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  • Embracing the Unknown

    A Fresh Look at Nature and Science

    by Ely Simon MD ...
    Many of us regularly commune with nature-taking walks in the park, watching waves at the beach, gazing up at the nighttime sky. However, most of us don't realize how little we really know about the wonders of our world. Nature is a living system with intricate mechanisms. Some of its greatest admirers are humble scientists who come to feel awe through amazing discoveries.In Embracing the Unknown, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Silent Spring

    by Rachel Carson ...
    Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring" is widely recognized as one of the most important seminal works in launching the environmental movement into public awareness. Originally published in 1962, Carson details the effects of synthetic pesticides on the environment, specifically its effects on bird populations. This taking-to-task of the pesticide industry revolutionized the United States pesticide ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Wilderness Survival Handbook : Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort

    Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort

    by Michael Pewtherer ...
    An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountryOrganized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Little Black Lies

    Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil

    by Jeff Gailus ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxins polluted the environment, cancer reared its head ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Being a Beast

    Adventures Across the Species Divide

    by Charles Foster ...
    In this "tour de force of modern nature writing," a passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal—by living like them ( The Guardian, UK).In Being a Beast, Charles Foster tests the limits of our ability to walk in another's footsteps. He lives alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Touching the Wild

    Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch

    by Joe Hutto ...
    In Illumination in the Flatwoods, Joe Hutto unveiled the secret lives of wild turkeys to great critical acclaim, which resulted in the Emmy Awardwinning PSB documentary My Life as a Turkey. Now Hutto has done it again. Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Rockies for almost seven years.Due to the intense curiosity of one ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Waterworlds

    Anthropology in Fluid Environments

    Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup ...
    Series Book 3 - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
    In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Wetland Ecology

    Principles and Conservation

    by Paul A. Keddy ...
    Richly illustrated and packed with numerous examples, this unique global perspective introduces wetland ecology from basic principles to advanced applications. Thoroughly revised and reorganised, this new edition of this prize-winning textbook begins with underlying causal factors, before moving on to more advanced concepts that add depth and context. Each chapter begins with an explanation of the ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Hands-On Agronomy

    by Neal Kinsey, Charles Walters ...
    The soil is more than just a substrate that anchors crops in place. An ecologically balanced soil system is essential for maintaining healthy crops. Hands-On Agronomy is a comprehensive manual on effective soil fertility management providing many on-farm examples to illustrate the various principles and how to use them. The function of micronutrients, earthworms, soil drainage, tilth, soil ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5

    by Petr Šmilauer, Jan Lepš ...
    This revised and updated edition focuses on constrained ordination (RDA, CCA), variation partitioning and the use of permutation tests of statistical hypotheses about multivariate data. Both classification and modern regression methods (GLM, GAM, loess) are reviewed and species functional traits and spatial structures analysed. Nine case studies of varying difficulty help to illustrate the ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

  • Community Ecology

    Analytical Methods Using R and Excel

    by Mark Gardener ...
    Series series Data in the Wild
    Interactions between species are of fundamental importance to all living systems and the framework we have for studying these interactions is community ecology. This is important to our understanding of the planets biological diversity and how species interactions relate to the functioning of ecosystems at all scales. Species do not live in isolation and the study of community ecology is of ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • What Fish Don't Want You to Know

    The Insider's Guide to Fresh-Water Spin-Fishing

    by Frank P. Baron ...
    Expert, field-tested advice for anglers at every levelThis comprehensive, entertaining, and foolproof guide covers everything novice and avid anglers need to know to catch freshwater fish--from bass and trout to salmon and walleye--and reveals the two basic ways to catch ALL fish.With numerous photographs and illustrations, easy-to-follow instructions, and a liberal dose of good humor, the author ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD