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1943-, Ge Sun, and Nishida Harufumi, eds. 3D models of two species of Archaefructus, one of the earliest angiosperms, reconstructed taking account of their ecological strategies. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, 2005.

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John, White. Early accounts of the ecology of the Vermilion River Area. Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, 2002.

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G, Bayfield N., Barrow G. C, and Recreation Ecology Research Group, eds. The ecological impacts of outdoor recreation on mountain areas in Europe and North America: An account of the Recreation Ecology Research Group meeting held at Brathay Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, 9-12 September 1983. Recreation Ecology Research Group, 1985.

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Polievskiy, Sergey. Sports environment. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/21022.

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Discussed global environmental problems of the biosphere, ecology in the city, radiation factor, and its impact on human health, including those engaged in physical culture, sports and tourism, food as endoecological factor. Illuminated by the experience of environmental protection in various sports, including the Olympic games, legislation and international legal cooperation in the field of environmental protection sport environment, increasing the efficiency of physical training and condition under different environmental conditions. Tutorial to be served in integrated, multidisciplina

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Ismailov, Nariman. Globalism and ecophilosophy of the future. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1212905.

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From the point of view of the new science of globalism, the problems of the ecological, socio-economic state of the world and countries are considered through the prism of the interaction of the human psyche and society and the inhabited world. The criteria of ecological civilization of countries and peoples are justified. Optimizing the consumption of natural bio-and energy resources is becoming a fundamental environmental factor for sustainable development. The "Law of the maximum for humanity" as the law of the biosphere can be the arbitration court, the neutral force that will explain the

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Kochetova, Zhanna, Natal'ya Maslova, and Oleg Bazarskiy. Aviation and missile clusters and the environment. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1544137.

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The monograph introduces a new concept - the aviation and missile cluster as a new class of objects of geo-ecological monitoring, united by the solution of identical strategic tasks of the state, the interconnection of its structural elements, the identity of priority contaminants and products of their transformation. The scientific and methodological apparatus of complex geoecological monitoring of territories under the influence of objects of aviation and space activities is presented, including predictive models of the spread and transformation of priority contaminants in environmenta

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Mufwene, Salikoko S. An Ecological Account of the Emergence and Evolution of English. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611040.003.0020.

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What follows is a contact-based account of the emergence of English. Though the role of language contact in the development of World Englishes is often addressed as a coda within History of the English Language (HEL) courses, this chapter presents an alternative story, highlighting contact situations in Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English. The creolist perspective offered here suggests that History of English instructors should look closer at the received doctrine of HEL and consider whether an ecological model should not be used to make sense of the story of Englishes. A per

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Dryzek, John S. 11. Ecological Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780199696000.003.0011.

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This chapter summarizes the volume's main ideas, a common thread of which is a renewed democratic politics, an ecological democracy. Each of the discourses analyzed in the text offers a reasonably comprehensive account of and orientation to environmental affairs at all levels, from the global to the local, and across different issue areas such as pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, and climate change. Of the discourses surveyed, only Promethean discourse and ecological modernization provide any coherent analysis of what to do with the liberal capitalist economic order. The chapter con

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Wienhues, Anna. Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529208511.001.0001.

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As the biodiversity crisis deepens, this book sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet. Developing principles of distributive ecological justice, the book builds towards a bold vision of just conservation that can inform the work of policy makers and activists. The book begins with an overview of ecological justice, sometimes referred to as ecojustice. It refers to interspecies justice, which des

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Banies, Kristina. Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community. Lexington Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666993653.

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Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections between traditional ecological practices and the health and wellness of the Maya community living there. It discusses how complex histories, ecologies, and development practices are negotiated by individuals of all ages, and the community at large, detailing how they interact with their changing environments. The study has wide applicability for indigenous communities fighting for rights to manage

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Linson, Adam, and Eric F. Clarke. Distributed cognition, ecological theory and group improvisation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199355914.003.0004.

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This chapter proposes a way to understand the social, distributed and ecological underpinnings of improvised musical activity. It argues that significant aspects of collaborative performance may arise from perceptual, cognitive and action-orientated factors, in relation to prior experience and the broader historical and cultural context. The chapter illustrates ways in which each improviser in a collaboration may attune to different aspects of the circumstances, with idiosyncratic perceptions of the available affordances guided by attentional processes, physical aspects of the human body and m

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Flowers and Insects: Contributions to an Account of the Ecological Relations of the Entomophilous Flora and the Anthophilous Insect Fauna of the Neighborhood of Carlinvilla, Illinois. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Flowers and Insects: Contributions to an Account of the Ecological Relations of the Entomophilous Flora and the Anthophilous Insect Fauna of the Neighborhood of Carlinvilla, Illinois. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds, and Plants, Treated from Some Aspects of Their Evolution and Ecological Relations. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.

