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The Environmental Legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System
The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the UC NRS has grown to encompass more than 750,000 wildland acres. This book tells the story of how a few forward-thinking UC faculty, who’d had their research plots and teaching spots destroyed by development and habitat degradation, devised a way to save representative examples of many of California’s major ecosystems. Working together with conservation-minded donors and landowners, with state ...
Mountain Time
Scientist, teacher, author, and champion of the natural world, Dr. Kenneth S. Norris reveals the insights gained over a lifetime devoted to learning and teaching about the natural world and human nature, and the global environmental crisis we've helped to bring upon ourselves.
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Why You Must
Set in the post-hippie era of the Dressed-for-Success 1980s, _Why You Must: A San Francisco Saga_ offers a deftly interwoven series of intimate narratives addressing the eternal puzzle of why smart, talented, educated people so often fall short of achieving their fondest ambitions of artistic glory. Writers, actors, street performers, and stand-up comedians appear in this novel just as they were at the dawn of the Digital Revolution: being social without media and before anyone understood the coming cumulative impact of personal cell phones, desktop publishing, and the World Wide Web. Tragically originating in that same not-so-long-ago age was the AIDS epidemic, which extinguished so many of...
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Boom Fall 2014
Thoughtful, provocative, and playful, Boom: A Journal of California aims to create a lively conversation about the vital social, cultural, and political issues of our times, in California and the world beyond.
Kenneth S. Norris
Kenneth Norris was an historian in the tradition of Aldo Leopold. He was the father of American marine mammology and discovered much of what we know about the social life of dolphins and whales. This title includes an oral history with Norris as well as his collection of research interests in desert biology, herpetology, and marine mammology.
