Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books

Book SynopsisTakes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. This book includes the research and developments done in maintenance of local diversity at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. It features case studies that show how farmers have used alternative approaches to manage biodiversity.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice This does make a good contribution to providing an array of management considerations for biological diversity in agroecosystems. -- Richard Baydack Great Plains Research a wonderful book with a wealth of information. -- Rainer W. Bussmann Economic BotanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors 1. Biodiversity Agriculture and Ecosystem Services 2. Measuring Managing and Maintaining Crop Genetic Diversity 3. An Entry Point to Crop Genetic Diversity 4. Seed Systems and Crop Genetic Diversity in Agroecosystems of Livestock Genetic Resources 5. Measures of Diversity as Inputs for Decisions in Conservation of Livestock Genetic Resources 6. Management of Farm Animal Ge ne tic Resources: Change and Interaction 7. Aquatic Biodiversity in Rice- Based Ecosystems 8. Pollinator Services 9. Management of Soil Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems 10. Diversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems: Some Perspectives from Ecology 11. Managing Crop Disease in Traditional Agroecosystems: Benefits and Hazards of Genetic Diversity 12. Crop Variety Diversification for Disease Control 13. Managing Biodiversity in Spatially and Temporally Complex Agricultural Landscapes 14. Diversity and Innovation in Smallholder Systems in Response to Environmental and Economic Changes 15. Agrobiodiversity, Diet, and Human Health 16. Comparing the Choices of Farmers and Breeders: The Value of Rice Landraces in Nepal 17. Economics of Livestock Genetic Resources Conservation and Sustainable Use: State of the Art 18. Ecological and Economic Roles of Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Index

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Book SynopsisCommunity-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making. This volume looks at communities in China, Zanzibar, Brazil, and India where, despite differences in landscape, common challenges and themes arise in making a transition from forest management by government agencies to CBFM.Trade ReviewThis book makes for compelling reading and will be useful to ecologists and other scientists through to anthropologists and political scientists. -- Peter Thomas British Ecological Society Bulletin This excellent volume should be required reading for everyone working in forest conservation or resource management. -- Alaka Wali The Quarterly Review of Biology Well-written, thoughtful... [An] authoritative volume. -- Marianne Schmink Human EcologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Naidu Village, Yunnan Province, China 3. Jozani Forest, Ngezi Forest, and Misali Island, Zanzibar 4. The Varzea Forests of Mazagao, Amapa State, Brazil 5. Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India 6. The Community Narrative of Forest Loss and Degradation 7. Invoking the Community 8. The Capacity to Manage 9. Negotiating Partnerships: Whose Voice Is Loudest? 10. Governance and Empowerment 11. Conclusions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExamines what the United States can do to help prevent climate devastation. This title explores advances made by climate scientists and addresses the various political and economic issues associated with global warming, including the practicality of reducing emissions from automobiles, and the efficacy of taxing energy consumption.Trade ReviewHis lively, clear reporting of both the science and politics of climate change... Make the book a pleasure to read. -- Doug Macdougall The Chronicle Review Sweet knows what he is talking about... Kicking the Carbon Habit is a great place to kick-start the debate and cool down the rhetoric. -- William Tucker Wall Street Journal An important contribution to the debate. Globe and Mail The book is extremely well written... Highly recommended. Choice Clearly written and very well-informed. Future Survey A must-read for anyone who wants a good summary of our current understanding of global warming and the options before us. -- Andrew C. Kadak Physics Today Sweet's book is a readable, compelling and hard-nosed analysis of this vast and complicated subject. The Exeter Bulletin [An] excellent survey perfect for both school and public libraries. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Case for Sharply Cutting U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Part I. Coal: A Faustian Bargain with Payments Coming Due 2. Basis of It All: Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvanian 3. The Air We Breathe: The Human Costs of Coal Combustion 4. From Outer Space: Asia's Brown Cloud, and More Part II. Climate: The Lockstep Relationship Between Carbon Dioxide and Temperature 5. The Drillers 6. The Modelers 7. The Synthesizers Part III. Choices: The Low-Carbon and Zero-Carbon Technologies We Can Deploy Right Now 8. Breaking the Carbon Habit 9. Going All Out for Renewables, Conservation, and Green Design 10. Natural Gas, Gasoline, and the Vision of a Hydrogen Economy 11. A Second Look at Nuclear Energy Conclusion: How to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Now, Using Today's Technology Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines what the United States can do to help prevent climate devastation. This title explores advances made by climate scientists and addresses the various political and economic issues associated with global warming, including the practicality of reducing emissions from automobiles, and the efficacy of taxing energy consumption.Trade ReviewHis lively, clear reporting of both the science and politics of climate change... Make the book a pleasure to read. -- Doug Macdougall The Chronicle Review Sweet knows what he is talking about... Kicking the Carbon Habit is a great place to kick-start the debate and cool down the rhetoric. -- William Tucker Wall Street Journal An important contribution to the debate. Globe and Mail The book is extremely well written... Highly recommended. Choice Clearly written and very well-informed. Future Survey A must-read for anyone who wants a good summary of our current understanding of global warming and the options before us. -- Andrew C. Kadak Physics Today Sweet's book is a readable, compelling and hard-nosed analysis of this vast and complicated subject. The Exeter Bulletin [An] excellent survey perfect for both school and public libraries. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Case for Sharply Cutting U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Part I. Coal: A Faustian Bargain with Payments Coming Due 2. Basis of It All: Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvanian 3. The Air We Breathe: The Human Costs of Coal Combustion 4. From Outer Space: Asia's Brown Cloud, and More Part II. Climate: The Lockstep Relationship Between Carbon Dioxide and Temperature 5. The Drillers 6. The Modelers 7. The Synthesizers Part III. Choices: The Low-Carbon and Zero-Carbon Technologies We Can Deploy Right Now 8. Breaking the Carbon Habit 9. Going All Out for Renewables, Conservation, and Green Design 10. Natural Gas, Gasoline, and the Vision of a Hydrogen Economy 11. A Second Look at Nuclear Energy Conclusion: How to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Now, Using Today's Technology Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental aesthetics is a field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical and environmental implications. This book addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism.Trade Review[A] rich compendium if well-written, highly thoughtful articles on environmental aesthetics... Highly recommended. CHOICE Serves well as an introduction for students, graduate and undergraduate. -- Nicolas de Warren Environmental PhilosophyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Natural Aesthetic Value and Environmentalism by Allen Carlson and Sheila LinottPart 1 Historical Foundations (Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott) 1 - The Historical Foundations of American Environmental Attitudes (Eugene C. Hargrove) 2 - The Nature of Beauty (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 3 - Walking (Henry David Thoreau) 4 - A Near View of the High Sierra (John Muir) 5 - The Art of Seeing Things (John Burroughs) 6 - A Taste for Country: Country, Natural History, and the Conservation Esthetic (Aldo Leopold) Part 2 Nature and Aesthetic Value (Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott) 7 - Leopold's Land Aesthetic (J. Baird Callicott) 8 - Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment (Allen Carlson) 9 - Icebreakers: Environmentalism and Natural Aesthetics (Stan Godlovitch) 10 - Appreciating Nature on Its Own Terms (Yuriko Saito) 11 - On Being Moved by Nature: Between Religion and Natural History (Noel Carroll_ 12 - Scientific Knowledge and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature (Patricia Matthews) Part 3 - Nature and Positive Aesthetics 13 - Nature and Positive Aesthetics (Allen Carlson ) 14 - The Aesthetics of Unscenic Nature (Yuriko Saito) 15 - Aesthetics and the Value of Nature (Janna Thompson) 16 - Valuing Nature and the Autonomy of Natural Aesthetics (Stan Godlovitch) 17 - The aesthetics of Nature (Malcolm Budd) 18 - Nature Appreciation, Science and Positive Aesthetics (Glenn Parsons) Part 4: Nature Aesthetic Value, and Environmentalism 19 - From Beauty to Duty: Aesthetics of Nature and Environmental Ethics (Holmes Rolston III) 20 - The Beauty that Requires Health (Marcia Muelder Eaton) 21 - Cultural Sustainability: Aligning Aesthetics and Ecolog (Joan Iverson Nassauer) 22 - Toward Ecofriendly Aesthetics (Sheila Lintott) 23 - Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity in Environmental Conservation (397) 24 - Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment (Ned Hettinger) Sources - 439 Contributors - 441 Index - 445

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Book SynopsisDepicts in nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior. This title describes trends in population growth, resource use, and global environmental impacts such as greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, water pollution, and species extinctions and introductions.Trade ReviewA useful volume in the ongoing dialogue about humankind's impact on ecosystems and worldwide environmental problems... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet 2. The Insidious Explosion: Global Trends in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint 3. Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of the Human Footprint on Our Planet 4. Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust 5. Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share 6. Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep 7. Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed? 8. No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action 9. Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth Appendix 1. Data Sources Used to Make Graphs Appendix 2. Reading the Graphs in This Book Appendix 3. Putting Global Environmental Impact into a Quantitative Framework That Links Impact and Behavior Appendix 4. Some Charitable Organizations Involved with Global Environmental Issues Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDepicts in nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior. This title describes trends in population growth, resource use, and global environmental impacts such as greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, water pollution, and species extinctions and introductions.Trade ReviewA useful volume in the ongoing dialogue about humankind's impact on ecosystems and worldwide environmental problems... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet 2. The Insidious Explosion: Global Trends in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint 3. Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of the Human Footprint on Our Planet 4. Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust 5. Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share 6. Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep 7. Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed? 8. No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action 9. Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth Appendix 1. Data Sources Used to Make Graphs Appendix 2. Reading the Graphs in This Book Appendix 3. Putting Global Environmental Impact into a Quantitative Framework That Links Impact and Behavior Appendix 4. Some Charitable Organizations Involved with Global Environmental Issues Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCurrent hopes for a technological answer to global warming are not an altogether new quest; they echo a rich history of attempts to work upon the weather. James Rodger Fleming explores this history thoroughly, parading a colorful variety of scientists, visionaries, and charlatans who reveal important lessons about our past-and possible future. -- Spencer Weart, author of The Discovery of Global Warming With humanity's planetary impact reaching a Richter scale equivalent, what seem to be quick fixes become exceedingly tempting. Fixing the Sky's historical insights are a revelation--an anchor and essential base from which to consider addressing the greatest challenge in the history of our species. -- Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University and The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment James Rodger Fleming's book is a kind of tour de folie, an authoritative recounting over two centuries of weather changers and climate controllers, rainmakers and rain fakers, and cloud seeders and fog dissolvers. All in all, an engrossing work about vain hopes and technological hubris--as well as a cautionary tale to anyone concerned with attempts to engineer the planet. -- Dan Kevles, Yale University Provides an essential foundation for understanding the long and dubious scientific tradition from which plans for climate control hail. -- W. Patrick McCray Science Fixing the Sky is a very readable, in-depth popular account of the history of weather modification, ranging from myth and movies to experiments, commercial ventures, and proposals for the future control of weather and climate... Recommended.Choice Choice Provides a detailed account of weather modification... The topic is an important one, and the book is relevant for scientists, stakeholders, policy makers, and concerned citizens alike. -- Rasmus E. Benestad American Scientist The topic is an important one, the book is relevant for scientists, stake-holders, policy makers, and concerned citizens alike. Sigma Xi (Reprint of American Scientist Review) I recommend this book to those interested in weather and climate modification and the history of applied meteorology. The Weather Doctor Blog Fleming has provided another valuable contribution to the still tiny but emerging historiography of global warming. -- Sam White Monthly Review An entertaining book about a serious issue. -- Gail Cooper Technology and Culture Fleming is a masterful writer, at the top of his game, and his skill and good humor make this book a blast to read. -- Paul Edwards H-Environment Roundtable Reviews This interesting and original work, building off of Fleming's previous studies of meteorology and climate science history, provides valuable perspective on what may soon become serious policy debates over how to respond to global warming. H-Environment a very useful and entertaining book. -- David Philip Miller Metascience This is a marvellous text for classroom adoption, and will engage undergraduates with its resolute, fairminded and comprehensive approach to a difficult and utterly fascinating subject. -- Mott Greene Ambix Fleming's book should be mandatory reading for each climate engineering enthusiast, as it provides historical precedent to the current debate. Anyone interested in climate change-related issues will benefit from the book because of its easily accessible and jargon-free style. -- Axel Michaelowa Climate Policy ...not just a stellar addition to the history of science, but also a major contribution to the discussion on the role of history in science policy. -- Vladimir Jankovic IsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Stories of Control 2. Rain Makers 3. Rain Fakers 4. Foggy Thinking 5. Pathological Science 6. Weather Warriors 7. Fears, Fantasies, and Possibilities of Control 8. The Climate Engineers Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCurrent hopes for a technological answer to global warming are not an altogether new quest; they echo a rich history of attempts to work upon the weather. James Rodger Fleming explores this history thoroughly, parading a colorful variety of scientists, visionaries, and charlatans who reveal important lessons about our past-and possible future. -- Spencer Weart, author of The Discovery of Global Warming With humanity's planetary impact reaching a Richter scale equivalent, what seem to be quick fixes become exceedingly tempting. Fixing the Sky's historical insights are a revelation--an anchor and essential base from which to consider addressing the greatest challenge in the history of our species. -- Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University and The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment James Rodger Fleming's book is a kind of tour de folie, an authoritative recounting over two centuries of weather changers and climate controllers, rainmakers and rain fakers, and cloud seeders and fog dissolvers. All in all, an engrossing work about vain hopes and technological hubris--as well as a cautionary tale to anyone concerned with attempts to engineer the planet. -- Dan Kevles, Yale University Provides an essential foundation for understanding the long and dubious scientific tradition from which plans for climate control hail. -- W. Patrick McCray Science Fixing the Sky is a very readable, in-depth popular account of the history of weather modification, ranging from myth and movies to experiments, commercial ventures, and proposals for the future control of weather and climate... Recommended.Choice Choice Provides a detailed account of weather modification... The topic is an important one, and the book is relevant for scientists, stakeholders, policy makers, and concerned citizens alike. -- Rasmus E. Benestad American Scientist The topic is an important one, the book is relevant for scientists, stake-holders, policy makers, and concerned citizens alike. Sigma Xi (Reprint of American Scientist Review) I recommend this book to those interested in weather and climate modification and the history of applied meteorology. The Weather Doctor Blog Fleming has provided another valuable contribution to the still tiny but emerging historiography of global warming. -- Sam White Monthly Review An entertaining book about a serious issue. -- Gail Cooper Technology and Culture Fleming is a masterful writer, at the top of his game, and his skill and good humor make this book a blast to read. -- Paul Edwards H-Environment Roundtable Reviews This interesting and original work, building off of Fleming's previous studies of meteorology and climate science history, provides valuable perspective on what may soon become serious policy debates over how to respond to global warming. H-Environment a very useful and entertaining book. -- David Philip Miller Metascience This is a marvellous text for classroom adoption, and will engage undergraduates with its resolute, fairminded and comprehensive approach to a difficult and utterly fascinating subject. -- Mott Greene Ambix Fleming's book should be mandatory reading for each climate engineering enthusiast, as it provides historical precedent to the current debate. Anyone interested in climate change-related issues will benefit from the book because of its easily accessible and jargon-free style. -- Axel Michaelowa Climate Policy ...not just a stellar addition to the history of science, but also a major contribution to the discussion on the role of history in science policy. -- Vladimir Jankovic IsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Stories of Control 2. Rain Makers 3. Rain Fakers 4. Foggy Thinking 5. Pathological Science 6. Weather Warriors 7. Fears, Fantasies, and Possibilities of Control 8. The Climate Engineers Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAre ecosystems and their components continuously distributed and do they adhere to scaling laws, or are they discontinuous and more complex than early models would have us believe? This book argues that ecosystems are inherently discontinuous and that ecology, economics, and urban studies benefit from this paradigm shift.Trade ReviewDiscontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems... is another interesting entry in the resilience literature. Conservation BiologyTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Background 1. Panarchies and Discontinuities, by Crawford S. Holling and Garry D. Peterson 2. Self-organization and Discontinuities in Ecosystems, by Garry D. Peterson 3. Discontinuity, by Multimodality, by Graeme S. Cumming and Tanya D. Havlicek 4. Discontinuities in Body-Size Distributions: A View from the Top, by Pablo A. Marquet, by Sebastian Abades Part II. Patterns 5. Patterns of Landscape Structure, by Discontinuity, by Jan P. Sendzimir 6. Biophysical Discontinuities in the Everglades Ecosystem, by Lance H. Gunderson 7. Discontinuities in the Geographical Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies, by Carla Restrepo and Natalia Arango 8. Discontinuities in Urban Systems: Comparison of Regional City-Size Structure in the United States, by Ahjond S. Garmestani, by Craig R. Allen 9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis: A Case for Adaptive Inference, by Craig A. Stow, by Jan P. Sendzimir Part III. Consequences 10. Dynamic Discontinuities in Ecologic-Economic Systems, by J. Barkley Rosser Jr. 11. The Ecological Significance of Discontinuities in Body-Mass Distributions, by Jennifer J. Skillen and Brian A. Maurer 12. Cross-Scale Structure and the Generation of Innovation and Novelty in Discontinuous Complex Systems, by Craig R. Allen and Crawford S. Holling Synthesis Donald Ludwig References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAre ecosystems and their components continuously distributed and do they adhere to scaling laws, or are they discontinuous and more complex than early models would have us believe? This book argues that ecosystems are inherently discontinuous and that ecology, economics, and urban studies benefit from this paradigm shift.Trade ReviewDiscontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems... is another interesting entry in the resilience literature. Conservation BiologyTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Background 1. Panarchies and Discontinuities, by Crawford S. Holling and Garry D. Peterson 2. Self-organization and Discontinuities in Ecosystems, by Garry D. Peterson 3. Discontinuity, by Multimodality, by Graeme S. Cumming and Tanya D. Havlicek 4. Discontinuities in Body-Size Distributions: A View from the Top, by Pablo A. Marquet, by Sebastian Abades Part II. Patterns 5. Patterns of Landscape Structure, by Discontinuity, by Jan P. Sendzimir 6. Biophysical Discontinuities in the Everglades Ecosystem, by Lance H. Gunderson 7. Discontinuities in the Geographical Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies, by Carla Restrepo and Natalia Arango 8. Discontinuities in Urban Systems: Comparison of Regional City-Size Structure in the United States, by Ahjond S. Garmestani, by Craig R. Allen 9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis: A Case for Adaptive Inference, by Craig A. Stow, by Jan P. Sendzimir Part III. Consequences 10. Dynamic Discontinuities in Ecologic-Economic Systems, by J. Barkley Rosser Jr. 11. The Ecological Significance of Discontinuities in Body-Mass Distributions, by Jennifer J. Skillen and Brian A. Maurer 12. Cross-Scale Structure and the Generation of Innovation and Novelty in Discontinuous Complex Systems, by Craig R. Allen and Crawford S. Holling Synthesis Donald Ludwig References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSheds light on modern trends on modern trends in the Earth's climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society A promising overview of the science of paleoclimatology... recommended. Choice Everyone curious about the climate system, its history and current state of understanding... would be well-advised to acquire a copy of this erudite and elegantly written book. -- D.Q. Bowen Quarternary Science Reviews I strongly recommend this book as essential background material for graduate students, an up-to-date review for researchers in the field and an important resource for anyone with a general interest in climatic change. -- Iain Robertson The Holocene an excellent review and stimulating discussion of the state of art and current hot topics in this socio-economically important discipline to the scientific community of palaeoclimate researchers and students in this field. Polar Research There is much to be recommended, and the book will serve well in many libraries, both institutional and personal. -- A. Townsend Peterson Quaterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Paleoclimatology and Modern Challenges 2. Methods in Paleoclimatology 3. Deep Time: Climate from 3.8 Billion to 65 Million Years Ago 4. Cenozoic Climate 5. Orbital Climate Change 6. Glacial Millennial Climate Change 7. Millennial Climate Events During Deglaciation 8. Holocene Climate Variability 9. Abrupt Climate Events 10. Internal Modes of Climate Variability 11. The Anthropocene I: Global and Hemispheric Temperature 12. The Anthropocene II: Climatic and Hydrological Change During the Last 2000 Years Epilogue Appendix: Paleoclimate Proxies References Index

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Book SynopsisIncludes over 170,000 entries of geographical places and features. This encyclopedia contains maps, population figures, and a glossary of geographical and geological terms.Trade ReviewAuthoratative... Historically accurate, this title can be considered a reference standard. Library Journal This classic reference work will earn its keep... Essential. Choice The standard geographical reference source. -- Michael Levine-Clark American Reference Books Annual Highly recommended for all academic and medium-sized to large public and high-school libraries. Booklist

