Applied ecology

California's water is at the center of an intense economic and political struggle.

This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

The skeletal system is made up of bones.

In the ocean, a box jellyfish dangles tentacles covered with venom-filled stingers.

Each night, millions of stars light up the dark skies.

Known as the red planet, Mars is the closest planet to the sun.

During the formation of the solar system, not all of the materials in the vast could of dust and gas were used.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization.

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system.

The worldwide development of ecotourism-including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching-has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often physically and emotionally strenuous endeavors.

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time.

With this collection of essays, Anthony J.

Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised.

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations.

WINNER OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA OUTDOOR PRESS ASSOCIATION'S EXCELLENCE IN CRAFT FOR THE BEST OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD Adventures and misadventures exploring nature on a patch of "e;worthless"e; abandoned farmland Following his retirement from academic life, renowned naturalist and writer Whit Gibbons and his family purchased a tract of abandoned farmland where the South Carolina piedmont meets the coastal plain.

A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, and fieldwork A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies-including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical communication, and critical and participatory action research, among others-have increasingly called for ethnographic fieldwork that grounds the study of rhetoric within the contexts of its use and circulation.

Discover the wonder of nature through stories that connect science, wildlife, and everyday life.

Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years.

In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution.

WINNER, REED AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING GIVEN BY THE SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER Southern Wonder explores Alabama's amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation.

Explore Nature.

"e;Eminently quotable and passionately argued essays"e; on living in harmony with the earth and each other, by Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and more (Library Journal, starred review).

As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions.

Many readers drawn into the heroic tales of J.

Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes.

The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings-with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.

The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings-with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.

The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis.

As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions.

Throughout Appalachia corporations control local economies and absentee ownership of land makes it difficult for communities to protect their waterways, mountains, and forests.

"e;A fascinating ecocritical evaluation"e; of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and other works of the master fantasist (Northeastern Naturalist).

Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes.

"e;Eminently quotable and passionately argued essays"e; on living in harmony with the earth and each other, by Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and more (Library Journal, starred review).

Throughout Appalachia corporations control local economies and absentee ownership of land makes it difficult for communities to protect their waterways, mountains, and forests.

The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis.

"e;Eminently quotable and passionately argued essays"e; on living in harmony with the earth and each other, by Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and more (Library Journal, starred review).

During World War II, U.

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardA portrait of a species on the brinkThe only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida scrub-jay was once common across the peninsula.