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Paddle Whispers
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 48.00Through poetic text and drawings, woven gracefully with quotes by John Muir, Walking Buffalo, Sigurd F. Olson, Henry David Thoreau, and others, Douglas Wood traces a journey by paddle and canoe that renews the spirit. more...
Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 149.95Provides a summary of methods, models, and approaches useful for understanding risks to populations of wildlife and aquatic life. This book also includes specific recommendations for advancing the science and practice of population-level ecological risk assessment. more...
Reflections on the Neches
University of North Texas Press 2003; US$ 30.36A sixty-three-year-old woman builds a backwater boat and journeys down the Neches River in East Texas, telling both the story of her river float trip and the natural history and folklore of the region. Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs, it will appeal to all interested in the Big Thicket region and those indulging a feeling... more...
Superior North Shore
University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 60.00Illustrated by Carol Yonker WatersLake Superior has been known by many names through the centuries, from Kitchi Gami to le lac supérieur, but the lake itself remains the same expansive and inspiring body of water. Here, Thomas F. Waters explores the natural and human history of the Superior basin. Charmingly illustrated by Carol Yonker Waters, this... more...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence." more...
The Secret Life of Lobsters
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about the secret undersea lives of lobsters. This P.S. edition... more...
Connectivity Conservation
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 80.00A fascinating synthesis on the current status and literature of connectivity conservation research and implementation. more...
Nature Conservation
Springer 2007; US$ 249.99Celebrating the life's work of Professor Franco Pedrotti, who propagated a holistic view of conservation, this book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the fields of species, community and landscape conservation. It contains case-studies which emphasize the importance of traditional phytosociologal, floristic and faunistic research. more...
Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters
Pan American Health Organization 2003; US$ 14.00This is the premise of the Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities for those responsible for management, design, construction and inspection of new health facilities projects. The current publication is an overview of those guidelines and includes recommendations on how to promote their use among national authorities,... more...
Protecting Nature
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Offers a comparative analysis of organizations and networks involved in nature protection in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the USA. This book traces their development from their origins. It also sheds light on the challenges that nature protection faces. more...