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRising Seas provides a comprehensive and thoughtful discussion of the science, impacts, and policy matters surrounding one of the most pressing societal threats we face today-global sea level rise. -- Michael E. Mann, director, Penn State Earth System Science Center, and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines This essential and readable survey of the history and science of sea level change should be on the desk of anyone involved in coastal planning and resource management and will be extremely effective as a textbook. A great, much-needed book! -- Maureen E. Raymo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future is a siren warning of the imminent and ongoing ecological catastrophe that humans are inflicting upon the planet... Highly recommended. The Midwest Book Review If you have any interest in coastal areas, impacts of global climate change and changes in sea level, Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future is a must read. Weather Doctor Blog ...Gornitz writes with articulate scholarship, which will make a lasting, positive impression on her readers. -- Alexander S. Kolker, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium BioScience This book presents a thoroughly documented, comprehensive overview of perhaps the most urgent issue closely associated with global warming... Gornitz has succeeded in presenting a complicated subject in a scholarly and captivating manner, making it accessible to both the expert and the lay person. Metascience Excellent... I can give the book the highest praise: I wish that I had written it. Reports of the National Center for Science EducationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Ever-Changing Ocean 2. The Causes and Detection of Sea Level Change 3. Piercing the Veil of Time: Sea Levels After the Dinosaurs 4. When the Mammoths Roamed: Sea Level During the Ice Ages 5. The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas 6. The Modern Speedup of Sea Level Rise 7. Sea Level Rise on a Warming Planet 8. Shorelines at Risk 9. Coping with the Rising Waters 10. Charting a Future Course Appendix. Geologic Time Scale Notes Glossary Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRising Seas provides a comprehensive and thoughtful discussion of the science, impacts, and policy matters surrounding one of the most pressing societal threats we face today-global sea level rise. -- Michael E. Mann, director, Penn State Earth System Science Center, and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines This essential and readable survey of the history and science of sea level change should be on the desk of anyone involved in coastal planning and resource management and will be extremely effective as a textbook. A great, much-needed book! -- Maureen E. Raymo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future is a siren warning of the imminent and ongoing ecological catastrophe that humans are inflicting upon the planet... Highly recommended. The Midwest Book Review If you have any interest in coastal areas, impacts of global climate change and changes in sea level, Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future is a must read. Weather Doctor Blog ...Gornitz writes with articulate scholarship, which will make a lasting, positive impression on her readers. -- Alexander S. Kolker, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium BioScience This book presents a thoroughly documented, comprehensive overview of perhaps the most urgent issue closely associated with global warming... Gornitz has succeeded in presenting a complicated subject in a scholarly and captivating manner, making it accessible to both the expert and the lay person. Metascience Excellent... I can give the book the highest praise: I wish that I had written it. Reports of the National Center for Science EducationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Ever-Changing Ocean 2. The Causes and Detection of Sea Level Change 3. Piercing the Veil of Time: Sea Levels After the Dinosaurs 4. When the Mammoths Roamed: Sea Level During the Ice Ages 5. The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas 6. The Modern Speedup of Sea Level Rise 7. Sea Level Rise on a Warming Planet 8. Shorelines at Risk 9. Coping with the Rising Waters 10. Charting a Future Course Appendix. Geologic Time Scale Notes Glossary Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnimals and the Human Imagination soars. Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates. Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can't imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies. -- Jonathan Safran Foer [A] lively, fascinating, moving book. -- Scott Cowdell Journal of Animal Ethics This is a beautiful, profound, and important book that works through and around long-held and cherished assumptions, both within and without animal studies. -- Lindgren Johnson Journal for Critical Animal StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Creaturely Bodies Part 1 The Inhumanity of Literature 1. Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained: The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species 2. Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding's The Inheritors 3. The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales Part 2 The Inhumanity of Film 4. Cine-Zoos 5. Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman 6. Werner Herzog's Creaturely Poetics Conclusion: Animal Saintliness Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScholarly readers with an interest in Coetzee's novels or philosophy's relationship to literature will find this work highly rewarding. Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: Coetzee and Philosophy, by Anton Leist and Peter Singer Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics 1. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee, by Robert Pippin 2. Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa, by Adriaan van Heerden 3. Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year, by Jonathan Lear 4. Torture and Collective Shame, by Jeff McMahan Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality 5. Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals, by Karen Dawn and Peter Singer 6. Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics, by Elisa Aaltola 7. Writing the Lives of Animals, by Ido Geiger 8. Sympathy and Scapegoating in J. M. Coetzee, by Andy Lamey Part III. Rationality and Human Lives 9. Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism, by Anton Leist 10. Coetzee's Critique of Reason, by Martin Woessner 11. J. M. Coetzee, Moral Thinker, by Alice Crary 12. Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World, by Pieter Vermeulen Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy 13. Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral Vision in Age of Iron, by Samantha Vice 14. The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection, by Jennifer Flynn 15. Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello, by Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm 16. Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche, by Alena Dvorakova List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScholarly readers with an interest in Coetzee's novels or philosophy's relationship to literature will find this work highly rewarding. Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: Coetzee and Philosophy, by Anton Leist and Peter Singer Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics 1. The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J. M. Coetzee, by Robert Pippin 2. Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa, by Adriaan van Heerden 3. Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year, by Jonathan Lear 4. Torture and Collective Shame, by Jeff McMahan Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality 5. Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals, by Karen Dawn and Peter Singer 6. Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics, by Elisa Aaltola 7. Writing the Lives of Animals, by Ido Geiger 8. Sympathy and Scapegoating in J. M. Coetzee, by Andy Lamey Part III. Rationality and Human Lives 9. Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism, by Anton Leist 10. Coetzee's Critique of Reason, by Martin Woessner 11. J. M. Coetzee, Moral Thinker, by Alice Crary 12. Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World, by Pieter Vermeulen Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy 13. Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral Vision in Age of Iron, by Samantha Vice 14. The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection, by Jennifer Flynn 15. Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello, by Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm 16. Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche, by Alena Dvorakova List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDedicated readers of ecology, theology, or religious philosophy will want to savor each one [of these essays]. Library Journal The volume is a fair encapsulation of the intellectual concerns for which Berry is best known. -- Christina Peppard Commonweal Thoams Berry demonstrattes in these papers the qualities he calls for: humanist vision and imagination. Resurgence When encountering the essays, one is struck by the clarity of analyses showing humanity's destructive antagonism toward the Earth. In them we observe the gradual evocation of a vision in which this antagonism is overcome so that we can live in harmony and peace on our planetary home. -- Norman Wirzba Journal of the American Academy of Religion The Sacred Universe is an important, inspiring compendium of the thought of a great soul and spiritually profound seeker, who cogently and consistently reminds, even after his death, that we must learn to feel at home in the universe. -- Stephen B. Scharper America This text will serve as an excellent introduction to [Thomas] Berry... -- Peter Ellard, Siena College The International Journal of Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsForeword, by Mary Evelyn Tucker Part I 1. Traditional Religion in the Modern World (1972) 2. Religion in the Global Human Community (1975) 3. Alienation 4. Historical and Contemporary Spirituality Part II 5. The Spirituality of the Earth (1979) 6. Religion in the Twenty-first Century (1993, 1996) 7. Religion in the Ecozoic Era (1993) Part III 8. The Gaia Hypothesis: Its Religious Implications (1994) 9. The Cosmology of Religions (1994, 1998) 10. An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality (1996) Part IV 11. The Universe as Divine Manifestation (2001) 12. The Sacred Universe (1998, 2001) 13. The World of Wonder (2001) Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBy comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames “domesecration,” a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and epidemics of infectious disease.Trade Review... A book with great cross-disciplinary appeal. Highly recommended. CHOICE An impressive and extensive historical analysis of key intersections between the exploitation of animals and the oppression of human beings. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A profoundly important book and should be widely read and discussed. AAG Review of Books One of the great virtues of Animal Oppression and Human Violence is that it holds the potential for providing the expanding but vastly interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies with a unifying theory, and is therefore a highly significant contribution to this field. -- Brian M. Lowe Society & AnimalsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Nomadic Pastoralism, Ranching, and Violence 2. Domesecration and the Americas 3. Ranching and Violence in North America 4. Domesecration in the Western Plains 5. Capitalist Colonialism and Ranching Violence 6. Social Construction of the "Hamburger" Culture 7. The "Hamburger" Culture and Latin America 8. Domesecration and Impending Catastrophe 9. New Welfarism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBy comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames “domesecration,” a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and epidemics of infectious disease.Trade Review... A book with great cross-disciplinary appeal. Highly recommended. CHOICE An impressive and extensive historical analysis of key intersections between the exploitation of animals and the oppression of human beings. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A profoundly important book and should be widely read and discussed. AAG Review of Books One of the great virtues of Animal Oppression and Human Violence is that it holds the potential for providing the expanding but vastly interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies with a unifying theory, and is therefore a highly significant contribution to this field. -- Brian M. Lowe Society & AnimalsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Nomadic Pastoralism, Ranching, and Violence 2. Domesecration and the Americas 3. Ranching and Violence in North America 4. Domesecration in the Western Plains 5. Capitalist Colonialism and Ranching Violence 6. Social Construction of the "Hamburger" Culture 7. The "Hamburger" Culture and Latin America 8. Domesecration and Impending Catastrophe 9. New Welfarism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this meticulous and engaging brief on climate change research and the political backlash to legitimate scientific work, Penn State professor Mann narrates the fight against misinformation from the inside. Publishers Weekly An important and disturbing account of the fossil-fuel industry's well-funded public-relations campaign to sow doubt about the validity of the science of climate change...This blistering indictment of corporate-funded chicanery demands a wide audience. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) And if you read just one book on climate change, make it Michael E. Mann's riveting expose of disinformation and denial... Irish Times The best part, in my science-geeky opinion, is readers of this book will enjoy a dazzling, informative tour of the science underlying climatology and especially the analysis that went into the diagram that caused all the ruckus. -- DarkSyde Daily Kos A harrowing ride through the politics of truth and denial. -- Shawn Lawrence Otto Huffington Post ...this is a book you should read, because it clearly shows the contrast between how science works and how politics works. The difference is dramatic. And fateful. -- Ben Bova Naples Daily News Vitally important to all citizens of a warming planet Earth. -- James P. Lenfestey Star Tribune A must read for every serious student of climate change science, and gets my highest rating: five stars out of five. -- Jeff Masters Jeff Masters WunderGround Blog I heartily recommend this book for an unusually clear view of the action on the front line of climate science from one of its principle palaeoclimate protagonists. -- Colin Summerhayes Geoscientist Mann deserves our respect and admiration for what he has been through and for his willingness to discuss it. The narrative is a deeply honest scientific coming-of-age story. -- Naomi Oreskes Physics Today This book is well written and tells a remarkable story that is likely to be of interest to a wide range of readers. Australian Book Review Mann's honest and thorough testimony on the attacks against climate science is a critical step toward resolving the climate change debate. Science Mann's account and nontechnical rebuttal of the attacks on climate science provide an excellent primer on contemporary climate science...Highly recommended. Choice One of the most useful books yet in explaining climate science, especially the use of paleoclimate proxy data to assess the history of Earth's climate. -- Rudy M. Baum Chemical & Engineering News Confronting climate change will require clear scientific thinking and courageous actions by many individuals. Dr, Mann's book details the powerful evidence supporting climate change as well as the relentless attempts by climate deniers to distort climate science and attack those who are speaking the truth about it. -- Jerry Brown, governor of California A very entertaining book that winds its way through the thicket of climate science and politics. Natural Hazards Observer must-read -- Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Mann deserves praise for taking the time to speak to other scientists and citizens about what threatens us all. He is not only a brilliant scientist but an ethical hero, a model for all. -- Kristin Shrader-Frechette Metascience If you read only one book on climate change, this one is hard to beat. Perspectives on Science and Christian FaithTable of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms Prologue: What Is the Hockey Stick? 1. Born in a War 2. Climate Science Comes of Age 3. Signals in the Noise 4. The Making of the Hockey Stick 5. The Origins of Denial 6. A Candle in the Dark 7. In the Line of Fire 8. Hockey Stick Goes to Washington 9. When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of... 10. Say it Ain't So (Smokey) Joe! 11. A Tale of Two Reports 12. Heads of the Hydra 13. The Battle of the Bulge 14. Climategate: The Real Story 15. Fighting Back Epilogue Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this meticulous and engaging brief on climate change research and the political backlash to legitimate scientific work, Penn State professor Mann narrates the fight against misinformation from the inside. Publishers Weekly An important and disturbing account of the fossil-fuel industry's well-funded public-relations campaign to sow doubt about the validity of the science of climate change...This blistering indictment of corporate-funded chicanery demands a wide audience. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) And if you read just one book on climate change, make it Michael E. Mann's riveting expose of disinformation and denial... Irish Times The best part, in my science-geeky opinion, is readers of this book will enjoy a dazzling, informative tour of the science underlying climatology and especially the analysis that went into the diagram that caused all the ruckus. -- DarkSyde Daily Kos A harrowing ride through the politics of truth and denial. -- Shawn Lawrence Otto Huffington Post ...this is a book you should read, because it clearly shows the contrast between how science works and how politics works. The difference is dramatic. And fateful. -- Ben Bova Naples Daily News Vitally important to all citizens of a warming planet Earth. -- James P. Lenfestey Star Tribune A must read for every serious student of climate change science, and gets my highest rating: five stars out of five. -- Jeff Masters Jeff Masters WunderGround Blog I heartily recommend this book for an unusually clear view of the action on the front line of climate science from one of its principle palaeoclimate protagonists. -- Colin Summerhayes Geoscientist Mann deserves our respect and admiration for what he has been through and for his willingness to discuss it. The narrative is a deeply honest scientific coming-of-age story. -- Naomi Oreskes Physics Today This book is well written and tells a remarkable story that is likely to be of interest to a wide range of readers. Australian Book Review Mann's honest and thorough testimony on the attacks against climate science is a critical step toward resolving the climate change debate. Science Mann's account and nontechnical rebuttal of the attacks on climate science provide an excellent primer on contemporary climate science...Highly recommended. Choice One of the most useful books yet in explaining climate science, especially the use of paleoclimate proxy data to assess the history of Earth's climate. -- Rudy M. Baum Chemical & Engineering News Confronting climate change will require clear scientific thinking and courageous actions by many individuals. Dr, Mann's book details the powerful evidence supporting climate change as well as the relentless attempts by climate deniers to distort climate science and attack those who are speaking the truth about it. -- Jerry Brown, governor of California A very entertaining book that winds its way through the thicket of climate science and politics. Natural Hazards Observer must-read -- Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Mann deserves praise for taking the time to speak to other scientists and citizens about what threatens us all. He is not only a brilliant scientist but an ethical hero, a model for all. -- Kristin Shrader-Frechette Metascience If you read only one book on climate change, this one is hard to beat. Perspectives on Science and Christian FaithTable of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms Prologue: What Is the Hockey Stick? 1. Born in a War 2. Climate Science Comes of Age 3. Signals in the Noise 4. The Making of the Hockey Stick 5. The Origins of Denial 6. A Candle in the Dark 7. In the Line of Fire 8. Hockey Stick Goes to Washington 9. When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of... 10. Say it Ain't So (Smokey) Joe! 11. A Tale of Two Reports 12. Heads of the Hydra 13. The Battle of the Bulge 14. Climategate: The Real Story 15. Fighting Back Epilogue Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Sustainability Management] will be used widely as a text for environmental studies, political science, and business majors. Strongly recommended. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. What Is Sustainability Management? 2. Sustainable Manufacturing and Service Businesses 3. The Centrality of Energy 4. Sustainable Water 5. Sustainable Food Supply 6. Sustainable Cities 7. A Sustainable Planet 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Sustainability Management] will be used widely as a text for environmental studies, political science, and business majors. Strongly recommended. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. What Is Sustainability Management? 2. Sustainable Manufacturing and Service Businesses 3. The Centrality of Energy 4. Sustainable Water 5. Sustainable Food Supply 6. Sustainable Cities 7. A Sustainable Planet 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTo date, there has been little discussion about the possible connection between animal studies and advocacy on behalf of the welfare and well-being of animals. This volume takes as its aim the discussion of such possible connections-an important investigation, as the relationship among politics, policy, and advocacy often remains implicit or in the background in much recent work on animal studies. By foregrounding this inquiry, Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad do a great service to readers who might be attracted to this literature's promise or usefulness for various kinds of activism. Likewise, it allows authors and academics interested in animal studies to give further consideration to the possible political implications of work done in this field. -- Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida Intellectually and politically challenging, this provocative collection provides a solid introduction to the field's breadth and a contribution to the debate for those already engaged with the question of the animal.Choice ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Animality and Advocacy, by Michael Lundblad and Marianne DeKoven 1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons, by Donna Haraway 2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea, by Cary Wolfe 3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What?, by Paola Cavalieri 4. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness, by Michael Lundblad 5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory, by Carol J. Adams 6. Compassion: Human and Animal, by Martha Nussbaum 7. Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness, by Frans de Waal Addendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010), by Frans de Waal 8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals, by Temple Grandin Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTo date, there has been little discussion about the possible connection between animal studies and advocacy on behalf of the welfare and well-being of animals. This volume takes as its aim the discussion of such possible connections-an important investigation, as the relationship among politics, policy, and advocacy often remains implicit or in the background in much recent work on animal studies. By foregrounding this inquiry, Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad do a great service to readers who might be attracted to this literature's promise or usefulness for various kinds of activism. Likewise, it allows authors and academics interested in animal studies to give further consideration to the possible political implications of work done in this field. -- Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida Intellectually and politically challenging, this provocative collection provides a solid introduction to the field's breadth and a contribution to the debate for those already engaged with the question of the animal.Choice ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Animality and Advocacy, by Michael Lundblad and Marianne DeKoven 1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons, by Donna Haraway 2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea, by Cary Wolfe 3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What?, by Paola Cavalieri 4. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness, by Michael Lundblad 5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory, by Carol J. Adams 6. Compassion: Human and Animal, by Martha Nussbaum 7. Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness, by Frans de Waal Addendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010), by Frans de Waal 8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals, by Temple Grandin Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs one of the founders of this field and someone who has helped guide its development, DeMello is uniquely situated to write this book. She does an admirable job detailing the history of human-animal studies, its intricate relations to other fields, and its multi/interdisciplinarity. The right book at the right time. -- Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine A 'must' book to own and read. Each chapter is filled with insights extending our understanding of the role and meaning of non-human animals in the modern age. Animals and Society is an essential addition to our bookshelves, required readings, citations lists, and textbook adoptions. -- Arnold Arluke, Northeastern University The first published text in human-animal studies, this volume undoubtedly sets the standard. Comprehensive in scope, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in approach, painstakingly researched and wonderfully written, it should be the choice for human-animal studies courses in a variety of disciplines. A most impressive accomplishment. -- Clifton P. Flynn, University of South Carolina Upstate A valuable resource... Recommended. Choice Animals and Society is a substantial encyclopedic resource for understanding the nature of our interactions involving animals. -- D. Wayne Dworsky San Francisco Book Review DeMello's book surpasses the typical textbook in offering a well-written overview of the field, with historical and cultural coverage of the changing categorizations of animals, the social construction of animals, the various human use of animals, attitudes toward animals, and symbolic manifestations of animals. Zeteo A well-considered and artfully structured work that provokes thoughtful reflection and stimulates ideas for both theoretical and applied study; it is a worthwhile addition to my library. -- Anne McBride PsycCritiques Organizing a new, interdisciplinary field is no easy task, and overall DeMello has done a very fine job. Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Constructing Animals: Animal Categories 1. Human-Animal Studies 2. Animal-Human Borders 3. The Social Construction of Animals Part II: Using Animals: Human-Animal Economies 4. Animals "in the Wild" and in Human Societies 5. The Domestication of Animals 6. Display 7. The Making and Consumption of Meat 8. The Pet Animal 9. Animals and Science 10. Animal-Assisted Activities Part III: Attitudes Toward Animals 11. Working with Animals 12. Violence to Animals 13. Human Oppression and Animal Suffering Part IV: Imagining Animals: Animals as Symbol 14. Animals in Human Thought 15. Animals in Religion and Folklore 16. Animals in Literature and Film Part V: Knowing and Relating to Animals: Animal Behavior and Animal Ethics 17. Animal Behavior Studies and Ethology 18. The Moral Status of Animals 19. The Animal Protection Movement 20. The Future of the Human-Animal Relationship Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBecause there is no more important issue to future generations than climate change and no more important country in the effort to control greenhouse gas emissions than China, Joanna Lewis's book is particularly timely and welcome. Thoroughly researched and well-written, this informative volume goes a long way toward helping us understand the critical role China plays in both the causes for and solutions to the global climate change challenge. -- Orville Schell, director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society Green Innovation in China is a compelling exploration of how China is transforming itself into a clean energy powerhouse. By taking us deep into the competitive world of wind power-from research and development to the cutthroat global marketplace-Joanna Lewis provides fascinating insights into China's broader clean tech innovation strategy. This is a book that should be on the desk or nightstand of anyone who wants to understand where China's leaders are taking their country and how they plan to get there. -- Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and director of Asia studies, Council on Foreign Relations This book provides an excellent overview of China's green innovation system, relating China's energy technology innovations to the country's domestic policy interventions and international collaborations. China's green innovation process is very complicated. Without a doubt, this book will help readers within and outside of China better grasp the context and nature of the issue. The text also describes well the lessons other developing countries can draw from China's green innovation exercise. -- Zhang Xiliang, professor and executive director, Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy, Tsinghua University Lewis's work is a lucid look at the development of a key green-tech sector, and the larger lessons it holds for China's innovative capacity. Asian Review of Books Essential reading for everyone interested in the Chinese wind energy industry, providing a compelling and well-researched overview, including the industry's history and prospects for its future. -- Johan Nordensvard International Affairs As important as it is timely... Required reading for anyone interested in China's energy or environmental politics. -- Phillip Stalley The China Quarterly In this timely volume, Joanna Lewis integrates insights and research from over a decade of work relating to the rise of China's wind market, the largest in the world. -- Edward A. Cunningham Review of Policy Research Informative... Green Innovation in China is timely reading for anyone interested in the evolution of the wind energy industry in China. China Review International [A] carefully researched, painstakingly referenced, and articulate account. Journal of Chinese Political Science An accurate and invaluable reference for scholars of development and innovation studies. Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface Abbreviations Chronology of Wind Power Development in China 1. Green Innovation in China 2. China's Energy and Climate Challenge 3. China in the Global Wind Power Innovation System 4. The Role of Foreign Technology in China's Wind Power Industry Development 5. Goldwind and the Emergence of the Chinese Wind Industry 6. Wind Energy Leapfrogging in Emerging Economies 7. Engaging China on Clean Energy Cooperation Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life 2. Postmodernism and Justice 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life 2. Postmodernism and Justice 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Quest for Security makes for a fascinating read, made all the more timely by the current outcry-across the country and beyond-over the unequal distribution of the pains and gains from the economic changes of recent years. The book examines globalization as the multidimensional phenomenon that it is, without complexifying it to the point where the key issues become obscured. It is an important book that offers both an introduction to key issues in global governance to a general audience and advances the debate among expert scholars and policymakers with serious, constructive proposals for making economic globalization politically sustainable by improving average citizens' economic, physical, and environmental security. -- Tim Buthe, Duke University This book takes the many and varied challenges facing the world, from the financial crisis to global warming, and explores how new forms of governance and cooperation can be developed to solve some of them or at least mitigate their effects. This book is original and pathbreaking, and its contributors are at the forefront of thinking about these questions. -- Andrew Gamble, Cambridge University Our interdependent but uncoordinated world, in which we are often at loggerheads with each other, generates many different problems. In an insightful collection of contributions led by Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz, this wonderful book offers constructive ways of avoiding disaster with the help of global cooperation. A great book for our time. -- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University At a time when most initiatives to reinvigorate the multilateral system and its provision of global public goods are failing, it is encouraging to read the analyses and proposals contained in this volume. The key message of this excellent collection is reassuring: that the governance predicaments posed by globalization are solvable after all; the intellectual battle is not lost and it is still possible, with workable propositions, to win the political one in order to build a better international system. With strong conviction, I buy the argument. -- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico This important book offers new thinking for exceptional times. It draws fascinating parallels between what is happening in the fields of economics, security, and the environment and demonstrates why and how global solutions are the answer to the current interlinked crises. -- Javier Solana, former secretary-general of NATO The Quest for Security is one of the most comprehensive assessments of globalization's challenges published to date. From mounting income inequality to the destructive power of climate change to the threat of terrorist attacks, this timely compilation of expert insight deftly exposes where global governance has failed and offers pragmatic solutions for building a secure, sustainable, and just post-crisis world. -- George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece and president of Socialist International This is a near-perfect text for contemporary graduate courses outside any disciplinary 'box.' Journal of Global FaultlinesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors' Note Introduction Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz Part 1: Social Protection Without Protectionism Introduction 1. Social Protection Without Protectionism, by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2. Scandinavian Equality: A Prime Example of Protection Without Protectionism, by Karl Ove Moene 3. Further Considerations on Social Protection, by Kemal Dervis, Leif Pagrotsky, George Soros Part 2: Protection from Violence Introduction 4. Global Security Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century, by G. John Ikenberry 5. Restructuring Global Security for the Twenty-First Century, by Mary Kaldor 6. Recent Developments in Global Criminal Industries, by Misha Glenny Part 3: Environmental Protection Introduction 7. Sharing the Burden of Saving the Planet: Global Social Justice for Sustainable Development Lessons from the Theory of Public Finance, by Joseph E. Stiglitz Appendixes to Chapter 7 8. Designing the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime, by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins Part 4: Urbanizing the Challenges of Global Governance Introduction 9. A Focus on Cities Takes Us Beyond Existing Governance Frameworks, by Saskia Sassen 10. Violence in the City: Challenges of Global Governance, by Sophie Body-Gendrot 11. Cities and Conflict Resolution, by Tony Travers 12. Cities and Global Climate Governance: From Passive Implementers to Active Co-Decision-Makers, by Kristine Kern and Arthur P. J. Mol Part 5: Global Governance Introduction 13. Rethinking Global Economic and Social Governance, by Jose Antonio Ocampo 14. The G20 and Global Governance, by Ngaire Woods 15. Transforming Global Governance? Structural Deficits and Recent Developments in Security and Finance, by David Held and Kevin Young Contributors' Notes

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Quest for Security makes for a fascinating read, made all the more timely by the current outcry-across the country and beyond-over the unequal distribution of the pains and gains from the economic changes of recent years. The book examines globalization as the multidimensional phenomenon that it is, without complexifying it to the point where the key issues become obscured. It is an important book that offers both an introduction to key issues in global governance to a general audience and advances the debate among expert scholars and policymakers with serious, constructive proposals for making economic globalization politically sustainable by improving average citizens' economic, physical, and environmental security. -- Tim Buthe, Duke University This book takes the many and varied challenges facing the world, from the financial crisis to global warming, and explores how new forms of governance and cooperation can be developed to solve some of them or at least mitigate their effects. This book is original and pathbreaking, and its contributors are at the forefront of thinking about these questions. -- Andrew Gamble, Cambridge University Our interdependent but uncoordinated world, in which we are often at loggerheads with each other, generates many different problems. In an insightful collection of contributions led by Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz, this wonderful book offers constructive ways of avoiding disaster with the help of global cooperation. A great book for our time. -- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University At a time when most initiatives to reinvigorate the multilateral system and its provision of global public goods are failing, it is encouraging to read the analyses and proposals contained in this volume. The key message of this excellent collection is reassuring: that the governance predicaments posed by globalization are solvable after all; the intellectual battle is not lost and it is still possible, with workable propositions, to win the political one in order to build a better international system. With strong conviction, I buy the argument. -- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico This important book offers new thinking for exceptional times. It draws fascinating parallels between what is happening in the fields of economics, security, and the environment and demonstrates why and how global solutions are the answer to the current interlinked crises. -- Javier Solana, former secretary-general of NATO The Quest for Security is one of the most comprehensive assessments of globalization's challenges published to date. From mounting income inequality to the destructive power of climate change to the threat of terrorist attacks, this timely compilation of expert insight deftly exposes where global governance has failed and offers pragmatic solutions for building a secure, sustainable, and just post-crisis world. -- George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece and president of Socialist International This is a near-perfect text for contemporary graduate courses outside any disciplinary 'box.' Journal of Global FaultlinesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors' Note Introduction Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz Part 1: Social Protection Without Protectionism Introduction 1. Social Protection Without Protectionism, by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2. Scandinavian Equality: A Prime Example of Protection Without Protectionism, by Karl Ove Moene 3. Further Considerations on Social Protection, by Kemal Dervis, Leif Pagrotsky, George Soros Part 2: Protection from Violence Introduction 4. Global Security Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century, by G. John Ikenberry 5. Restructuring Global Security for the Twenty-First Century, by Mary Kaldor 6. Recent Developments in Global Criminal Industries, by Misha Glenny Part 3: Environmental Protection Introduction 7. Sharing the Burden of Saving the Planet: Global Social Justice for Sustainable Development Lessons from the Theory of Public Finance, by Joseph E. Stiglitz Appendixes to Chapter 7 8. Designing the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime, by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins Part 4: Urbanizing the Challenges of Global Governance Introduction 9. A Focus on Cities Takes Us Beyond Existing Governance Frameworks, by Saskia Sassen 10. Violence in the City: Challenges of Global Governance, by Sophie Body-Gendrot 11. Cities and Conflict Resolution, by Tony Travers 12. Cities and Global Climate Governance: From Passive Implementers to Active Co-Decision-Makers, by Kristine Kern and Arthur P. J. Mol Part 5: Global Governance Introduction 13. Rethinking Global Economic and Social Governance, by Jose Antonio Ocampo 14. The G20 and Global Governance, by Ngaire Woods 15. Transforming Global Governance? Structural Deficits and Recent Developments in Security and Finance, by David Held and Kevin Young Contributors' Notes

