Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Women Will Vote
Winning Suffrage in New York State
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women’s right to full suffrage in New York State. Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello highlight the activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and European American women, as well as male suffragists, both upstate and downstate,...
A Duterte Reader
Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
A critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays offers an overview of Duterte’s rise to power and actions of his early presidency. With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, The Duterte Reader...
The Beaver
Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Beavers can and do dramatically change the landscape. The beaver is a keystone species—their skills as foresters and engineers create and maintain ponds and wetlands that increase biodiversity, purify water, and prevent large-scale flooding. Biologists have long studied their daily and seasonal...
Traders in Motion
Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding...
This Luminous Coast
Walking England's Eastern Edge
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial...
The East Country
Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac,...
Biological Systematics
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with a focus on parsimony-based approaches for students and biologists interested in systematics...
Neotropical Birds of Prey
Biology and Ecology of a Forest Raptor Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Until recently, surprisingly little has been known about the biology and behavior of tropical forest raptors, including such basic aspects as diets, breeding biology, habitat requirements, and population ecology, information critical to the development of conservation efforts. The Peregrine Fund conducted...
Origins
The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such additional...
by E. C. Pielou
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Praise for the first edition—
"This book is guaranteed to enrich the reader's next forest visit."—Library Journal
"Pielou's book brings forest ecology to naturalists, bird lovers, hikers, cyclists, canoeists, skiers, mountaineers, and back-country campers."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"It...
The Edge of Extinction
Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation...
Grassroots to Global
Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Addressing participatory, transdisciplinary approaches to local stewardship of the environment, Grassroots to Global features scholars and stewards exploring the broad impacts of civic engagement with the environment.
Chapters focus on questions that include: How might faith-based institutions...
The Observation Hive Handbook
Studying Honey Bees at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed, installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation hive to a market, fair, or school. Most...
Svay
A Khmer Village in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay provides a remarkably detailed picture of individual villagers and of Khmer social structure and kinship, agriculture, politics, and religion. The world Ebihara described would...