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Product Description: A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region and humankindâs broken covenant with nature The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship with the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape...read more
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9780300197464 | Yale Univ Pr, February 10, 2015, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region and humankindâs broken covenant with nature The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship with the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape.
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9781469614489 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 2014, cover price $24.95
9780314223166, titled "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" | South-Western Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $70.95 | also contains The Entrepreneur''s Guide to Business Law
Product Description: The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of conservation for a broad readership, from non-specialists to students and practitioners...read more
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9780521181686 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 25, 2013), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship.
Product Description: A new focus on international diplomacy and cooperation as the race for polar resources escalates As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, the Arctic and Antarctic have taken on a more prominent role in international relations...read more
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9780300205169 | Yale Univ Pr, January 13, 2015, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: A new focus on international diplomacy and cooperation as the race for polar resources escalates As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, the Arctic and Antarctic have taken on a more prominent role in international relations.
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9781940468280 | White Cloud Pr, December 15, 2015, cover price $18.95
Product Description: Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today's environmental activists, this book offers an invitation to reestablish our relationship with nature to repair our damaged environment...read more
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9781583947678 | North Atlantic Books, April 22, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt.
Product Description: Co-edited by international earthworm expert Clive A. Edwards, Vermiculture Technology: Earthworms, Organic Wastes, and Environmental Management is the first international, comprehensive, and definitive work on how earthworms and microorganisms interact to break down organic wastes on a commercial basis...read more
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9781439809877, titled "Vermiculture Technology: Earthworms, Organic Wastes, and Environmental Management" | CRC Pr I Llc, December 16, 2010, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: Co-edited by international earthworm expert Clive A.
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9780538466462, titled "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" | 4th edition (South-Western Pub, January 24, 2011), cover price $125.95
9780324204933, titled "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" | 3 edition (South-Western Pub, August 31, 2007), cover price $129.95
9780324042917, titled "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" | South-Western Pub, July 1, 2002, cover price $73.95
9780314223166, titled "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law" | South-Western Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $70.95 | also contains Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
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9780470547854 | Blackwell Pub, August 9, 2011, cover price $103.95
Product Description: Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance. A Fabulous Kingdom charts these quests and the eventual race for the North Pole, chronicling the lives and adventures that would eventually throw light on this "magical realm" of sunless winters...read more
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9780195123821 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The lure of the Arctic forms the basis of this compelling new history of exploration, from the Vikings to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century explorers who vied with each other to reach the last great frontiers on the planet.
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9780199837809 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 30, 2012), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance.
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9781941411353 | Sarabande Books, January 10, 2017, cover price $14.95
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9781466562141 | CRC Pr I Llc, September 18, 2014, cover price $93.95
9780263134544, titled "Learning to Love" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | also contains Learning to Love
Product Description: Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration offers a ray of hope in an increasingly gloomy scenario. This book is the first presentation of revolutionary new methods for restoring damaged marine ecosystems. It discusses new techniques for greatly increasing the recruitment, growth, survival, and resistance to stress of marine ecosystems, fisheries, and eroding shorelines, maintaining biodiversity and productivity where it would be lost...read more
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9781466557734 | Hardcover with CD edition (CRC Pr I Llc, December 4, 2012), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration offers a ray of hope in an increasingly gloomy scenario.
Product Description: Invasion of non-native plant species, which has a significant impact on the earthâs ecosystems, has greatly increased in recent years due to expanding trade and transport among different countries. Understanding the ecological principles underlying the invasive process as well as the characteristics of the invasive plants is crucial for making good management decisions to address this problem...read more
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9781439881262 | CRC Pr I Llc, January 9, 2013, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Invasion of non-native plant species, which has a significant impact on the earthâs ecosystems, has greatly increased in recent years due to expanding trade and transport among different countries.
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9781138001145 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 21, 2014, cover price $39.95
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9780263134544 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | also contains Human Diseases from Wildlife
Product Description: Mineral Beneficiation or ore dressing of run-of-mine ore is an upgrading process to achieve uniform quality, size and maximum tenor ore through the removal of less valuable material. Beneficiation benefits the costs of freight, handling, and extraction (smelting) reduce, and the loss of metal through slag...read more
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9780415882286 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 19, 2011, cover price $92.95 | About this edition: Mineral Beneficiation or ore dressing of run-of-mine ore is an upgrading process to achieve uniform quality, size and maximum tenor ore through the removal of less valuable material.
Product Description: Volume 32 (2013) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed yearbook series âPalaeoecology of Africaâ publishes 9 new interdisciplinary scientific papers on former and recent landscape evolution and on past environments of the African continent (e...read more
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9781138001169 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 15, 2013, cover price $169.95 | About this edition: Volume 32 (2013) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed yearbook series âPalaeoecology of Africaâ publishes 9 new interdisciplinary scientific papers on former and recent landscape evolution and on past environments of the African continent (e.
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9780521199384 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $175.00
Product Description: Soil diversity (pedodiversity) is part of our natural and cultural heritage. The preservation of the pedosphere is essential for the protection of the biosphere and the Earthâs systems, the regulation of climate, and for world food security...read more
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9781466582774 | CRC Pr I Llc, April 8, 2013, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: Soil diversity (pedodiversity) is part of our natural and cultural heritage.
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9780415878791 | CRC Pr I Llc, August 12, 2011, cover price $95.95
Product Description: In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods. Â It flowed on the surface, meandered across the floodplain, and occasionally carved deep channels or arroyos into valley fill...read more
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9780816530724 | Univ of Arizona Pr, June 12, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods.
Over one third of the earth's terrestrial surface is situated in the tropics, with environments ranging from hot deserts to tropical rain forests. This introductory textbook, aimed at students studying tropical ecology, provides a comprehensive guide to the major tropical biomes and is unique in its balanced coverage of both aquatic and terrestrial systems. The volume considers the human ecological dimension, covering issues such as population growth, urbanization, agriculture and fisheries, natural resource use, and pollution. It is international in scope and addresses global issues such as conservation of biodiversity, climate change, and the concept of ecological sustainability. The text is supported throughout by boxes containing supplementary material on a range of topics and organisms, mathematical concepts and calculations, and is enlivened with clear line diagrams, maps, and photographs. A cross-referenced glossary, extensive bibliography, and comprehensive index are included as further aids to study.
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9780521642514 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $202.00 | About this edition: Over one third of the earth's terrestrial surface is situated in the tropics, with environments ranging from hot deserts to tropical rain forests.
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9780521177344 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2012), cover price $69.99
9780521645232 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $84.00
Product Description: Wetlands are, by their very nature, ephemeral and transitional, which makes them challenging to characterize. Yet the need for characterizing wetlands continues to grow, particularly as we develop a better understanding of the wealth of ecosystem services that they provide...read more
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9781466503762 | 2 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, March 27, 2013), cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Wetlands are, by their very nature, ephemeral and transitional, which makes them challenging to characterize.
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