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a winner, written in an easy, logical style with thorough and fascinating discussions of major deniers. -- Orrin Pilkey, Duke University, coauthor of The Rising Sea With the evidence for global warming so strong, why, Powell asks, does half the American public doubt it? His answer is a history of the campaign of denial, the most comprehensive and up-to-date history available. It is well written and well worth reading: this is the most important issue facing our generation. -- Spencer Weart, author of The Discovery of Global Warming This courageous and well-researched book exposes how ideologues and money combined to attack sound climate science. -- Richard Somerville, University of California, San Diego, author of The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, second edition Powell consistently brings the sharp insight of a knowledgeable insider melded with the skepticism of a critical outsider to the most important issues in science. In his latest book-his best yet-he shows us the path to understanding climate change. -- Peter D. Ward, The University of Washington James Lawrence Powell's must-read book is a welcome addition to the growing literature debunking fossil fuel-funded, anti-science disinformation. As Powell makes clear, it is time for scientists to stand up and be counted. -- Joseph Romm, editor of Climate Progress and senior fellow at American Progress this is a highly authoritative and accessible book that should be read by everyone who has any doubts about the reality of climate change. Irish Times Books like 'The Inquisition' offer a clear antidote to the evolving national viral infection of antiscience. Get it. Read it. Tell others about it. -- John Atcheson 1895 By looking at climate science, business, politics, and media, Powell has taken a comprehensive approach, doing a thorough job of boxing in the deniers' arguments and deflating them while at the same time providing an accessible read for nonprofessionals. Library Journal Xpress Reviews A masterful compilation of nearly all the evidence, not only for the reality of anthropogenic global warming, but especially answering point-by-point the ridiculous attempts by climate deniers to cloud and distort the issues by raising one bogus charge after another. -- Donald R. Prothero Skeptic Blog A rare look at the politicalization of an important science... Recommended. Choice ...succinctly summarizes the entire disinheartening story. -- Naomi Oreskes Physics Today ...a worthwhile read...an invaluable tool for those of us that are committed to fighting against the assault on climate science, be it the writers, the teachers, the activists, the politicians, or the scientists. -- Sarah Kenehan Environmental Philosophy A clear antidote to the evolving national viral infection of antiscience. Get it. Read it. Tell others about it. -- John Atcheson Science Progress The Inquisition of Climate Science is an excellent, well-written book for the general audience which gives readers a broad view of organized attacks on climate science over the last few decades. Reports of the National Center for Science Education The first book to examine the history and milieu of the climate science denial process as a whole... a 'must' for any college-level science collection. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Not Skeptics, by Deniers 1. Science and Potemkin Science Never a Crisis A Political Movement A Cheap Tuxedo Better Than Scientists 2. Adventures in Denierland Urban Myth? Cave Junction 3. The Evidence for Consensus Spam Filter Newton's Second Law Polling Scientists An Extremely Pernicious Development 4. Discovery of Global Warming One of the Oldest Theories A Large-Scale Geophysical Experiment 5. The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat Models Predict Warming Globetrotters The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6. Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart 7. Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers All of Those People Are Wrong With All Due Respect, by Dr. Michaels The $45 Million Man If Science Doesn't Have Integrity Blue Marble Nuke Vietnam? Foot Soldier 8. Fear of State: The Nonscientists Aren't You Embarrassed, by Mr. Will? Once Again The Lomborg Deception Bed-Wetting, by Messianic 9. Toxic Tanks Harry and Louise Tale from the Crypt Please Don't Poop in My Salad Embarrassing General Marshall Push Down on the Accelerator 10. An Industry to Trust Most Profitable Company in History An Industry That Cannot Afford Denial 11. Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed "The Story of the Century" The Prestige Press Plumes of Smoke from China Carbongate End of Objectivity? Systemic Failure 12. Science Under Attack It's the Sun, by Ozone Testosterone Watts Up with That? Slap Shot The Medieval Warm Period Do Climate Models Work? Did Global Warming End in 1998? Chicken or Egg? GRACE Tropospheric Cooling? 13. Greatest Hoax in History? Who's to Blame? Liberals, by of Course To Command Spring Funding Research Traitors 14. Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing One Million Words Innocent of All Charges Gates and More Gates 15. Anatomy of Denial To Roll Back Industrial Society 16. Escalating Tactics Monkey Trials Old Virginia Home 17. Earning Trust Appendix Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a winner, written in an easy, logical style with thorough and fascinating discussions of major deniers. -- Orrin Pilkey, Duke University, coauthor of The Rising Sea With the evidence for global warming so strong, why, Powell asks, does half the American public doubt it? His answer is a history of the campaign of denial, the most comprehensive and up-to-date history available. It is well written and well worth reading: this is the most important issue facing our generation. -- Spencer Weart, author of The Discovery of Global Warming This courageous and well-researched book exposes how ideologues and money combined to attack sound climate science. -- Richard Somerville, University of California, San Diego, author of The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, second edition Powell consistently brings the sharp insight of a knowledgeable insider melded with the skepticism of a critical outsider to the most important issues in science. In his latest book-his best yet-he shows us the path to understanding climate change. -- Peter D. Ward, The University of Washington James Lawrence Powell's must-read book is a welcome addition to the growing literature debunking fossil fuel-funded, anti-science disinformation. As Powell makes clear, it is time for scientists to stand up and be counted. -- Joseph Romm, editor of Climate Progress and senior fellow at American Progress this is a highly authoritative and accessible book that should be read by everyone who has any doubts about the reality of climate change. Irish Times Books like 'The Inquisition' offer a clear antidote to the evolving national viral infection of antiscience. Get it. Read it. Tell others about it. -- John Atcheson 1895 By looking at climate science, business, politics, and media, Powell has taken a comprehensive approach, doing a thorough job of boxing in the deniers' arguments and deflating them while at the same time providing an accessible read for nonprofessionals. Library Journal Xpress Reviews A masterful compilation of nearly all the evidence, not only for the reality of anthropogenic global warming, but especially answering point-by-point the ridiculous attempts by climate deniers to cloud and distort the issues by raising one bogus charge after another. -- Donald R. Prothero Skeptic Blog A rare look at the politicalization of an important science... Recommended. Choice ...succinctly summarizes the entire disinheartening story. -- Naomi Oreskes Physics Today ...a worthwhile read...an invaluable tool for those of us that are committed to fighting against the assault on climate science, be it the writers, the teachers, the activists, the politicians, or the scientists. -- Sarah Kenehan Environmental Philosophy A clear antidote to the evolving national viral infection of antiscience. Get it. Read it. Tell others about it. -- John Atcheson Science Progress The Inquisition of Climate Science is an excellent, well-written book for the general audience which gives readers a broad view of organized attacks on climate science over the last few decades. Reports of the National Center for Science Education The first book to examine the history and milieu of the climate science denial process as a whole... a 'must' for any college-level science collection. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Not Skeptics, by Deniers 1. Science and Potemkin Science Never a Crisis A Political Movement A Cheap Tuxedo Better Than Scientists 2. Adventures in Denierland Urban Myth? Cave Junction 3. The Evidence for Consensus Spam Filter Newton's Second Law Polling Scientists An Extremely Pernicious Development 4. Discovery of Global Warming One of the Oldest Theories A Large-Scale Geophysical Experiment 5. The Greenhouse Effect: From Curiosity to Threat Models Predict Warming Globetrotters The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6. Global Warming: All You Really Need to Know in One Chart 7. Tobacco Tactics: The Scientist-Deniers All of Those People Are Wrong With All Due Respect, by Dr. Michaels The $45 Million Man If Science Doesn't Have Integrity Blue Marble Nuke Vietnam? Foot Soldier 8. Fear of State: The Nonscientists Aren't You Embarrassed, by Mr. Will? Once Again The Lomborg Deception Bed-Wetting, by Messianic 9. Toxic Tanks Harry and Louise Tale from the Crypt Please Don't Poop in My Salad Embarrassing General Marshall Push Down on the Accelerator 10. An Industry to Trust Most Profitable Company in History An Industry That Cannot Afford Denial 11. Balance as Bias: How the Media Missed "The Story of the Century" The Prestige Press Plumes of Smoke from China Carbongate End of Objectivity? Systemic Failure 12. Science Under Attack It's the Sun, by Ozone Testosterone Watts Up with That? Slap Shot The Medieval Warm Period Do Climate Models Work? Did Global Warming End in 1998? Chicken or Egg? GRACE Tropospheric Cooling? 13. Greatest Hoax in History? Who's to Blame? Liberals, by of Course To Command Spring Funding Research Traitors 14. Climategate: Much Ado About Nothing One Million Words Innocent of All Charges Gates and More Gates 15. Anatomy of Denial To Roll Back Industrial Society 16. Escalating Tactics Monkey Trials Old Virginia Home 17. Earning Trust Appendix Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is the first sustained and comprehensive attempt to base a whole account of animal rights around an interest-based theory of rights, and the first to use such a theory to deny that animals have an intrinsic right to liberty. It dispels once and for all the myth that animal rights must be about condemning all uses of animals and that a failure to do so commits one to an acceptance of an animal welfare ethic. -- Robert Garner, University of Leicester Non-human animals may have morally relevant interests in avoiding suffering and death without also possessing comparable interests in non-interference. By drawing on this neglected insight into the specificity of animals' interests, Cochrane's rigorous yet accessible book exposes a false dichotomy that has divided animal ethicists for decades, making a major advance in our understanding of the subject. -- Paula Casal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Alasdair Cochrane argues that there is a plausible theory of animal rights that allows us to continue to own and use animals. It would be an understatement to say that I disagree with Cochrane but he does a fine job presenting the argument and his book will surely provoke debate and discussion. -- Gary L. Francione, Rutgers University ...thoughtful and thought-provoking, making it a welcome and highly recommended addition to personal and academic library Contemporary Ethics reference collections and supplemental reading lists.Midwest Book Review Midwest Book Review Well-argued Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Animals, Interests, and Rights 3. Animal Experimentation 4. Animal Agriculture 5. Animals and Genetic Engineering 6. Animal Entertainment 7. Animals and the Environment 8. Animals and Cultural Practices 9. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others - one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg - Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice. -- Allan Stoekl Radical Philosophy an engaging, hard-hitting critique of neoliberalism ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Business as Usual 1. Climate Capitalism 2. Green Angels or Carbon Cowboys? 3. Population 4. To Be or Not to Be Thirsty 5. Sounding the Alarm on Hunger 6. Animal Pharm 7. Modern Feeling and the Green City 8. Spill Afterword: In the Danger Zone Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewYou don't have to be a geometry major to love The Greatest Grid... -- Sam Roberts New York Times

