Discusses the technical and economic situations that affect the food supply, industrial farming and its alternatives, and genetically engineered foods.

Product Description: • How are birds so good at flying and navigating?• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different? • Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?• How do they court each other and fend off rivals?• What' s being communicated in birdsong?• Can we ever know how birds think?In this fascinating exploration of the avian class, Colin Tudge considers the creatures of the air...read more

Product Description: This is a practical and concise guide for making decisions in the workplace when ethical issues are at stake. It offers a clear, applicable and easily remembered strategy for decision-making, a list of important ethical principles, and about forty realistic cases posing practical, ethical problems for employees and lower level managers...read more

Arguing that the everyday human intellect has been outpaced by scientific advances, a study of genetics and its potential impact on society explains what we have achieved while noting the ramifications of expanding on such technology.

With nearly 500 richly illustrative photographs, drawings, and pictures The Environment of Life provides a wonderfully colorful survey of mankind's ecological saga. It tells the story of human evolution, describing man's complex role in adapting to and shaping his environment. The clear, nontechnical language offers an open invitation to readers of all levels to follow the unfolding story, step-by-step, from its beginning with an examination of the animal kingdom, to an overview of ecology and ecosystems, the rise of humanity and civilization, and the emergence of today's pressing concerns for a clean, safe environment. The text draws on the latest findings from the many fields that treat man and animals in the natural world--including psychology, ethology, ecology, anthropology, agriculture, and conservation. It has been assembled under the contributory editorship of the eminent Colin Tudge, science writer and broadcaster, and former editor of New Scientist. Part One describes how scientists are investigating animal behaviors in order to determine the evolutionary significance of what they do and why, and in the process help solve key problems concerning population growth, pollution, industrial encroachment, and the international expansion of western technology. Part Two takes a closer look at humanity's often destructive impact on delicate ecological systems, and discusses ways of managing the environment that can restore a harmonious balance between modern needs and the natural world. In breadth and vision--and in its clarity and excellence of presentation--this volume represents a panorama of knowledge that belongs in every home and library.

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Product Description: The message of Feeding People is Easy is the most important that can be conceived. At the moment 38 million people across Africa are at risk of starvation, yet with a major change in our thinking, the world can be fed forever-without cruelty to livestock and without wrecking the planet...read more

Product Description: This book examines the current revolution in plant breeding which could make it possible to support the world's growing population. While presenting a general guide to genetic principles, the author reviews the available methods for improving plant species, from basic breeding practices that have served in the domestication of wild plants, to the latest techniques of tissue culture and genetic engineering...read more

A cookbook for the eighties analyzes current nutritional theories on proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and fiber, addresses concerns about personal and planetary survival, and presents original recipes promoting a new, eclectic cuisine

Product Description: Concern for the environment--brought about by the impact of widespread waste, pollution, and mismanagement--has created a pressing need for information about the countless ways that humans, animals and plants interact in the world around us...read more

Product Description: How genetics, and the technologies that arise from it, will affect the way we live in the twenty-first centuryIn the mid-nineteenth century, a Moravian friar made a discovery that was to shape not only the future of science but also that of the human race...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Last Animals at theZoo, Colin Tudge argues that zoos have become an essential part of modernconservation strategy, and that the only real hope for saving many endangeredspecies is through creative use of zoos in combination with restoration ofnatural habitats...read more

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'Fathers' of the famous cloned sheep explain their work at Edinburgh University-affiliated Roslin Institute and its controversial scientific and ethical ramifications.

The age of trees often inspires awe, from the redwoods of California to English oaks. We wonder how they live so long, and how they really work. This work explores the way trees work and what they are, finding out how they communicate, how they tell the time, how they came to exist, and much more.

Product Description: Colin Tudge coined the expression “Enlightened Agriculture” to describe agriculture that is “expressly designed to provide everyone, everywhere, with food of the highest standard, nutritionally and gastronomically, without wrecking the rest of the world”...read more

Chronicles the period in evolution during which human beings progressed from simians to hominids, citing the pivotal roles of climate, ecology, and geological movements while predicitng future changes

Product Description: There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field...read more

This is an account and reference source of all creatures, alive and extinct. Using classification to show all the principal groups to which living creatures belong, this takes us into some of the most intriguing and intricate areas of biological philosophy and technique. It is useful for everyone who is interested in the diversity of living things.