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Millipedes and Moon Tigers

Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
Nash, Stephen

Millipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public policy-making--and the resulting human effect on our natural and...

The Significance of Territory

Gottman, Jean

Over her thirty-year study of the concept of territory, Jean Gottmann has seen its significance evolve in a wide variety of ways throughout the world. Factors that influence...

A Many-Colored Glass

Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
Dyson, Freeman J.

Freeman Dyson’s latest book does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicist’s thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory. The emphasis is,...

New Woman Ecologies

From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond
Carroll, Alicia

A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater...

The Changing Scale of American Agriculture

Hart, John Fraser

Few Americans know much about contemporary farming, which has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. In The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the award-winning...

Wild Dog Dreaming

Love and Extinction
Rose, Deborah Bird

We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose...

The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia

From Jamestown to Jefferson
Martin, Peter

Using a rich assortment of illustrations and biographical sketches, Peter Martin relates the experiences of colonial gardeners who shaped the natural beauty of Virginia's...

Virginia Climate Fever

How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests
Nash, Stephen

Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global...

Community-Based Collaboration

Bridging Socio-Ecological Research and Practice
Dukes, E. Franklin, Firehock, Karen E., Birkhoff, Juliana E.

The debate over the value of community-based environmental collaboration is one that dominates current discussions of the management of public lands and other resources. In ...

In Pursuit of Wild Edibles
A Forager's Tour
Greene, Jeffrey
Today we care about the source of our food as much as the preparation, so it is no surprise that foodies have discovered wild edibles. From the most upscale restaurants in New...

Dancing with Disaster
Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
Rigby, Kate
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more...

Framing the World
Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film
Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula
The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies...

Building Natures
Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
Daniel, Julia
In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists...

Mary Austin's Regionalism
Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography
Schaefer, Heike
Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collection of natural-history essays about the California deserts, the Western writer Mary Austin (1868–1934) was a prolific literary...

The History of Ornithology in Virginia
Johnston, David W.
Host to a large and diverse bird population as well as a long human history, Virginia is arguably the birthplace of ornithology in North America. David W. Johnston’s History of...

Genealogies of Environmentalism
The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
Glacken, Clarence, Rajan, S. Ravi
Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first...

Beastly Natures
Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
Brantz, Dorothee
Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with...

The American Wilderness
Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States
Vale, Thomas R.
Interpretations of wild nature and wilderness are particularly diverse in the American mind, given our history, our collective economic success, and our diverse social and...

The Most Defiant Devil
William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
Dehler, Gregory J.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day...

Public Nature
Scenery, History, and Park Design
Carr, Ethan, Eyring, Shaun, Wilson, Richard Guy
This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars, practitioners, and public-land managers, considers the history of public park design, as well as the parks...

Visions of the Land
Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
Bryson, Michael A.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body...

Gilbert White
A Biography of the Author of The Natural History of Selborne
Mabey, Richard
With more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White’s The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most published books in the English language. An environmental study...

His and Hers
Gender, Consumption, and Technology
Horowitz, Roger, Mohun, Arwen
The pathbreaking essays in this collection explore the history of consumption by synthesizing discrete historical literatures on consumer culture, gender, and the history of...

The Last Launch
Messages in the Bottle
Tuan, Yi-Fu, Thompson, George F.
Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the world’s most honored scholars and the founder of humanist geography, has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship between the places and spaces that...

An American Cutting Garden
A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold
McIntire, Suzanne
In An American Cutting Garden Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop—all...