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Brendle-Behnisch, Günther, Claudius Moseler, and Christoph Raabs, eds. Wirtschaft ohne Wachstumszwang. Tectum – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783828876903.

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This book presents a blueprint for a new ecological, social market economy with which to tackle the emerging climate crisis, the ecological crisis and the social upheaval associated with them, containing an abundance of demands, appropriate and important measures to be taken, concepts and visions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the issue which takes into account interrelationships, contradictions, reciprocal effects and partnerships. It presents a new ecological, social and socio-economic master plan, which stems from a symposium involving renowned academics and experts from var

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Chubb, Charles, Joshua A. Solomon, and George Sperling. The Contrast Contrast Illusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0041.

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To most observers, a patch of medium-contrast texture viewed against a background of high-contrast texture appears lower in contrast than an identical patch viewed against a homogeneous, mean gray background. This is the contrast contrast illusion. This chapter reviews basic findings concerning this illusion; for example, the contrast contrast illusion is selective for texture spatial frequency as well as for texture contrast polarity. Several theories to account for the illusion are discussed. Related concepts such as texture contrast, textual granularity, individual differences, contrast pol

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Guttinger, Stephan. A Process Ontology for Macromolecular Biology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0015.

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This chapter argues (a) that macromolecules are fundamentally relational entities and (b) that only a process ontology can account for them. The basis for the argument is the ecological model proposed in 1981 by Charles Birch and John B. Cobb, which states that all entities, from atoms to populations, are ecosystems and hence fundamentally relational in character. The chapter first discusses how Birch and Cobb use the concept of internal relations to argue that ecosystems are processual in nature. It then shows that their account fails when it comes to macromolecules, as it does not offer an u

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Nichols, Shaun. Rational Rules. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869153.001.0001.

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Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental representations. Rational Rules offers an account of the acquisition of key aspects of normative systems in terms of general-purpose rational learning procedures. In particular, it offers statistical learning accounts of: (1) how people come to think that a rule is act-based, that is, the rule prohibits producing certain consequences but not allowing such consequences to occur or persist; (2) how people come to expect that a new rule will also be act-based; (3) how people come to believe a principle of liberty, accordin

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Thompson, John D. Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835141.001.0001.

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Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean: Insights for conservation brings together a diverse literature on the Mediterranean flora in a detailed but synthetic account of plant evolutionary ecology. The central themes of ecological dynamics and evolutionary differentiation are developed at two spatial scales: habitat variation across the landscape and biogeographic processes across the Mediterranean. The history of the Mediterranean region is at the heart of this account and is described within a triptych that links geological and climatic history to the advent and history of human activities. The

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Fiorino, Daniel J. Inequality and Green Growth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190605803.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the role of economic inequality in influencing a society’s capacity for ecological protection and green growth. Its premise is that for two similar political systems differing only in their degree of inequality, the less unequal one will have advantages. Although there still is limited research on the role of income and wealth inequality in influencing ecological performance, evidence suggests that more economically equitable societies hold an advantage. This is partly due to economic factors, such as the tendency in more unequal societies to promote consumption based on

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Anderson, Greg. Governed by Gods. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886646.003.0012.

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In this new account of Athenian demokratia, the most significant human activities in the polis were not political deliberations or economic transactions but ritual engagements with gods, the non-human agencies who ultimately controlled the very conditions of existence. To a point, offerings to gods were like taxes rendered to maintain the infrastructure of the cosmos. Ritual actions were thus performed more or less continually, at a wide range of locations, from household shrines to major sanctuaries, by all inhabitants of Attica, male and female, young and old, Athenian and non-Athenian alike

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Bell, Stephen, Christine Rockley, and Anne Llewellyn. Flora of the Hunter Region. CSIRO Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486311033.

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The Hunter Region, between the Hawkesbury and Manning rivers in eastern New South Wales, hosts a rich diversity of vegetation, with many species found nowhere else. Spanning an area from the coast to the tablelands and slopes, its rainforests, wet and dry sclerophyll forests, woodlands, heathlands, grasslands and swamps are known for their beauty and ecological significance. Flora of the Hunter Region describes 54 endemic trees and large shrubs, combining art and science in a manner rarely seen in botanical identification guides. Species accounts provide information on distribution, habi

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Dodds, Klaus, and Jamie Woodward. The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198819288.001.0001.

