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This unique book establishes potential future avenues within the law to enhance the welfare of animals and grant them recognized legal status. Charting the direction of the animal-human relationship for future generations, it explores the core concepts...

From conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian's Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as practical, biblical ways we can care for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936307531Author John BenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vendera PublishingPublisher Vendera PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565232846Author Denny RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Fox Chapel PublishingPublisher Fox Chapel Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580376Author Rachel LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887593908Author Alice BalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Bluehill PublicationsPublisher Bluehill PublicationsWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions How economic analysis can help us design economic policies to address the looming challenges of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877246951Author Doak WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint White Cloud BooksPublisher Upstart Press Ltd

Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks and...

Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it...

for SATB, upper voices, and organ This compelling work tells the story of creation through a tapestry of biblical passages, spiritual writings, poems, and hymns by writers such as Thomas Traherne. The piece is structured around a recurring refrain,...

Historical ecology is a research framework which draws upon diverse evidence to trace complex, long-term relationships between humanity and Earth. With roots in anthropology, archaeology, ecology and paleoecology, geography, and landscape and heritage...

Four seasons of immersion in New England's Great Marsh"Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature's most intimate details. As she and her husband,...

From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems. They are among the best studied and monitored of organisms, yet many are...

Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications with R and JAGS is the first book on integrated population models, which constitute a powerful framework for combining multiple data sets from the population and the individual levels to...

This is the first fully illustrated guide to all 336 dragonfly and damselfly species of eastern North America--from the rivers of Manitoba to the Florida cypress swamps--and the companion volume to Dennis Paulson's acclaimed field guide to the...

It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern...

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. With "Wild Justice", Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce...

Our relationship with animals is complex and contradictory; we hunt, kill and eat them, yet we also love, respect and protect them. This ambivalent relationship is further complicated by the fact that we attribute human emotions and intelligence to...

"If veganism is about doing your best to not harm any sentient life, we must logically extend that circle of compassion to human animals as well," writes Mark Hawthorne in this practical, engaging guide to veganism and animal rights. Along with...

The only current field guide to sharks and rays of the West Coast of British Columbia.Sharks! The very mention of the word conjures up images of dangerous creatures with a voracious appetite. This public image couldn't be farther from the truth for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582381596Author Herbert S. ZimFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Golden Guides from St. Martin's PressPublisher Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic twentieth century sources reiterating and contesting ideas of race as scientific, and several...

Bordering Devon and Cornwall, the River Tamar stretches through some of the most beautiful and scenic parts of the south west. Over the years, much has changed in the region. Gone are the many barges that once took fruit, vegetables and other produce up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807085493Author Freeman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 298g

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904078623Author Helen SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Langford PressPublisher Langford PressWeight(grams) 520g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676521Author Stefan C. ReifFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955272506Author Louise MarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Empower PressPublisher Empower PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority in the past decade. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the...

In 1990, the skeleton of a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch was found, virtually complete, in what many call the most spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date. Not just another dinosaur book, Tyrannosaurus Sue is a fascinating introduction...

Get the New Edition of Wisconsin's Best-Selling Bird Guide Learn to identify birds in Wisconsin, and make bird-watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look...

Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807085257Author Gary NabhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565126053Author Richard LouvFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871088925Author Harry MiddletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pruett Publishing CoPublisher Pruett Publishing Co ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The clearest and sharpest definition guide to over 500 species of trees from around the world. DK Handbook: Trees explains what a tree is, how trees are classified, and how to keep a record of the trees you have seen. Packed with over 1,000 full-colour...

It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398817364Author Marianne TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

This publication draws upon the fields of science, economics and business strategy to chart the future of humankind's relationship to the ocean. A healthy ocean provides the basis for a prosperous world, and oceans have been largely ignored as a driver...