Lakes, Ponds & Swamps

Reproductive Biology of the Crocodylia is based on over 40 years of research on global crocodiles, alligators and caimans. It brings together data and information previously scattered across publications to synthesize knowledge on the history, ecology,...

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water...

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity have economic, political, national security, and cultural implications and ramifications that cross the US-Canadian border...

Wetlands encompass a diversity of habitats that rely on the presence of water to survive. Over the last two centuries, these hard-to-reach areas have been viewed with disdain or eliminated by a public that saw them only as dangerous and worthless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486840086Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

'Cities are not just brick and mortar; they represent the dreams, aspirations, and hopes of societies.'UN Habitat (2008)Urban lakes are part of many of the cities we live in. They are often intricately bound with the city's social fabric, valued for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620053683Author James KavanaghPage Count 12Imprint Waterford Press LtdPublisher Waterford Press LtdWeight(grams) 159g

Winner of the Governor General's award for Nonfiction In this wry, sensual, and entertaining journey into the greatest lake country on earth, Allan Casey examines how lakes provide an open door to wilderness for average people, how our deepest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343103Author Doug StammFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

Throughout much of the world, frog populations are declining and some species are disappearing totally. In Australia, several species have become extinct in the past 25 years. This revised and updated guide provides concise accounts of all the known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583947975Author William V. P. NewlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 640g

In the earliest days of the United States as settlers made their way west and into what would eventually become Kentucky, they were faced with many challenges in the task of surveying and claiming new and unknown land.Among the highest priorities for new...

'Cities are not just brick and mortar; they represent the dreams, aspirations, and hopes of societies.'UN Habitat (2008)Urban lakes are part of many of the cities we live in. They are often intricately bound with the city's social fabric, valued for...

Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world's water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one's neighbor is of global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874515091Author Joan ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett's analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf...

Exploring and appreciating the fascinating ecosystems of bogs and fensPeatlands-and specifically "bogs"-have long been a source of fascination for humans, and these amazing places are truly living relics of the Ice Age. More recently, bogs have come to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643260488Author John Richard SaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Timber Press (OR)Publisher Timber Press (OR)Weight(grams) 152g

Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because we are so much a part of it. While many of our effects on the natural world today are new, from climate change to nuclear fallout, our connections to it are ancient, as core...

An exciting foray into Earth's inland waters, the remarkable species they contain, and the conservation challenges of protecting them.We call Earth "the blue planet" because oceans cover 71 percent of its surface. But this description ignores the diverse...

Lakes are among the Upper Midwest’s greatest treasures and most valuable natural resources. The Great Lakes define the region, and thousands of smaller lakes offer peace, joy, and recreation to millions. And yet, in large part because of the numbers of...