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The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of the Arctic, its physical environment, and its people. The Arctic is demanding global attention as it warms, melts, and thaws in a manner that threatens not just its 4 million inhabitants, but the whole planet. The reduction of the Arctic to its changing environment would ignore the complexities of the region and its potential. This VSI explores key issues facing the region today, from geopolitics to global warming. It examines the causes and effects of cultural, physical, ecological, political, and economic change in the Arctic, and

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Caradonna, Jeremy L. Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197625026.001.0001.

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Sustainability: A History is a substantially revised second edition that takes account of climate change policy, climate activism, and the expansion of the sustainability movement since the first addition appeared in 2014. The book provides an accessible and largely jargon-free overview of the origins and development of sustainability from circa 1700 to the present. It is useful both as a teaching aid for courses on history, the human dimensions of climate change, corporate social responsibility, ecological economics, urban planning, and more, and for the general reader interested in understan

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Gallagher, Shaun. Action and Interaction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846345.001.0001.

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Action and Interaction is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the nature of action, starting with questions about action individuation, context, the notion of ?basic action? and the temporal structure of action. The importance of circumstance for understanding action is stressed. These topics lead to questions about intention and the sense of agency and ultimately to the idea that we need to consider action in the social contexts of interaction. The second part looks at the role of interaction in discussions of social cognition, building a contrast between standard theory- of-m

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Henning, Bethany. Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious. Publishing Group, Inc., 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666990010.

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John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of “experience” generated new approaches to education and democracy and re-grounded philosophy’s search for truth in the needs of life as it is shared and lived. However, interpretations of Dewey after the linguistic turn have either obscured or rejected the considerable role that he gives to the non-discursive dimension of experience. In Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience, Bethany Henning argues that much classical American philosophy

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James, Harrison. 9 Addressing the Marine Environmental Impacts of Climate Change and Ocean Acidification. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198707325.003.0009.

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Chapter 9 addresses the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the marine environment and the extent to which international law has reacted to this emerging threat to the ecological integrity of the oceans. These issues are particularly challenging to regulate because of their wide-ranging causes and effects. This chapter, therefore, takes into account both how the global legal regime relating to climate change, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, has taken into account the oceans, as well as how sectoral treaties dealing w

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Suhail, Peer Ghulam Nabi. Power, Politics, and Struggles over Land. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477616.003.0006.

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The sixth chapter of the book presents a historical account of peasants’ resistance to the land-grabs in Kashmir. It describes how people fought the lonely battle to stop land-grabbing, whereby neither the media nor the local administration or the civil society supported them. With resistance against land-grabbing not yielding any positive results, peasants made the transition from resistance against land-grabs to struggle for compensation. Besides discussing about the peasants’ resistance, the chapter also describes the external dimension of resistance to KHEP, whereby the resistance comes fr

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Frid, Christopher L. J., and Bryony A. Caswell. Marine Pollution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726289.001.0001.

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We use more than 100 000 chemicals in our daily lives to promote health, treat disease, facilitate transportation, use in industrial processes, grow food and access clean water. While these developments have improved human lives, many of these compounds ultimately end up in our seas and oceans where they represent a threat to marine life, ourselves and our continued use of the oceans to treat our waste, provide us with food and offer us recreation. Many of the pollution problems of previous decades seem to have been resolved, in the developed world, or at least managed to minimise their enviro

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Belser, Julia Watts. Rabbinic Tales of Destruction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.001.0001.

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Rabbinic Tales of Destruction examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem from the perspective of the wounded body and the scarred land. Amidst stories saturated with sexual violence, enslavement, forced prostitution, disability, and bodily risk, the book argues that rabbinic narrative wrestles with the brutal body costs of Roman imperial domination. It brings disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought to accounts of rabbinic catastrophe, revealing how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empir

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Gardiner, Stephen M., and Allen Thompson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.001.0001.

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Environmental ethics is an academic subfield of philosophy concerned with normative and evaluative propositions about the world of nature and, perhaps more generally, the moral fabric of relations between human beings and the world we occupy. This Handbook contains forty-five newly commissioned essays written by leading experts and emerging voices. The essays range over a broad variety of issues, concepts, and perspectives that are both central to and characteristic of the field, thus providing an authoritative but accessible account of the history, analysis, and prospect of ideas that are ess

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Challenger, Melanie, ed. Animal Dignity. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350331709.

