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America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to the present, relating changes in the guides to shifts in science, the craft of field identification, and new technologies for the mass reproduction of images. Drawing on his experience as a passionate birder and on a wealth of archival research, Thomas Dunlap shows how the twin pursuits of recreation
Bird watching --- Bird watchers --- Birds --- History. --- Identification --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Birders (Observers) --- Birding (Bird watching) --- Birdwatching --- Watching birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Hobbyists --- Naturalists --- Wildlife watching
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DDT (Insecticide) --- Environmentalism --- Nature --- Environmental aspects --- History --- Effect of human beings on --- Carson, Rachel, --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Ethanes --- Insecticides --- Organochlorine compounds --- Stucky, Steven. --- Greenwashing --- Environmentalism. --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Environmental aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Silent spring (Carson, Rachel)
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From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental movement.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
DDT (Insecticide) --- Pesticides --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Economic poisons --- Agricultural chemicals --- Pests --- Poisons --- Ethanes --- Insecticides --- Organochlorine compounds --- Environmental aspects --- History --- Government policy --- Control --- Equipment and supplies --- History.
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Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.
Wildlife conservation --- Wildlife conservation --- Ecology --- History. --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Administrative Procedures Act. --- Algonquin Provincial Park. --- American Game Conference. --- American Sportsman. --- Animal Liberation. --- Bureau of Entomology. --- Cain committee. --- Civilian Conservation Corps. --- Condor. --- Darwinism. --- Defenders of Wildlife. --- Duck Stamp Act of 1934. --- Ducks Unlimited. --- Earth Day. --- Echo Park. --- Ecological Society of America. --- Fish Commission. --- Game Management. --- Gators of Miami. --- Harpers. --- Isle Royale. --- Journal of Mammalogy. --- Leopold committee. --- Leopold, Aldo. --- Malthusianism. --- Morton, Rogers. --- National Wildlife. --- Our Plundered Planet. --- Plant Succession. --- animal psychology. --- antiplume hunting movement. --- balance of nature. --- biology. --- boll weevil. --- control. --- coyotes. --- deer management. --- eagles. --- ecology. --- ethology. --- extinction. --- fallout. --- furriers. --- gender divisions. --- grizzly bears. --- humane ideas. --- humane movement. --- hunting. --- importation of animals. --- mammalogy. --- nature literature.
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Nature --- Environmentalism --- Religious aspects.
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Germanic peoples --- Germains --- Rome --- History --- Historiography --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- Germanic peoples - Rome.
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