Bear necessities : rescue, rehabilitation, sanctuary, and advocacy

Table of Contents: “…Bear basics / Lisa Kemmerer -- Bear-aware for twenty years / Victor Watkins -- Making a differnce for bears in Asia / Amy Corrigan -- Polar bears : watching extinction in real time / Kassie Siegel and Brendan Cummings -- Franzi : beloved ambassador for bears on bile farms / Jill Robinson -- Little bears, big trees, tiny insects : protecting sun bears and their rainforest / Siew Te Wong and Lisa Kemmerer -- Libearty sanctuary zarnesti : sharing love and sheltering life in Eastern Europe / Cristina Lapis -- 9,540,000 square miles, 800,000 American black bears, 3 rescues go / Charlotte Lorraine Cressey -- Fighting for giant pandas : captive breeding and conservation / Sarah M. …”
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Assessment of the risk of Amazon dieback by Vergara, Walter, 1950-

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The social labs revolution : a new approach to solving our most complex challenges by Hassan, Zaid

Table of Contents: “…; Systemic Spread Betting; 4 The Bhavishya Lab: The Silent Emergency; The Bhavishya Alliance; The Moon Shot; Movement Requires Friction; Fail Early, Fail Often; Business as Usual and Its Radical Refusals; 5 The New Ecologies of Capital; The End of the Beginning; Emerging Forms of Capital and Preventing Collapse; The Dumbest Idea in the World; More Rainforests, Fewer Plantations; 6 The Rise of the Agilistas; The Practical Wisdom of Social Labs.…”
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Biodiversity : new leads for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries

Table of Contents: “…Microbial natural products : a past with a future -- New concepts and approaches to biodiversity -- Nature products drug discovery at the National Cancer Institute : past achievements and new directions for the new millennium -- Secondary metabolites as a vital source of animal health products -- The relationship between natural products and synthetic chemistry in the discovery process -- Natural products vs. combinatorials : a case study -- Mushrooms, microbes and medicines -- Signal transduction inhibitors from microorganisms -- Novel inhibitors of lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens DSM 11579 -- Marine organisms as a source of novel lead structures for drug development -- The anticancer dolastatins as cyanobacterial metabolites -- A Cu² selective marine metabolite -- Water soluble bioactive alkaloids -- "Lessons from nature" : can ecology provide new leads in the search for novel bioactive chemicals from tropical rainforests? -- Brazilian biodiversity : a source of phytomedicines, natural drugs and leads for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries -- A modern perspective to the traditional use of plants in the highlands of Scotland -- In vivo and in vitro biosynthetic studies : Understanding and exploiting natural pathways -- Fused ring aromatic polyketides are formed by different cyclisation pathways in fungi and streptomycetes -- The strobilurin fungicides : from mushroom to molecule to market -- A synthesis of (+)prelog-Djerassi lactonic acid -- N-([alpha]-aminoacyl)-5'-O-sulfamoyladenosines : natural product based inhibitors of amino acyl tRNA synthetases.…”
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2012. by Finkel, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Seven billion reasons to be a feminist: Rob BrooksBalancing act: Adrian Hyland; Under the influence: Frank Bowden; Why clever people believe in silly things: Craig Cormick; Painting the rainforest REDD: William Laurance; The evolution of the inadequate modern male: Peter McAllister; A wee solution: Lachlan Bolton; Diamond planets, climate change and the scienfitic method: Matthew Bailes; Storm front: Jo Chandler; I want to play video games when I grow up (and so should you): Michael Kasumovic; Licence to heal: Nick Miller; Secret life of Enceladus: Richard A. …”
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Stuff happens : the far from humdrum life of a photojournalist by Eigeland, Tor

