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October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)

REVIEWS

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
The Great Naturalists Edited by Robert Huxley
The Great Warming Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan
Ivorybill Hunters The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness by Geoffrey E. Hill
The Ends of the Earth Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford
The Last Polar Bear by Steven Kazlowski

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Fall 2003 Volume 4 No. 4
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Fall 2002 Volume 3 No. 4
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Book Titles A-G

The Animal Series
(Reaktion Books, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature
By David Baron (W.W. Norton, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology
Edited by Tim Caro (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change
By David Buckland, Ian McEwan, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Max Eastley, Nick Edwards, Gretel Ehrlich, and Dan Harvey
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Carnivore Conservation
Edited by John L. Gittleman, Stephan M. Funk, David W. Macdonald, and Robert K. Wayne (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 4

Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America
By Bruce Babbitt (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

Climate Change and Biodiversity
Edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah (Yale University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
By Edward R. Tufte (Graphics Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond (Viking Books, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

Condor: To the Brink and Back—The Life and Times of One Giant Bird
By John Nielsen (Harper Collins, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

The Conservation Handbook: Research, Management, and Policy
Edited by William J. Sutherland (Blackwell Science Ltd., 2000)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 2

Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
Edited by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary M. Tabor, Carol House, and Mary C. Pearl (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

The Creation
By E.O. Wilson (W.W. Norton &, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 4

Courage for the Earth
edited by Peter Matthiessen (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a
Post-colonial Era
By William M. Adams and Martin Mulligan (Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 4

Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity
By Jonathan Silvertown (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol.7 No. 2

Designing Field Studies for Biodiversity Conservation
By Peter Feinsinger (The Nature Conservancy/Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa
By Martin Meredith (PublicAffairs, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 4

The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
By Charles Clover (The New Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 1

Evaluating Effectiveness: A Framework for Assessing the
Management of Protected Areas
By Marc Hockings, Sue Stolton, and Nigel Dudley (The World Conservation Union, (IUCN) 2000)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

Farming With The Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on
Farms and Ranches
By Daniel Imhoff (Sierra Club Books, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 4

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
By Elizabeth Kolbert (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World
By Jonathan S. Adams (Beacon Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 2

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By John Vaillant (Norton, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

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Book Titles H-P

The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

The Historical Ecology Handbook: A Restorationist's Guide to
Reference Ecosystems
Edited by Dave Egan and Evelyn Howell (Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving our Natural World
by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein (Bloomsbury, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 4

Hunter and Hunted: Relationships Between Carnivores and People
By Hans Kruuk (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
By Dale Peterson (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

Justice and Natural Resources: Concepts, Strategies,
and Applications
Edited by Kathryn Mutz, Gary Bryner, and Douglas Kenney (Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 4

King of Fish: the Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
By David R. Montgomery (Westview Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of
the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier
By Jeffrey Alan Lockwood (Basic Books, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

For Love of Insects
By Thomas Eisner, (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

Life in the Valley of Death
By Alan Rabinowitz, (Island Press, 2008)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 4

Listening to Cougar
Edited by Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe (University Press of Colorado, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 4

The Man-Eaters of Eden
By Robert Frump (The Lyons Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 1

Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity
Edited by Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

The Most Important Fish in the Sea
By H. Bruce Franklin
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field
By George B. Schaller
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006
By Edward O. Wilson (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Nature’s Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How The
Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental
Organization in the World
By Bill Birchard (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation
By Peter Friederici (Island Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Nature’s Strongholds: The World’s Great Wildlife Reserves
By Laura and William Riley (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 2

New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment
By Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent, (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make
Conservation Profitable
By Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations
by David S. Wilcove (Island Press, 2008)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 4

An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair
with a Singular Insect
By Sharman Apt Russell (Basic Books, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge,
and the Environment
Edited by Luisa Maffi (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Chaniging Environment
United Nations Environmental Programme (2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future
By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

Organzing Scientific Meetings
By August Epple (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 4

Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
By Alan Burdick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the
Geography of Desire
By Richard Adams Carey (Counterpoint, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

The Pine Island Paradox
By Kathleen Dean Moore (Milkweed Editions, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 4

Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
By William Ruddiman (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

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Book Titles Q-Z

Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll
by Ray Troll (University of California Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 4

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the
Global Environment
By James G. Speth (Yale University Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist
By Carol Grant Gould (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 2

Responding to Bioprospecting: From Biodiversity in the
South to Medicines in the North
Edited by Hanne Svarstad and Shivcharn S. Dhillion (Spartacus Forlag AS, 2000)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation
of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros
By Eric Dinerstein (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

