Roundtable Review of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A cultural critique of zoos that seeks to problematize their role as a sanctuary for animals.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.
Horizontal Yellow is a book about history and nature and humankind’s impact on nature in the Near Southwest, the region of yellowed grass stretching from the Rocky Mountains’ eastern range to Louisiana’s bayou country, and from southern Kansas to the Gulf Coast.
Gesellschaft und Ernahrung is a lavishly illustrated catalog of an exhibition on the history of food that ran at the Food Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, in 2000.