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Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
Jon Coleman investigates the sometimes violent and always controversial relationship between the two species.
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Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
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Les propriétés collectives face aux attaques libérales (1750–1914). Europe occidentale et Amérique latine [Collective Properties in the Face of Liberal Attacks (1750–1914)]
This volume provides a renewed vision of the issue of collective properties, an issue previously distorted by passions, and now mostly forgotten.
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Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
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Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow: Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution
A collection of essays by leading scientists, technologists, and thinkers that examine the nature of current technological changes, their environmental implications, and possible strategies for the transition to a sustainable future.
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Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature
By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.
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A Place for Dialogue: Language, Land Use, and Politics in Southern Arizona
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.
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Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
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Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
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Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp
This book offers a new view of the Okefenokee, its inhabitants, and its rich and telling record of thwarted ambitions, unintended consequences, and unresolved questions.