Return of the Peregrine: A North American Saga of
Tenacity and Teamwork
Edited by Tom J. Cade and William Burnham (The Peregrine Fund, 2003) Reviewed in
Vol. 6 No. 1

The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
By Stephen Jay Gould
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature
By Sandra Postel and Brian Richter (Island Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 3

Road Ecology: Science and Solutions
Edited by Richard T. T. Forman, Daniel Sperling, John H. Bissonette, Anthony P. Clevenger, Carol D. Cutshall, Virginia H. Dale, Lenore Fahrig, Robert France, Charles R. Goldman, Kevin Heanue, Julia A. Jones, Frederick J. Swanson, Thomas Turrentine, and Thomas C. Winter (Island Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 2

Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective
Edited by Jill S. Baron, Forward by Paul R. Ehrlich (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 2

In Search of the Rain Forest
Edited by Candace Slater (Duke University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol.5 No. 3

Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist
By Eugene H. Kaplan (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol.5 No. 3

Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
By Marla Cone (Grove Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcáac (Seri) Art and
Science of Reptiles
By Gary Paul Nabhan (University of California Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 4

Sippewissett: Or, Tales from a Salt Marsh
By Tim Traver (Chelsea Green, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 4

Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
by David Gessner (Beacon Press, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 4

Striper Wars: An American Fish Story
By Dick Russell (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
By Eric Dinerstein (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Tigers in Red Weather: A Journey Through Asia
By Ruth Padel (Walker & Company, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World
By Yvonne Baskin (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Underwater To Get Our of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea
By Trevor Norton (Da Capo, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 4

The Unnatural History of the Sea
By Callum Roberts
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur
By Carl Safina (Henry Holt, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of
America's Fresh Waters
By Robert Jerome Glennon (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
By Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change
By Charles Wohlforth (North Point Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosytems
By James A. Estes et al (University of California Press, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 1

Who Owns the Sky
By Peter Barnes (Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston (Random House, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American
Case Studies
Edited by Stephen H. Schneider and Terry L. Root (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive
in the Midst of Human Enterprise
By Michael L. Rosenweig (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 3

Wisdom for a Livable Planet
By Carl N. McDaniel (Trinity University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-
Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices
By Jason W. Clay (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment
Edited by Games Gustave Speth (Island Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 3

Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl
By Mary Mycio (Joseph Henry Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

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Book Authors A-G

Adams, Jonathan S.
The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World (Beacon Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

Adams, William M. and Martin Mulligan
Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era (Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2003)
Reviewed in Vol.4 No. 4

Aguirre, A. Alonso, Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary M. Tabor, Carol House,
and Mary C. Pearl (eds.)
Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

Babbitt, Bruce
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

Barnes, Peter
Who Owns the Sky (Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

Baron, David
The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature (W.W. Norton, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Baron, Jill S (ed.)
Forward by Paul R. Ehrlich. Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 2

Baskin, Yvonne
Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Birchard, Bill
Nature’s Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How The Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Buckland, David and Ian McEwan, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Max Eastley, Nick Edwards, Gretel Ehrlich, and Dan Harvey
Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change (Cape Farewell, 2006)

Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Burdick, Alan
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Cade, Tom J. and William Burnham
Return of the Peregrine: A North American Saga of Tenacity and Teamwork (The Peregrine Fund, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

Carey, Richard Adams
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire (Counterpoint, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Cone, Marla
Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic (Grove Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Clay, Jason W.
World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Clover, Charles
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat (The New Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 1

Daily, Gretchen C. and Katherine Ellison
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

Diamond, Jared
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking Books, 2005) Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

Dinerstein, Eric
The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

Dinerstein, Eric
Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Eisner, Thomas
For Love of Insects (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

Egan, Dave and Evelyn Howell (eds.)
The Historical Ecology Handbook: A Restorationist's Guide to Reference Ecosystems (Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H.
One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

Epple, August
Organzing Scientific Meetings (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 4

Estes, James et al
Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems (The University of California Press, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 1

Feinsinger, Peter
Designing Field Studies for Biodiversity Conservation (The Nature Conservancy/Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

Flannery, Tim
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Forman, Richard T. T., Daniel Sperling, John H. Bissonette,
Anthony P. Clevenger, Carol D. Cutshall, Virginia H. Dale,
Lenore Fahrig, Robert France, Charles R. Goldman, Kevin Heanue,
Julia A. Jones, Frederick J. Swanson, Thomas Turrentine, and
Thomas C. Winter (eds.)
Road Ecology: Science and Solutions (Island Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 2

