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  • Swamplife

    People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades

    by Laura A. Ogden ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Loss and Wonder at the World’s End

    by Laura A. Ogden ...
    In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong—to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Coastal Everglades

    The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape

    Edited by Daniel L. Childers, Evelyn Gaiser, Laura A. Ogden ...
    Series series The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series
    The Coastal Everglades presents a broad overview and synthesis of research on the coastal Everglades, a region that includes Everglades National Park, adjacent managed wetlands, and agricultural and urbanizing communities. Contributors for this volume are all collaborators on the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research Program (FCE LTER). The FCE LTER began in 2000 with a focus on ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

  • The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

    Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

    by J. Morgan Grove, Mary Cadenasso, Steward T. Pickett, Gary E. Machlis, William R. Burch ...
    The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more.This important book draws on ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Gladesmen

    Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers

    by Glen Simmons, Laura Ogden ...
    Series series The Florida History and Culture Series
    Few people today can claim a living memory of Florida's frontier Everglades. Glen Simmons, who has hunted alligators, camped on hammock-covered islands, and poled his skiff through the mangrove swamps of the glades since the 1920s, is one who can. Together with Laura Ogden, he tells the story of backcountry life in the southern Everglades from his youth until the establishment of the Everglades ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Extinction Studies

    Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

    Edited by Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, Deborah Bird Rose ...
    Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Historical Animal

    by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart, Zeb Tortorici, Lisa Cox, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, David Gary Shaw, Andria Pooley-Ebert, Noah Cincinnati, Dolly Jørgensen, Nicola Foote, Charles W. Gunnels, IV, Stephanie Zehnle, Drew Swanson, Scott A. Miltenberger, Andrew McEwen, Courtney E. White ...
    The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1491 (Second Edition)

    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    by Charles C. Mann ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review).Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Song of the Dodo

    Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

    by David Quammen ...
    “Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    by Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A River Never Sleeps

    by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Thomas McGuane ...
    Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it-its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Staying with the Trouble

    Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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