Table of Contents: “…Off to sea -- I love New York -- Off to Canada : McGill and mining -- Mexico : an exotic new world -- Pettermann the squirrel -- Mexico, Miami, and Trinidad -- Photojournalism, the way forward and Castro -- New York City : deal done -- Mexico again : an important encounter -- Joburg : a musical drama -- Strawberries and big, fat texan pancakes -- Egypt, Aswan 1964 : a near disaster -- Borneo : meeting the Iban 1964 -- Borneo : on Gurkha patrol 1966 - Goodbye to the magic of Mexico -- Beirut : hectic and intense times 1965-1970 -- Algeria : a surprise revolution -- Contacts and National Geographic -- Sudanese adventures -- Hot days in Aden 1966-67 -- Arab-Israeli War 1967 -- King Hussein of Jordan -- Colombia : weird and adventurous -- Marsh Arabs of Iraq 1967 -- Iran and the Shah -- Egypt : a wealth of memories -- The empty quarter : traveling with the true Bedouins 1970 -- Goodbye Beirut, hello Spain - and off to Jordan -- Mexico : the Tarahumara Indians -- Generalissimo Franco -- Algeria : scary adventures -- Oman : Reagan and other memories -- Spain : drums of Calanda -- The Silk Road -- Spain : ETA and brushes with fire -- Cocaine scare -- Moving on : Spain to London 1990 -- Borneo : academy of the rainforest -- New life in London -- On the doorstep : Regent's Canal -- Master crafts : suits and shoes -- AIDS in Zambia -- Here and there and on to France -- Food and related adventures -- Music -- Art, architecture and Cézanne -- Nile cruise : a special way -- Glossy mags -- Looking back - and forward -- Tangier : a touching farewell -- It ain't over.…”
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Modern crises and traditional strategies : local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia

Table of Contents: “…Innovation, 'Hybrid' Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten; Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen Chapter 6. …”
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The making of Southeast Asia : international relations of a region by Acharya, Amitav

Table of Contents: “…Globalization and the Crisis of Regional Identity""; ""The Perils of Globalizatio""; ""Rainforests and Regional Identity""…”
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A land between waters : environmental histories of modern Mexico

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Seven worlds, one planet. Episode 3, South America

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Accessible Games Book. by Marl, Katie

Table of Contents: “…s a Verbal Knockout""; ""Knee Tag""; ""Mime Rhyme""; ""Mime the Lie""; ""Musical Hats""; ""Rainforest Morning""; ""Sharing Circle""; ""What is my Job?""…”
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Free-ranging Cats : Behavior, Ecology, Management. by Spotte, Stephen

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New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory

Table of Contents: “…Jinam, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama and Katsushi Tokunaga -- Ancient DNA analysis of Palaeolithic Ryukyu Islanders / Ken-ichi Shinoda and Noboru Adachi -- Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers "gaomiao" in Hunan, China : the first of the two-layer model in the population history of East/Southeast Asia / Hirofumi Matsumura, Hsiao-chun Hung, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Ya-feng Zhao, Gang He and Zhang Chi -- Using dental metrical analysis to determine the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene population history of Java / Sofwan Noerwidi -- Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation in the rainforests of East Kalimantan / Karina Atifin -- Understanding the Callao Cave depositional history / Armand Salvador Mijares -- Traditions of jars as mortuary containers in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago / David Bulbeck -- An Son ceramics in the Neolithic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia / Carmen Sarjeant -- The Ryukyu Islans and the northern frontier of prehistoric Austronesian settlement / Mark J. …”
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The Gold Coast transformed : from wilderness to urban ecosystem

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 The impact on the Gold Coast's terrestrial environments The Moreton Bay Islands; National parks and other protected areas; The Gondwana Rainforest; The environmental impact: a dramatically changed ecosystem; Chapter 6 The beaches; Townships surveyed; The first seawall; Don't mention Matthew; The role of sand mining; Laissez-faire beach-building; What has to be done?…”
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Natural products : drug discovery and therapeutic medicine

Table of Contents: “…Jensen and William Fenical -- Novel natural products from rainforest endophytes / Gary Strobel, Bryn Daisy, and Uvidelio Castillo -- Biological, economic, ecological, and legal aspects of harvesting traditional medicine in Ecuador / Alexandra Guevara-Aguirre and Ximena Chiriboga.…”
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Thank you, Madagascar : conservation diaries of Alison Jolly by Jolly, Alison

Table of Contents: “…'Our country is committing suicide'<br></li><li>Part I: Villages<ul><li>2. Dancing in the Rainforest</li><li>3. Burning Baobabs, Death of Children</li><li>4. …”
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Unearthing Southeast Asia's past : selected papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. / Volume one

Table of Contents: “…The Prehistory of the Daic- or Kra-Dai-Speaking Peoples and the Hypothesis of an Austronesian Connection ; Prehistoric Cultural Affinities Between Southeast Asia, East Asia and Northeast India : An Exploration ; A Limestone Outcrop as a Landmark of Prehistoric Settlement in the Manatuto Region (East Timor) ; The Cultured Rainforest Project : Preliminary Archaeological Results from the First Two Field Seasons in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Borneo (2007, 2008) -- Mainland Southeast Asia's Bronze-Iron Age : New Dating, Mortuary Practices, and Material Culture. …”
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Trade Unions in the Green Economy : Working for the Environment. by Räthzel, Nora

