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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...
Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage. 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...
Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00A provocative account of the state of Asian geopolitics and US foreign policy in Asia. 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...
Bordering
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 119.95What is a border? This seemingly simple question is here answered via a multidisciplinary study of the cultural, geographical and historical existence of borders, and the way they have shaped our world. Using the Danish-Swedish border to illustrate the actions of groups and individuals engaged in bordering since the 1600s, this richly theoretical discussion... more...









