Overview :The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into thes... Read More
Overview :Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the topic in an innovative way. Instead of compiling articles from pr... Read More
Overview :People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes eac... Read More
Overview :"For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems...Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading... Read More
Overview :"A stunning atlas of the present and future."--Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases--San ... Read More
Overview :Traces the scientific revolution and its effects on women, the environment and the meaning of science today. The book shows how a mechanisti... Read More
Overview :Through nine successful editions, and for over 45 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and c... Read More
Overview :Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives ... Read More
Overview :From one of Bill Gate's favorite authors, a systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectorie... Read More
Overview :A revised and updated edition of the leading introductory text on the geography of economic life, from the local to the global Economic Geog... Read More
Overview :The State of the World Atlas is an accessible, unique visual survey of current events and global trends, highlighting the international scop... Read More
Overview :Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the numerous beautiful islands dotting Puget Sound, together form the major part of Island Country... Read More
Overview :"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book."--... Read More
Overview :A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship, but a space station near a postc... Read More
Overview :Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city o... Read More
Overview :What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this... Read More
Overview :The papers collected in this volume recount a 40-year struggle between scholarship and illusion on matters of great importance. They do much... Read More
Overview :" required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies." --American Journal of Human Biology "... Read More