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Product Description: This new series of readings from Conservation Biology gives easy access to some of the finest papers ever published in a range of important fields. Readings in Conservation Biology can make course preparation easy - a ready-made collection of the best, most representative papers available in a format students can use...read more

Product Description: This series of readings from "Conservation Biology" gives easy access to papers published in a range of important fields. This volume on population and species can make course preparation easy. It is a ready-made collection of representative papers in a format students can use...read more

An inquiry into the origins, dissemination, and consequences of the modern belief that humans can solve any problem and overcome any difficulty, given time and resources enough