Table of Contents: “…: questions for trade unions on land, livelihoods, and jobs / Andrew Bennie -- Climate change, trade unions, and rural workers in labour-environmental alliances in the Amazon rainforest / João Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin -- From "jobs versus environment" to "green-collar jobs" : Australian trade unions and the climate change debate / Verity Burgmann -- Just transition and labour environmentalism in Australia / Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother -- Will they tie the knot? …”
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Where Song Began : Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World. by Low, Tim, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Yale Edition; Introduction; One: Food Worth Defending; Sugar Fuels Noise; Successful Trees; Climate Survivors; Ancient Pollination; Where the Big Birds Are; Accessible Nectar; Two: Forests that Exude Energy; Special Foods; The Forest Dominators; The Ultimate Aggressor; The Dawn of Group Defence; Three: The First Song; Northern Orthodoxy; Forward Thinking; Early Musicians; The Australian Way; Four: New Guinea: Australia's Northern Province; Rainforest Finds a New Home; What the Birds Reveal; Placing New Guinea.…”
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A Grammar of Kulina by Dienst, Stefan

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Integrated coastal zone management of coral reefs : decision support modeling

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Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook. by Bank, World

Table of Contents: “…Investment Note 3.2: An Approach to Sustainable Land Management by Enhancing the Productive Capacity of African Farms: The Case of the Underused and Versatile SoybeanKey Sustainable Land Management Issues; Lessons Learned; Opportunities for Sustainable Land Management; Rationale for Investment; Recommendations for Practitioners; References; Web Resources; Investment Note 3.3: Balancing Rainforest Conservation and Poverty Reduction; Key Sustainable Land Management Issues; Integrated Natural Resources Management Approach; Key Drivers for Degradation Dynamics: The ASB Matrix-Lining Up the Facts.…”
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Making One's Way in the World The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People. by Bell, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Walks in the temperate rainforest:developing concepts of niche constructionand linear environmental manipulation -- Introduction: why the American North-west Coast? …”
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The startup community way evolving an entrepreneurial ecosystem by Feld, Brad, Hathaway, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Part III: From the Boulder Thesis to the Startup Community Way -- Chapter Twelve: Simplifying Complexity -- The Boulder Thesis -- The Rainforest -- Applying Systems Thinking -- Looking Deeply -- Leverage Points -- Chapter Thirteen: Leadership is Key -- Be a Mentor -- Entrepreneurs as Role Models -- Key Leadership Characteristics -- Chapter Fourteen: Think Ingenerations -- Progress is Uneven and Often Feels Slow -- The Endless Long-Term Game -- Chapter Fifteen: Diversity is a Feature, not a Bug -- Cultivate Diversity -- Embracing Diversity -- Think Broadly about Entrepreneurship…”
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International perspectives in feminist ecocriticism

Table of Contents: “…Saving the Costa Rican Rainforest: Anacristina Rossi's Mad About Gandoca.…”
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The Balance of Nature and Human Impact. by Rohde, Klaus

Table of Contents: “…Fire begets fire -- the stability paradoxEvidence for transformative fire feedbacks; Evidence of feedbacks from fire exclusion; Global evidence of alternative stable states; Rainforest stability; Aridity, fire and stability; Community stability and invasive species; Conclusion; References; 6 Community stability and instability in ectoparasites of marine and freshwater fish; Introduction; Parasite communities; Non-saturated communities of fish ectoparasites; Aggregation of fish parasites promotes the stability of fish ectoparasite communities.…”
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Battle to do good : inside McDonalds sustainability journey by Langert, Bob

Table of Contents: “…The Battle for the Amazon Rainforest: How Greenpeace Chickens Changed McDonald's…”
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Using a positive lens to explore social change and organizations : building a theoretical and research foundation

Table of Contents: “…Badiane, and Nardia Haigh -- Agency and innovation in a phase of turbulent change : conservation in the Great Bear rainforest / Darcy Riddell, Ola Tjörnbo, and Frances Westley -- Practicing sustainability : a generative approach to change agency / Martha S. …”
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Vegetation-climate interaction : how vegetation makes the global environment by Adams, J. M. (Jonathan M.)