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book not only provides a conceptual backbone but also gives particular examples and specific proposals that will be of great interest to lawyers and agency managers. The text will be a major help to legal reformers and implementers struggling with this important and timely issue. -- Robert L. Fischman, Indiana University Maurer School of Law An excellent and timely account of how the law does influence, could influence, and should influence resilience in linked social-ecological systems. I strongly recommend this volume to natural resource management researchers and practitioners. -- Brian Walker, author of Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World This pathbreaking book brings together leading scholars who offer new thinking on how law might better be reconciled with resilience science. This means more than simply tinkering with existing approaches to management of natural resources. It requires building resilience into social-ecological systems, including the law itself. This is no small undertaking, and this book sets us on the right path by raising many of the necessary questions. -- Bradley C. Karkkainen, University of Minnesota Law School Social-Ecological Resilience and Law turns compelling theories into practical suggestions for building a more resilient future and should be read by academics and policymakers alike. -- Joshua Farley BioScienceTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Social-Ecological Resilience and Law Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Craig Anthony Arnold, and Lance H. Gunderson 1. Wilderness Preserves: Still Relevant and Resilient After All These Years, by Sandi Zellmer and John M. Anderies 2. Bringing Resilience to Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Protection, by Melinda Harm Benson and Matthew E. Hopton 3. Landscape Level Management of Parks, Refuges, and Preserves for Ecosystem Resilience, by Robert L. Glicksman and Graeme S. Cumming 4. Marine Protected Areas, Marine Spatial Planning, and the Resilience of Marine Ecosystems, by Robin Kundis Craig and Terry P. Hughes 5. Resilience and Water Governance: Addressing Fragmentation and Uncertainty in Water Allocation and Water Quality Law, by Barbara A. Cosens and Craig A. Stow 6. Institutionalized Cooperation and Resilience in Transboundary Freshwater Allocation, by Olivia Odom Green and Charles Perrings 7. Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Resilience, and Resilience of Ecosystem Management Policy, J. B. Ruhl and F. Stuart Chapin III 8. Maintaining Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, by Alejandro E. Camacho and T. Douglas Beard 9. Matching Scales of Law with Social-Ecological Contexts to Promote Resilience, by Jonas Ebbesson and Carl Folke 10. Incorporating Resilience and Innovation into Law and Policy: A Case for Preserving a Natural Resource Legacy and Promoting a Sustainable Future, by Tarsha Eason, Alyson C. Flournoy, Heriberto Cabezas, and Michael A. Gonzalez 11. Adaptive Law, Craig Anthony Arnold and Lance H. Gunderson 12. The Integration of Social-Ecological Resilience and Law, by Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, J. B. Ruhl, and C. S. Holling Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book not only provides a conceptual backbone but also gives particular examples and specific proposals that will be of great interest to lawyers and agency managers. The text will be a major help to legal reformers and implementers struggling with this important and timely issue. -- Robert L. Fischman, Indiana University Maurer School of Law An excellent and timely account of how the law does influence, could influence, and should influence resilience in linked social-ecological systems. I strongly recommend this volume to natural resource management researchers and practitioners. -- Brian Walker, author of Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World This pathbreaking book brings together leading scholars who offer new thinking on how law might better be reconciled with resilience science. This means more than simply tinkering with existing approaches to management of natural resources. It requires building resilience into social-ecological systems, including the law itself. This is no small undertaking, and this book sets us on the right path by raising many of the necessary questions. -- Bradley C. Karkkainen, University of Minnesota Law School Social-Ecological Resilience and Law turns compelling theories into practical suggestions for building a more resilient future and should be read by academics and policymakers alike. -- Joshua Farley BioScienceTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Social-Ecological Resilience and Law Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Craig Anthony Arnold, and Lance H. Gunderson 1. Wilderness Preserves: Still Relevant and Resilient After All These Years, by Sandi Zellmer and John M. Anderies 2. Bringing Resilience to Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Protection, by Melinda Harm Benson and Matthew E. Hopton 3. Landscape Level Management of Parks, Refuges, and Preserves for Ecosystem Resilience, by Robert L. Glicksman and Graeme S. Cumming 4. Marine Protected Areas, Marine Spatial Planning, and the Resilience of Marine Ecosystems, by Robin Kundis Craig and Terry P. Hughes 5. Resilience and Water Governance: Addressing Fragmentation and Uncertainty in Water Allocation and Water Quality Law, by Barbara A. Cosens and Craig A. Stow 6. Institutionalized Cooperation and Resilience in Transboundary Freshwater Allocation, by Olivia Odom Green and Charles Perrings 7. Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Resilience, and Resilience of Ecosystem Management Policy, J. B. Ruhl and F. Stuart Chapin III 8. Maintaining Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, by Alejandro E. Camacho and T. Douglas Beard 9. Matching Scales of Law with Social-Ecological Contexts to Promote Resilience, by Jonas Ebbesson and Carl Folke 10. Incorporating Resilience and Innovation into Law and Policy: A Case for Preserving a Natural Resource Legacy and Promoting a Sustainable Future, by Tarsha Eason, Alyson C. Flournoy, Heriberto Cabezas, and Michael A. Gonzalez 11. Adaptive Law, Craig Anthony Arnold and Lance H. Gunderson 12. The Integration of Social-Ecological Resilience and Law, by Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, J. B. Ruhl, and C. S. Holling Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn outstanding milestone in Asian historical geography. Northeast Asia emerges as a dynamic sphere of interaction among local, national, and international forces. This book will be useful for classes in history and geography and essential for the reference shelf of every student of Northeast Asia. -- Christopher P. Atwood, Indiana University A unique and extremely welcome contribution to the study of a critical region during its most important centuries. This book relates the major events and plots the most significant sites decade by decade from the end of the sixteenth century into the twenty-first. It opens largely untrafficked parts of Asia to wide readership and promises to become a standard reference for historians, political scientists, and geographers, as well as anyone who appreciates serious cartography. -- Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania The creators of this historical atlas have produced a small treasure, not least in the multilanguage table of place-names, for all those who are interested in the area. It also represents an innovative method to recognize and rescue a region whose story has been obscured by superpowers throughout much of history. -- Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore This superb atlas greatly enhances our knowledge of the region of Asia comprising north China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, and Manchuria. The authors define the region ecologically instead of politically, focusing on the interaction of nomadic conquerors with the expanding empires of Russia and China and the Korean state. They outline boundaries with vivid colors and carefully locate major towns and geographic features, while also providing a concise integrated political narrative for each decade over nearly five hundred years. Such an effective combination of visual and narrative information makes this an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about this critical region of Asia. -- Peter C. Perdue, Yale University This work fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of Russian history as well as all of Northeast Asian history. -- Helen Hundley The Russian Review Thought-provoking and intriguing - especially if you like maps... Essential for anyone interested in the broad sweep of northeast Asian history. Asian Review Useful. I would recommend this atlas for academic collections. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society Marvelous... Its maps are elaborate enough to inspire researchers and still compendious enough to be useful for teaching history and historical geography at the university level. Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia would also serve scholars of Asian studies as an excellent reference book. Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Methodology and Sources Terminology and Spelling Abbreviations Introduction: Northeast Asia Contested Term, Contested Region Geography Climate and Human Ecology Peoples and Languages Politics Part I. 1590-1700 Part II. 1700-1800 Part III. 1800-1900 Part IV. 1900-2010 Appendix A. Historical Maps Appendix B. Gazetteer Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America, one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations.Trade ReviewColleen Glenney Boggs's engagement with texts by Poe, Dickinson, and Barbara Bush's Puppy Love makes her focus unique. Her analysis of the connection between animal figures and slavery in Poe's work is fascinating. -- Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University This is a book about Fido and Derrida, about Sparky and Levinas, about animals and major twentieth-century (and now twenty-first century) theorists of subjectivity such as Lacan, Agamben, and Foucault. Such unexpectedness and daring supplies a refreshing tonic not only for American literary criticism but also for other intellectual endeavors such as philosophy, ethics, and psychoanalysis indebted to species logic. Boggs shows how productive the interdisciplinary work of animal studies is, and it is a task she accomplishes with grace and perspicacity. -- Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Colleen Glenney Boggs brings animal studies into dialogue with American literary studies to chronicle the emergence of 'the human' in relation to 'the animal.' She reads the question of species in relation to race and gender and shows how the shifting relations of these terms underlie the most basic questions of social justice; she shows, that is, why animal studies is such a significant field in the current moment. In its bringing together and working through the nature of biopolitics, the role of affect in cultural studies, the relationship of the animal to the human, and the importance of literature to the fashioning of a more just and equitable society, Animalia Americana models new directions not only for animal studies but for the humanities more broadly. -- Priscilla Wald, Duke University From dogs in the White House and Abu Ghraib to Plymouth Plantation and some of the key texts in the canon of American literature, Colleen Glenney Boggs explores 'the animal' as a representational nexus where the biopolitics of subjectivity and community are ceaselessly negotiated. An important contribution to both Americanist literary history and the burgeoning exchange between animal studies and biopolitical thought, Animalia Americana explores the space where affect and embodiment cut across species lines, reconfiguring relations not just of species but also of race, gender, and nation. -- Cary Wolfe, Rice University The welcome spirit (pun intended) of an irreverent polemic runs through this provocative and important argument... this study exemplifies scholarship that takes as its starting point a critical stance toward the delimiting categories and assumptions of rational humanism. American Literary History Online A very ambitious and smart book... [Boggs's] scholarship will appeal quite forcefully to scholars of American literature and contemporary theory (her endnotes in themselves make for a terrific read). Poe StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation, Abu Ghraib) 2. Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower (Frederick Douglass) 3. Animals and the Letter of the Law (Edgar Allan Poe) 4. Animals, Affect, and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity (Emily Dickinson) 5. Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography (Barbara Bush, Katharine Lee Bates) Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA broad, up-to-date, hopeful view of our nation's rivers. Kirkus Reviews McCool tempers the flow of statistics and environmental facts with liberal doses of wit and colorful anecdotes while offering a reassuring account of working-class citizens triumphing in a timely cause. Booklist Written in an easy-to-read narrative style that is at times poetic, River Republic is also filled with facts and political analysis. -- Rosemarie Howard Deseret News ...River Republic is an easy read that raises important questions about politics, money, and development along U.S. rivers while providing vibrant accounts of restoration projects all across the country. -- Adam Mandelman H-Environment Daniel McCool has done a terrific job -- Steve Johnson River Management Society Journal well-researched and well-written...Highly recommended. Choice An authoritative expose of the political economy of river management in the United States... An important book. River Republic offers essential lessons for entrenched water bureaucracy. Anthem EnviroExperts BlogTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments "Green River," by William Cullen Bryant Map: Selected Sites Part I: The Fall 1. Crumbling Edifice 2. Planters, Sawyers, and Snags: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 3. The Manless Land: The Bureau of Reclamation Part II: Dismemberment 4. Handout Horticulture: Farming and the Feds 5. Falling Waters: Hydropower and Renewable Energy 6. Rivers Into Waterways: Barging, Locks, and Dams 7. Black Water Rising: The Myth of Flood Control 8. Downstream Dilemma: Water Pollution Part III: Resurrection 9. River City: Urban Riverscapes 10. Net Losses: Habitat and Endangered Species 11. Playground on the Move: River Recreation 12. The River Commons Notes Index

