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Conservation & Earth Sciences
The Future of Conservation in America
A Chart for Rough Water
Gary E. Machlis and Jonathan B. Jarvis
“The Future of Conservation in America calls for an enlightened vision for the future. The authors draw from a combined eighty years of public service in conservation and science to chart a course for a new generation of conservation action and leadership.” —President Jimmy Carter
2018 112 p. 5 x 7 7 halftones 311 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54205-8 $14.00
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Peak Oil
Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
“Schneider-Mayerson interprets the tendency towards insularity and inactivism as a sign of the peak-oil subculture having accepted more of the dominant mentality of the past few decades than one might expect: in particular, a deep distrust of collective action, and of the state as capable of doing anything without screwing it up, combined with fatalism and an abiding sense of powerlessness. And feeling powerless, one places no demands on those who do have power (the first step toward gaining any).” —Inside Higher Ed
2015 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 312 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28543-6 $30.00
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The Sun
Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff
“Golub and Pasachoff elucidate all things solar in this scientific primer. They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph. They explore helioseismology, which allows us to peer inside the Sun; look at chromosphere and corona; and proffer pointers on safe amateur observation. Beautifully illustrated, history-rich, and bang up to date.”—Nature
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2017 224 p. 63/4 x 82/3 100 color plates 313 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-757-2 $40.00
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Don’t Look, Don’t Touch, Don’t Eat
The Science Behind Revulsion
Valerie Curtis
“For a book riddled with rancid and revolting things, Don’t Look, Don’t Touch is surprisingly difficult to put down. . . . Perhaps the most illuminating aspect of Curtis’s book is the elegant parallel she draws between parasite avoidance and moral judgment, revealing how a mechanism for keeping us physically well could have led to our lip curling at bad manners, loutish behavior and the perpetrators of crime.” —Times Literary Supplement Food, Drink, and Evolution
Jonathan Silvertown
“A series of beautifully plated amuse-bouche, raising tantalizing and rich ideas. . . . The book left me feeling as if I had attended a dinner party, where foodies, historians, and scientists mingled, sharing vignettes on various foodrelated topics. Each ‘bite’ . . . left me contemplating the relationships between genetic changes, speciation, and, at times, even the future of our planet.”—Science
2020 232 p. 6 x 9 6 maps 315 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76009-4 $19.00
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Coevolution of Life on Hosts
Integrating Ecology and History
Dale H. Clayton, Sarah E. Bush, and Kevin P. Johnson
“Parasites and their hosts constitute fascinating examples of ecological and evolutionary interactions. . . . Clayton and his collaborators . . . have done an impressive job by filling out many of the gaps of knowledge on coevolution, thereby accidentally filling an academic niche in the same way as many ectoparasites squeeze into empty spaces on the host to make their living.”—Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2015 320 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 110 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables 316 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30227-0 $48.00
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The Mantle of the Earth
Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor
Veronica della Dora
“As an account of ideas and artifacts The Mantle of the Earth provides a sweeping backdrop to current-day scientific technologies and practices.”—Science
“Although appropriated by geophysics the Mantle of the Earth has a much longer history magnificently narrated by della Dora. She gives to the critical zones a much richer mythical dimension combining metaphors of weaving and unveiling all the way to Gaia. A masterpiece.”—Bruno Latour
2020 416 p. 6 x 9 10 color plates, 71 halftones 317 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74129-1 $65.00
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Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones
The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils
Ken McNamara
“This is a unique book. There are plenty of titles out there on fossils, and this book has fossils at its heart—but it’s not really about them. It is, rather, an exploration of humanity’s attempts to understand what fossils are and what (if anything) they might do for us. . . . The approach is engaging and different. The revelation of the vast length of time fossils have been collected is remarkable.”—PopularScience.co.uk
The Earth Series from Reaktion Books
This series traces the historical significance and cultural history of natural phenomena and resources.
Desert
Roslynn D. Haynes
2013 248 p. 6 x 81/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones 319 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-169-3 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Air
Peter Adey
2014 224 p. 54/5 x 81/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones 320 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-256-0 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Ice
Klaus Dodds
2018 224 p. 53/4 x 81/4 90 color plates, 10 halftones 321 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-905-7 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
