire management. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&10.1111/(ISSN)1749-6632 ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy Science receive full-text access to Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.Table of ContentsRisks to biodiversity from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica Shales 1 Erik Kiviat Translocation of imperiled species under changing climates 15 Mark W. Schwartz and Tara G. Martin The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals 29 Joe Roman, Irit Altman, Meagan M. Dunphy-Daly, Caitlin Campbell, Michael Jasny, and Andrew J. Read Species-area Relationships and extinction forecasts 50 John M. Halley, Vasiliki Sgardeli, and Nikolaos Monokrousos Ecology and conservation of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in a changing world 62 James B. McGraw, Anne E. Lubbers, Martha Van der Voort Emily H. Mooney, Mary Ann Furedi, Sara Souther, Jessica B. Turner, and Jennifer Chandler Bounded ranges of variation as a framework for a future conservation and fire management 92 Max A. Moritz, Matthew D. Hurteau, Katherine N. Suding, and Carla M. D’Antonio
£104.50
Ronin Publishing Living Cheaply with Style: Live Better and Spend
Book SynopsisThis fun and practical guide offers a huge variety of tips on living for less "with grace, humor, [and] imagination." The author covers a wide range of topics including food, housing, transportation, clothes, and entertainment.
£12.18
Basic Health Publications Soil and Your Health: Healthy Soil is Vital to
Book SynopsisThe quality of your food depends on the quality of the soil in which it is grown. Is organically produced food superior to conventionally grown food? How do earthworms and trace minerals benefit soil, and the food and feed grown on it? How do intentionally applied fertilizers, pesticides, and sludge, as well as inadvertent contaminants, affect soil? This book is important reading for understanding how quality soil relates to good health.
£6.68
Encounter Books,USA The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama?s Global
Book SynopsisAs the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it. While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling fossil fuel supplies, leading climate researcher Dr. Roy W. Spencer argues that the free market is the best mechanism for solving the problem. In addition, Dr. Spencer addresses the new science that suggests that our modern fears of anthropogenic global warming might well be unfounded, because the climate system itself might be responsible for causing what is now known as "climate change."
£6.69
Encounter Books,USA How the EPA?s Green Tyranny is Stifling America
Book SynopsisThe relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obama's EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Jackson's EPA has assumed broad new powers and promulgated sweeping new regulations unlike anything America has seen since the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were signed into law 40 years ago. While much of the public has focused on the EPA's plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, the agency's power grab extends into far more areas of society and the economy than fossil-fuel use alone. In this Broadside, Rich Trzupek explains why Obama's EPA is different and more dangerous than any other since the agency was created. While the tentacles of this EPA are silently creeping into our lives, Lisa Jackson smilingly assures us that everything the EPA does generates revenue -- instead of costing industry billions of dollars and America hundreds of thousands of jobs.
£6.79
Trinity University Press,U.S. Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation
Book SynopsisComing of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity's ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate change, The End of Nature. What happens to individuals and societies when their most fundamental cultural, historical, and ecological bonds weaken--or snap? In Coming of Age at the End of Nature, insightful millennials express their anger and love, dreams and fears, and sources of resilience for living and thriving on our shifting planet. Twenty-two essays explore wide-ranging themes that are paramount to young generations but that resonate with everyone, including redefining materialism and environmental justice, assessing the risk and promise of technology, and celebrating place anywhere from a wild Atlantic island to the Arizona desert, to Baltimore and Bangkok. The contributors speak with authority on problems facing us all, whether railing against the errors of past generations, reveling in their own adaptability, or insisting on a collective responsibility to do better.Trade ReviewFrom the foreword by Bill McKibben: "To say that this book is a particular delight for me would be an understatement. I wrote The End of Nature when I was twenty-seven, and when I go back to read it now some parts seem jejune. That's not true of the writing in Coming of Age at the End of Nature, which is mature, reflective, deep, and lovely. It makes me hopeful."
