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Product Description: When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections. We still identify with our differences more than our similarities, unless it's convenient to do otherwise...read more
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9781442206489 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 16, 2010, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections.

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9781442206496 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 16, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections.

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Product Description: Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible...read more
By Paul R. Ehrlich (editor)
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9780199554249 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 12, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership.

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Product Description: This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual “gallery” where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art—that is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works...read more
By Paul R. Ehrlich (foreword by)
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9780300123883 | Yale Univ Pr, July 24, 2008, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual “gallery” where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display.

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9780300158625 | Yale Univ Pr, November 24, 2009, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual “gallery” where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display.

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Identifies North American birds
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9780671659899 | Fireside, May 1, 1988, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Identifies North American birds

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9781435277588 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $30.95

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9781933779614 | Malor Books, February 1, 2008, cover price $19.99

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Product Description: "Here, between the covers of one book, you can find out about the major problems facing the world today, and how to fix them. It all comes sprinkled with the deliciously surprising examples, and wrapped in the alternately gripping and humorous prose, for which Paul and Anne Ehrlich have long been famous...read more
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9781559638791 | Island Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Explores how overpopulation, over consumption, and political and economic inequity are increasingly determining today's politics and shaping humankind's future, and demonstrates ways these often-neglected factors influence each other.

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9781597260312 | Island Pr, August 25, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: "Here, between the covers of one book, you can find out about the major problems facing the world today, and how to fix them.

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Product Description: In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth—some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened—not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously unimagined products, medicines, and even industries...read more
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9780300076363 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: We live on an unexplored planet, ignorant of more than eighty percent of the species that share our world.

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9780300105063 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 2004), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth—some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened—not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously unimagined products, medicines, and even industries.

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Product Description: Hanski, a leading thinker in metapopulation ecology, studies checkerspot butterfly populations in Finland. Ehrlich, one of the leading ecologists and conservation biologist, investigates checkerspot butterfly populations in California...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Paul R. Ehrlich (editor) and Ilkka Hanski (editor)
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9780195158274 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 18, 2004, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Hanski, a leading thinker in metapopulation ecology, studies checkerspot butterfly populations in Finland.

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Product Description: In Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight, the world's leading experts synthesize current knowledge of butterflies to show how the study of these fascinating creatures as model systems can lead to deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes in general...read more
By Carol L. Boggs (editor), Paul R. Ehrlich (editor) and Ward B. Watt (editor)
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9780226063171 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: In Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight, the world's leading experts synthesize current knowledge of butterflies to show how the study of these fascinating creatures as model systems can lead to deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes in general.

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9780226063188 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: In Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight, the world's leading experts synthesize current knowledge of butterflies to show how the study of these fascinating creatures as model systems can lead to deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes in general.

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A primer on human genetics and evolution argues that human nature is not so much the result of genetic coding, but rather is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9781559637794 | Island Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Explores the impact and inconsistancies of human evolution upon human nature, examining the physical, intellectual, cultural, and sexual aspects of human development and behaviors in the light of current scientific theory.

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9780142000533 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A primer on human genetics and evolution argues that human nature is not so much the result of genetic coding, but rather is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors.

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Answering critics of environmental science and activism, the authors demonstrate the damage done to the environment by pollutants, the reality of global warming, and the threat of overpopulation, and emphasize the role of science in solving these problems. Reprint. IP. (view table of contents)
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9781559634847 | Reprint edition (Island Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Answering critics of environmental science and activism, the authors demonstrate the damage done to the environment by pollutants, the reality of global warming, and the threat of overpopulation, and emphasize the role of science in solving these problems.

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Product Description: In this provocative book, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs. Their proposals include improving the status of women, reducing racism and religious prejudice, reforming the agricultural system, and shrinking the growing gap between rich and poor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300071245 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this provocative book, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs.

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Discuss the views of anti-environmentalists and those of the scientific community, covering such issues as population growth, desertification, global warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion
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9781559634830 | Island Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Discuss the views of anti-environmentalists and those of the scientific community, covering such issues as population growth, desertification, global warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion

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Investigates the escalating problems facing the United States in the next three decades and suggests a personal plan of action to combat society's ills
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9781568496023 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, December 1, 1995), cover price $24.95

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9780345290496, titled "End of Affluence" | Ballantine Books, January 1, 1980, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Investigates the escalating problems facing the United States in the next three decades and suggests a personal plan of action to combat society's ills

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Dr. Ehrlich reviews the case for immediate population control and outlines the responsibilities of the individual and national governments
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9781568495873 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, December 1, 1995), cover price $25.95
9780891908616 | Revised edition (Amereon Ltd, February 1, 1976), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Dr.

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9780345338341, titled "Population Bomb" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Dr.

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America's most respected experts on population and the authors of the best-seller, The Population Bomb, outline a plan for combatting the coming increase in population with changes in the treatment of women and farmers.
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9780399140747 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: America's most respected experts on population and the authors of the best-seller, The Population Bomb, outline a plan for combatting the coming increase in population with changes in the treatment of women and farmers.

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Product Description: For millions of Americans, birdwatching is nothing less than an obsession. For enthusiasts, the excitement of sighting a rare species, the pleasure of watching a bird in flight, and the satisfaction of being able to spot and identify different birds constitute a burning passion that travels with them wherever they go...read more
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9780198584070 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: For millions of Americans, birdwatching is nothing less than an obsession.

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9780949324504 | Surrey Beatty, February 1, 1993, cover price $64.95

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The authors highlight critical environmental problems and suggest national and international measures by which the problems can be alleviated
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9780201550467 | Perseus Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The authors highlight critical environmental problems and suggest national and international measures by which the problems can be alleviated

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9780201632248 | Reprint edition (Perseus Books, September 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The authors highlight critical environmental problems and suggest national and international measures by which the problems can be alleviated

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Discusses endangered species of birds and birds that have become extinct since 1776
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9780804719674 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Discusses endangered species of birds and birds that have become extinct since 1776

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Discusses endangered species of birds and birds that have become extinct since 1776
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9780804719810 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Discusses endangered species of birds and birds that have become extinct since 1776

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9780613917933 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 1992, cover price $42.75 | About this edition: Discusses endangered species of birds and birds that have become extinct since 1776

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Confirms the authors' predictions--chronic famine, the yearly loss of tons of topsoil, global warming--and calls for a last-minute effort to take control of our destiny
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9780671689841 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author of the 1968 best-seller, 'The Population Bomb,' returns with a work that confirms his earlier predictions--chronic famine, the yearly loss of tons of topsoil, global warming--and calls for a last-minute effort to take control of our destiny

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9780671732943 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Confirms the authors' predictions--chronic famine, the yearly loss of tons of topsoil, global warming--and calls for a last-minute effort to take control of our destiny

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The authors examine the drain on the planet's resources as the population increases and contend that disaster can be averted by political change and a drastic reordering of priorities
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9780531150368 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The authors examine the drain on the planet's resources as the population increases and contend that disaster can be averted by political change and a drastic reordering of priorities

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This explanation of ecology, written specifically for nonscientists emphasizes the relationships of living things and their environment and the delicate balance of natural ecosystems
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9780671492885 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This explanation of ecology, written specifically for nonscientists emphasizes the relationships of living things and their environment and the delicate balance of natural ecosystems

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9780671633127 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1987), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: This explanation of ecology, written specifically for nonscientists emphasizes the relationships of living things and their environment and the delicate balance of natural ecosystems

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