Forces of change
Subtitle: a new view of nature
Publisher: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; National Geographic Society
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781426200175
Subjects: Natural history; Human ecology; Global environmental change
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Nature of change  -- Daniel B. Botkin; title: New frontiers, new explorations  -- Alan Cutler; title: Climate surprises  -- Jonathan Overpeck; title: Changing landscape of knowledge  -- Bernice Wuethrich /; title: Streams of consciousness  -- Alan Cutler; title: Force of city life on Earth  -- Barbara Boyle Torrey; title: Global synergies  -- William Melson; title: Interfering with elemental cycles  -- Alan Cutler; title: Scales of change  -- Stephen Jay Gould; title: Time in rocks, history in bones  -- Alan Cutler and Anna K. Behrensmeyer; title: Pleasures of change  -- Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider; title: Microbial minds  -- Lynn Margulis; title: What they will know  -- David Quammen; title: Bigger storms brewing  -- adapted from National Geographic; title: Learning from Ladakh  -- Helena Norberg-Hodge; title: Along Magadi Road, Kenya  -- Bernice Wuethrich /; title: Changing places in Africa  -- Edward S. Ayensu; title: Winds of change  -- Michael Garstang; title: Leave it to the school children  -- George P. Horse Capture; title: Deadly walls of water  -- Tom O'Neill; title: Biodiversity and happiness  -- Gretchen C. Daily; title: To quench the thirst of cities  -- Gretchen C. Daily; title: Natural history and the 21st century -- Robert Fri.