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Houston: Council For Environmental Education, 2013. Paperback. Revised Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not damaged. xxix + 396 pages, illustrations.Project W… Mehr…

Houston: Council For Environmental Education, 2013. Paperback. Revised Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not damaged. xxix + 396 pages, illustrations.Project Wild is an interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program emphasizing wildlife. The goal of Project WILD is to assist learners of any age in developing awareness, knowledge, skills, and commitment resulting in informed decisions, responsible behavior, and constructive actions concerning wildlife and the environment. Contents:Welcome to Project WILD!Section 1. Ecological knowledge. Wildlife populations ; Habitats, ecosystems, and niches ; Interdependence ; Changes and adaptations ; BiodiversitySection 2. Social and political knowledge. Cultural perspectives ; Economic, commercial, and recreational considerations ; Historical and geographic development ; Political and legislative frameworksSection 3. Sustaining fish and wildlife resources. Attitudes and awareness ; Human impacts ; Issues and trends ; Wildlife management ; Responsible action and serviceAppendices, Council For Environmental Education, 2013, 5, New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A close and disturbing study of the alterations in tropical Africa due to industrialization, pollution, over-consumption, over-poulation, soil erosion, deforestation, and other factors of the modern era, what is being done or not done to counter the negatives inherent in these developments, and what the future presents if present trends are not reversed. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, contains maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, indexed, 214pp., d.j. shows very light edgewear. A nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival plastic protector. Very rare, especially in this condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Oxford University Press, 1973, 4, New York: Thomas Dunne Books : St. Martin's Press, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition (stated).. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). A fascinating examination of what would become of the planet Earth were humans to suddenly vanish - generating infrastructure collapse, floods, new types of fossilization, man-made molecules released, reversions to the wild, bird populations flourishing, perishing human-addicted insects, and overall the planet revealing its remarkable capacity to self-heal and return in new abundance. Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated, bibliography, indexed, 324pp. A nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Thomas Dunne Books : St. Martin's Press, 2007, 4, Easton, PA: Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine-/None. Pictorial softcover with light edgewear at extremities. Spine is uncreased. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Foreword by Michiko Okaya; Preface, Adrian Plant; Acknowledgments, Brandon Ballengée; Introduction: Seasons in Hell, Roel Arkesteijn and Peter Fransman; 1 Darwin?s Pigeons: Rediscovering a Collection of Evolutionary Icons, Joanne H. Cooper 2 Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons, James A. Secord 3 The Evanescent Presence of Sculpted Wings, KuyDelair 4 A Habit of Deciding Influence: Pigeons from Charles Darwin's Breeding Experiments, Ballengée 5 Mapping Purgatory: Brandon Ballengée in Conversation with Roel Arkesteijn, Arkesteijn and Ballengée 6 Brandon Ballengée: Art/Science/Activism, Robert S. Mattison 7 Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon, Ballengée 8 Apparitions, Ballengée 9 A Season in Hell Series: Deadly Born Cry, Ballengée with KuyDelair and Stanley K. Sessions. Artist, biologist and environmental educator, Brandon Ballengée creates transdisciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians and other ectothermic vertebrates. From 2009 through 2015 he continued his amphibian research as a Visiting Scientist at McGill University (Montréal, Canada) and in 2011 he was awarded a conservation leadership fellowship from the National Audubon Society's TogetherGreen Program (USA). Ballengée's art has been exhibited internationally and in the summer of 2013 the first career survey of his work debuted at the Château de Charamarande in Essonne (France), and travelled to the Museum Het Domein in Sittard (Netherlands) in 2014. A mid-career retrospective of his work will open fall 2016 at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Plymouth (England) in collaboration with the Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland). Currently he is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biological Sciences Department at Louisiana State University studying the impact on fishes from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (-from the publisher), Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2015, 4, Santa Barbara, CA: Joseph Simon, 1984. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 182 clean, unmarked pages/ index... "Environmental philosopher and writer S. P. R. Charter discusses and evaluates population pressures, the Vatican, acid rain, insanities of war and preparation for war, man-machine invasions of the mind, pretentious economic aid, procreation, man/woman similarities and differences as basic biological truth.". 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8 vo., Joseph Simon, 1984, 4, Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 2015. 337, 16 plates col photos, col illus, 98 b/w illus + maps. . HB. Fine in d/w.. Monarch butterflies are among the most popular insect species in the world and are an icon for conservation groups and environmental education programs. Monarch caterpillars and adults are easily recognizable as welcome visitors to gardens in North America and beyond, and their spectacular migration in eastern North America (from breeding locations in Canada and the United States to overwintering sites in Mexico) has captured the imagination of the public.Monarch migration, behavior, and chemical ecology have been studied for decades. Yet many aspects of monarch biology have come to light in only the past few years. These aspects include questions regarding large-scale trends in monarch population sizes, monarch interactions with pathogens and insect predators, and monarch molecular genetics and large-scale evolution. A growing number of current research findings build on the observations of citizen scientists, who monitor monarch migration, reproduction, survival, and disease. Monarchs face new threats from humans as they navigate a changing landscape marked by deforestation, pesticides, genetically modified crops, and a changing climate, all of which place the future of monarchs and their amazing migration in peril.To meet the demand for a timely synthesis of monarch biology, conservation and outreach, Monarchs in a Changing World summarizes recent developments in scientific research, highlights challenges and responses to threats to monarch conservation, and showcases the many ways that monarchs are used in citizen science programs, outreach, and education. It examines issues pertaining to the eastern and western North American migratory populations, as well as to monarchs in South America, the Pacific and Caribbean Islands, and Europe.. [9780801453151], Comstock Publishing, 2015, 0<