American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science, Paperback - Megan Raby

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

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Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith IncAuthor(s): Megan RabyIllustration(s): 4/c toNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 239 x 275 x 13Cover t...

Reducere. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast Caribbean archipelago, Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits chronicle how it has been at the hear...

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Laura GaoNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperbac...

This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Robert D. MontoyaIllustration(s): 18 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Collection: History and Fo...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald HorneVirtually no part of the modern United States--the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutio...

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How do you dig up a 13, 000 year-old footprint? Why do kelp forests need sea otters? How do you measure a shrinking glacier from an airplane? What ...

Designed for people researching their family connections in the Caribbean, this guide is particularly useful for those whose ancestry is complicate...

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Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncNumber of pages: 596Collection: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to LandscapesPublic...

Reducere. Rules were made to be broken.From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed te...

One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage ne...

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DescriptionAn essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immedia...

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The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

Reducere. Award NamePROSEAward categoryMusic/Performing ArtsBorn into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmi...