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  • Sowing the Forest

    A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes

    by William Balée ...
    Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforestsWilliam Balée is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin. His new collection, Sowing the Forest, is a companion volume to the award-winning Cultural Forests of the Amazon, published in 2013. Sowing the Forest engages in depth with how, over centuries, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Inside Cultures

    An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

    by William Balée ...
    The new fourth edition of Inside Cultures: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology offers a concise and contemporary framework for exploring how humans engage with their environments, each other, and the forces that shape cultural life.Departing from conventional textbook formats, this book examines the tension between cultural variation and human universals, the lasting effects of colonialism, ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Cultural Forests of the Amazon

    A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes

    by William Balée, William Balée ...
    Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award.Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world.Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimal impact on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology

    Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands

    by William Balée, Clark Erickson ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment.Contributors examine how alterations in the natural world mirror human cultures, societies, and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Greening the College Curriculum

    A Guide To Environmental Teaching In The Liberal Arts

    by William Balée, David Campbell, Vern Durkee, Ann Filemyr, Michael Black, Owen Grumbling, Dan Katz, Michael Kraft, Lisa Naughton-Treves, Steven Rockefeller, Gerald Alonzo Smith, Emily Young, John Opie, Karl Grossman, Holmes Rolston, III ...
    Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy

    Edited by Thomas Blomberg, Julie Brancale, Kevin Beaver, William Bales ...
    Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy is a definitive sourcebook that is comprised of contributions from some of the most recognized experts in criminology and criminal justice policy. The book is essential reading for students taking upper level courses and seminars on crime, public policy and crime prevention, as well as for policy makers within the criminal justice sphere.There has ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Global Ecology in Historical Perspective

    Monsoon Asia and Beyond

    Edited by Kazunobu Ikeya, William Balée ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia　and Japan) and inland waters (China). For comparison, cases from the Americas (whales in the Arctic, sea turtles in the Caribbean, and plants in the Amazon) and Central Asia are also included. The relationship between plants, animals, and humans in Asia is quite unique from a global perspective. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Polynesians in America

    Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World

    by Andrew C. Clarke, María-Auxiliadora Cordero, Geoffrey Irwin, Kathryn A. Klar, Daniel Quiróz, Richard Scaglion, Marshall I. Weisler, Roger C. Green ...
    The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500)

    Edited by Basil Reid ...
    Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology.The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions

    Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past

    Edited by Daniel Contreras ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to evidence from the human past to shed light on the processes which link environmental and cultural ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Caribbean before Columbus

    by William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman ...
    The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks; from large islands to small cays; from islands with tropical rainforests to those with desert habitats. Today's inhabitants have equally diverse culture histories. The islands are home to a mosaic of indigenous ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Second Growth

    The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

    by Robin L. Chazdon ...
    For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second ... Read more

    $34.59 USD