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What Future

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What Future

The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It's work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says, now what? A...

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The Organic Profit

Andrew N. Case

The Organic Profit

From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products on social media to natural health activists sponsored by organic food companies, the marketplace for advice about how to live life naturally is better stocked than ever. Where did the curious idea of buying one�s way to sustainability come from?In no small part, as Andrew Case shows, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneur and reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and their company, the Rodale Press. These pioneers of...

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Andrew N. Case

Encyclopedia of Cat Breeds

J. Anne Helgren

Encyclopedia of Cat Breeds

Updated with the latest information on all recognized feline breeds, this valuable reference source includes a survey of feline history and evolution, a detailed description of the attributes that make a purebred cat, a summary of feline genetics, and an in-depth discussion of conformation, color, and coat. The breed profiles follow, with each profile accompanied by color photos and a bar graph-style at-a-glance summary of the breed's characteristics. Approximately 45...

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J. Anne Helgren

Puppy Training for Kids

Colleen Pelar

Puppy Training for Kids

Kids and dogs are naturally attracted to each other, and this brand-new title introduces boys and girls to the responsibilities and the joys of puppy care, training, and companionship. Topics covered include– <LI> Purchasing puppy supplies <LI> Housetraining and socializing your puppy <LI> Understanding your puppy's behavior and body language <LI> Keeping your puppy out of trouble <LI> The basics of puppy training <LI> Fun and games...

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Colleen Pelar

Training Your German Shepherd Dog

Brandy Eggeman

Training Your German Shepherd Dog

2018 winner of the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) award for best book on training and sportsDiscover the best training methods for your German Shepherd! Books in B.E.S. Training Your Dog series offer breed-specific advice on virtually every aspect of canine training, including housetraining, obedience to basic verbal commands and hand signals, and walking on a leash. Also covered are humane methods of breaking a dog's bad habits. The German Shepherd is intelligent and a quick...

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Brandy Eggeman

Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds

D. Caroline Coile Ph.D.

Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds

Updated with the latest information on canine breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club, this lavishly illustrated volume has an all-new design and features a treasure trove of information for dog lovers, owners, breeders, and prospective buyers. It begins with a detailed discussion of breed evolution, focusing on the physical and behavioral traits that distinguish one canine breed from another. The book's main section profiles more than 175 breeds, including 27 new breeds, arranged in...

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D. Caroline Coile Ph.D.

Cretaceous Dawn

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Cretaceous Dawn

–Differs from nearly all other dinosaur fiction in that the reader is brought into the past rather than dinosaurs being brought to our time. –Unlike most other dinosaur fiction, Hell Creek portrays the Cretaceous Period with great realism, so the reader feels that he/she is actually there. –The book was written by two novelists who are also scientists, and the science (painstakingly reviewed by three paleontologists)is dead-on accurate and current. –This book is of interest to...

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Yorkshire Terriers

Sharon Lynn Vanderlip

Yorkshire Terriers

If you think that Yorkies are delicate, retiring, and shy…think again. The Yorkie possesses a big dog personality and a big dog attitude inside that cute little doggie body. Dog fanciers who love the diminutive Yorkie quickly learn why this spirited pooch has been a favorite, funny, and feisty pet since the nineteenth century. This Pet Owner's Manual on the Yorkshire terrier will teach you everything you need to know about how to make life with your lovable little...

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Sharon Lynn Vanderlip

Thriving - LifeStyles with Love!

Sheba Suphannahong

Thriving - LifeStyles with Love!

Thriving – LifeStyles with Love! A collection of short stories for inspiration. "Wonderful little Pepper-Uppers." Each saga is shaped as a photo-essay and most need only a few minutes to read. A different way to get a glimpse into the every-day life in Thailand – a travelogue. These are a few of the people that have left particularly large impressions. Knowing them has provided inspiration, energy and...

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Sheba Suphannahong

Frontier Towns On the Mekong

Sheba Suphannahong

Frontier Towns On the Mekong

This ebook is for the modern traveler – the bold, the brave, and those that want to use technology for new insights. Our quirky Frontier Town (Nakhon Phanom) is the perfect place to use as a base for adventure, research, exploration, chill-out and more: * The most spectacular river-caves in the world are across the Mekong in Laos * Ancient stone walls (equal to those in Angkor Wat) can be found meandering the Mekong * Relics of the Buddha...

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Sheba Suphannahong

Penguin-Pedia: Photographs and Fact...

David Inc. Salomon

Penguin-Pedia: Photographs and Facts from One Man's Search for the Penguins of the World

An exhaustive resource for penguin-o-philes, amateur and academic alike, Penguin-Pedia unites careful analysis of the behavior, habitat, reproduction, feeding habits, and population levels of all seventeen penguin species with the author s personal observations and reflections. Each chapter draws on a wealth of scientific data and reports, as well as providing detailed measurements and weights of penguins from various colonies and nests. An extensive bibliography will direct students of the...

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David Inc. Salomon

Making New Nepal

Amanda Therese Snellinger

Making New Nepal

One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal�s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based on extensive ethnographic research between 2003 and 2015,�Making New Nepal�provides a snapshot of an activist generation�s political coming-of-age during a decade of civil war and ongoing democratic street protests.Amanda Snellinger illustrates this...

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Amanda Therese Snellinger

Behind the Curve

Joshua P. Howe

Behind the Curve

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why?In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global...

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Joshua P. Howe

Faith in Nature

Thomas Dunlap

Faith in Nature

The human impulse to religion–the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism–and its moral thrust–from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present. Drawing astonishing parallels between religion and environmentalism, the...

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Thomas Dunlap

The Path to the Double Helix

Robert Olby

The Path to the Double Helix

The 1953 discovery by James Watson and Francis Crick of the molecular structure of DNA ranks among the most dramatic events in the history of science. In this lively, perceptive, and scholarly study, a noted historian of science provides the first in-depth account of this milestone's achievement.Combining scientific and historical approaches, the narrative vividly recaptures the excitement of the conceptualization and evolution of ideas that led to the discovery of the genetic «secret of...

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Robert Olby

Footprints of War

David Andrew Biggs

Footprints of War

When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in central Vietnam. The militarized landscapes here, like many in the world�s historic conflict zones, continue to shape post-war land-use politics.Footprints of War traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in...

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David Andrew Biggs

Shanghai Sacred

Liang Zhang

Shanghai Sacred

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha�ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space.Shanghai Sacred�explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that...

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Liang Zhang

Making Climate Change History

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Making Climate Change History

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about history, while at the same time using history as a way to approach the politics of climate change from a new perspective. Making Climate Change History provides the...

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Cottonwood and the River of Time

Reinhard F. Stettler

Cottonwood and the River of Time

Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime of work in forestry and genetics to guide him, Reinhard Stettler celebrates both what has been learned and what still remains a mystery as he examines not only cottonwoods but also trees more generally, their evolution, and their relationship to society.Cottonwoods flourish on the verge, near streams and rivers. Their life cycle is closely attuned to...

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Reinhard F. Stettler

Ice Bear

Michael Engelhard

Ice Bear

Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both genuinely itself and a screen for our...

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Michael Engelhard

Racial Ecologies

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Racial Ecologies

From the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people�s lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those of Mexican migrant women, New Zealand Maori, and African American farmers in urban Detroit, demonstrating that people of color have always been and continue to be leaders in the fight for...

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Forests of Belonging

Stephanie Karin Rupp

Forests of Belonging

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities–Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam–in the Lobéké forest region of southeastern Cameroon. By slotting forest communities into ecological categories such as «hunters» and «gatherers,» previous analyses of social relationships in tropical forests have resulted in binary frameworks that render real-life relationships invisible and that have perpetuated...

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Stephanie Karin Rupp

The Nature of Borders

Lissa K. Wadewitz

The Nature of Borders

For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea–which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca–drew social and cultural borders around salmon fishing locations and found ways to administer the resource in a sustainable way. Nineteenth-century...

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Lissa K. Wadewitz

Living with Oil and Coal

Dolly Kikon

Living with Oil and Coal

The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work.Anthropologist...

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Dolly Kikon

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