Dear ECOLOG-L:
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Ecology: A Pocket Guide, Revised and Expanded
Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic
that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo! A
Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains(UC Press), and Ecotopia
Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://go.ucpress.edu/Callenbach
Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century,
this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological
concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity
to Restoration and Zoos, Ecology: A Pocket Guide forms a dynamic web
of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through.
An accessible, informative guide to achieving ecoliteracy, it tells
the story of the amazing interconnectivity of life on Earth and along
the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting
environmental degradation. This new edition has been updated
throughout and features five new essays on the topics of
biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.
Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Callenbach
