Product Description: Describes how nature and wildlife have been affected by global warming, and what steps are being taken to limit the effects now and in the future.

Product Description: We all know that hunters and fishermen pay more for conservation in the U.S. than all other Americans combined. But doesn't it annoy you that schools and just about everybody else ignore this inconvenient truth? Getting Involved is a good, fun, fact-filled book written by a former antihunter that explains the important role hunters and hunting organizations play in conservation...read more

Product Description: Discusses the impacts of human activity on the environment, and how tourism and leisure activities can be managed more sustainably to have less of an impact on the environment.

The Amazon rain forest is in crisis. Illegal miners are destroying the homes of millions of plants and animals; however, one group of scientists is exploring the far off regions of a newly formed national park to stop the destruction. How can they help to save the rain forest? Who will they get to help them?

In this book, children learn what nature is, what lives in nature, and ways they can care for nature.

Fearful that her giant Sitka spruce won't be standing in the Walbran Valley when she arrives, Maxine is excited to see her old friend alive and well upon her approach, yet hearing a strange sound coming from the branches above, Maxine gets an extra surprise when she learns from a tree climber that a mamu has made a nest in her special tree!

The aim of this book is to provide a general introduction, for the specialist and for students, to the whole field of cancer research. After a general introduction describing the pathology and natural history of the disease, each section gives a more detailed, but nevertheless general summary of its particular area, giving principles rather than a mass of information. Each chapter gives a list for further reading, and there is an extensive glossary. Each topic is discussed by an acknowledged expert who is able to give an authoritative review, but one which is aimed to be comprehensible to the non-expert. The book should give a wider understanding of the practical problems of cancer treatment and research, and indicates the areas in which exciting new developments are taking place and how the application of scientific technology may lead to the solution of many problems in cancer biology. The second edition expands in the areas in which there have been rapid advances in knowledge, especially from the application of new technology. In particular the chapters on genetic and chromosomal changes, growth factors, immunotherapy, and epidemiology have been expanded, and new information on viral and chemical carcinogenesis added. The lists of references and books and articles for further reading have also been updated, as has the glossary. For this second edition many of the illustrations are new or have been redrawn. Comments and criticisms from readers and reviewers have been taken into account in revising the text. (view table of contents)

Explains why conservation is important, and describes some of the choices that must be made when we decide to preserve a wilderness, an historic building, or a species of wildlife.