£13.29
Trinity University Press,U.S. Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature
Book SynopsisDuring the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted interviews, gathered in this collection, with the writers, scientists, and environmentalists who gathered on board to explore our relationship to the wild. White describes the conversations as the roots of an integrated community: "While at first these roots may not appear to be linked, a closer look reveals that they are sustained in common ground." Beloved fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the nature of language, microbiologist Lynn Margulis contemplates Darwin's career and the many meanings of evolution, and anthropologist Richard Nelson sifts through the spiritual life of Alaska's native people. Rounding out the group are writers Gretel Ehrlich, Paul Shepard, and Peter Matthiessen, conservationists Roger Payne and David Brower, theologian Matthew Fox, activist Janet McCloud, Jungian analyst James Hillman, poet Gary Snyder, and ecologist Dolores LaChapelle. By identifying the common link between these conversations, Talking on the Water takes us on a journey in search of a deeper understanding of ourselves and the environment.
£15.08
J Ross Publishing Niche Hierarchy: Structure, Organization, and
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£101.65
J Ross Publishing Active Coral Restoration: Techniques for a
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£77.40
J Ross Publishing Dendroecology: Principles and Practice
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£65.55
Arcade Publishing Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green
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£24.99
Murphy & Moore Publishing Advances in Aquatic Ecology
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£999.99
Workman Publishing 50 Hikes with Kids New York, Pennsylvania, and
Book SynopsisSpark a love of nature! Handcrafted for caregivers that want to spark a love of nature, 50 Hikes with Kids highlights the most kid-friendly hikes in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. These hikes are perfect for little legs—they are all under five miles and have an elevation gain of 900 feet of less. Every entry includes the essential details: easy-to-read, trustworthy directions; a detailed map; hike length and elevation gain; bathroom access; and where to grab a bite to eat nearby. Full-color photographs highlight the fun things to see along the trail.
£16.99
Workman Publishing Oregon and Washington's Roadside Ecology: 33 Easy
Book SynopsisDiscover natural history secrets hiding in plain sight Have you ever seen a raging river disappear completely into a lava tube? Petrified subtropical plants in the middle of a high desert? Do you know how a 10,000-year-old argillite boulder can wind up 800 miles away from any similar rocks? In this insightful guide, environmental journalist and photographer Roddy Scheer reveals the hidden stories of the Pacific Northwest’s unique ecosystems and teaches you how to “read a landscape,” as you explore 33 spectacular natural areas. All hikes are within easy walking distance of the road, less than two miles long, and include clues to deciphering the terrain—making Oregon and Washington’s Roadside Ecology a must-have guide to some of the area’s most spectacular and unusual natural sights.
£19.00
Timber Press (OR) Wild Dfw: Explore the Amazing Nature in and
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£22.09
Catapult The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a
Book SynopsisNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.
£15.26
University of Nevada Press A Guide to Common Plants of Lake Mead National
Book SynopsisA Guide to Common Plants of Lake Mead National Recreation Area is the definitive book for weekend explorers and botanists alike who venture into LMNRA ready to discover the many wonders of the local flora. The authors highlight 183 plants that hikers are most likely to encounter along popular trails, washes, and surrounding hot springs, helping the area's millions of annual visitors identify and enjoy these common plants. This guide includes photos and descriptions of each plant, along with a map of LMNRA.The authors also provide a primer on plant ecology, including a guide to plant structures, desert adaptations and life forms, plant-to-plant interactions, and plant-animal interactions. Plants are grouped by life forms, such as tree, shrub, cactus, or grass, and by flower color within the wildflower section. The guide will encourage readers to pause and look carefully at each plant they encounter, giving them an enriched experience during their exploration.Trade Review"The authors are eminently qualified to offer this guidebook, and their knowledge about the plants of LMNRA emerges throughout its pages."