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Book SynopsisConducting the first systematic examination of the place of animals in scholarly and popular thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects simultaneously a part of nature and human society.Trade ReviewBeing Animal is a wonderful and most welcomed book in which noted author Anna Peterson convincingly argues that, "The separation between nature and animals is both strange and destructive." Animals, domesticated and wild, are not 'Others', and human constructed boundaries that invariably trump our interests over theirs put us on a very slippery slope that leads us away from whom other animals really are and what they want and need from us. The safety, well-being, and very lives of individual animals count and these beings must be factored into decisions that center more on holistic and broader environmental matters. -- Marc Bekoff, author of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (with Jessica Pierce) and editor of Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation In this provocative and beautifully written book, Anna L. Peterson challenges us to think about real animals, not abstractions of them, as part of nature and, therefore, as a necessary consideration for a complete environmental ethic and theology. For too long, environmental and animal ethicists, philosophers and theologians have been taking different paths, rarely interacting directly with each other. Peterson calls for an alternative nature ethic, one that is holistic and includes serious consideration of animals. As she claims and supports through carefully researched examples, and a fascinating reinterpretation of Marx, nonhuman animals are the 'proletariat of environmental thought' and as such they 'demand and embody the negation of human exceptionalism.' Peterson makes a powerful contribution to environmental and animal ethics, building a necessary bridge between these two natural allies. -- Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, author of The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals [A]n excellent introduction to the issues surrounding animal rights... Peterson weaves clear, down-to-earth writing with extensive knowledge of the philosophical debates in animal rights... Engaging, stimulating, and well written... Quarterly Review of Biology Marvelous and insightful. Journal of Society and Animals Being Animal offers many important contributions to the current debate. It is thought-provoking and is an important book for both environmental and animal ethics. -- Andrew Woodhall Ethical Theory and Moral PracticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Animals and Nature 2. Animals in Environmental Perspective 3. Animal Ethics 4. Wild Animals 5. Domesticated Animals 6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground 8. Being Animal Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEarth at Risk shows what a world organized along the principles of sustainability could look like, building on the experience of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. Though formidable obstacles remain, Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana present the case for collective initiatives and change that build momentum for implementation and action.Trade ReviewThe authors are ideally situated to understand the ins and outs of the climate crisis, and in this book they deliver an insightful overview, one that will be useful to any student of our dilemma. -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature In Earth at Risk, Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana do more than explain why action is urgently needed to conserve the world's natural capital. They also explain why some previous efforts failed, why others succeeded, and how, drawing from the lessons of both kinds of experience, the world can achieve sustainable development in the future. -- Scott Barrett, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Erosion of Biological Diversity2. The Ubiquitous Waste and Growing Scarcity of Water and Soil3. Energy: As Little as Possible4. Perspectives on Climate Change5. Enlisting the Scientific Method6. Sustainability at the Intersection of Science and Nature7. Scientific Uncertainty, Fabricated Uncertainty, and the Vulnerability of Regulation8. Producing and Disseminating Sustainability-Enhancing Innovations9. Economic Instruments for Sustainable Development10. Global Governance of Sustainable Development11. The Geopolitics of Environment12. The New Multipolarity of Sustainable DevelopmentConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisLeading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the presentTrade ReviewJ. David Archibald is one of the leading paleomammalogists in the world, and one of the foremost experts on the biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. In this book, he shows a deep understanding of the chronology and iconography of the 'tree' as both an iconic metaphor and a conceptual device in the history of biology. -- Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley This book presents a fascinating trip through the history of imagery and conceptual frameworks used to understand the diversity and evolution of life. J. David Archibald has produced an authoritative and delightful text that will be relished by anyone interested in evolution, biodiversity, the history and philosophy of science, scientific art, or graphic design. -- David M. Hillis, University of Texas at Austin Through the long history of drawings and diagrams, J. David Archibald's magnificent new book shows us how people have depicted the diverse interrelated array of life: from linear chains and ladders up through modern evolutionary trees. Archibald's work makes it clear that these relationships have been sensed regardless of the competing ideas of how the patterns were formed: whether through supernatural causes or natural evolutionary processes. -- Niles Eldredge, author of Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree provides a fascinating insight into the way biologists use diagrams to show the history of evolution. David Archibald documents the story of these pictures in an engaging and refreshing style, ranging from beautiful early manuscripts and frescoes that display religious and human genealogical relationships, to the most modern phylogenetic trees that appear in scientific journals and textbooks. A great book for a biologist! -- Janet Browne, Harvard University Archibald's book is interdisciplinary, authoritative, well-written and complete, with a deep historiographic appreciation of its many subjects. Nature Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree will be intellectually stimulating for those interested in the history and philosophy of biology, and especially for those impressed by the importance of the visual for the construction of scientific knowledge. Reports of the National Center for Science Education Impressive and rather humbling... Cladistics Fascinating... A book that is very much worth reading by anyone who is interested in the conceptual heritage of phylogenetic trees. Systematic Biology Splendid... Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree is a wonderful book. Quarterly Review of Biology Illuminating... It has cross-disciplinary appeal, but will be more digestible to readers with prior knowledge of evolutionary theories. Journal of Historical Geography Rich in content, beautifully illustrated, and often thought-provoking, this book should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of visual representations in the life sciences... This is a book to think with. Archives of Natural History Incites curiosity. Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Blaming Aristotle 2. The Roots of the Tree of Life 3. Competing Visual Metaphors 4. Deciphering Darwin's Trees 5. The Gilded Age of Evolutionary Trees 6. The Waning and Waxing of Darwinian Trees 7. Three Revolutions in Tree Building 8. The Paragon of Animals References Index

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Book SynopsisA candid biography of a leading conservationist who refused to follow any path but his own.Trade ReviewDavid Brower-mountaineer, ardent conservationist, fierce advocate for wilderness-led a life that mattered then and still does. Like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, Brower stood up for the natural world when it had much to lose, and made a difference. Robert Wyss captures the man and that critical moment in this insightful, moving, and consequential book. The Man Who Built the Sierra Club adds an essential work to the canon of American environmental history. -- William Souder, author of On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson Wyss provides a penetrating and readable narrative of the highest-profile American environmentalist in the postwar decades and of the many battles he and the Sierra Club fought. He makes clear the multiple layers of Brower's personality: passion, commitment, aggressiveness, and, at times, recklessness. Readers will come away with a clear and compelling portrait of this cutting-edge environmental activist. -- Mark Harvey, author of Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act Wyss's assiduous research will lay to rest many lingering misconceptions about a man who exasperated and inspired by turns, and always spoke to our hearts' love for wild earth. A tremendously worthwhile and interesting chronicle of Brower's evolution into an uncompromising crusader. -- Stephanie Mills, author of Epicurean Simplicity and In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land Brower remained a force in the environmental movement until the end of his long life, and this book makes fitting homage. Thorough and well written... [The Man Who Built the Sierra Club] provides a highly useful view of how environmental battles are waged in the trenches. Kirkus Reviews A riveting... extensively researched, balanced account... This absorbing portrait of a flawed yet fascinating figure, beloved and scorned, who defined America's national parks will engage all biography lovers. Library Journal [The Man Who Built the Sierra Club] offers up a deeply researched... detailed portrait. -- Jim Sterba The Wall Street Journal A well-structured, clearly written account of an American lodestar, one whose nimble mind befuddled both allies and adversaries... Wherever a reader stands on climate change and conservation in general, David Brower is as important to those current debates as John Adams or Thomas Jefferson are to tussles over modern political philosophy, and Wyss here gives him his balanced due. -- Mike Freeman Providence JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Chronology Introduction 1. First Fight 2. Mountains 3. The Club 4. The Lesson 5. Wilderness 6. Forest 7. Parks 8. Glen Canyon 9. Progress 10. Books 11. Escalating the Risks 12. Grand Canyon 13. Losing While Winning 14. Diablo and Galapagos 15. Conflict 16. Campaign 17. Echoes Epilogue Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisKeith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s relationships to the nonhuman world.Trade ReviewWoodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the history of environmental activism and thought. -- James Morton Turner, Wellesley CollegeThis book is a profound achievement. In The Ecocentrists, Keith Woodhouse examines ecocentrism within and up against traditions of radical American protest, politics, and action. Deepening our understanding of radical environmentalism well beyond any previous study, the book lays to rest caricature and misinformation. Each chapter—each page—will make you think hard. -- William Deverell, University of Southern CaliforniaA compelling story about the enigmatic journey of environmentalism since the 1960s, The Ecocentrists shines a bright light on the radical potential and heartbreaking pitfalls of Americans’ ecological crusades. Highlighting the historic and contemporary tensions within the environmental movement between localism and globalism, populism and elitism, freedom and limits, and humanism and misanthropy, Woodhouse provides essential reading for anyone interested in thinking through how efforts to create a healthier planet can be made as just and humane as possible. -- Darren Frederick Speece, author of Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental PoliticsThe Ecocentrists captures eloquently the human stories of those who stood up for the nonhuman world. Keith Woodhouse’s willingness to take seriously the most radical members of the environmental movement yields fresh ways of understanding conventional environmental politics. A smart, rigorous, and brilliant book. -- Kendra Smith-Howard, University of AlbanyInsightful and well-grounded in the literature, this is required reading for historians of environmentalism and modern political movements and, for the general reader, a stimulating introduction to an urgent area of popular concern. * Publishers Weekly *His book is strongest when it contextualizes radical environmentalism in relation to broader ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, anarchism)....Recommended. * Choice *This outstanding and extensively researched work, covers a wide range of ideas and personalities; an essential addition for all environmental collections. * Library Journal (starred review) *In the era of climate change, Woodhouse wonders if the ecocentrists’ narrative of crisis is the only one that can create a clear-eyed view of the problem, as well as the political and popular will to mobilize against it. * Los Angeles Review of Books *A well-crafted expansion of our understanding of the environmental movement, and it reminds us that, while there areno easy answers to our current moment of environmental crisis, we are not the first to have wrestled with the difficult questions about human freedom and our relationships with the more-than-human world. * H-Environment *A superb history of radical environmentalism in the United States. -- Benjamin Kunkel * New Republic *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Ecology and Revolutionary Thought2. Crisis Environmentalism3. A Radical Break4. Public Lands and the Public Good5. Earth First! Against Itself6. The Limits and Legacy of RadicalismConclusionNotesIndex

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