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  • Sustaining Lake Superior

    An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

    by Nancy Langston ...
    A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Where Land and Water Meet

    A Western Landscape Transformed

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Climate Ghosts

    Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon.Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Reindeer

    A Tale of Nature and Survival in a Changing North

    by Nancy Langston ...
    A global history of human relationships with reindeer, and how wildlife relocation can preserve both reindeer populations and cultural heritageAcross the Arctic and the boreal north, reindeer populations are dwindling as our ever developing planet grows warmer. Reindeer range is roughly half what it was in the nineteenth century, and populations have dropped by more than half in the past ten years ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Bears

    Without Fear

    by Kevin Van Tighem ...
    Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into a world already populated by these great carnivores. Before we mastered iron and later developed firearms, we had few defences against bears—only watchful caution and elaborate ceremonies and sacrifices to ward off fear.Where human populations grow, bears have traditionally dwindled ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Eternal Frontier

    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, "full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology" ( The Washington Post Book World).Here, "the rock star of modern science" tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • American Serengeti

    The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

    by Dan Flores ...
    Winner: Western Heritage Book AwardSpur Award FinalistStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book AwardAmerica’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Beloved Beasts

    Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

    by Michelle Nijhuis ...
    **Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson AwardOne of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine"At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Grass, Sky, Song

    Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

    by Trevor Herriot ...
    Published to wide acclaim, this beautiful meditation on the fate of grassland birds has been praised for its profound wisdom and lyrical grace. Herriot, in a narrative that is at once intimate and informative, argues for the essential nature of these tiny creatures. He invites us into the unique world of dedicated scientists, passionate naturalists and such historical figures as 19th-century ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Before Ontario

    The Archaeology of a Province

    Edited by Marit Munson, Susan Jamieson ...
    Series Book 72 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Beaver Manifesto

    by Glynnis Hood ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion. These conflicts reflect a dichotomy within our national identity. We place environment and our ... Read more

    $7.99 USD