Table of Contents: “…From climate to vegetation : Biomes: the broad vegetation types of the world ; An example of a biome or broad-scale vegetation type: tropical rainforest ; The world's major vegetation types ; Understanding the patterns ; What favors forest vegetation ; Deciduous or evergreen: the adaptive choices that plants make ; Cold-climate evergreens ; The latitudinal bands of evergreen and deciduous forest ; Nutrients and evergreenness ; Other trends in forest with climate ; Non-forest biomes ; Scrub biomes ; Grasslands ; Deserts ; Biomes are to some extent subjective ; Humans altering the natural vegetation, shifting biomes ; "predicting" where vegetation types will occur ; Species distributions and climate -- 3. …”
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Practical Machine Learning Cookbook. by Tripathi, Atul

Table of Contents: “…. ; Step 2 -- exploring data; Step 3 -- transforming data; Step 4 -- training and evaluating the model performance; Step 5 -- plotting the model; Hierarchical clustering -- Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010; Getting ready; Step 1 -- collecting and describing data; How to do it ... ; Step 2 -- exploring data; Step 3 -- transforming data; Step 4 -- training and evaluating model performance; Step 5 -- plotting the model.…”
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100 Animated Feature Films. by Osmond, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Bill Kroyer, 1992Finding Nemo, Andrew Stanton, 2003; Fritz the Cat, Ralph Bakshi, 1972; Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mamoru Oshii, 2004; The Girl Who Leapt through Time, Mamoru Hosoda, 2006; Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata, 1988; Happy Feet, George Miller, 2006; Hoppity Goes to Town, Dave Fleischer, 1941; How to Train Your Dragon, Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, 2010; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, 1996; Ice Age, Chris Wedge, 2002; Idiots and Angels, Bill Plympton, 2008; The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet, 2010.…”
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An Introduction to the Meteorology and Climate of the Tropics by Galvin, J. F. P.

Table of Contents: “…5.3 The inter-tropical convergence zone -- 5.4 The depth of convective clouds -- 5.5 Layer clouds and shallow convection -- 5.6 The effects of heavy rainfall in the tropics -- 5.7 Atmospheric teleconnections -- 5.8 Questions -- 6 Climate, Flora and Fauna -- 6.1 The relationship of climate to plants and animals -- 6.2 Tropical rainforest -- 6.3 Seasonal tropical forest -- 6.4 The savannas -- 6.5 Tropical deserts and scrublands -- 6.6 Mountain climates -- 6.7 Tropical oceans and coasts -- 6.8 Climatic variability -- 6.9 Questions -- 7 Dry Environments -- 7.1 Background…”
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Tradeoffs or synergies? : agricultural intensification, economic development, and the environment

Table of Contents: “…Scherr and Guadalupe Durón -- Implications of Resource-use Intensification for the Environment and Sustainable Technology Systems in the Central African Rainforest / James Gockowski, G. Blaise Nkamleu and John Wendt -- Agricultural Intensification, Deforestation and the Environment : Assessing Tradeoffs in Sumatra, Indonesia / Thomas P. …”
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The Ice Age by Ehlers, Jürgen

Table of Contents: “…8.3 Frost Weathering -- 8.4 Cryoplanation -- 8.5 Rock Glaciers: Glaciers (Almost) Without Ice -- 8.6 Involutions -- 8.7 Solifluction -- 8.8 Periglacial Soil Stripes -- 8.9 Frost Cracks and Ice Wedges -- 8.10 Pingos, Palsas and other Frost Phenomena -- Chapter 9 Hippos in the Thames: The Warm Stages -- 9.1 Tar Pits of Evidence -- 9.2 Development of Fauna -- 9.3 Development of Vegetation -- 9.4 Weathering and Soil Formation -- 9.5 Water in the Desert: The Shifting of Climate Zones -- 9.6 Changes in the Rainforest -- Chapter 10 The Course of Deglaciation -- 10.1 Contribution to Landforms…”
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Great lesson ideas. KS3 geography, the weather. Sounds, pictures, blogs and poetry

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The price of the prize

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Nature's microworlds. Series 1, Episode 12, Australia's red centre

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Whispering in the giant's ear : a frontline chronicle from Bolivia's war on globalization by Powers, William, 1971-

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Forces of nature. [Episode 4], Motion

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The ornaments of life : coevolution and conservation in the tropics by Fleming, Theodore H., Kress, W. John

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