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How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case for applying the concept of dignity beyond its usual humanist framework and introduce readers to animal dignity in history, law, science, philosophy, and literature. United in recognizing the dignity of non-human animals, these essays suggest how we might ensure a flourishing environment in times of

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Halperin, Ehud. The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess. Edited by Robert Yelle. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913588.001.0001.

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Haḍimbā is a major village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a mountainous, rural area known as the Land of Gods. This book is an ethnographic study of Haḍimbā and her dynamic, mutually formative relationship with her community of followers. It explores the part played by the goddess in her devotees’ lives, particularly in their encounters with players, powers, and ideas both local and external, such as invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and, more recently, modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Haḍimbā is revea

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Meyer, Eric Daryl. Inner Animalities. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823280148.001.0001.

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Inner Animalities analyses the human-animal distinction as a discursive theme running ubiquitously through Christian theological anthropology. Arguing that historically pervasive disavowals of human animality create ineradicable contradictions within accounts of human life and also install an anti-ecological impulse at the heart of Christian theology, this project constructively imagines a theological anthropology centered upon human commonality with fellow creatures. This constructive work perceives divine grace at work in human instincts, desires, and enmeshment in quotidian relations (rathe

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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.001.0001.

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For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect companion to reading his ever popular A Sand County Almanac. Winning numerous awards, this comprehensive account of his life story is dynamic and readable, written in the context of the history of American conservation and illustrated with historic photographs. Marybeth Lorbiecki has now enriche

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Byrne, Maria, and Timothy O'Hara, eds. Australian Echinoderms. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486307630.

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Echinoderms, including feather stars, seastars, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals in the sea. They play an important ecological role and several species of sea urchins and sea cucumbers form the basis of important fisheries. Over 1000 species live in Australian waters, from the shoreline to the depths of the abyssal plain and the tropics to Antarctic waters. Australian Echinoderms is an authoritative account of Australia’s 110 families of echinoderms. It brings together in a single volume comprehensive information on the

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Belser, Julia Watts. Materiality and Memory. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.003.0005.

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This chapter reads Bavli Gittin’s destruction narratives through the lens of ecological materialist criticism, tracing the trail of blood and other fleshy residues of the body that run through the account of the devastation of Betar. These tales imagine the body dismembered, undone by the conqueror’s violence. Filled with transcorporeal images of blood and brain seeping into the land, they blur the boundaries between human bodies and the rest of the material world. While these tales memorialize the lingering presence of body and blood in the land, they also betray an anxious instability: the t

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Martin, Graham R. The Sensory Ecology of Collisions and Entrapment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199694532.003.0009.

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Collisions of birds with human artefacts (power lines, wind turbines, glass sheets, etc.) are major source of bird mortality. Many birds are also killed by entrapment in fishing nets. A sensory ecology perspective on this problem shows that collision and entrapment occur because these hazards present perceptual tasks that are beyond the capacities of the birds; birds are carrying out tasks where a hazard would not be predicted; or birds perceive the hazard but make an inappropriate categorical response. Birds that fly into power lines and turbines may be simply not looking ahead or are flying

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Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. Edited by Stephen Allen Fender. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538065.001.0001.

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‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau’s classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau’s reading and thinking and considers

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Tribble, Evelyn. Skill. Edited by Henry S. Turner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641352.013.9.

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This chapter examines early modern theatricality through the lens of skill. It seeks to reclaim a positive account of the skill and expertise of early modern players, arguing that attention to skill has the potential to reorganize the categories through which we view the early modern theatre. It considers how feats of skill inform our understanding of specific plays by describing an ‘ecological’ model of theatrical skill. It contends that theatre must be relocated onto a continuum with other occasional public games and entertainments, all of which required special combinations of physical, ver

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Barry, John. Citizenship and (Un)Sustainability. Edited by Stephen M. Gardiner and Allen Thompson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.30.

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This chapter explores some of the connections (causal and other) between the decline in active citizenship, the displacement of citizenship by consumer identities and interests, and the shift to a transactional mode of democratic politics and how and in what ways these are connected with “actually existing unsustainability.” It proposes an account of “green republican citizenship” as an appropriate theory and practice of establishing a link between the practices of democracy and the processes of democratization in the transition from unsustainability. The chapter begins from the (not uncontrov

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Tkach, V. P., N. Yu Vysotska, A. S. Torosov, et al. Economic evaluation of ecosystem services of Ukrainian forests. Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration named after G. M. Vysotsky, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.33220/2023.978-617-8195-57-1.

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Ecological-economic calculations are presented for assessing the ecosystem services of Ukrainian forests, taking into account international trends. An economic estimation is provided for both wood and non-wood forest products, as well as for the climate-regulating, phytomeliorative, rehabilitation, recreational, and social functions of Ukrainian forests. Additionally, the economic value of the biodiversity of woody plants and forest genetic resources is determined. This scientific publication is intended for forestry professionals, experts of scientific and project organizations, as well as te

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Watson, Robert N. Throne of Blood. 2nd ed. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839021909.

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Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa’s reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors, and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan. Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the film’s central tension between individual aspiration and the stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and therefore bet

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Reynolds, Sally C., and René Bobe, eds. African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139696470.

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Humans evolved in the dynamic landscapes of Africa under conditions of pronounced climatic, geological and environmental change during the past 7 million years. This book brings together detailed records of the paleontological and archaeological sites in Africa that provide the basic evidence for understanding the environments in which we evolved. Chapters cover specific sites, with comprehensive accounts of their geology, paleontology, paleobotany, and their ecological significance for our evolution. Other chapters provide important regional syntheses of past ecological conditions. This book

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Anger, Klaus, Steffen Harzsch, and Martin Thiel, eds. Developmental Biology and Larval Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190648954.001.0001.

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This volume examines Developmental Biology and Larval Ecology, Chapters in this volume synthesize our current understanding of early crustacean development from the egg through the embryonic and larval phase. The first part of this volume focuses on the fundamental aspects of crustacean embryonic development. The second part of the book provides an account of the larval phase of crustaceans and describes processes that influence the development from hatching to an adult-like juvenile. The third and final part of the book explores ecological interactions during the planktonic phase and how crus

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Perullo, Nicola. Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350496941.

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Is there a connection between the environmental, climate, and politicalcrises facing us todayand Western dualism?By critically examining the subject/object dualism that has supported Western philosophy and aesthetics since the 17th century, Nicola Perullo presents a relational and co-operative account of aesthetic experience and human existence. Exploring science, ontology and aesthetics through the perspectives of quantum physics’ relational interpretation and non-dualistic philosophies, Perullo draws on Western theories in anthropology and cultural traditions such as Buddhism and Daoism. We

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McPhee, Peter. Environmental History of France. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350267824.

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The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves.But it has not always looked like it does today.An Environmental History of Franceinstead presents the countryside in which people live and work and through which they travel as a human creation across 250 years of economic and cultural change, war and revolution. It is a book about the ‘making’ of the French landscape and an engrossing story linking human geography, history, agriculture and culture. Showing an awareness of the origins and nature of current ecologic

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Baker, Maria, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, and Paul Tyler, eds. Natural Capital and Exploitation of the Deep Ocean. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841654.001.0001.

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The deep ocean is, by far, the planet’s largest biome and holds a wealth of potential natural assets. Most of the ocean lies beyond national jurisdiction and hence is the responsibility of us all. Human exploitation of the deep ocean is rapidly increasing, becoming more visible to many through the popular media. The scientific literature of deep-sea exploitation and its actual and potential effects has also rapidly expanded as a direct function of this increased national and global interest in deep-sea resources, both biological (e.g. fisheries, genetic resources) and non-biological (e.g. mine

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Brei, Andrew T., ed. Ecology, Ethics and Hope. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881812867.

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Ecology, Ethics, and Hope explores what hope is, how it operates, and whether or not it is important in our response to ecological challenges like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and pollution. The book offers an accessible and timely overview of this emerging topic within environmental ethics, a platform for further discussion, and refinement of the notion of hope. Hope has started to receive more theoretical attention from philosophers and social scientists. In light of worsening ecological conditions, the concept of hope may offer motivation for us to change our destructiv

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Long, John L. Introduced Mammals of the World. CSIRO Publishing, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643090156.

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Winner in the Scholarly Reference section of the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. Introduced Mammals of the World provides a concise and extensive source of information on the range of introductions of mammals conducted by humans, and an indication as to which have resulted in adverse outcomes. It provides a very valuable tool by which scientists can assess future potential introductions (or re-introductions) to avoid costly mistakes. It also provides tangible proof of the need for political decision makers to consider good advice and make wise and cautiou

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