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In the field, among the feathered : a history of birders and their guides
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ISBN: 0190254378 1283349043 9786613349040 0199838127 0199734593 9781283349048 9780190254377 0199912696 9780199838127 9780199734597 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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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


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DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism : Classic Texts
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ISBN: 9780295988344 0295988347 9780295998954 0295998954 Year: 2009 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,


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DDT : scientists, citizens, and public policy
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ISBN: 1400853850 9781400853854 Year: 1981 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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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.


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Saving america's wildlife
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ISBN: 0691224277 Year: 1988 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

Faith in nature : environmentalism as religious quest
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ISBN: 0295989815 9780295989815 0295985569 9780295985565 9780295983974 0295983973 Year: 2005 Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Chesham : University of Washington Press ; Combined Academic [distributor],

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The Roman empire and its Germanic peoples
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ISBN: 0520085116 9780520085114 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press,

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Ecology and Empire

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