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Title:

Forces of change : a new view of nature.

Publisher:

National Geographic Society,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

192 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Natural history.
Earth.
Human ecology.
Global environmental change.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Natural history and the 21st century / Robert Fri. New frontiers, new explorations / Alan Cutler -- Climate surprises / Jonathan Overpeck -- Changing landscape of knowledge / Bernice Wuethrich / Streams of consciousness / Alan Cutler -- Force of city life on Earth / Barbara Boyle Torrey -- Global synergies / William Melson -- Interfering with elemental cycles / Alan Cutler -- Scales of change / Stephen Jay Gould -- Time in rocks, history in bones / Alan Cutler and Anna K. Behrensmeyer -- Pleasures of change / Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider -- Microbial minds / Lynn Margulis -- What they will know / David Quammen -- Bigger storms brewing / adapted from National Geographic -- Learning from Ladakh / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Along Magadi Road, Kenya / Bernice Wuethrich / Changing places in Africa / Edward S. Ayensu -- Winds of change / Michael Garstang -- Leave it to the school children / George P. Horse Capture -- Deadly walls of water / Tom O'Neill -- Biodiversity and happiness / Gretchen C. Daily -- To quench the thirst of cities / Gretchen C. Daily -- Natural history and the 21st century / Robert Fri.

ISBN:

9781426200175
142620017X

LCCN:

2007298359

Locations:

EXPC755 -- Akron Public Library (Akron)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

VHPA334 -- Hawkeye Public Library (Hawkeye)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

RAPD371 -- Jefferson Public Library (Jefferson)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)