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The Botany of Desire
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore?s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca... more...
Ecology of Sumatra
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 49.95SUMATRA is the focus of a large number of agricultural. social and industrial developments and yet the possible biological impacts of these are largely only guessed at bv local and foreign scientists working on those projects. One reason for this is that the biology of Sumatra and its surrounding islands is poorly known. Another reason is that the... more...
A Sand County Almanac
Oxford University Press, USA 1968; US$ 12.99First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of... more...
Encounters with the Archdruid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977; US$ 15.99The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes... more...
Birds and Habitat
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 52.00Synthesises important concepts, patterns and issues relating to avian habitat selection, drawing on examples from Europe, North America and Australia. more...
Flammable Australia
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 87.95Leading researchers give an overview of the field of fire ecology in Australia. more...
Natural History of San Francisco Bay
University of California Press 2011; US$ 24.95This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks, and millions of waterbirds. Written in an entertaining... more...
Wetland Habitats of North America
University of California Press 2012; US$ 125.00Wetlands are prominent landscapes throughout North America. The general characteristics of wetlands are controversial, thus there has not been a systematic assessment of different types of wetlands in different parts of North America, or a compendium of the threats to their conservation. Wetland Habitats of North America adopts a geographic and habitat... more...
The Environmental Legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System
University of California Press 2013; US$ 39.95The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the UC NRS has grown to encompass more than 750,000 wildland... more...
Spatial Ecology
Bentham Science Publishers 2013; US$ 44.00Spacial Ecology elucidates processes and mechanisms which structure dynamics of real world systems; these include lakes, ponds, forests and rivers. Readers are introduced to contemporary models in ecological literature based on the author?s research experience. The e-book starts by presenting an introduction to basic mechanisms of ecological processes.... more...









