The remarkable breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898--1963) work is nearly as legendary as the fantastical tales he so inventively …
""Embark on a breathtaking journey through the captivating story of life on Earth with Elsa Panciroli's 'The Earth: A Biography …
The Great Gatsby is that rare classic that inescapably defines the agefrom which it sprang: the Roaring 20s, an era …
Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. …
Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. …
Contributors: Franzi Korner-Nievergelt, Tobias Roth, Stefanie von Felten, Jérôme Guélat, Bettina Almasi, Pius Korner-Nievergelt Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using …
At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally …
Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation’s sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world’s population is now classified …
The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics “matching” the characteristics of crucially …
Authoritative, thorough, and engaging, Life: The Science of Biology achieves an optimal balance of scholarship and teachability, never losing sight …
An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native …
Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry, Third Edition by Eldor Alvin Paul The topics that the editor selected, are well developed …
In Tropical Forest Ecology, Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., one of the world's foremost tropical ecologists, introduces readers to the tropical …
By showing how and why human nature is what it is, evolutionary theory can help us see better what we …
In 32 posthumously collected lectures, articles and essays, anthropologist Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) applies principles of cybernetics, which he helped develop, …
Leaves are all around us—in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the …
We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, …
Princess Mononoke (1997) is one of anime’s most important films. Hayao Miyazaki’s epic fantasy broke domestic box office records when …
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of …
Transdisciplinary Case Studies on Design for Food and Sustainability, a volume in the Consumer Science and Strategic Marketing series, analyzes …
Indhold: The Sustainability of Beauty ; The Aesthetic Imperative ; Three Principles ; Many Senses ; Ecology and Imagery ; …
This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this “entanglement” is a fundamental aspect of all …
This collection of selected contributions gives an account of recent developments in dynamic game theory and its applications, covering both …
This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations. It …
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or …
This two-volume, interdisciplinary work is a unified presentation of a broad range of state-of-the-art topics in the rapidly growing field …
This monograph takes stock of our current knowledge on the evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases, and sets out the goals …
