Pyle, Robert Michael:Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart
- Taschenbuch 2017, ISBN: 9780395465592
Thames And Hudson Ltd, 2008. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name ins… Mehr…
Thames And Hudson Ltd, 2008. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780500285732, Thames And Hudson Ltd, 2008, 0, Columbia University Press (1973), 1973. Paperback. Good. Octavo, softcover, good plus in off-white pictorial wraps. Winner of National Book Award, 1972. Name on inside cover else unmarked. 248 pp including index. Discusses the conditions affecting the survival of the blue whale, and the factors leading to its eventual extinction, as a case study in man's exploitation of natural resources., Columbia University Press (1973), 1973, 2.5, Meadowfield Press Ltd, 1978. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:0904095290, Meadowfield Press Ltd, 1978, 0, Neurobiology of Aging, 4, 203-215 (1983), , 1983. Obr. 4°, 12s., in gutem Zustand, [SAP269], Neurobiology of Aging, 4, 203-215 (1983), 1983, 0, US: Vintage, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. One of the world's most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an a bundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, hi s most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state o f our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time and the natural treasures we are about to lose forever. Yet, rather than esche wing doomsday prophesies, he spells out a specific plan to save our world w hile there is still time. His vision is a hopeful one, as economically soun d as it is environmentally necessary. Eloquent, practical and wise, this bo ok should be read and studied by anyone concerned with the fate of the natu ral world. Editorial Reviews Wilson, perhaps our greatest living scientist . . . offers the most powerfu l indictment yet of humanity as destroyer." --San Francisco Chronicle Obser ver "His book eloquently makes one thing clear: . . . we know what we do, and w e have a choice." --The New York Times Book Review "The Future of Life makes it clear once again that Wilson is one of our mos t gifted science writers." --The Washington Post "[An] elegant manifesto. . . . [A] nuanced and evocative explanation of jus t why biodiversity matters." --The New Yorker "Wilson writes with a magisterial tone. . . . The Future of Life is the wor k of a man with deep convictions who is also utterly reasonable." --Bill Mc Kibben, The Boston Globe "Wilson is a member of an important but very rare species: the world-class scientist who is also a great writer." --Nature "A critical report card for planet Earth, an urgent manifesto on global action, an eloquent plea . . . A literate, Vintage, 2003, 3, Shire. Very Good. 5.89 x 0.15 x 8.26 inches. Paperback. 2011. 38 pages. <br>British gundogs, terriers, hounds and especially sh eepdogs are used and held in high regard throughout the world, wh erever working dogs are employed. Wherever sheep are worked by 's trong-eyed' dogs Border Collie blood from Britain is behind it. I nevitably, some old breeds have disappeared and others may follow them. In this book David Hancock describes the working dogs of B ritain down the ages, the extinct and the extant. He covers the d evelopment of the various modern breeds, highlights the changes w hich have taken place in their appearance and regrets the loss of working ability in some breeds. Editorial Reviews About the Au thor David Hancock has been interested in working dogs all his li fe. His career in the regular army brought him into contact with service dogs and enabled him to study working dogs in many countr ies. He has written three other books on dogs, Dogs as Companions , The Heritage of the Dog and The Bullmastiff - A Breeders' Guide , and he contributes regularly to Dogs Monthly an other magazines . He judges working terriers and working tests for gundogs. ., Shire, 2011, 3, Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780195152463, Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2002, 0, 2017. Palaeontology 60-2; pp. 169-185, 8 fig. Orig. extract, stapled, very good, 4to., 0, ISBN: 9780712661683Pimlico | 01 January 1995Paperback | 398 pagesThis study details the various results that can be achieved from tampering with genetic material from ensuring the birth of a male rather than a female child, creating a cow with a vast milk yield, or creating mice that are programmed to die of cancer. The author indicates that already farmers release genetically re-shaped plants into the fields to produce nicer-looking apples, and that whole species of animals can be saved from extinction by genetic techniques. However, the book questions whether the geneticists actually know what they are doing, or are they just following their noses, as did our ancestors, when they developed fire and the axe and destroyed the forests., 0, University of Arizona Press, 2000. Softcover. Good. 96x11x144. A good reading copy. Several sentences have been highlighted. Once hunted by whalers and now the darling of ecotourists, the gray whale has become part of the culture, history, politics, and geography of Mexico's most isolated region. After the harvesting of gray whales was banned by international law in 1946, their populations rebounded; but while they are no longer hunted for their oil, these creatures are now chased up and down the lagoons of southern Baja California by whalewatchers. This book uses the biology and politics associated with gray whales in Mexican waters to present an unusual case study in conservation and politics. It provides an inside look at how gray whale conservation decisions are made in Mexico City and examines how those policies and programs are carried out in the calving grounds of San Ignacio Lagoon and Magdalena Bay, where catering to ecotourists is now an integral part of the local economy.More than a study of conservation politics, Dedina's book puts a human face on wildlife conservation. The author lived for two years with residents of Baja communities to understand their attitudes about wildlife conservation and Mexican politics, and he accompanied many in daily activities to show the extent to which the local economy depends on whalewatching. "It is ironic," observes Dedina, "that residents of some of the most isolated fishing villages in North America are helping to redefine our relationship with wild animals. Americans and Europeans brought the gray whale population to the brink of extinction. The inhabitants of San Ignacio Lagoon and Magdalena Bay are helping us to celebrate the whales' survival." By showing us how these animals have helped shape the lifeways of the people with whom they share the lagoons, Saving the Gray Whale demonstrates that gray whales represent both a destructive past and a future with hope., University of Arizona Press, 2000, 2.5, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Softcover. Good. 5x0x8. Wintergreen is a tale of survival. In the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both the human community and the forest community are threatened with extinction. Virtually every acre of the hills has been logged, often repeatedly, in the past hundred years, endangering both the land and the people, leaving dying towns as well as a devastated ecosystem. Weaving vivid portraits of the place and its inhabitants - animal, plant, and human - with the story of his own love affair with the hills, Robert Michael Pyle has written a book so even-handed in its passion that it has been celebrated by those who make their living with a chain saw as well as by environmentalists. As he writes, My sympathies lie with the people and the woods, but not with the companies that have used them both with equal disregard. Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist and a professional writer who has published twelve books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1974. His acclaimed 1987 book Wintergreen describing the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills near his adopted home was the winner of the 1987 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. His 1995 book Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide was the subject of a Guggenheim Fellowship., Houghton Mifflin, 1988, 2.5<
