NATURE'S ECONOMY: A HISTORY OF ECOLOGICAL IDEAS SECOND EDITION (STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY)

NY: Cambridge University Press. Good. 2008. Second Edition. paperback. 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches. GOOD Condition PAPERBACK....CONSISTANT COLORED HIGHLIGHTING THRUOUT TEXT..OW SOLID,BRIGHT COPY.. with old store sticker to spine strip..; Cover art shows verdant green plants in variety and abundance against tan sky.. ; 507 pages; wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum. It concludes with a new Part VI, which looks at the directions ecology has taken most recently. .