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| 1. |  | Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outback Author: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Anthropology | Ethics | Ecology Publisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey  Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Natural History | Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 Author: Walker, Brett L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Japan | Ethnic Studies | Ecology Publisher's Description: This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. I . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretation Author: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | Ecology | Biology Publisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior, and physiology Author: Le Boeuf, Burney J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Natural History | Biology | Ecology Publisher's Description: The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world Author: Tucker, Richard P 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Ecology Publisher's Description: In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Birds of the Salton Sea: status, biogeography, and ecology Author: Patten, Michael A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Ecology | Ornithology | Animals | California and the West Publisher's Description: The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: California riparian systems: ecology, conservation, and productive management Author: Warner, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: This volume presents 135 of the papers presented at the 1981 California Riparian Systems Conference. The papers address all aspects of riparian systems: habitat, wildlife, land management, land use policy planning, conservation and water resource management. Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica: learning the lessons in a seasonal dry forest Author: Frankie, G. W Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Ecology | Conservation | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The beautiful tropical dry forest of northwest Costa Rica, with its highly seasonal rainfall and diversely vegetated landscape, is disappearing even more rapidly than Costa Rica's better-known rain forest, primarily because it has been easier to convert to agriculture. This book, based on more than . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles Author: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | California and the West | Urban Studies | Water | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: California forests and woodlands: a natural history Author: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Science | Ecology | Biology | California and the West Publisher's Description: From majestic Redwoods to ancient Western Bristlecone Pines, California's trees have long inspired artists, poets, naturalists - and real estate developers. Verna Johnston's splendid book, illustrated with her superb color photographs and Carla Simmons's detailed black-and-white drawings, now offers . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: A bat man in the tropics: chasing El Duende Author: Fleming, Theodore H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Mammalogy | Autobiography | Ecology Publisher's Description: The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, wonderfully conve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Ecology | African Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Called by the wild: the autobiography of a conservationist Author: Dasmann, Raymond Fredric 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Autobiography Publisher's Description: A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing. This delightful memoir tells the st . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The view from Bald Hill: thirty years in an Arizona grassland Author: Bock, Carl E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Conservation | California and the West | Ecology | Natural History | Science | Biology | Botany | Zoology Publisher's Description: In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The Ap . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Jewish Studies | Ecology | Geography | Conservation Publisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Painting on the left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W. Lee's fascinating book. Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items |