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  • Exuberant Life

    An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galápagos

    by William H. Durham ...
    The terrestrial organisms of the Galápagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predators and competitors, allowing them to live unbothered, exuberant lives. With its giant tortoises, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, and forests of giant daisies, there's no question that this is a ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Scarcity and Survival in Central America

    Ecological Origins of the Soccer War

    by William H. Durham ...
    Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely a product of the concentration of landholdings.The analysis focuses on the emigration of 300,000 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America

    Edited by Michael Painter, William H. Durham, William Durham ...
    Series series Linking Levels Of Analysis
    The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America is a timely examination of critical cases of land degradation, deforestation, and resource depletion in Central and South America. The contributors—seasoned researchers with years of experience in the regions they discuss—convincingly document the idea that the causes of environmental destruction have their origins in social relations ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The War Widow

    by William Kelly Durham ...
    John Petersen is a war-weary lieutenant assigned to guard the highest ranking survivors of Hitler's Reich at the Nuremberg trials. His job is to keep Hermann Goering alive until he can be tried and hanged. In the course of his duties, Petersen runs into trouble from his mercurial commanding officer, his black-marketeering roommate and the mysterious Lisbeth Bichler who becomes their Hausfrau. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harold Innis's History of Communications

    Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis’s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications—but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript.Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Space and Time Magazine Issue #135

    Issue 135

    by Angela Yuriko Smith, Elsa M Carruthers, Linda D Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Avra Margariti, Briant Laslo, Daniel M Kimmel, David C Kopaska-Merkel0, Denise Dumars1, Denny E Marshall2, Eric Del Carlo3, F G Bergman4, G O Clark5, Glen Hirshberg6, Jennifer Shelby7, John Reinhart8, Luiz Peters9, Maxwell I Gold0, Moaner T Lawrence1, Sara Tantlinger2, Sarah Avery3, Tina Quinn Durham4, William Landis5 ...
    Narrated by Angela Yuriko Smith, Ryan Aussie Smith, Linda D Addison ...
    Series Audiobook 135 - Space and Time Magazine

    Abridged

    4 hours 5 min

    The final issue of the year comes when the nights in the Northern Hemisphere are at their longest and coldest. It’s at this time that fiction is needed the most. Against the backdrop of darkness, we gather close and whisper tales to entertain and inspire—and to remind ourselves that dawn will return.Welcome to issue #135. In these pages are the continuation of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

    by Jonathan Balcombe ...
    The New York Times–bestselling "exploration of the world from a piscine perspective . . . makes a persuasive case that what fish know is quite a lot" (Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books).Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, ethologist Jonathan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Rainbow Six

    by Tom Clancy ...
    Series Book 2 - John Clark Novel, A
    In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit...Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Spying on Whales

    The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

    by Nick Pyenson ...
    “A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —NatureCalled “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present.Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Top Secret

    by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV ...
    Series Book 1 - A Clandestine Operations Novel
    From #1 New York Times bestselling authors W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV comes the first Clandestine Operations novel—featuring a new kind of threat and a different breed of warrior.In the first weeks after World War II, James D. Cronley, Jr., is recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. For a new war has already begun against ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Stung!

    On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

    by Lisa-ann Gershwin ...
    "The world of jellyfish is brought alive as you never imagined it could be by Lisa-ann Gershwin in this engaging, gripping, and often funny book." —Callum Roberts, author of The Ocean of LifeAs our oceans become increasingly inhospitable to life, there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick environment: the beautiful, dangerous, and now incredibly numerous jellyfish. As foremost ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Assassination Option

    by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV ...
    Series Book 2 - A Clandestine Operations Novel
    From the #1 New York Times– and Wall Street Journal–bestselling author comes the dramatic second adventure in the brand-new Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency—and a new breed of warrior.James Cronley thought he had done well—he didn’t know he’d done this well.His first successful mission for the about-to-be-official new Central Intelligence ... Read more

    $9.99 USD