—James M. André, director of the University of California's Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, author of Floras of the Mojave National Preserve and Owens Valley"Powell, Landau, and Walker have written a concise book that will be useful to millions of annual visitors to the LMNRA."—David Charlet, professor of biology at the College of Southern Nevada, author of Atlas of Nevada Conifers: A Phytogeographic ReferenceTable of Contents Cover Page Title page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Lake Mead National Recreation Area Plant Ecology Plant Communities Life Forms Organizational Notes Trees Desert Willow Western Honey Mesquite Smoketree Turbinella Oak (Shrub Live Oak) Singleleaf Pinyon Pine Tree Tobacco Athel Shrubs White Bursage (Burrobush) Woolly Bursage Seepwillow (Mulefat) Parish's Goldeneye Sweetbush (Chuckwalla's Delight) Virgin River Brittlebush Sticky Snakeweed Pygmy Cedar Paperflower (Paper-Daisy) Spiny Goldenbush Four-Wing Saltbush Shadscale Winterfat Torrey Ephedra Sand Croton Spiny Senna Pima Rhatany Desert Sage Thurber's Sandpaper Plant Globemallow (Desert Mallow) Desert Almond Desert Rue (Turpentine Broom) Saltcedar Creosotebush Cacti Teddybear Cholla (Jumping Cholla)Silver Cholla (Golden Cholla) Hedgehog Cactus Devil Cholla (Parish's Club-Cholla) Fishhook Cactus Pygmy Barrel Cactus (Johnson's Bee-Hive Cactus) Yuccas Beargrass (Bigelow's Nolina) Mojave Yucca Sedges and Grasses California Sawgrass (Twig Rush) Red Brome Fluffgrass Sixweeks Fescue (Sixweeks Grass) Common Reed Mediterranean Grass Southern Cattail Aquatic Plants Spiny Naiad (Holly-Leaved Water-Nymph) Wildflowers - White/Cream Woolly Bluestar (Small-Leaved Amsonia) Pebble Pincushion White Woolly Daisy (Woolly Sunflower) Rock Daisy (Emory's Rock Daisy) Odora (Slender Poreleaf) Nevada Cryptantha Winged-Nut Cryptantha Flattened Combseed (Wide-Toothed Pectocarya) White-Margined Spurge (Rattlesnake Weed) Smallseed Sandmat Rock Nettle Dune Primrose (Birdcage Oenothera) White Desert Gold Yerba Mansa (Lizard Tail) Sacred Datura (Jimson Weed) Sunray Woolly Daisy (Wallace's Woolly Daisy) Desert Dandelion Nevada Goldenrod (Showy Goldenrod) Fiddleneck (Desert Fiddleneck) Sahara Mustard Prince's Plume Desert Birdfoot Trefoil (Deervetch) White-Stemmed Blazing Star (White-Stemmed Stick-Leaf) Las Vegas Bearpoppy (Bearpaw Poppy) Little Gold Poppy Little Desert Trumpet Trailing Milkweed Spanish Needles Wire Lettuce Tumbleweed (Russian thistle) Filaree (Cranesbill, Redstem Filaree) Weakstem Mariposa Sand Verbena Giant Four O'Clock Palmer's Penstemon (Beardtongue) Rock Gili Notchleaf Phacelia (Scorpionweed) Yellowthroats (Fremont's Phacelia) Palmer's Phacelia Desert Larkspur (Mojave Larkspur) Honeysweet Peppergrass Woolly Plantain Spiny Herb (Devil's Spineflower) Desert Mistletoe Flower Color Cross-Reference Guide Leaf Shapes Leaf Arrangements Flowers Inflorescence Types Glossary Suggested Reading Index >About the Authors
£19.16
Simon & Schuster The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night
Book Synopsis*Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability* *Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American* This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination, light pollution has become a major issue. The world’s flora and fauna have evolved to operate in the natural cycle of day and night. But in the last 150 years, we have extended our day—and in doing so have forced out the inhabitants of the night and disrupted the circadian rhythms necessary to sustain all living things, including ourselves. In this “well-researched and surprisingly lyrical” (The New Statesman, UK) book, Swedish conservationist Johan Eklöf urges us to appreciate natural darkness, its creatures, and its unique benefits. He ponders the beauties of the night sky, traces the errant paths of light-drunk moths and the swift dives of keen-eyed owls, and shows us the bioluminescent creatures of the deepest oceans. As a devoted friend of the night, Eklöf reveals the startling domino effect of diminishing darkness: insects, dumbfounded by streetlamps, failing to reproduce; birds blinded and bewildered by artificial lights; and bats starving as they wait in vain for insects that only come out in the dark. For humans, light-induced sleep disturbances impact our hormones and weight, and can contribute to mental health problems like chronic stress and depression. The streetlamps, floodlights, and neon signs of cities are altering entire ecosystems, and scientists are only just beginning to understand their long-term effects. The light bulb—long the symbol of progress and development—needs to be turned off. “Urgent…vivid…eye-opening” (Publishers Weekly), and ultimately encouraging, The Darkness Manifesto outlines simple steps that we can take to benefit ourselves and the planet. In order to ensure a bright future, we must embrace the darkness.
£999.99
Appalachian Mountain Club Nature Guide to the Northern Forest: Exploring
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£999.99
Boone & Crockett Club,U.S. Forks in the Trail: A Conservationist's Trek to
Book SynopsisWhen Jack Ward Thomas was named chief of the U.S. Forest Service in 1993, only twelve men had ever known the staggering responsibility, political pressureand extraordinary opportunities to influence the future of America's natural resourcesthat came with the job. Theodore Roosevelt had created the agency in 1905, appointing Gifford Pinchot as its first chief. Now Thomas would shoulder the load once borne by two icons of the conservation movement. Forks in the Trail is a collection of stories about the experiences that shaped the values, knowledge, skills, and decisions of a field biologist who came from a hardscrabble Texas farm and eventually rose to the pinnacles of natural resource leadership in Washington, D.C. Thomas arrived at his new post with a unique set of perspectives and experiences. His formal education and decades of forest, range, and wildlife research had prepared him academically. His rural upbringing and passions for nature, hunting, and sustainable use of natural resources had prepared him pragmatically. But it was basic moxie that ultimately equipped Thomas to confront the most controversial conservation topics of the day, from protecting old-growth timber and spotted owl habitat to the deaths of fourteen wildland firefighters in 1994. Thomas's life is the story of how conservation and natural resources management happened in America during the second half of the twentieth century. But more than just old war stories, timelines, and reiterations of his curriculum vitae, Forks in the Trail offers intensely personal reflections of life lessonsof the foibles, fears, mistakes, adventures, misadventures, successes, failures, and comedies of errors and ego"learned along the way to a full, remarkable career. "During my life," Thomas writes, "I had many adventures, good and bad; achieved beyond my wildest dreams; and, to my lasting chagrin, too often fell short. In the process I learned much; lost often but won some too; suffered the 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'; helped foment some troublesome quandaries; and helped in the resolution of others." With tales well told, Forks in the Trail reveals a distinctive life and an illustrious career.Table of ContentsForeword by Char Miller ix Preface xii 1. A Foundation is Set: Handley, Texas, 1939-1956 3 2. New" Can Be a Very Scary Thing: Texas Game Department, 1957-1966 30 3. A Long Way from Texas: West Virginia and Maine, 1966-1973 121 4. A New Paradigm, Ecosystem Management: La Grande, Oregon, 1973-1993 152 5. A Chance to Make a Difference: Washington, D.C., 1993-1996 212 6. A Time to Teach and to Reflect: Montana, 1997-2005 287 Epilogue 321 Publisher's Notes 323 Author's Acknowledgments 325
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Sarabande Books, Incorporated In Full Velvet
Book SynopsisSinuous and sensual, the poems of In Full Velvet interrogate the nuances of desire, love, gender, ecology, LGBTQ lineage and community, and the tension between a body’s material limits and the forms made possible by the imagination. Characterized by formal poise, vulnerability, and compassion, Johnson's debut collection is one of resounding generosity and grace.Jenny Johnson is a recipient of the 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, and the 2016 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Trade ReviewBOMB Magazine, "2023 Small Press Gift Guide"Autostraddle, “45 Queer and Feminist Books You Need to Read in Early 2017" Academy of American Poets, “Most Anticipated Collections”Signature Reads, “28 Breathtaking Poetry Books to Read Now” Harvard Book Store Staff Recommendation"In this stunningly lyrical debut, Johnson probes issues of queer culture and love from an array of existential perspectives, creating a melodic and thought-provoking symphony on queer identity…. [A] miniature opus, alternately joyful and heartrending, achingly bittersweet.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review"For the empathetic daydreamer who has cut up every one of their tees."—BOMB Magazine, "2023 Small Press Gift Guide"“The queer and blazing ecosystem Johnson establishes situates dyke bars in forests and forests in dyke bars, under swells of gym-class parachutes, all rendered in the jazz of Johnson’s lyricism. Vociferous, deciduous, fresh, and knowing, Johnson’s poems create a space in which readers can reveal themselves and dig deep.”—Booklist"Half riot, half rapture, she reaches into poetic form and sings the most contemporary vernacular. I feel in the presence of the most ancient of poetic powers in these poems.—Kazim Ali, Poetry Foundation, "Reading List: April 2018"“Radical…. If In Full Velvet is a map of Johnson’s mind and memory, it is one worth saving. Johnson is precise with herself, patient with others. These poems celebrate the feeling of spinning in tight circles until all that is left the spiral, rushing from the inside out.”