Product Description: The handbook Global Environmental Change is intended to serve as a reliable and comprehensive resource to attend the needs of researchers, teachers, students, and professionals working in science and policy aspects relevant to environment and sustainability...read more

Product Description: The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization that works on a national scale in Canada. This is the story of how this group started with a few volunteers in 1962 to become a charity that now manages 2...read more

Product Description: This book consists of three interconnected stories that deal with the importance of self-acceptance, quest for knowledge, love, and determination. Through the critical comic illustrations, "The Ugliest Animal in the World" reflects how the beauty industry uses media propaganda to influence and reshape children's behavior and perception...read more

Product Description: Book by Gale Group

Thoroughly revised and significantly expanded, the Second Edition of Environmental Ecology provides new case studies and in-depth treatment of the effects of pollution and other disturbances on our oceans, lakes, forests, and air. New chapters on biological resources and ecological applications have been added, including material on environmental economics, import assessments, ecological monitoring, and environmental ethics. Extensive indexes, a glossary, and a bibliography are included.