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  • Plantations and Protected Areas

    A Global History of Forest Management

    by Brett M. Bennett ...
    Series series History for a Sustainable Future
    How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.Today, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural use. Economic globalization has enabled Western corporations to export timber processing jobs and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Saving the World

    How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change from 1770 to the Present

    by Brett M. Bennett, Gregory A. Barton ...
    Saving the World tells the forgotten history of climatic botany, the idea that forests are essential for creating and recycling rain. Long before the spectre of global warming, societies recognized that deforestation caused drastic climate shifts – as early as 1770, concerns over deforestation spurred legislation to combat human-induced climate change.Across the twentieth century, climatic botany ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

    by Santos Martinez, Peter Daalmans, Brett Bennett ...
    Get up to date quickly with clear, expert coverage of SCCM 2016Mastering System Center Configuration Manager provides comprehensive coverage of Microsoft's powerful network software deployment tool, with a practical hands-on approach. Written by Santos Martinez, Peter Daalmans, and Brett Bennett, this guide walks you through SCCM 2016 with in-depth explanations anchored in real-world applications ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Mastering System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

    by Santos Martinez, Peter Daalmans, Brett Bennett ...
    Invaluable coverage on all aspects of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration ManagerCompletely updated for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, this comprehensive book provides intermediate and advanced coverage of all aspects of the product, including planning and installation, migrating from previous versions of Configuration Manager, deploying software and operating systems, security, ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Environments of Empire

    Networks and Agents of Ecological Change

    Edited by Ulrike Kirchberger, Brett M. Bennett ...
    Series series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
    The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to propagate, to the parasites, invasive plants, and pests they carried unawares, producing a host of unintended ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bring on the Craic

    The Gig Diary

    by Brett Bennett ...
    Bring on the Craic is a very funny and well-written read about Australian-born musician Brett Bennett, portraying his take on various occurrences and circumstances that he encountered on the initial European gigs that he played interwoven with some hilarious happenings in his native island, Tasmania. The stories go way beyond just the musical facets of the gigs as he comically packages together ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Something New Under the Sun

    by J. R. McNeill ...
    Series series The Global Century Series
    The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Extinction

    A Radical History

    by Ashley Dawson ...
    Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

    Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

    by Corey Ross ...
    Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management-transformations that still visibly shape our world today-and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

    Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Forests

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jaboury Ghazoul ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of forest loss and transformation, and yet even in our increasingly urbanized societies we remain surprisingly dependent on forests for a wide range of goods and services. Moreover, forests still retain a remarkable hold on our environmental values. In an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD