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Excellent book for all
In the traditions of Aldo Leopold and Gene Stratton-Porter, Friderici brings the ordinary to life - the invisible environment we pass through every day, mostly without a hint of awareness.A deep rendering of the remnants of nature that are left in the housing developments, corporate parks and fragments of moraine and ravine ecosystems that are the only reminders of the area's glacial past.I highly recommend this book to anyone familiar with the area - it will make you look aroun and more aware of your environment during your daily commute!

hiddentreasures
In a way it's a shame that this book has the title and blurb that it does, which imply that this book would be of interest only to suburbanites, or even more specifically only to Chicago suburbanites.But just as Chicago's Field Museum is a world-class natural history museum that draws and enlightens visitors from around the world, Friederici's book deserves a much wider audience than just suburbanites or Chicagoans.His eye and prose are just as poetic and informed as that of anyone at work today in the field of literary nature writing.This book contains some great writing and encounters and insights.The best nature writers are looking for the world in a grain of sand, and even though this book goes against the literary "grain" in not setting out for a remote and sublime wilderness, it still finds plenty of interesting grains of sand on the Chicago lakeshore.

The Suburban Wild by P.Friederici
It was a real pleasure to read this slim volume of essays by Peter Friederici. The poetic style in describing his impressions while walking through the woods of Suburbia or while reminiscing about his childhoodmakes one relaxed and feeling good. His background of a naturalist makessome other essays very interesting and enlightening. I recommend thislittle gem to every suburbanite who likes to read, sitting in an armchairclose to the window, occasionally peering out at the birds and thesquirrels by the feeder, savoring the words of pleasant and knowledgablepoet. ... Read more

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Interdisciplinary in approach, Thinking Through the Environment tells how the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this has been questioned in recent years as uncertainty and complexity are acknowledged in contemporary societies. The collection guides readers through conventional thought about how environmental rights and obligations to future generations, nonhuman animals, and the biotic communities.These essays lead readers into a critical examination of social and political theories and their capacity for drawing on ecological thought.Each of the seven sections is introduced by the editor, who contextualizes the set of readings within its specific themes and issues. ... Read more

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Presents the distribution maps and abundance of the 15 frog and toad species reported in Ohio. Descriptions also include comments on calling characteristics, habitat, and conservation status plus details on identification with photdocumentation. Color plate shows 14 species ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1921Original Publisher: The UniversitySubjects: Plant ecologyCrop rotationVegetation dynamicsPlant successionVegetation surveysNature / PlantsScience / Life Sciences / BotanyScience / Life Sciences / EcologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: Wash.Publication date: 1935Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Archie Carr (1909-1987), the eminent naturalist, writer, and conservationist, was particularly entranced by the wildlife and ecosystems of Florida, where he lived for more than fifty years. This captivating book-which includes some of his most enchanting essays-is full of memorable details and anecdotes about the flora, fauna, and humans that have inhabit Florida`s colorful landscape.Amazon.com Review
When the distinguished naturalist Archie Carr first rangedthrough the Florida marshes, swamps, and hammocks, the state was aparadise for biologists, a relatively unexplored Eden. Florida wouldchange greatly.And for five decades, Carr, a professor of zoology atthe University of Florida who died in 1987, would write about itsnatural beauty and the encroachments upon it. More than two dozenessays in this collection show his writing at its best. "Carr's essaysof Florida shine with charm, grandeur, and a childlike delight. Thisis the writing not only of a brilliant naturalist, but of a poet andof a journalist. It stands as a memoir to a breathtaking paradise, andas an eloquent call to save what's left of it." --Carl Hiaasen ... Read more

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Must Read for Naturalists
I have tremendous respect for the early leaders in environmental conservation movements.Archie Carr essentially founded the sea turtle conservation program worldwide.This book provides insight into his earlier years and also describes the natural Florida environment that he observed.I deeply regret never having met Dr. Archie Carr, but I appreciate that he shared so many of his thoughts and feelings in this book.

You should read this book!
Archie Carr was a renowned naturalist and perhaps the world's expert on marine turtles.He wrote with a lyrical simplicity that reflects the south of the early- and mid-20th century.His elegant descriptions of animals and his understated wit reveal his deep involvement with the natural world and the human processes that are now shaping it. Archie knew Florida like a native and could describe it like no one else of his generation. ... Read more

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Fascinating and thrilling!!!
As a student and scholar of the illicit wildlife trade, I found this book extremely educational and fascinating.This book thoroughly explored the wildlife trade and the consequences it has on the environment.I found this book so interesting that I was able to read it cover to cover in a couple of days.

General-interest and wildlife-oriented collections will find this a 'must'
FORBIDDEN CREATURES: INSIDE THE WORLD OF ANIMAL SMUGGLING AND EXOTIC PETS comes from an investigative journalist who chronicles his worldwide quest to penetrate international smuggling circles. His experiences make for eye-opening reading packed with facts and drama, presents personal encounters with breeders and smugglers, and chronicles the crisis of wild species. General-interest and wildlife-oriented collections will find this a 'must'.

FORBIDDEN CREATURES: INSIDE THE WORLD OF ANIMAL SMUGGLING AND EXOTIC PETS
Peter Laufer's excellently written, intriguing book about wild animals in captivityis as amazing as it is shocking. This book should be required reading, not only those who wish to keep wild and exotic pets. If innocent victims of these wild animals read Peter Laufer's compelling book before they expose themselves to these real and unpredictable dangers, they will be better equipped to save face---literally as well as literarily.

WARNING! SNAKES! TIGERS! Strap In! Laufer Does It Again!
For those among us who have never before joined Peter Laufer for one of his true-life. journalistic adventures, Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, is not only an intensely enjoyable read, it is a perfect introduction to one of the most prolific storytellers of our time. For those of you who already know the pleasure of Laufer's writing, FORBIDDEN CREATURES is a must get for your summertime reading. The only caution I offer is that because this book is so rich in texture, so effective at taking you from your own reality into someone else's, some of you may find yourselves looking over your shoulder or peering into bushes worrying that some exotic pet owner may have just gotten sloppy and accidentally let loose a lethal snake or ever a tiger. This book, like Laufer's shelf of earlier adventures, carries you deep into hidden areas of life, penetrates where outsiders dare not go or are simply not welcome. You will meet real people whose choices have placed them in danger, despite their insistence that what they do is perfectly safe.As always, Laufer (one of the most honored broadcast journalists in America)has the special ability to listen closely and in the proces, to hear the music of dialect and word choice and to capture all that. The effect is to bring people to life right in front of you, as his words take you firmly by the hand for one adventure after another. The only complaint I is that when I'd finished reading the last chapter, I was hungry for more. The cure for me was picking up and re-reading one of his earlier books, THE DANGEROUS WORLD OF BUTTERFLIES.Another terrific journey into places I did not existed filled with very interesting people I would otherwise never have met.

Fascinating...entertaining...and a little scary!
Once again, journalist Peter Laufer has taken us into an unfamiliar world of beautiful and endangered beings.Once again, the real "forbidden creatures" are the humans who abuse other species for profit.Once again, Dr. Laufer's alluringly conversational style makes us feel as if we had gone along for the adventure.

Luckily, we do not need to follow in his footsteps, chasing after this cast of nefarious characters.The author takes us to some of the world's weirdest corners and uncovers chilling aspects of the illicit animal trade.It's not all gloomy, however.There are plenty of laughs along the way, too.

This book makes a great gift, but beware -- you might not want to part with it! ... Read more

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Contemporary Buddhist insights on environmentalism are assembled here, with contributions from Basho, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Chogyam Trungpa, Gretel Ehrlich, Peter Mattiessen, Philip Glass, and others. Original.Amazon.com Review
In many senses, modern consumerism, with its promotion of greed, attachment, and self-centeredness, is the reversal of Buddhist values. The result is that modern Buddhists are moving into social activism, specifically environmentalism, and protecting the world's ecology from the devastation of unchecked consumerism. In Dharma Rain, Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft offer a resource for Buddhist environmentalists. They begin with sources in Buddhist Scriptures and writings of past masters. The rest of the book is a treasury of perspectives from contemporary Buddhist activists who look deeply at causes and solutions to environmental devastation that is happening in places like Thailand, where 70 percent of the forest has disappeared in the 20th century, and in Tibet, where the Chinese communists continue to quietly destroy not only Tibetan society but also its once-teeming wildlife and verdant flora. Many great minds chime in: Thich Nhat Hanh on interbeing, the Dalai Lama on true political success, Sulak Sivaraksa on buddhism with a small "b," Peter Matthiessen on the snow leopard, Joanna Macy on dependent co-origination, and Gary Snyder on the "harming" inherent in certain things we eat; Dharma Rain is an embodiment of Thich Nhat Hanh's observation that "life is one," that "our way of walking on the earth has a great influence on animals and plants." --Brian Bruya ... Read more

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A much-needed "Rain"!
To borrow from poet William Blake, this anthology encourages us "tosee a world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wildflower."Previousgreen anthologies, such as the 1991 "Green Reader" (which I alsorecommend), convincingly show that we are in the midst of a globalenvironmental crisis.This impressive, 491-page collection not onlyexamines the many problems contributing to that crisis (e. g., consumerism,nuclear waste, deforestation, and overpopulation), but proposes that it isnow time we rethink our attitude "not only to people, but to plants,animals and places" (p. 356), suggesting that a compassionate,buddhist perspective can help.Contributors to this anthology include,among others, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Joanna Macy, the Dalai Lama,Peter Matthiessen, Peter Timmerman, Robert Aitken, Rick Fields, andChristopher Titmuss.Although all of the contributors write from abuddhist point of view, you do not have to be a buddhist to appreciate thisbook.

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This book, a unique examination of the activist striving to work for more holistic social change, creates a conceptual framework to give visibility to the complexity of activist practice that spans environmental and social justice concerns. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Ohio Journal of Science, published by Ohio Academy of Science on March 1, 2008. The length of the article is 1264 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Session 7 ecology Nitshcke Rm 2004 T.B.A., presiding.
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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 1922 in 15222903 pages; Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: beadlike and scarcely longer than broad except the last which is conic-ovate. Type locality.?Cedara, Natal. South Africa. Type.?Cat. No. 24991, U.S.N.M. Host.?Busseola fusca (Hampson). Described from twenty-one females and five males mounted on card points and three females and one male on a slide. Additional specimens in alcohol. Material .received from C. W. Mally and said to have been reared from the eggs of the above-named stalk borer collected by E. S. Cogan. EXPLANATION" OF PLATE. All of the figures on this plate were drawn under the supervision of the author by Miss E. Hart, artist of the Branch of Cereal and Forage Insects, U. S. Bureau of Entomology. (All greatly enlarged.) Fig. ]. Calosoter metallicus Gahan. Adult female. 2. Calosoter metallicus Gahan. Antenna of female. 3. Calosoter metallicus Gahan. Antenna of male. 4. Podagrion crassiclara Gahan. Antenna of female. 5. Podagrion crassiclara Gahan. Antenna of male. 6. Pseudobrachysticha semiaurea Girault. Forewing of female. New Reared Parasitic Hymenoptera. FOR EXPLANATION OF PLATE SEE PAOE 24. ...; Subjects: Hymenoptera; Medical / General; Nature / Insects & Spiders; Science / General; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General; ... Read more