Understanding Human Ecology

DescriptionWe are facing hugely complex challenges - from climate change to world poverty, our problems are part of an inter-related web of social ...

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field...

Reducere. Kabbalah and Ecology is a groundbreaking book that resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions. David Mevorach Seidenberg ch...

Reducere. Marine Ecology : Processes, Systems, and Impacts The oceans cover the majority of the Earth's surface; they influence our climate and provide a val...

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays...

Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ...

Reducere. Over the past half century, our understanding and awareness of spirituality has changed in nature, as have the issues facing activists. Spiritualit...

Reducere. The completely revised Human Evolution Coloring Book Provides an authoritative, scientific background for understanding the origins of humanityIncl...

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza,...

Reducere. Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth--using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia? Human responses to the natural world str...

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea co...

Reducere. Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth--using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia? Human responses to the natural world str...

Reducere. "Decolonizing the Diet" challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in "virgin soils"...

Contributor(s): Author: Heather SwanColony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction--these are just a...

DescriptionEcotoxicology Essentials: Environmental Contaminants and Their Biological Effects on Animals and Plants provides a fundamental understan...

Reducere. Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Stephen Maher provide a newly updated and expanded primer for twenty-first century democratic socialists. The Socialis...

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

Contributor(s): Author: Theodore RoszakWhat is the bond between the human psyche and the living planet that nurtured us, and all of life, into exis...

Reducere. Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan's role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the drop...

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibili...

Reducere. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Jared Diam...

Ponds and small lakes support an extremely rich biodiversity of fascinating organisms. Many people have tried pond-dipping and encountered a few un...