Franklin, H. Bruce
The Most Important Fish in the Sea (Island Press, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Friederici, Peter
Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation (Island Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Frump, Robert
The Man-Eaters of Eden (The Lyons Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 1

Gittleman, John L., Stephan M. Funk, David W. Macdonald, and
Robert K. Wayne (eds.).
Carnivore Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 no. 4

Glennon, Robert Jerome
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

Gould, Carol Grant
The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 2

Gould, Stephen Jay
The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould (W.W. Norton, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

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Book Authors H-P

Hockings, Marc. Sue Stolton, and Nigel Dudley
Evaluating Effectiveness: A Framework for Assessing the Management of Protected Areas. The World Conservation Union, (IUCN 2000)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 3

Imhoff, Daniel
Farming With The Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches (Sierra Club Books, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 4

Kaplan, Eugene H.
Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 4

Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses(Oregon State University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 2

Kolbert, Elizabeth
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Kruuk, Hans
Hunter and Hunted: Relationships Between Carnivores and People (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 1

Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier (Basic Books, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

Lovejoy, Thomas E. and Lee Hannah, eds.
Climate Change and Biodiversity (Yale University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

Lynch, Jim
The Highest Tide (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

Maffi, Luisa
On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

Matthiessen, Peter
Courage for the Earth (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

McDaniel, Carl N.
Wisdom for a Livable Planet (Trinity University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

Meredith, Martin
Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa (PublicAffairs, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 4

Montgomery, David R.
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon (Westview Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

Moore, Kathleen Dean
The Pine Island Paradox (Milkweed Editions, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 4

Mutz, Kathryn, Gary Bryner, and Douglas Kenney
Justice and Natural Resources: Concepts, Strategies, and Applications (Island Press, 2001)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 4

Mycio, Mary
Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl (Joseph Henry Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

Myers, Norman and Jennifer Kent
New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment (Island Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

Nabhan, Gary Paul
Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcáac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles (University of California Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 4

Nielsen, John
Condor: To the Brink and Back—The Life and Times of One Giant Bird (Harper Collins, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

Norse, Elliott A. and Larry B. Crowder (eds.)
Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Norton, Trevor
Underwater to Get Out of the Rain (Da Capo, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 4

Padel, Ruth
Tigers in Red Weather: A Journey Through Asia (Walker & Company, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Peterson, Dale
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2
Postel, Sandra and Brian Richter
Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature (Island Press, 2003) Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 3

Preston, Richard
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Random House, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 2

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Book Authors Q-Z

Riley, Laura and William
Nature’s Strongholds: The World’s Great Wildlife Reserves (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 2

Roberts, Callum
The Unnatural History of the Sea (Island Press, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Rosenweig, Michael L.
Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 3

Ruddiman, William
Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 1

Russell, Dick
Striper Wars: An American Fish Story (Island Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 3

Russell, Sharman Apt
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect (Basic Books, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 1

Safina, Carl
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur (Henry Holt, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

By George B. Schaller
A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field (Sierra Club Books, 2007)
Reviewed in Vol. 8 No. 3

Schneider, Stephen H. and Terry L. Root (eds.)
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies (Island Press, 2002)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

Silvertown, Jonathan
Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 2

Slater, Candace
In Search of the Rain Forest (Duke University Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

Speth, Games Gustave (ed.).
Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (Island Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 3

Speth, James G.
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (Yale University Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 2

Sutherland, William J (ed.)
The Conservation Handbook: Research, Management, and Policy (Blackwell Science Ltd., 2000)
Reviewed in Vol. 4 No. 2

Svarstad, Hanne and Shivcharn S. Dhillion (eds.)
Responding to Bioprospecting: From Biodiversity in the South to Medicines in the North (Spartacus Forlag AS, 2000)
Reviewed in Vol. 3 No. 2

Traver, Tim
Sippewissett: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh (Chelsea Green, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 4

Troll, Ray
Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll (University of California Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 4

Tufte, Edward R.
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (Graphics Press, 2003)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 1

United Nations Environmental Programme
One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment (United Nations Environmental Programme, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Vaillant, John
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (Norton, 2005)
Reviewed in Vol. 6 No. 4

Wilson, Edward O.
Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Wilson, Edward O.
The Creation (W.W. Norton, 2006)
Reviewed in Vol. 7 No. 3

Wohlforth, Charles
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (North Point Press, 2004)
Reviewed in Vol. 5 No. 3

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