—Ploughshares“The queer valentine of the century…. A valentine-as-testament to the mysteries and mandates of human love….to queer human love...to perfect unrequited love, trenchant in memory...to imperfect requited love, more trenchant in memory still…. Perhaps most necessary and astonishing of all, this is a valentine to self-love and the elusive search for it…. Because of these poems, I see and more than see—they cause a wild trilling in my veins—the many quiet wonders of the world.”—The Rumpus"Reading the right poem can pull you into yourself and gives you the magnifying glass you need to understand your own guts. It’s cheaper than therapy and calmer than journaling. Reading Jenny Johnson’s debut poetry collection, In Full Velvet, is more like a wielding a telescope. From the barber shop, the bedroom, the dyke bar, the street and the quiet corners of the heart, Johnson’s poetry speaks into the story of queerness…. The poems in this work contain so much at once and transition fluidly between themes, scenes and stories. These marks of authenticity create intimacy with the author and blur the line between her story and our collective truth.”—Autostraddle"Is there a better gift than brand new poetry?" —Bustle“Johnson’s first book of poems takes on subject matter such as growing up queer in America and how politicized the queer female body is. Her imagery is sharp, and she consistently brings us into liminal and charged spaces...reminding us that states of transition and what is considered in between have always been a part of human experience that is in constant relationship to change and flux, as gender is.”—Academy of American Poets“Jenny Johnson is a poet of deep compassion and mesmerizing range. Her work probes the complexities of queer identity and the body, weaving in the unexpected reaches of intimacy and communion found in nature, dreams and lost family histories. The transformative power of community in the face of discrimination and intolerance is also felt throughout much of her work.”—The Rumpus“Jenny Johnson’s lyrical collection is a gorgeous, saturated distillation of desire. Weaving into these poems the language of botany and zoology, Johnson explores queer identity and politics.”—Little Infinite"Jenny Johnson’s debut book In Full Velvet is a stunning collection of formally composed poems. By adopting and pushing against poetic form, Johnson sustains a tension that expresses a wide emotional range, including joy, rage, desire, love and need for acceptance. The poems throughout this book explore how we think of the body, gender identity and the relationship between nature and love. . . .[In Full Velvet is] a collection of poems that sustain[s] an emotional intensity and poetic virtuosity worthy of the recognition it has garnered."—Tupelo Quarterly“Johnson is deft at capturing flashes of experience and spinning them into something more sublime. . . . In Full Velvet beautifully presents Johnson as a poet fulfilling big expectations.”—Pittsburgh City Paper“The rigor and formal poise of Jenny Johnson’s work creates an astounding emotional tension. There’s a sinuous, shape-shifting quality to this work that makes her poetic explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant. That subtle mastery of line and rhyme is a powerful complement to the poems’ organic commemorating, interrogating, searching. The judges were reminded of the virtuosity that characterizes a master like Elizabeth Bishop; of the profound and active depths, and how her poems ripple with need, and the desire for unity, communion, transformation.”—Whiting Awards Committee"Jenny Johnson's debut stunned me with its mix of electricity and grace, form and freedom. These highly sensual poems blow across the surface of everyday life—the dive bar, the barbershop, a river—rustling up the glitter and the dirt. Studded with unexpected language and infused with a generosity toward the natural world (which, Johnson reminds us, is our own), In Full Velvet is rich with fur, fishtails, and desire that feels true." —Hannah J, Harvard Book Store Staff Recommendation"I know it's hard to get poetry on the year-end lists, but damn, this book is so good and deserves all the praise that comes its way. Formally stunning poems about love, lust, queerness, and the natural world. Johnson's lines hum with precision and liveliness." —Daley Farr, Milkweed Books, Minneapolis“The sheer joy of Jenny Johnson's poems finds fuel in the work of poets she loves (Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, Larry Levis), in the wild variety revealed by botany and zoology, in the insights of queer and gender theory, in dyke bars and dancing, and most of all in love and desire--that imperative to which, directly or less so, every other element in this list is in service. When someone writes the history of American poetry in our time, the new energies released among the generation now publishing first books will be unmistakable; Johnson strides into a public space secured for her by Rich and Lorde and a host of others, and makes it brilliantly her own."