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The State of Play in the Futures Field
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00The notion that the State of Play in the Futures Field (SoPiFF) was a topic worth considering emerged from a conversation with Sesh Velamoor, Director of the Seattle-based Foundation for the Future (FFF), at a 2006 conference at Tamkang University in Taiwan. It posed the question has futurism failed? and suggested, among other things that,... more...
The Aesthetics of Environment
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 36.95"Not since Thoreau has an American author displayed such a profound appreciation for the aesthetics of nature; but, unlike Thoreau, Berleant has designed a program for allowing others to join in on that appreciation." --E. F. Kaelin, Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University Environmental aesthetics is an emerging discipline... more...
Alternatives for Valuing Nature
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95The critical analysis carried out within this book by such figures as Nick Hanley and Jonathan Aldered are vital to ensuring that future economic growth is not achieved at the expense of our environment. more...
American Environmental History: An Introduction
Columbia University Press 2007; US$ 27.99By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of... more...
American Wilderness
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99Ch. 1. American Wilderness--An Introduction, Michael Lewis. Ch. 2. American Wilderness and First Contact, Melanie Perreault. Ch. 3. Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness, Mark Stoll. Ch. 4. Farm Against Forest, Steven Stoll. Ch. 5. Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean. Ch. 6. The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape... more...
Apocalypse When?
Springer 2010; US$ 23.99This book will be a key trailblazer in a new and upcoming field. The author's predictive approach relies on simple and intuitive probability formulations that will appeal to readers with a modest knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics. Wells' carefully erected theory stands on a sure footing and thus should serve as the basis of... more...
Approaches to Human Geography
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 71.00Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in Human Geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge ? the... more...
The Archaeology of Islands
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 25.00A new perspective on the characterization of islands as distinct physical and social entities. more...
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00A study of the environmental history of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. more...
Becoming Good Ancestors
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 18.99A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve... more...









