Re: [ECOLOG-L] Environmental Sciences book recommendation

2016-04-25 Thread Charles Curtin
Hello Jorge and Ecologgers, At the risk of seeming to self-promote, you may want to check out my recent book Science of Open Spaces from Island Press (http://www.islandpress.org/curtin ). This book was intended for practitioners and scholars, but also written

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Environmental Sciences book recommendation

2016-04-25 Thread Patricia Paladines
Hello, Consider The View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina http://www.amazon.com/View-Lazy-Point-Natural-Unnatural/dp/1250002710 > On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay > wrote: > > Dear

[ECOLOG-L] Environmental Sciences book recommendation

2016-04-24 Thread Jorge A. Santiago-Blay
Dear Ecolog-Listers: I teach a one-semester course in environmental sciences for non-science majors. For a while, I have been toying with the idea of revamping the whole course. One of those areas of likely change is changing the textbook we use into one that non-only emphasizes *science* in a