—Mark Doty“Maybe a voice from the ancients whispers to Jenny Johnson—Sappho or the Muse Euterpe—how to sing of love and death and joy and reality in as many registers as they come in life. Or maybe Johnson is just a genius. In either scenario (though the latter seems the obvious one) the pen of this poet flows with hard-won Old Soul ink—blood and tears and juice and kisses. This breathtaking debut is erotic, sublime, dappled and riven with ripe fruit, wild body, and full-on fauna. Lesbian literary history (and the many queer-hearted literatures that keep us alive) has a new chapter here, inscribed In Full Velvet by this magnificently gifted poet.” —Brenda Shaughnessy“Pulsing with a formal brilliance and an idiosyncratic lyricism, these poems counter a poetics of ecological crisis by instead enacting a poetics of a shared world within which the human is one species among the species. . . . They pulse, too, with music and the grace of a world filled with strangeness and ardor. Johnson's diction, raucous and taut, reminds me that English is among the animal sounds we animals make. Like this, her poems enliven my seeing and my thinking about what a poem might do and what a world might be.” —Aracelis Girmay“Jenny Johnson describes the awkwardness and pain as well as the incalculable pleasure of living at odds with nature, Defiant, winking, and rippling with laughter, In Full Velvet walks us (in boy jeans) through a queer landscape of acrylic fur, dappled flanks, and antlers hot to the touch. This story of a 'heart hunting after a body' does not promise full recovery: even better, it's an invitation to spend a few hours in the dyke bar at the end of the world.” —Heather LoveTable of Contents1. Dappled Things Mirror Box Visions Tail In Full Velvet The Bus Ride In the Dream Severe Elegy at Twice the Speed of Sound Dorothy’s Trash There Are New Worlds Altitudes 2. Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Night at the Blue Moon Diner Folsom Street Fairytale Spaces Pine Street Barbershop Vigil Desire Among Sparrows Souvenirs Little Apophat Fish Out of Water Victory Aria Late Bloom Notes
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Book SynopsisThis book delves into diverse local food systems and critically assesses their ecological and societal benefits and trade-offs, their limits and opportunities for improving sustainability of food production, and framework conditions which either hinder or promote their development. More and more people with gradually meat heavier diets will demand growth in food production, whilst our increasingly industrialized and globalized agri-food system has already caused serious sustainability problems in the past. This calls for a change in the way we produce, distribute and consume food. A re-emerging debate on food security and food sovereignty seems to support this quest. But what are the promising alternatives to mainstream developments? Such a discussion regarding sustainability of local food systems requires a sound systemic understanding and thus invites a socio-metabolic reading of local cases by analyzing the nexus between material and energy flows as well as land and time use. This approach is needed to complement the so far mostly qualitatively-based local food studies. Applying socio-metabolic approaches to local food systems fosters a better understanding of promises and pitfalls for sustainable pathways in the future.Table of ContentsForeword.- Introduction.-PART I Social Metabolism and Local Food Systems: Key Concepts.- Chapter 1.1 In Search of Local Sustainable Agro-food Systems.- Chapter 1.2 Towards an Energy–Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) in agroecosystems.- Chapter 1.3 Integrating indicators of energy efficiency, power and social metabolism for sustainability assessment of farming and food systems.- PART II Social Metabolism and Local Food Systems: Case studies beyond North and South.- Chapter 2.1 Sustainability challenges of pre-industrial food systems: Insights from Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Austria.- Chapter 2.2 From vineyards to feedlots: Socio-metabolic transition of the Vallés County (1860-1950-1999).- Chapter 2.3 Learnings from an Austrian rural case to foster leapfrogging unsustainable practices in industrializing countries.- Chapter 2.4 Leapfrogging conventional development? Innovations to overcome sustainability constraints in a small-farmer village, Cambodia.- Chapter 2.5 Social and financial metabolism of a small-scale organic farm: looking for sustainability at local level.- Chapter 2.6 Towards more sustainable diets? A socioecological reading of food consumption patterns on a Greek island.- Chapter 2.7 Local and Global food supply chains. Is their comparison meaningful? Lessons learned from an organic tomato case study.- Chapter 2.8 Closing nutrient cycles in the city of Madrid: intersection of grey and green infrastructure systems.- Conclusions: What pathways exist for sustainable agro-food systems?
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