Conservation of the environment

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage.

This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory.

Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes-geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives.

In this provocative walking meditation, writer and former park ranger William Tweed takes us to California's spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary.

The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles.

Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness.

In Big Ecology, David C.

At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T.

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea.

Admired for its elaborate breeding displays and treasured as a game bird, the Greater Sage-Grouse is a charismatic symbol of the broad open spaces in western North America.

This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California's Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl.

This pioneering encyclopedia illuminates a topic at the forefront of global ecology-biological invasions, or organisms that come to live in the wrong place.

Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, Protecting Life on Earth offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the growing field of conservation science.

The life cycles of fishes are complex and varied, and knowledge of the early life stages is important for understanding the biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes.

Since around 1500 C.

After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil.

The widespread appearance of frogs with deformed bodies has generated much press coverage over the past decade.

Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems.

Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "e;where we are"e; as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives.

Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "e;land of milk and honey,"e; is in ecological disarray.

Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate.

This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes.

It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach-and their numbers-as never before.

Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M.

A compelling story of place, Steward's Fork explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains-a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a wealth of natural resources that have been used, and more recently abused, by humans for millennia.

Beginning with an Olympic ski race in northern Utah, this heartfelt book from award-winning writer and photographer Stephen Trimble takes a penetrating look at the battles raging over the land-and the soul-of the American West.

Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world.

The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees-a "e;perfect tree"e; that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine.

Monitoring changes in the intertidal zone of rocky shores has never been more critical.

We are living in the early stages of a looming worldwide extinction crisis.

The much-loved giant panda, a secretive denizen of the dense bamboo forests of western China, has become an icon worldwide of progress in conservation and research.

Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment.

This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species.

A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "e;environment"e; was little known and "e;conservation"e; to most people simply meant keeping or storing.

The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change.

Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world.

Energy shortages, climate change, and the debate over national security have thrust oil policy to the forefront of American politics.

Americans have been conditioned to appreciate, cheer, and serve economic growth.

How much radiation is too much?

The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction.

In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.

Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future?

Blessings on Uncle Sams soldiers!

The Northern Spotted Owl, a threatened species that occurs in coniferous forests in the western United States, has become a well-known environmental symbol.

When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility: work they were untrained for, in a daunting physical and social environment where they werent particularly welcome.

A richly illustrated nature tour of Galapagos-now expanded, thoroughly updated, and with more than 650 color photographsGalapagos is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and profusely illustrated natural history of this spectacular archipelago.

Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside.