Environmental Humanities and Cultural Anthropology

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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,962 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good 4.16 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Technological Slavery
Technological Slavery 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History 4.09 avg rating — 7,200 ratings
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder 3.93 avg rating — 14,736 ratings
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Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity 4.27 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves 3.85 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History 3.52 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit 3.90 avg rating — 82,173 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins 4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings
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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us 4.06 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
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On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition 4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Indian Country
Indian Country 4.10 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World: Practical Advice and Everyday Actions for a More Sustainable, Humane, and Compassionate Planet
The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World: Practical Advice and Everyday Actions for a More Sustainable, Humane, and Compassionate Planet 4.15 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
Storytellers at the Columbia River 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America 4.05 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
Coal: A Human History 3.72 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
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Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (Volume 75) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (Volume 75) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink 4.16 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America 3.86 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land
Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land 3.99 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality and Our Biological Nature
The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality and Our Biological Nature
by: L. Sun
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Environmental History and the American South: A Reader
Environmental History and the American South: A Reader 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World 4.19 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health 4.11 avg rating — 3,392 ratings
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The Conquest of the Ocean: An Illustrated History of Seafaring
The Conquest of the Ocean: An Illustrated History of Seafaring 3.83 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity 4.08 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism 4.13 avg rating — 566 ratings
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An Environmental History of Northeast Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
An Environmental History of Northeast Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Man Who Climbs Trees
The Man Who Climbs Trees 4.16 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology 4.16 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict (Center Books)
Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict (Center Books) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Living Forest: A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods
The Living Forest: A Visual Journey Into the Heart of the Woods 4.53 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter 4.05 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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Nature's Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida
Nature's Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
Nature's Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World 3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History
People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations 4.15 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind 3.38 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey 4.13 avg rating — 212 ratings
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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature 3.55 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America
Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization 3.98 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Wildness: Relations of People and Place
Wildness: Relations of People and Place 4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
by: Mark Derr
3.51 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World 4.10 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Natural History Essays
The Natural History Essays 3.78 avg rating — 91 ratings
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What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods
What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods 4.25 avg rating — 56 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons 4.39 avg rating — 8,662 ratings
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Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Beyond Freedom and Dignity 3.75 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
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Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver 3.99 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy 4.17 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival 4.05 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood
The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
by: J. Ives
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History 3.82 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice 3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation
Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History 4.07 avg rating — 470 ratings
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want 3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,297 ratings
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation 4.30 avg rating — 11,081 ratings
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Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass
Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution 3.54 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Food and Cultural Studies
Food and Cultural Studies 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia 4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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A History of the Ancient Southwest
A History of the Ancient Southwest 4.36 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge 4.03 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food
Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food 4.21 avg rating — 400 ratings
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NOISE
NOISE 3.67 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Discovering Big Cat Country
Discovering Big Cat Country 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives 4.13 avg rating — 401 ratings
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American Environmentalism: Readings In Conservation History
American Environmentalism: Readings In Conservation History 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? 3.97 avg rating — 16,190 ratings
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